BioNTech Annual General Meeting Vaccine effective against mutants

Status: 06/22/2021 6:13 p.m.

BioNTech boss Sahin uses the vaccine manufacturer’s general meeting to spread good news: Production will be increased and the vaccine also protects against virus variants. In view of the growing spread of the delta variant of the coronavirus, which is considered to be more dangerous, many people are wondering how the effectiveness of the various vaccines is doing in this regard. At today’s Annual General Meeting, CEO Ugur Sahin gave the all-clear for BioNTech’s product: “There is currently no evidence that our vaccine needs to be adapted to the variants in circulation,” he said. That does not mean that the company is stopping development: According to Sahin, BioNTech is working on flexible processes in the areas of technology, production and approval.

Constant analysis

In order to be prepared and to be able to react quickly if a third dose should be required to boost existing vaccinations or to adapt to a new virus strain, BioNTech constantly analyzes the effectiveness of the vaccine against newly emerging variants, the CEO explained.

Sahin also commented on the subject of booster vaccinations: It is not yet known when and how often a booster will be necessary. But he assumes “that a third vaccination is of great value for boosting immunity,” said Sahin. Knowledge about the corona virus is steadily increasing. “We observe that immunity will decrease over time and new variants will emerge.”

Sahin against patent release

The one raised by US President Joe Biden and other politicians Request for the release of patents to enable license-free vaccine production in developing countries, the BioNTech boss rejected. It is important to be able to make the vaccine available worldwide “as quickly and as comprehensively as possible”. However, raw materials are currently the “limiting factor”, not patents.

BioNTech is working with partners to deliver the vaccine cheaply to developing countries. However, a patent release would not bring additional amounts of vaccine. The production of the vaccine is very complex and consists of around 50,000 work steps.

Production is increased

During the Annual General Meeting, Sahin also commented on production: The BioNTech boss confirmed that the company, together with its US partner Pfizer, is aiming for a production capacity of up to three billion vaccine doses this year.

In the coming year 2022 it should be more than three billion. BioNTech will manufacture at least half of this. To date, BioNTech and Pfizer have shipped more than 700 million doses of their Covid-19 vaccine to over 100 countries worldwide.

Dividend is possible

The shareholders should also benefit from the billions in sales generated with the corona vaccine. Chief Financial Officer Sierk Poetting said that in the next financial year it should be checked whether and in what amount a dividend is possible.

However, the strategic priority for 2021 is the reinvestment of the capital in order to further advance innovations in various therapeutic areas and technologies as well as our corporate development, said Poetting. The Mainz biotechnology company achieved a net profit of 1.1 billion euros on sales of 2.05 billion euros in the first quarter of this year .

New production facilities

There was also news from BioNTech outside of the Annual General Meeting. The European Medicines Agency’s Committee on Medicinal Products for Human Use gives the go-ahead for two more production facilities to manufacture the joint corona vaccine from Biontech and Pfizer.

One becomes accordingly in Reinbek, Schleswig-Holstein, operated by Allergopharma, the parent company of Dermapharm , the other in the Swiss stone from Novartis Pharma. The work can be started immediately, since no approval from the EU Commission is required

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VW factory in Emden When 8,000 employees have to rethink

Status: 19.06.2021 10:18 a.m.

In the future, only electric cars will roll off the assembly line at the VW plant in Emden. This means billions in costs for the group – and many changes for the employees. And some jobs will probably disappear.

From Sebastian Duden, NDR

“What is that again?” Andreas Buse looks at his trainer questioningly and points to a magnetic picture that he should hang in the right place on a board. “This is the heater for the battery, which is also in the front of the vehicle.” It is about basic knowledge of the new electric cars that are to be built here at the Volkswagen plant in Emden from 2022. All 8,000 employees at the site go through the training.

It doesn’t work without a plug

It will be more special for the production staff at the next station. Buse has to be even more careful. This is about plugs. He’s trying to build a cable to an electric car charger. It doesn’t work, and he has to find the problem. “Ah, okay, a pin is bent, that’s why it doesn’t work.” His instructor nods. “So don’t just check the connector, but always look at the component to see if nothing is bent.” Plugs – they will be even more important in the future, so they have already been. Without a plug there is no flow of electricity, and then they cannot even drive the cars out of the hall. “To know that the vehicle cannot be delivered at all and that a fault then has to be laboriously searched for, that is something I have great respect for,” says Buse.

No oil, no engine compartment

One hall further is the ID.4 – the electric car that will roll off the assembly line here from 2022. It’s an SUV, weighing more than two tons. Much of the weight is caused by the large battery. Depending on the model, the ID.4 should travel up to 500 kilometers.

“The dipstick is no longer there, oily fingers, the time is over,” says project manager Hanno Greune. He opens the “bonnet” of the car, which actually doesn’t deserve the name anymore, because you won’t find an engine here. That is not much more than a “technical room”, he admits, there are now fans and heaters, for example. “In our vehicles, the engine is on the rear axle,” says Greune. He points to a plain black cover in the trunk. Underneath is a comparatively small unit – about the size of a sports bag.

So far mainly the location for the production of the VW Passat, in a few years pure electrical work: the factory in Emden. Image: picture alliance / Jochen Tack

The VW plant in Emden is already the size of an entire district. It is now being expanded again towards the Ems. For this purpose, foundation piles had to be driven 30 meters deep into the muddy subsoil. The largest hall has 45,000 square meters. A total of six new halls and logistics buildings will be added. The expansion will cost one billion euros. “The renovation is the most massive that the site has ever gone through,” says plant manager Uwe Schwartz. “We are massively involved in all structures. We are creating more than 100,000 square meters of new space.” Schwartz was brought in specially for the renovation. Before he headed the planning staff at the main plant in Wolfsburg, now he can implement the ideas developed there on site.

Simpler technology, fewer jobs

Volkswagen relies entirely on electric drives. The conversion should be a clear commitment to electric drive – even if experts can imagine other drive types in the future, for example in combination with synthetic fuels. For a transitional phase of three years, VW wants to build cars with internal combustion engines in Emden at the same time.

“Emden is the first location in Lower Saxony that will then be completely converted to vehicles with electric drives,” says Schwartz. Up to now, the “Passat” models in particular have rolled off the production line at the plant. Electric vehicles, however, have a much simpler drive than petrol and diesel. Most of them not only have more complex engines, but also finely graduated gears and gearshifts. All of that is missing in an electric car. As a result, manufacturers actually need fewer employees to build them.

Fewer employees needed to build e-cars

The works council in Emden sees the problem and expects the loss of some jobs. However, new employees are also needed elsewhere, says Works Council Chairman Manfred Wulff. For example in digitization. “We still need bodies that have to be pressed and painted, so we won’t lose a lot of work. The fact that we no longer have the classic engine will be eliminated.”

Experts predict that in the worst case scenario, it could hit a third of those employed in vehicle construction during the transformation phase. But they see it differently in the works council in Emden. There they even wished to switch over to electric car construction as quickly as possible. After all, the sales figures for the classic VW models have not developed positively. The alternative would have been to build more models with internal combustion engines at the Emden location in order to utilize the capacities. Then it would be better to have a clear future perspective, according to the works council. This is how Andreas Buse sees it, who is now back on the production line and wiring the engine compartment of the Passat and Arteon models. “Sure, there will be restructuring, but I’m not afraid of it.” Many of his colleagues will probably go into partial retirement in the course of the restructuring. However, he is only 32 years old. And he is also looking forward to the changes. Even if he will miss the Passat, as he admits when asked

Film industry “There’s never been more shooting going on”

Status: 06/18/2021 10:22 a.m.

The film industry is recovering from the forced Corona break. Due to the great pent-up demand, production is currently running at full speed. But the pandemic has consequences that will change the industry.

From Tina von Löhneysen, RBB

Backdrops on trolleys, trucks being unloaded, locked gates behind which secret stage sets are set up – in the Babelsberg studio there is a buzz. Christoph Fisser is a member of the board here and is in a good mood. In a polo shirt, he walks across the extensive grounds. “We are starting three major international productions these weeks, all of which are star-studded,” he says. You can hear the pride in his voice. “Not only here, it is shot everywhere like never before, because all films are being made up that were not made last year. They were all already financed.”

Make-up artists are hard to come by

The industry is booming. So much so that it is difficult to put crews together. Make-up artists and sound engineers are hard to come by because they are all already engaged in productions. Studio Babelsberg is a heavyweight in the industry. Founded more than a hundred years ago, films such as “The Blue Angel” or later “The Bourne Ultimatum” and “Grand Budapest Hotel” were shot here. It is considered the oldest film studio of its kind in the world. During Corona you only had to close for 16 weeks, two large-scale productions then continued filming in Potsdam. Although this was associated with a large logistical and financial effort – 60,000 tests were carried out for it, and now more meticulous testing is being carried out – but it has just continued.

The industry stood still

The industry as a whole was different. There was a standstill. It was hardly shot. The uncertainty was too great, the conditions too strict. Now there is far-reaching relaxation, the general sigh of relief and a lot of catching up to do, says Sebastian Lambeck from the producer alliance for film and television. But in perspective one will be able to observe a shift in production activity.

“Financing movies has become even more difficult due to the pandemic,” says Lambeck. Whether you get a film in the cinemas when it is finished, how well it is going: All this has become even more unpredictable due to the pandemic. And, quite clearly: The trend that was already emerging has accelerated enormously as a result of Corona: “The streaming providers are the winners of this crisis.” Babelsberg board member Fisser also notices this. The demand has more than tripled, which is due to the great hunger of streaming services for content. For Fisser’s company, that doesn’t really matter. When he shoots, it always makes money. But it hurts him a little. “We love cinema, you really have to say that. Personally, I much prefer to produce cinema films than serial, but the market has changed dramatically.”

“Films galore”

Despite all the changes: the good old cinema still exists. In these weeks, the movie theaters in Germany will open again, regionally staggered. “There are plenty of good films,” says Christian Bräuer, chairman of the AG Kino – Gilde eV

“In the next four months, about as many films will be shown in theaters as would normally be spread over an entire year,” he reports. Constantin Film AG, which is both a film distributor and a production company, confirms this. Like all distributors, they have an unusually large number of films on stockpile. That means for the cinema-goers: There is a huge selection of films. This is one of the reasons why the cinema operators are looking at the openings with great confidence. The hope: After the crisis there will be a boom – not only in film production, but also in watching films.

This range is quite large for a processor. You must know that the performance of the A15 has increased by 30% on the basis of not much improvement in the process, which can be said to meet the expectations of all fruit fans. Therefore, it is not difficult to predict that after the release of A15, it will become the strongest mobile phone chip in the same period. Huawei and Qualcomm can only admit the gap. Some people may think that the A-series processors are indeed very powerful, but Apple mobile phones can’t exert real performance, and there are often some difficult to solve problems, such as heat generation and frequency reduction. It is true that these problems do exist, and fruit fans are aware of it, but this year Apple will definitely improve it and will not repeat the same mistakes. The reason for saying this is because Apple CEO Cook publicly stated when he attended a meeting recently that the iPhone 13 series models will be more perfect than the iPhone 12, and all aspects of performance will bring certain improvements. In other words, not only the A15 chip, but also other aspects of the iPhone 13 have obvious upgrades, which will not disappoint the fans. Is iPhone 13 stable? In this regard, many fruit fans have said that iPhone13 is stable? With Cook’s guarantee, I believe that Apple’s polishing of iPhone 13 will definitely make people shine. So what kind of phone is the iPhone 13 based on what the major media broke? Is it worth looking forward to for fruit fans? First of all, the entire iPhone 13 series will be equipped with the A15 processor, which is already an ironclad fact, and its overall performance is better than that of the iPhone 12 series. In addition, the iPhone 13 will also launch the iOS15 system for the first time. This new system is currently in the testing phase. When it arrives in September this year, the iPhone 13 will make its debut with iOS15. Secondly, the signal, battery, and screen quality of the iPhone 13 have been significantly upgraded. One of the most worth mentioning is the battery life. The battery parameters of the iPhone 13 have been exposed before. The battery capacity of the four models is larger than that of the iPhone 12. Coupled with the reduced energy consumption of the new screen material, the battery life of the iPhone 13 will be qualitative. The leap. Finally, the price of the iPhone 13 is also a bright spot. According to some people familiar with the matter, although the iPhone 13 has increased greatly, the starting price is still at the same level as the iPhone 12, or even lower. This is undoubtedly very good news for the majority of fruit fans, and I hope that Apple can really consider their interests. Write at the end In summary, the official production of the A15 chip indicates that the iPhone 13 series will soon be launched. The new news from Apple this time can be said to have been long awaited by fans. I believe that Apple’s polishing of iPhone13 is better than iPhone12, this new machine is worthy of all fruit fans’ expectations!

Nikon produced cameras in 1948, leading the development of the industry together with Canon. Smart phones are equipped with multiple cameras to take high-quality photos, and people no longer need to carry cameras with them, which makes the camera market into a downturn. Nikon also plans to close two factories in Yamagata and Fukushima prefectures that are engaged in the processing of replacement lens parts for digital cameras. At present, the Sendai Nikon factory of Japan’s affiliated company only produces the top model D6 for professionals.
Previously, Nikon had three camera production bases located in Sendai City, Miyagi Prefecture, Japan, Thailand, and China. However, with the popularity of smartphones, camera sales have been severely impacted. Nikon’s production base in Wuxi, Jiangsu has been closed in 2017. Now, after the shutdown of the camera production base in Sendai City, all Nikon camera production lines will be transferred to Thailand .

Nikon was founded in 1917. As a “century-year-old company”, Nikon has always been a representative company of “Made in Japan” and has been high hopes since its inception. Relying on its own technical experience in the optical field, from the beginning of imitating the German brand, it gradually moved towards completely self-developed and self-made, and even grew into a world-class camera giant through a series of innovations, and jointly monopolized the global high-end camera market with Canon and Zeiss. Nikon is one of the representative companies of precision and optical technology. Its business areas include four major business areas: healthcare, precision equipment, imaging products, and industrial metrology. In recent years, as the performance of smart phone cameras has improved, the digital camera market has shrunk significantly. According to the Japanese Camera and Imaging Machinery Industry Association, the output of cameras in 2020 is about 8.74 million units, which is about a quarter of that in 2015. According to the Nikkei News, Nikon accounts for nearly 30% of the Chinese camera market, but the entire camera market is shrinking. Under the influence of changes in the external market, the demand for small digital cameras in particular is declining. As mobile phone camera functions become more and more powerful, the demand for digital cameras continues to shrink, and its sales continue to decline after reaching its peak in 2010. CIPA data shows that in 2010, the sales volume of digital cameras exceeded 121 million units, and by 2020, the annual sales volume will only be 8.88 million units, which is not only a 41.6% decrease from the same period last year, but also a 92.7% decrease from 2010 sales, which is less than 1/10 of the peak. . In the update iteration of mobile phones, mobile phone cameras have become better than before. Nowadays, people can take 100 million pixel photos, their sharpness and image quality are very high. Not only that, the camera software can also automatically generate HDR images, and has portrait and night modes, which can mimic the effects of professional cameras. The camera industry is getting sluggish day by day, but many camera manufacturers choose to rise to the challenge and enter the mobile phone market directly. For example, Kodak produced its own camera phone in 2016. Leica, a German camera brand with a history of more than 120 years, chose to partner with Huawei as early as 2016. It is not difficult to see that the old brands in the camera industry are also changing their previous product models. In the future, the conventional size of smartphones may change to accommodate larger sensors, and they may even install different lenses. Today, with the rapid development of technology, mobile phone photography has become very convenient, and mobile phone pixels have been officially promoted from the “10 million” level to the “100 million” level, which is comparable to professional cameras. Today, the space left for digital cameras is getting smaller and smaller. It is often not your peers who defeat you, but the crossover! Crazy Mechanical Control, a communication base for in-depth mechanical enthusiasts, for more exciting content, please pay attention to our WeChat public account name: Crazy Mechanical Control (WeChat ID: fkjxk007)

Wang Huiyu and his party went to the epidemic prevention and control headquarters and the China Mongolia Hospital to investigate epidemic prevention and control and vaccination. At the headquarters, they listened to reports on the progress of the epidemic prevention and control and vaccination work for gays. Wang Huiyu pointed out that the epidemic prevention and control should always be tightened. Root strings, strengthen work placement politically, maintain a high level of ideological vigilance, firmly grasp implementation in action, and effectively enhance the sense of responsibility and urgency in epidemic prevention and control and vaccination work, and resolutely overcome paralyzing thoughts and war exhaustion , Lucky mentality, a relaxed mentality, and be cautious to normalize epidemic prevention and control, and firmly hold on to the results of epidemic prevention and control.

In Kejieran Gas Company, Xingjie Natural Gas Company, Longxing Technology Company, Ruisheng New Energy Company, and Xintai Ferroalloy Company, Wang Huiyu inspected the operation and maintenance of enterprise facilities and equipment, and the equipment of fire fighting facilities, and learned more about the safety production, Energy consumptionHe emphasized the development of dual control, potential accident investigation and management, and emergency response plans. He emphasized that we must resolutely curb the blind development of high energy-consuming and high-emission projects, comprehensively promote the coordinated control of pollution reduction and carbon reduction of “two highs” projects, and strengthen the “two highs” industries Guided by green development, do a good job in carbon peaking and carbon neutrality; safety is no small matter, and all enterprises must strengthen SafetyBottom line, strengthen the sense of responsibility, continuously improve the construction of the emergency system, implement the management and control measures for the elimination of hidden risks of the enterprise, and build a solid foundation Safe ProductionLine of defense. Strictly supervise and control the links and parts that are highly dangerous and prone to accidents, and conduct regular safety production inspections and fire safety drills to resolutely prevent safety production accidents from occurring and ensure the safety of people’s lives and property. At Xinglong Farmer’s Market and Hualian Supermarket, Wang Huiyu emphasized that the current epidemic prevention and control situation is still complicated and severe, and should not be paralyzed. Control measures.All departments must fully realize food safetyThe importance and urgency of the work is to work together to manage all aspects of food production, operation and consumption, and form a joint force to effectively ensure the safety of the people of the county on the “tip of the tongue”. During the investigation in the Xinghua Community of Chengguan Town, it was emphasized that on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the founding of the party, we should coordinate petitions and visits to maintain stability and vaccination, and accelerate vaccination to build a nationwide Immune barrier, Is the most fundamental way to stop the spread of the new crown virus and an effective means to protect the health of the whole people; it is necessary to do a good job in petition and stability maintenance, grasp the focus of work, strengthen work scheduling, and combine the practical activities of “I do practical things for the people” to solve the problem. The masses are desperate and worried about the problem, and promote the deepening and solidification of the work of petitioning and stability maintenance, so as to achieve early detection, early disposal, and early resolution. Party buildingCreate a good atmosphere for a century. Member of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee, governmentExecutive Deputy County Mayor He Yingzi, Member of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee and Deputy County Mayor of the Government Yu Hongliang, Member of the Standing Committee of the County Party Committee and Director of the County Party Committee Office Wang Xiaojun, Deputy County Mayor Gong Xiulong, Deputy County Mayor Zhang Jun, County Health Commission, Housing Construction Bureau, Industry and Information Bureau , The emergency management bureau and the main persons in charge of relevant towns and villages participated in the investigation

Missing computer chips Short-time work at VW and Daimler

Status: 16.06.2021 10:23 a.m.

Time and again, the production lines in car plants stand still – the manufacturers refer to the industry-wide shortage of chips. Now it hits Volkswagen and Daimler again. When will the situation improve? From Angela Göpfert, tagesschau.de There will be stoppages in the coming week at the VW main plant. In the Tiguan, Touran and Tarraco production as well as in the Golf production in the late and night shifts, the Wolfsburg switch to short-time work. In the Daimler plants in Bremen and Rastatt, short-time work is already the order of the day. The reason is once again the industry-wide shortage of chips.

06/08/2021

Interruptions cost billions

It is nowhere near the first time that the shortage of semiconductors has slowed automakers’ production. It was not until the end of May that the VW luxury subsidiary Audi at the Ingolstadt and Neckarsulm locations suffered production interruptions. BMW had been hit a few weeks earlier. The Ford plant in Cologne is also affected. The German auto industry is not alone with its problems: The US auto giant Ford calculates charges of around 2.5 billion dollars this year due to the lack of chips. The problems in the automotive industry have consequences for the entire economy. Just today, the researchers at the Munich Ifo Institute lowered their forecast for the growth of the German gross domestic product this year from 3.7 to 3.3 percent. To justify this, they also referred to bottlenecks in the delivery of intermediate products such as semiconductors.

Improvement in the third quarter?

It could take a few more weeks for a change for the better. According to experts, the automotive industry is heading for the lowest point. “We are facing the toughest six weeks,” said Murat Aksel, VW Board Member for Purchasing, recently in an interview with the “Handelsblatt”. The situation should improve again in the third quarter. Competitor Daimler also expects an improvement in the second half of the year. The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) also estimates that the situation should ease from July.

Around four million cars less

Because of the lack of chips, automakers worldwide produced 1.4 million fewer cars in the first quarter and 1.6 million in the second quarter, the BCG experts calculate. For the entire year 2021, the failures are likely to amount to four to six million vehicles.

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The consulting firm Alix Partners in Munich estimates 3.9 million cars. This corresponds to a value of non-produced cars of around 91 billion euros.

Lessons from the shortage of chips

The car manufacturers have long since learned their lessons from the shortage of chips: They are carefully reviewing their supply chains and are not only expanding their warehousing for chips. After all, the supply chains have thinned out after a pandemic for more than a year, even for important intermediate products, for example in the chemical industry.

06/07/2021

Security of supply is suddenly a priority again after years of just-in-time delivery. Chip manufacturers are also taking strong countermeasures and are pushing ahead with expanding their capacities at full speed. In Germany, the new high-tech chip factory from Bosch ensure regional supplies.

Misjudgments as the cause

But how did it come to that? Where does this lack of chips come from, which is currently keeping the auto industry and its employees in suspense? With the outbreak of the corona pandemic, demand for cars collapsed and chip manufacturers cut their production plans.

05/31/2021

When the demand for new vehicles suddenly increased surprisingly in the summer of 2020, chip manufacturers such as Infineon or NXP were overwhelmed by the demand. The current chip shortage is therefore based on a whole series of misjudgments – on the part of car manufacturers and suppliers, but also on the part of chip manufacturers. The lack of chips also shows that the auto industry did not come through the Corona crisis as badly as feared.

Corona vaccine Which slows down vaccine production

Status: 14.06.2021 8:11 a.m. Corona vaccine is still scarce in Germany. The production of the vaccine has been running at full speed for months. What makes it so difficult to manufacture quickly in large quantities? From David Zajonz, WDR In theory, anyone in Germany has been allowed to be vaccinated for a week if they want to. In practice, more precisely in the doctor’s office, many people who want to be vaccinated receive the same information over and over again: “We would like to vaccinate you, but unfortunately we do not have enough vaccine.” In vaccination centers in North Rhine-Westphalia, there are currently no initial vaccinations at all due to supply bottlenecks. Almost six months after the start of the corona vaccination campaign in Germany, vaccines are still in short supply. The frustration of many people who have not yet received a vaccination is correspondingly great.

Previous production “absolutely sensational”

Nevertheless, the speed of vaccine production is enormous, believes Rolf Hömke from the Association of Research-Based Drug Manufacturers (vfa). It normally takes several years to produce a new vaccine on a large scale: “Judging by all the experience of previous vaccine projects, it is absolutely sensational how quickly the additional production was built up,” says Hömke. To clarify, he cites two figures: Before Corona, according to the World Health Organization, a good five billion vaccine doses were produced worldwide every year – against tetanus, measles and many other diseases. On the other hand, more than two billion vaccine doses had been administered in the fight against Corona by early June. According to current company information, more than 700 million vaccine doses of BioNTech / Pfizer’s most frequently used vaccine in Germany alone have been produced and shipped worldwide – up to three billion by the end of the year.

There is a lack of personnel and materials

There are several reasons why vaccine production is not progressing any faster. The production is complex, says Udo Reichl, an expert in the production of vector vaccines at the University of Magdeburg. “Vector vaccines are produced in bioreactors,” he explains. “Building a new production facility with bioreactors can take one to two years.” Therefore, production cannot be ramped up at will. Manufacturers also struggle to find qualified personnel. In addition, there is a lack of materials that are needed for production, according to vfa spokesman Hömke. “For example, there is a lack of spare parts for the production systems, sterile plastic covers and special chemicals.” Lipids, i.e. fats that are needed for mRNA vaccines, are particularly popular, says Hömke. “A large manufacturer of lipids for vaccines told us that at the beginning of 2020 they expected a few kilos of these lipids to be in demand. Now they can sell a few tons of them.”

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Pharmaceutical companies work together

In order to be able to produce faster, the pharmaceutical companies enter into an unusually large number of partnerships. A prominent example is the collaboration between the small Mainz research company BioNTech and the US pharmaceutical giant Pfizer. The French manufacturer Sanofi, on the other hand, whose own vaccine project has stalled, plans to soon produce BioNTech / Pfizer’s vaccine in its Frankfurt plant. Another example: BioNTech has taken over its plant in Marburg from the Swiss pharmaceutical manufacturer Novartis – including its employees. It takes a long time to build new systems, explains vaccine expert Reichl. Conversely, converting existing production facilities is much easier.

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Worry about poorer countries

The joint efforts of the pharmaceutical companies mean that the vaccine shortage in this country should soon be over: “In Europe we will see a gradual relaxation in the supply of vaccines over the summer,” believes Reichl. However, he worries about the supply of poorer countries. “A large part of the world population still has hardly any access to vaccines. If we need further vaccines in Europe to vaccinate against new mutations, these in turn will not be available for other countries.” So it could happen that Europeans and North Americans will be vaccinated three or four times while people in other parts of the world are still waiting for their first shot. It is therefore all the more important, according to Reichl, to set up further vaccine productions in poorer countries.

interview 04/26/2021

The combined model of cucumber production under the solar array of Mr. Chau Hon’s family brings a profit of 200,000 VND/day. Photo: Hong Diem Sustainable development model In 2018, the Green Innovation Development Center (GreenID) conducted research and put into practice a model combining agricultural production and solar power. According to GreenID, the model is designed according to the standards of rooftop solar power installed on construction sites, greenhouses planted under the guidance of Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) with a capacity of 45kwp installed on 400 square meter area. With a capital of over 900 million VND, the model will be completed and connected to the power grid in December 2020. To ensure plant efficiency, below the photovoltaic panels are designed at a distance of 1-2m. On average, the system produces 103kwh of electricity per day. In the first 3 months of 2021, 4,471kwh of electricity will be produced from this model (equivalent to 22 million VND). This is the first model with the participation of 3 parties (people, businesses and non-profit organizations). Accordingly, the enterprise will withdraw support capital in the first 10 years, then will hand over the entire system to GreenID and households participating in the model. After 20 years, the model will be handed over to households for management. The installation of solar panels above combined with growing vegetables and colors below not only creates additional income from selling electricity, but also makes the most of the arable land area, resolving conflicts in the use of resources. raw land. In fact, the crops grown underneath the electric panels have higher yields and better product quality. The model is expected to open up new directions for local agriculture. Truong Kien Tho, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of An Giang province, said that this is a model that brings dual benefits, when combining agricultural production with solar power, helping people have clean electricity. , develop local agricultural production, and bring stable income for farmers. Open up a new direction Realizing the economic benefits that the model brings, Mr. Chau Hon (40 years old), from An Hoa hamlet, Chau Lang commune, Tri Ton district, An Giang province boldly and the research team developed the model on the land of family. From the beginning of 2021 up to now, the research team has cooperated with the project team and Mr. Hon’s family to experiment with water spinach and cucumber plants to calculate the appropriate level of cover under the solar panels and compare. with growing plants outside. The results show that, grown according to the above model, both plants grow well and give higher yields than those grown outside. “The research results of the pilot model will be documented to share with stakeholders and promote the process of promulgating appropriate policies for the development of a combined model of agricultural production and solar power. God. We will survey and replicate the model in areas with suitable conditions in An Giang province,” said Mr. Truong Kien Tho. Mr. Chau Hon excitedly said: “Compared to growing outside, cucumbers are grown under shaded solar panels, with very few pests and diseases, the plants grow well, the fruit setting rate is high, the fruit is even and the fruit is uniform. beautiful, yield higher than growing cucumber outside about 30%. On average, every day, I sell about 30-40 kg for 6,000 VND/kg, I earn about 200,000 VND, much more leisurely than rice production. Ms. Pham Thi Nguyet, Vice Chairman of Chau Lang Commune People’s Committee said, Chau Lang is a mountainous commune with special difficulties with more than 62% of the population being Khmer, the poverty rate is still over 3.4%. People mainly depend on agricultural production. The development of agriculture in combination with solar power has initially helped farmers change their traditional farming practices and adapt to new farming techniques to create dual incomes on the same land area. This is a model that can help many farmers get out of poverty and become well-off. “However, the replication of the model faces many difficulties due to high investment costs, the arable land of many households in the commune is far from the national power transmission line, so at present, this model has only been implemented. experience with Mr. Chau Hon’s family. With the benefits that the model brings, hopefully in the near future, there will be policies to develop this model” – Ms. Nguyet pondered.

The project “Research and production of biochips based on DNA microarray technology for the diagnosis of some human diseases”, belongs to the Program to develop a number of high-tech industries managed by the Ministry of Industry and Trade. The goal of the project is to master the technology of manufacturing biochips based on DNA microarray; to produce biological chip sets that meet the quality standards of in vitro diagnostic biological products – IVD; At the same time, these biochips can be applied to clinical diagnosis. BIMEDTECH officials and employees implement the project To implement the project, BIMEDTECH collaborated with leading units such as the National Institute of Hematology and Blood Transfusion, the Central Lung Hospital and the Cardiology Institute – Bach Mai Hospital to conduct surveys of known gene mutations. found in biochips of international production and a number of new or specific genetic mutations in humans and pathogens in Vietnam that are associated with diseases: thalassemia, 17 bacterial strains non-tuberculosis (NTM) and clopidogrel-resistant patients in patients undergoing cardiovascular intervention. Along with that, BIMEDTECH has invested in building a clean room system and the world’s leading advanced and modern equipment and machines into the factory in the Hi-Tech Park of Ho Chi Minh City. BIMEDTECH has signed cooperation agreements with high-tech companies in the United States and Europe to receive technology transfer for the production of DNA and Protein Microarray, the foundation for developing products for the diagnosis of a number of diseases in Vietnam. people. Take the lead in mastering technology With the support of the program, BIMEDTECH team has developed 3 products: BIMEDCHIP Thalassemia Detection Kit for diagnosis and treatment of thalassemia. This is the first in vitro diagnostic kit product made in Vietnam that allows simultaneous detection of many mutations causing congenital anemia including alpha and beta – thalassemia in just one test with accurate results. , fast time to get results with suitable cost. Thalassemia is a group of inherited anemias. Vietnam is a country with a high prevalence of thalassemia in the world: About 3% of the population carries the thalassemia gene, the prevalence is about 0.5-1% for the Kinh ethnic group, and a high increase of 10-25% in the Kinh population. some hill tribes. Early diagnosis and treatment of thalassemia reduces morbidity and mortality from thalassemia. Next, is BIMEDCHIP Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria Panel Kit for TB diagnosis. This kit provides results quickly, in as little as 6 hours, compared to traditional culture methods that can take weeks. Providing fast and accurate results helps medical staff to provide effective and timely treatment regimens, bringing benefits to patients. In particular, BIMEDCHIP Cardiovascular Drug PGx Testing Kit allows to detect whether a patient has changes in genes related to liver metabolism of Clopidogrel, Statin, Sinthrome drugs or not in a single test, thereby helping medical staff choose the right dose or drug for each patient, bringing the best effect for drug use. The successful implementation of the project is expected to contribute to improving the current limited production of medical equipment in Vietnam, meeting the increasing health care needs of the community, and at the same time. making an important contribution to the successful implementation of the Program on the development of a number of high-tech industries.

Competition with china US Senate passed Billion program

Status: 09.06.2021 09:01 a.m.

With a $ 250 billion program, the US wants to make up economic ground against China. The aim is semiconductor production and the research area Artificial Intelligence. The US Senate has passed a huge investment program in research and technology. Across all parties, the senators voted in favor of the package of measures designed to strengthen the US economy in competition with China. One of the goals is to advance the production of semiconductors in the USA and research in the field of artificial intelligence. Senate Democratic Majority Leader Chuck Schumer said after the vote: “If we don’t do anything, our days as the dominant superpower could be numbered.” US President Joe Biden was satisfied with the Senate decision: “We are competing for victory in the 21st century and the starting shot has been fired.” The US would have to maintain its position as “the most innovative and productive nation in the world”, according to Biden.

Production capacities decreased

According to the White House, the proportion of semiconductor production capacity in the US has fallen from 37 percent to around 12 percent of global production over the past 20 years. US companies are dependent on foreign countries, in particular on countries in Asia, which is a risk in the supply chain. Currently, many automakers and electronics manufacturers are struggling with not enough chips on the market. Among other things, the surge in demand for notebooks and other computer technology during the pandemic led to the shortage of semiconductors.

Discover the technologies of tomorrow

President Biden said the bill will enable the US to discover, manufacture and improve tomorrow’s key technologies – from artificial intelligence to computer chips to lithium batteries used in smart devices and electric vehicles – in the United States United States. The House of Representatives must also give its approval for the Investment Act to come into force. According to the US media, it could meet with resistance there.

Customers are using the electricity customer management system built by EVNICT. Hoang Dung/BNEWS/VNA Specifically, the Corporation promotes the application of digital technology to innovate and improve the management and operation process of the power system; Design experiences to attract more and more customers to interact on digital channels, enhance analytics to understand customers. The Corporation also improves processes, optimizes corporate governance, enhances governance and data-driven decision-making; Build a digitally savvy, conscious and skilled workforce. At the same time, build a strong and flexible digital ecosystem, maximize shared services and data, and enhance security. This transformation, according to EVNSPC’s General Director, aims to improve management capacity and efficient exploitation and operation of the power grid; improve the quality of customer service in the field of electricity business. Besides, improving project management capacity in the field of construction investment; improve internal management capacity; improve telecommunications infrastructure capacity, apply digital technology platforms. In order to carry out the set tasks, EVNSPC has developed specific plans and solutions. One of the remarkable solutions being implemented by the Corporation is the successful deployment of interconnected and integrated shared applications of the Electricity of Vietnam (EVN) according to the roadmap, and at the same time studying develop specific software to meet the requirements of sustainable development of EVNSPC. Along with the coordination to complete the overall monitoring system of information technology and telecommunications infrastructure, used exclusively as a capacity building tool for management consulting and administration on the application and development of science and technology in Vietnam. At all levels throughout EVNSPC, the Corporation also ensures information safety and security at all levels, meeting the readiness for the digital transformation roadmap for the period 2021 – 2022./

Production drops slightly A lack of material slows down industry

As of: June 8th, 2021 12:32 p.m.

It sounds paradoxical: the order books are full, but production in German industry fell in April. The main reason is the supply bottlenecks for intermediate products such as semiconductors or lumber. In April, industrial production in the German economy fell by one percent compared to March, according to the Federal Ministry of Economics. That is significantly worse than experts had forecast, after a plus of 2.2 percent had been recorded in the previous month. The reason for the decline is the lack of intermediate products such as, which has been widely discussed for a long time Semiconductors or Lumber , which the companies from industry, construction and troubles the energy suppliers.

“A slight disappointment”

The sectors are affected differently by this development. Industrial emissions fell by 0.7 percent. The construction industry recorded a significant minus of 4.3 percent. Energy generation, on the other hand, increased by six percent compared to the previous month. Within the industry, the weighty area of ​​motor vehicles / motor vehicle parts recorded a significant decline of 5.6 percent in a two-month comparison, according to the press release. The comparably weighty mechanical engineering sector, on the other hand, was only slightly below the previous level at minus 0.3 percent. “In view of the high order backlog, that is a slight disappointment,” commented LBBW economist Jens-Oliver Niklasch on the current economic data. This is also how his colleague Alexander Krüger from Bankhaus Lampe sees it: “It is paradoxical: Despite the magnificent order situation, production is not getting underway. Once again it is clear that the industry is still affected by indirect pandemic pressure. Longer delivery times and material bottlenecks are actually signs a boom that is currently not at all. ”

“Material shortage has a full impact”

Thomas Gitzel, chief economist at VP Bank, is of the opinion that the shortage of materials is now having an impact: “Such a constellation is unparalleled. The industry’s order books are well filled and production is giving way.” Nils Jannsen, Head of Business for Germany at the Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel), also sees the delivery bottlenecks as a major problem, as the companies have not been able to fully process the high incoming orders for several months. “In April, the proportion of companies in the manufacturing sector that reported production disruptions due to a lack of preliminary work was at a record level of more than 40 percent,” said the expert. In addition to the shortage of manufactured intermediate goods, Jannsen also observes transport bottlenecks in shipping. For Andreas Scheuerle, an expert at Dekabank, another aspect is also effective: “Delivery bottlenecks certainly hampered production in April. But they alone do not explain the lower industrial production. Another part of the picture is that the infection situation in Germany is continuing tightened the easing of March again. ”

Production expectations are falling

How could it go on in the future? Apparently, there is a certain skepticism among companies: The production expectations of the industry deteriorated in May after a 30-year high had only been reached in the previous month. The corresponding ifo indicator fell by five to 27 points, as the Ifo Institute announced in its monthly survey of companies. “The picture of production expectations in the individual sectors is very different,” said Ifo expert Klaus Wohlrabe. “The auto industry and its suppliers are significantly lowering their expectations, but continue to expect production increases.” The clothing manufacturers, on the other hand, report for the first time after nine months that they want to expand their production. “Additional boost” The economist Scheuerle emphasizes that the order cushion increased again in April, because orders would develop more strongly than production: “This record high order backlog will secure the recovery in the second half of the year as soon as the bottlenecks ease again.” According to ifw specialist Jannsen, it is currently difficult to predict how long the production disruptions will continue. They would presumably only fade gradually and initially put a brake on the recovery in industry. “As soon as these impairments have been overcome, companies will work off the backlog of orders quickly and industrial production will receive an additional boost.”

In April 2021, the Prime Minister issued a document assigning the Ministry of Science and Technology to assume the prime responsibility for, and coordinate with the Ministry of Industry and Trade in, soon finalizing and promulgating national technical regulations on gasoline, diesel fuel, and biofuel corresponding to emission standards at level 5. The Ministry of Industry and Trade is responsible for directing petrol and oil suppliers to have a plan to supply gasoline and diesel at level 5 to ensure that they meet demand for use and are in sync with the application roadmap. emission standards level 5. According to the Vietnam Register, with this regulation, the Euro 5 emission standard only applies to new cars when the vehicle type approval certificate is issued. The emission test method for new vehicles is carried out in a dedicated laboratory. Euro 5 emissions do not apply when periodically checking with cars in circulation. For cars in circulation, the emission standards are applied according to the rapid test method at the registration facilities according to the Prime Minister’s Decision No. 16 on the roadmap for applying emission standards of cars participating in traffic and automobiles. Imported used. This standard stipulates that cars with gasoline and diesel engines manufactured after 2008 will apply the level 2 emission standard from January 1, 2020. Thus, raising the automobile emission standard from level 4 (in 2017) to level 5 in January 2022, Vietnam becomes one of the top countries in ASEAN in terms of controlling emissions that have an impact on the environment. In addition, the improvement of automobile emission standards will reduce the cost of disaster recovery due to the greenhouse effect and the cost of medical examination and treatment for the community.

Production line automation chuyền Stepping into the Z131 Factory (trade name is 31 Electromechanical and Explosives One Member Limited Liability Company), the modern machinery and chain system makes many people admire. These can be mentioned as: Automatic welding robot arm produces uniform products such as stamping, quality assurance, aesthetics; Automatic paint line helps to cover the product with beautiful glossy paint, meeting high technical standards… The benefit from these chains is that workers do not have to directly participate in hazardous and arduous jobs that pose a risk to health. Over the years, Z131 Factory has focused on investing in advanced equipment and high automation. According to Colonel Hoang Thanh Son, Secretary of the Party Committee, Chairman of the 31 Electromechanical and Explosives One Member Company Limited, this is an important factor for the factory to keep pace with the increasing requirements for production capacity and quality. product quantity. For example, the industrial explosives production line at the factory is currently in the most modern technology group of Vietnam and the world. This line only needs 6-7 operators instead of the previous need of 21 people per shift, not only increasing product quality but also doubling productivity. The automatic coating system of Z131 Factory helps products to be uniform in quality, ensuring technical and artistic standards. Factory Z131 also promotes the promotion of internal resources by arousing the creative labor spirit, promoting the capacity of each officer, engineer, and employee through scientific research and application of technical innovation initiatives. art. Thanks to these initiatives, productivity increases, workers’ incomes are higher, creating more motivation for each person to try harder. From small ideas to large-scale research projects, all are recognized by the factory and have the form of worthy rewards, timely encouragement and encouragement of the working spirit of collectives and individuals. In order to improve productivity, quality, and stabilize production, the factory focuses on research and application of new technologies. In 2020, the factory had 19 scientific research projects at all levels. In which, there are 1 state-level project, 1 defense ministry-level project, 2 projects at the General Department of Defense, 15 grassroots-level projects; promote 572 initiatives, benefit value reached 4 billion. Digital technology helps increase work efficiency Factory Z131 is one of the units that boldly deploy digitization to serve work and tasks, moving towards applying paperless office. Lieutenant Colonel Nguyen Khac Thu, Head of Information Technology Department (Factory Z131) said that the factory has invested in building infrastructure, which is an intranet system connecting departments and enterprises. This is the basis for promoting the process of digitization and implementation of information technology applications in operation management. Currently, the factory has applied electronic office software that allows sending and receiving electronic documents, and job planning management software on the internal network. The factory also applies information technology in the management of finance, materials, labor and salary; put the face recognition timekeeping system into use. In addition, there are many other digitized applications such as management systems, production statistics, automatic parking systems, production and security surveillance cameras.. No matter how modern the technology is, if there is no human resource capable of mastering it and successfully applying it in practice, the desired effect will not be achieved. Understanding this issue, Z131 Factory is always interested in improving the quality of human resources. Employees are continuously trained and retrained to improve their skills. The factory combines both on-site training and coordination with partners to transfer technology and send training facilities. Building high-quality, skilled human resources has always been identified as a key factor for the factory to continue to innovate production processes, master technology and equipment. Improving professional qualifications is also the key to promoting creative labor of officials, engineers and employees, thereby helping Z131 Factory constantly increase productivity, product quality, and improve the environment. work, ensure production safety.

The factory also cooperates with research institutes to successfully test many products with complex technical requirements to meet the requirements of military modernization. Vietnam-made anti-tank ammunition. Prominent in the plant’s science and technology work is focusing on implementing topics to completely solve complex technical problems and problems that have lasted for many years. Many high-value initiatives put into effective application such as: Researching and perfecting K51SK fire particle production technology; research on drying wet fire seeds by infrared drying method; perfecting the production technology of spark tube explosion to improve product quality, overcome the phenomenon of electric spark tube resistance decline, stabilize quality, and reduce product failure rate; research to improve the quality of bullets PG9, OG9, B41M… It is known that OG-9 is a fragmentation explosive used to destroy enemy troops and vitality, destroy enemy fire stations at a range of up to 1000m and destroy enemy clusters at a distance of up to 4500m. . The OG-9 explosive grenade launcher has a shell made of ductile iron inside with a 735g TNT-type explosive and a ballistic stabilizer: The propellant tube is drilled with a row of air vents at right angles to each other and has eight raised fixed wing edges, oblique cuts on the wings for the projectile to rotate around its axis while in the air; The tail of the launch tube has a connecting rod for the dose and line marking. The OG-9 Detonator includes: Cone-shaped detonator housing with detonator; Long range detonator, detonation and cross detonation. The inertial mechanical element is used to activate the warhead ready for combat at a distance of 2.5 – 18m from the cross-section of the barrel and has: Detonator housing with dedicated cutouts, cartridge springs, locking balls and 4 safety locking balls. The grooves on the wall of the fuse housing are zigzag, through and straight. The flaming element is used for the pyrotechnics to strike the detonator’s fire particle when it collides with an obstacle and has an immediate, inertial effect. The pyrotechnic unit includes a flamingo cap, a gravity ball with horizontal locking pins and grooves, a flintlock, a pyrex housing and a conical spring. The inertial part includes: gasket, detonator tube and protective gasket. Cross-piercing detonator is a part used to detonate bullets when encountering an obstacle with a diagonal angle of impact greater than 8 degrees, a part consisting of a conical guide tube connected to a detonator tube, a directional ring. cone and decoys. In order for the inertial silver to not move, the ring is held in place by a compression spring and the edge of the tube containing the needle. The fact that Vietnam is self-sufficient in the production of OG-9 ammunition is especially important in the combat training and combat readiness of the army, which is not dependent on external supplies.

The survey was conducted in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City with the access facilities being pharmacies and hospitals – where the majority of people go first when they have health problems and functional food trading/manufacturing companies. The survey and data processing was conducted from January 2019 to October 2019. Pharmacist Phan Ke Son in the laboratory for the production of purple tricolor nano. The research team surveyed patients or people at high risk of osteoporosis such as the elderly, pregnant women,… living in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City; conduct random selection so that there is 1 pharmacy/hospital for each district, then for each pharmacy/hospital, interview 5-7 customers who agree to participate in the study to ensure 40 customers answer interview. The survey subjects are also representatives or people/units producing/trading functional foods in Hanoi or Ho Chi Minh City… The survey aims to find out the supply capacity of manufacturers as well as to find out the competitive market, price and technology of products to support osteoporosis prevention from Quang Ninh three purple sizes, and at the same time, research on the production of products to support osteoporosis prevention. This allows to find out the possibility of providing products to support osteoporosis prevention and the need for technology to manufacture products to support osteoporosis prevention, in order to determine the ability to supply products in the market and search for potential partners. partners wishing to transfer technology to produce products to support osteoporosis prevention. The survey results show that the companies participating in the survey 100% have not yet produced/traded preparations from three sizes of purple, 70% of the companies want to participate in the production/trading of products from three sizes. Violet. In which, 57.2% of companies have production plants. The number of production and research people in the company is less than 50, accounting for mainly (85.71%) and the product production capacity in 1 month is 10,000 products is the highest (57.15%), so the company has equipped and invested in modern and large-scale facilities to serve production. Quang Ninh purple basil tubers. In which, about 55% of companies are expected to supply the market with > 10000 products/month, 20% supply the market with 5000 – 10000 products, the proportion of products that can be supplied to the market is very high. large and the desired cost for a product is 100,000 VND (60%). The price of 100,000 VND belongs to the mid-range segment, everyone can afford the drug. Companies that plan to sell on all channels: retail, online, wholesale, etc. account for the majority (40%), Products sold through stores (directly to consumers) and sales channels. The odd ratio is 15%. Thus, the products of the companies are sold to the market in a variety of channels so that they can reach the people who need to use the products. “Through the survey, we see that the potential for production/business to supply the Quang Ninh market with three size purple products is very large when currently no company/business unit has any products. about three Quang Ninh purple sizes while they have all the conditions for production / business to promote products about Quang Ninh purple products to supply the market in quantity “- Pharmacist Phan Ke Son shared.

Asia Industrial Technology Joint Stock Company (Quat Dong Industrial Complex, Thuong Tin District) installed partitions at the workplace to prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic. Many solutions implemented We are present at TOMECO An Khang Joint Stock Company (Ngoc Liep Industrial Cluster, Quoc Oai District) amid the complicated developments of the Covid-19 epidemic in the community. Here, the working atmosphere is still very busy, although workers have started to rotate to ensure distance. All of them wore masks, had to check their body temperature in and out of the factory, disinfect their hands… Worker Nguyen Quang Vinh said: “In the first 4 months of 2021, orders were collected from last year, so we couldn’t do it all. job. The disease just broke out again, but the company’s leaders have applied many prevention and control measures, so everyone is confident to focus on production.” Information with a reporter of the New Hanoi Newspaper, Chairman of the Board of Directors of TOMECO An Khang Joint Stock Company Le Quy Kha emphasized that the prevention and control of epidemics and production protection for the company is now an important task. head. The company has arranged the production block to implement the distance, while the indirect department has moved to work online. Due to the complicated situation of the Covid-19 epidemic, after the holidays of April 30 and May 1, the company requires workers who are scheduled to travel through epidemic areas or related to epidemic areas to make medical declarations. , self-isolate for health monitoring at home from 14 to 21 days. All employee benefits, even when working online, are fully maintained. “Our most successful over the past 1 year is that there have been no cases of infection and no one in the F1, F2 category,” said Mr. Meanwhile, records at B.Braun Vietnam Co., Ltd. (Thanh Oai industrial cluster, Thanh Oai district) also show that epidemic prevention measures are taken drastically. As a unit specializing in the production of intravenous fluids and single-use medical products, with more than 1,500 workers, in order to effectively prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic, the company soon established a Risk Control Committee. , operating 24 hours a day. Finance director of B.Braun Vietnam Co., Ltd. Nguyen Viet Hung said that in this fourth outbreak, the company has 1 worker named F1 who has been taken to concentrated isolation, 62 F2 workers have been quarantined. isolation at home. Therefore, the epidemic prevention measures in the company have been activated at the highest level, such as: Disinfecting the entire company; workers when coming to work must make a medical declaration, wear a mask, measure their body temperature, and maintain distance according to regulations; In the kitchen, there are shields to prevent droplets… “For those who work online, the company pays 100% of the salary. As for those who have to be isolated, the company still pays 70% of the salary. In addition to equipment imports (accounting for 55% of sales), we have 2 manufacturing plants (accounting for 45% of revenue) running at full capacity. If the situation of the Covid-19 epidemic continues to be complicated, we have planned to isolate all workers on the spot to maintain production, “said Nguyen Viet Hung. These days, local governments in the city also join hands with businesses to carry out epidemic prevention and control to maintain production. According to Chairman of Quoc Oai District People’s Committee Nguyen Truong Son, in the district there are 30 enterprises with more than 2,000 employees working in Ngoc Liep and Yen Son industrial clusters. Together with businesses to ensure safety for production, local authorities have strengthened supervision of the implementation of epidemic prevention measures such as: Disinfection of cargo vehicles and production areas; comply with the message “5K” (mask – disinfection – distance – do not gather – medical declaration)… In particular, the district updated and promptly implemented the directives of the central and city on the prevention and control of the Covid-19 epidemic in industrial zones and clusters to all enterprises; which emphasizes the responsibility of business leaders in realizing “dual goals”… Deputy Head of the Management Board of Hanoi Industrial Parks and Export Processing Zones Tran Anh Tuan assessed that most businesses operating in industrial clusters and industrial parks have strictly implemented Covid-19 prevention measures. The Management Board daily updates information, proactively predicts early situations arising when there is a suspected case of being positive for Covid-19 so that businesses can have a plan in the production organization… Do not let the production chain break In fact, in this fourth outbreak, the Covid-19 epidemic has “attacked” industrial parks in some provinces. With the characteristics of a large concentration of workers, the new strain of SARS-CoV-2 virus has a rapid spread, so industrial zones and clusters become very high-risk points if disease prevention is neglected. Moreover, as soon as there is an infection, a workshop or even an entire factory may have to stop production, the damage is difficult to measure. As proof of this, Vice Chairman of Thuong Tin District People’s Committee Bui Cong Than said, right after detecting positive cases of SARS-CoV-2 virus at Sland Company (Hien Giang commune, Thuong Tin district) in the middle of the week. In May 2021, the district reviewed and immediately quarantined F1 cases and requested home isolation of F2s, including the company’s leadership and many workers. Accordingly, the entire paint and chemical production line must also stop working, and unfinished products must be discarded. According to Chairman of the Board of Directors of TOMECO An Khang Joint Stock Company Le Quy Kha, the most worry of enterprises is that the disease will delay production. “In 2020, the Covid-19 epidemic broke out, production was halted, the company’s revenue decreased. In the first 4 months of 2021, orders and production activities have recovered, if the disease is “attacked”, businesses will face many difficulties. Therefore, we always work together with the city to strictly implement regulations on epidemic prevention and control so that the production chain is not broken,” said Mr. Le Quy Kha. Talking about this issue, Deputy Director of Hanoi Department of Industry and Trade Dam Tien Thang said that the city has assigned the Department to act as a standing agency in inspecting and supervising the prevention and control of Covid-19 epidemic and maintaining production in industrial zones and clusters in Hanoi. Through the inspection, in general, businesses and local authorities have been fiercely involved. But the level of vigilance must be raised further. In fact, doing well in epidemic prevention and control in industrial zones and clusters without letting the production chain be “broken” is also a solution to efforts to realize the “dual goal” and effectively prevent and control the Covid-19 epidemic. result, economic and social development. With the resolute measures of all levels and sectors, the efforts of the business community and workers will help Hanoi city’s industrial zones and clusters be protected safely and maintain production activities. 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Orders for the F-16 fighter version Block 70/72 will be completed at the factory in Greenville. Nearly 400 jobs will be created to support this production line, almost double the workforce employed at Lockheed Martin’s plant in Greenville. This will be the only surviving F-16 production line in the world. It was set up three years after Lockheed Martin discontinued the line in Fort Worth, Texas. Recently, representing five partner countries, the US Air Force signed a contract with Lockheed Martin worth $14 billion to build 128 F-16s by 2026. The first F-16s of this line will ship in 2022 and production will increase steadily in the following years. These aircraft will be delivered to Bahrain, Slovakia, Bulgaria and Taiwan territories. The F-16 Block 70/72 will be integrated with active electronically scanned array radar (AESA), advanced medium-range air-to-air missile (AMRAAM) with longer strike capability, and a suitable expanded fuel tank. with the fuselage. Even after 2026, the US is expected to receive more orders for the F-16 due to its reasonable price and versatility.

At the same time, the grant helps to urgently invest in the production system of materials and equipment to ensure the supply of a sufficient number of necessary vaccines, supplemented with the amount of imported vaccines, towards the completion of the Covid-19 vaccination program. -19 for the people of Vietnam right this year. Test injection of Nanocovax vaccine phase 1 at the Military Medical Academy. Photo: Viet Linh. In phase 3, the Nanocovax vaccine will be tested in multi-centers at domestic facilities with about 13,000 volunteers. In the North, there are Military Medical Academy and Hung Yen, in the South, there are Pasteur Institutes in Ho Chi Minh City and Long An. Phase 3 is divided into several sub-phases, first injecting 800 registered volunteers, then continuing to recruit more. The optimal dose chosen for phase 3 is 25 mcg. Through the study, all 3 dose groups of 25 mcg, 50 mcg and 75 mcg produced equivalent immunity, due to the equal effectiveness, the Ethics Committee chose the lowest dose for production, saving raw materials. If all goes well, by the end of September, phase 3 testing will be complete. At that time, Vietnam can produce the first Covid-19 vaccine. Exchange with Zing Mr. Ho Nhan, founder and general director of Nanogen Company, did not comment or disclose more about this information. He said the company has stocked up enough materials to produce a vaccine right after the third phase of testing is completed. The company said that if it goes well, it can produce 100 million doses this year. Nanocovax vaccine is Vietnam’s first Covid-19 vaccine that is allowed to be tested in clinical trials, manufactured by Nanogen Company based on recombinant protein technology. The phase 1 clinical trial took place from December 17, 2020, to the end of April completed the phase 2 trial on 560 volunteers, expanding the audience from 18 to over 60 years old, of which one the number of people with underlying diseases such as hypertension, dyslipidemia, diabetes, grade 1 cardiovascular disease… are not too severe. Besides Nanocovax, the second domestic vaccine being tested is Covivac of IVAC Company, which has now completed phase 1 injection.

Accordingly, heated tobacco products are designated as tobacco products that reduce exposure to harmful substances to the body compared to cigarettes. This decision of the FDA is also a response to some concerns of governments around the world about the ability of products to reduce harm. In addition, other concerns were also answered by experts. The risk is lower than with cigarettes, higher than that of quitting To date, health authorities are concerned that the FDA’s decision to only allow products to be designated “reduced exposure” does not prove that heated tobacco products reduce the risk of disease to human health. use. In addition, some medical experts have made statements that contradict the FDA’s decision, saying that the product is not different from cigarettes. According to official information from the FDA, studies on heated tobacco have demonstrated that the aerosols produced by these products still contain high levels of harmful and potentially harmful ingredients, including formaldehyde. , acrolein, carbon monoxide; NNN and NNK (substances related to diseases caused by tobacco smoke) but significantly lower than the currently circulating combustible cigarettes. Specifically, depending on the type of substance, the average concentration in aerosol gas will be reduced from 55% to 99% compared to the smoke of cigarettes. At the same time, the FDA said that in the process of reviewing the records, FDA has consulted users. The results showed that users found that the risk of using these products was lower than that of smoking cigarettes. However, they are also fully aware that using this heated tobacco product carries a higher risk than quitting smoking or using nicotine replacement products. PGS.TS.BS. Tran Van Ngoc – Chairman of the Ho Chi Minh City Respiratory Association said that in logic, minimizing exposure will help reduce harm. Assoc.Prof.Dr. Le Van Quang, Director of the Central Hospital for Cancer, also stated: “From the perspective of an oncologist, when a patient smokes, the greater the amount of carcinogens exposed, the higher the cancer risk. And for cigarettes, one thing is important: nicotine is not the cause of cancer caused by smoking, but the cause of cancer is the molecules in the smoke created by the combustion of cigarettes. leaves”. Low accessibility to young people The US FDA is a reputable health authority in the US as well as globally. Accordingly, protecting the young generation and people’s health is the top goal of FDA. Therefore, allowing a single heated tobacco product to be allowed access to the US market shows that they have done thorough research and considered carefully before making a decision. FDA Representative, Dr. Priscilla Callahan-Lyon affirmed that the FDA has carefully studied the issue of the product’s impact on young people. Accordingly, in terms of appearance, a heated cigarette is a rather large set of equipment, difficult to conceal and is not cheap, must be used with its own custom cigarette, and this product also does not contain attractive aromas. young. Not only in the US, in countries where this product is allowed to be sold, it is almost impossible for young people to access the product. In order to make a purchase, the buyer must go through a background check to ensure that the buyer is a smoker and is of legal age of majority in the country of origin. At the same time, although allowing this tobacco product to be commercialized, FDA also requires manufacturers to regularly update their sales and trade processes to ensure control of young people’s access to the product. This product is at its lowest. Meanwhile, compared to heated cigarettes, young people can easily buy cigarettes anywhere with as cheap as giving. On the other hand, in countries that allow the circulation of heated tobacco, the impact of this product on young people or new users is almost under control. Despite accounting for 85% of global sales of heated cigarettes, only 0.1% of middle and high school students in Japan use heated cigarettes daily, which is only one-fifth of the total. percentage of students smoking burned cigarettes. It is worth noting that the number of students using heated cigarettes is the same group of students who have used cigarettes before. According to an independent study of 7,000 teenagers in Germany, the number of people aged 12-17 who used a heated tobacco product in the 30 days before the survey was almost zero. One study Another independent study of more than 11,000 teenagers aged 11-15 years old in Switzerland also found that less than 2% had ever used heated tobacco, while the number of people who smoked lit cigarettes in this same age range increased. to over 33%. Need a plan to build a legal corridor According to the Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) of the World Health Organization (WHO), which Vietnam has acceded to and entered into force in March 2005, in the definition under article 1, item (f) published on the website of the Foundation for Prevention of Tobacco Harms (Vinacosh) also clearly states: “tobacco products” means products which are wholly or partly derived from tobacco materials manufactured to for sucking, sucking, chewing or inhaling. The 8th Conference of the Parties (COP8) held by WHO at the end of 2018 also once again reiterated that heated tobacco is recognized as a tobacco product. From this definition and the COP8 guidelines, it can be seen that whether according to the definition of the 2012 Law on Drugs and Prevention of Vietnam, or within the definition of the WHO Framework Convention on FCTC 2005, heated tobacco is a products must be subject to the control of the current Law on Drug Prevention and Control. Lawyer Phan Hoang Lam, Law Firm DT LAW On the other hand, lawyer Phan Hoang Lam, DT LAW Law Firm, said that the Law on Prevention of Tobacco Harms 2012 defines “Tobacco is a product manufactured from all or part of medicinal ingredients. leaves, processed in the form of cigarettes, cigars, tobacco, pipe tobacco or other forms”. On this basis, heated tobacco is considered “tobacco” because it contains tobacco leaf ingredients, consistent with the concept of “tobacco” under the current legal provisions of Vietnam. Therefore, this drug is completely regulated by the National Drug Prevention and Control Law. According to Lawyer Lam, in order to manage smokeless tobacco products more effectively, Vietnam needs to consider international scientific bases to evaluate and compare the level of harm to the health of the drug. smokeless leaves compared to burned cigarettes. At the same time, with the function of State management, in order to create free and fair competition among manufacturers and products and protect the interests of consumers, protect public health, regulatory agencies The state should immediately come up with a plan to build a legal corridor for the production, circulation and control of these products.

This manufacturing company now owns a phone and electronic equipment factory with an annual design capacity of 125 million devices. In the most recent year (2020), VinSmart said it sold 1.95 million smartphones to the market, up 225% compared to 2019 sales (600,000 units). One of the two production components of Vingroup With record-high phone sales, VinSmart also became the third largest smartphone supplier in the domestic market with 12.7% market share. This is the first time a Vietnamese phone brand is in the top of the largest manufacturers and consumers in the market. VinSmart sold more than 1.95 million smartphones to the domestic market and exported 1.3 million units in 2020. Photo: Gemini. Notably, in addition to selling phones in the domestic market, in the past year, VinSmart also for the first time recorded revenue from outsourcing and manufacturing original equipment for foreign partners. In it, the company said it had signed a contract and started exporting smartphones to US carriers and foreign customers, with an output of 1.3 million units last year. Returning to the domestic market, VinSmart has now launched 18 smartphone models in the segments from popular to high-end. In addition, this manufacturer has also begun to expand its product portfolio to other electronic devices such as electronic components, air purifiers, etc. In 2020, VinSmart has also become a partner for manufacturing components. blower components for Medtronic PLC ventilators, exported to the US and Ireland. In addition to the production of phones and electronic devices, VinSmart is also the enterprise in charge of building a technology ecosystem for Vingroup’s real estate projects with three core products, including Smart city (member of Vingroup). smart city), Smart home (smart home) and Smart services (digital services). Currently, VinSmart is the contractor in charge of deploying smart city solutions in all 3 major urban areas of Vinhomes including Vinhomes Ocean Park, Vinhomes Smart City (Hanoi) and Vinhomes Grand Park (HCMC). Manufacturing is not prioritized? In the latest announcement, Vingroup announced that it will close VinSmart’s TV and mobile phone production segments to focus on developing high technology for VinFast. This move follows after Vietnam’s largest private group had to withdraw from a series of previous business activities to focus on industry and technology. In fact, although it is one of the two components forming the production division of Vingroup, VinSmart’s activities are always invested much less than VinFast. Specifically, in terms of both investment scale and business results, VinSmart is still very modest compared to car and electric vehicle manufacturers with the same owner. According to the separate financial report of parent company Vingroup in the first quarter, the original value of Vingroup’s investment in VinSmart is estimated at nearly VND 5,000 billion, an increase of more than VND 2,000 billion compared to the beginning of the year. However, this figure is less than a quarter of the value of Vingroup’s investment in VinFast, reaching VND 22,007 billion at the same time. The scale of investment and production activities of VinSmart is much smaller than that of VinFast. Photo: Hoang Ha. Despite being one of two subsidiaries that received additional capital through direct investment in the first quarter, the value of Vingroup’s investment in VinSmart is currently only fifth and much lower than other businesses like Vinhomes (22,981 Billion); VinFast (22,007 billion); Vinpearl (16,992 billion); Vincomerce Holding (5,928 billion). In previous years, the investment in VinSmart was also in the middle and low group of Vingroup’s long-term financial investments in subsidiaries. Regarding business results, because VinSmart’s operating report has not been published in detail, the company’s revenue and profit is still accounted for in the production department along with VinFast. In 2020, the revenue of Vingroup’s production division (including VinFast and VinSmart) reached over VND 18,000 billion, an increase of more than 80% compared to 2019. In which, the leader of this group said revenue increased sharply in the year. thanks to increased sales of cars and smartphones. However, as planned by the leadership of this group continuously, Vingroup’s production division in the same year had a pre-tax loss of nearly VND 14,000 billion. In the first quarter of this year, manufacturing was also one of Vingroup’s high-growth business divisions along with real estate. Revenue from this activity brought the group a total of VND4,825 billion, up 44% over the same period. However, the business results report by division of Vingroup said that this business segment still has a pre-tax loss of 4,814 billion. With the cessation of smartphone and television production, in the coming time, VinSmart will focus mainly on high-tech development for VinFast and partly on Vinhomes’ real estate projects. In addition, part of the factory will be used to process for partners, the rest will be expanded and adjusted to produce new products.

Production of iPhone 12 at Foxconn’s factory in India fell by more than 50%. (Source: Reuters) Foxconn’s facility in the southern Indian state of Tamil Nadu specializes in manufacturing iPhones for India, the world’s second-largest smartphone market. Tamil Nadu is one of the hardest hit states in the second wave of Covid-19 that is sweeping across India. Authorities have imposed a complete blockade in the state since May 10, suspending public transport and closing shopping centers to prevent the number of infections from increasing. Reuters Citing two sources, more than 100 Foxconn employees in the state have tested positive for Covid-19 and the company has issued a ban on entering the Chennai factory until the end of May. A source stated that employees were only allowed to leave the factory but not enter since yesterday and only a small part of production is being maintained. Currently, the company has cut more than 50% of the factory’s capacity. However, the sources did not specify the capacity of the plant and did not say how many employees work at the facility. India has benefited from Apple moving some manufacturing from China to other markets. The company announced in March that it had begun assembling iPhone 12 in India. Although Apple’s market share is quite small in the mainly low-cost Indian market, Chief Executive Tim Cook said in January that its business in India doubled in the fourth quarter. 2020 year-over-year, thanks to the launch of an online store. According to market research firm Canalys, Apple’s growth momentum in India continued in the first quarter of 2021, with the business shipping more than one million iPhones. Demand for iPhone 12 is driven by domestic assembly and attractive financial incentives. Foxconn is not the only manufacturer in India affected by the raging Covid-19 epidemic. Nokia and Chinese smartphone maker Oppo last year also suspended production at their factories in the South Asian country after employees tested positive for Covid-19. Meanwhile, technology research firm TrendForce based in Taipei, Taiwan (China) on May 10 lowered its forecast for global smartphone output growth this year from 9.4% to 9.4%. 8.5%, citing that the outbreak in India is affecting major suppliers such as Samsung and Apple. (according to Reuters)

The global chip shortage has hit automakers hard, especially Ford, as it said it would have to cut production in half in the second quarter. In the latest move, auto industry groups have pressed the Biden administration to secure chip supplies for manufacturing plants. The new alliance will include a number of large chip companies such as AT&T, Cisco Systems, General Electric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Verizon Communications. The group announced that it will resist government actions to support the industry, which is struggling in production because of the chip shortage problem. Tech companies like Apple or Microsoft are also affected by the situation, but much less severely than automakers. Last month, the iPhone maker said it could lose $3 to $4 billion in sales in the current quarter because of chip shortages. According to Reuters

Every ingredient from the cocoa fruit is turned into a processing ingredient. Photo: B.Nguyen In Dong Nai, many production models applying biotechnology to recycle waste into input materials for other production processes, minimizing the amount of waste discharged into the environment are gradually being replicated. * Green production At the forefront of the movement to turn harmful wastes in agricultural production into raw materials for processing into other high-value economic products are enterprises with large investment capital. Viet Farm Trading Co., Ltd chose to invest in Xuan Truong commune, Xuan Loc district because this is a thriving locality in livestock. Starting a business, the business mainly manufactures livestock equipment and designs and constructs livestock barn systems. The barn system designed by the company is fully automatic from the feeding system to collecting chicken manure, cooling system… In which, the enterprise is very interested in waste treatment so that it can earn money. money instead of having to spend a lot of money to treat this waste source. Mr. Tran Quang Tinh, Director of Viet Farm Trading Co., Ltd shared: “The enterprise has invested in an organic fertilizer factory with a capacity of 200 tons/day and signed contracts for waste treatment for a number of corporations. large foreign-invested livestock groups in Dong Nai. In particular, livestock waste is used as a raw material for the production of organic fertilizers, bringing high economic value. Production of organic fertilizers from livestock waste of Viet Farm Trading Company Limited (Xuan Loc District) The story of sustainable agricultural production in a closed chain that takes advantage of all agricultural wastes and by-products, without creating environmental pollution is being replicated in farmers’ production. In the past time, H. Vinh Cuu is promoting a program to mobilize and support farmers to apply probiotics as pesticides, organic fertilizers from domestic waste and waste in agricultural production with the goal of achieving the goal. reduce production costs, increase added value for key agricultural products, local strengths. Here, agricultural waste becomes a resource, a natural organic substance that can help plants grow. Ms. Bui Thi Thuy, a farmer in Vinh An Town (Vinh Cuu District), said that after participating in a number of local training courses on organic farming, she applied biotechnology. Make your own organic fertilizers and use probiotics to create biological products that kill insects. She has improved the productive land more and more fertile thanks to this method. “The natural production method I am doing makes full use of all agricultural waste such as manure and organic waste to make fertilizer for plants, so the cost is very low. I am trying to perfect the chain of cultivation and processing according to a closed process, using fruit trees grown in my home garden as raw materials to make handmade products that are both unique and environmentally friendly,” said Ms. Thuy. * Zero-waste processing Trong Duc Cocoa Co., Ltd (Dinh Quan) has cooperated with a group of Assoc., PhD students of the International University of Ho Chi Minh City to carry out research projects on processing foods and drinks of economic value. benefits from cocoa fruit waste products. New product lines under investment include: production of cookies and non-fried instant noodles supplemented with cocoa pod powder; production process of vegetarian sausage and pectin from cocoa powder; the production process of nutritious drink from cocoa fruit flesh… The highlight of these products is the use of raw materials such as waste from the skin, cocoa fruit flesh to process valuable foods. nutritional and economic. The above cooperation program is part of the common goal of the enterprise, which is to focus on investing in deep processing, constantly diversifying products and foods processed from cocoa fruit, especially from cocoa fruit waste to create profits. competitive advantage for products not only in the domestic market but also in export. Mr. Dang Truong Khanh, Director of Trong Duc Cocoa Co., Ltd. shared that the enterprise would like scientists to accompany in researching new products from cocoa fruit. In particular, high-value foods are processed from materials that are waste products in the production process, contributing to adding added value to cocoa trees. The most unique product line to mention is the specialty of cocoa wine that is brewed from the flesh of the previous cocoa fruit, which is discarded during the production process. With the same opinion, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Pham Van Hung, representing a group of scientists from the International University of Ho Chi Minh City, said, diversifying many products from cocoa skin and flesh, which are waste products in the process. production process brings higher economic value. In particular, this is a product line that is beneficial to human health because it has higher antioxidants, meeting the demand for healthy food of today’s consumers. Research on these products is now almost completed and can be put into production immediately. However, the research team will continue to recalculate the production process and equipment. Hopefully, the cooperation of scientists and businesses will connect and bring more processed products to the market.

In the winter-spring crop 2020-2021, Quang Tri Agricultural Extension Center has implemented an organic rice production model using Guilin organic fertilizer at An Long Cooperative, Trieu Hoa commune, Trieu Phong district to change awareness and transfer of technical processes and organic farming methods to people. From being dependent on chemical fertilizers, people have realized great benefits from applying organic fertilizers. Photo: PVT. The model is implemented on a scale of 10 hectares, 50 participating households. After selecting the demonstration site, the Quang Tri Agricultural Extension Center organized a training session to guide the process of organic rice intensification, especially organic composting. The implementation of organic composting was carried out early (since November 2020). At the same time, the technical staff has coordinated with the Commune People’s Committee and the Management Board of the cooperative to closely manage and supervise the implementation of the model as required by the program. Rice production process using sowing tools, HC95 rice variety has high quality, high yield and good quality. Master Tran Thi Thuy, the technical officer directing the model, said that in the process of planting, households have been instructed to carefully prepare the soil, create a flat surface, and drain water before sowing. Make sure to soak the seeds in the correct technique, regularly check the sprouts, when the sprout is 1/3 of a rice grain (cracked pineapple spikes), the roots are ½ of a rice grain, sow. Healthy, disease-free, productive, high-quality rice fields thanks to organic production. Photo: PVT. Rice is sown by row sowing tool, the amount of seed sown for 1 sao (500 m2) is 3.5 kg. Use composted organic fertilizer for lining and Guilin organic fertilizer during the growth and development of rice plants. Rice does not use chemical fertilizers, chemical pesticides, only biological pesticides are used when pests and diseases occur. Scientific irrigation water regime, suitable for the growing needs of rice plants. Fertilizers are applied in 4 main growth and development periods of rice… Calculating for 1 hectare, the amount of fertilizer for each application is as follows: Apply the last fertilizer before harrowing with 6-7 tons of broken organic fertilizer, 500 kg Guilin microbial organic fertilizer, 300 kg Guilin mineral fertilizer ; first application at rice 20 days after sowing with the amount of Guilin mineral fertilizer: 500 kg; second fertilizer at rice 32-35 days after sowing with 400 kg Guilin mineral fertilizer; 3rd application at rice 62 days after sowing, combined with spraying foliar fertilizer with 300 kg of Guilin mineral fertilizer, 40 packs of Guilin foliar fertilizer. Mr. Doan Tho Hoa, An Long village (Trieu Hoa commune, Trieu Phong commune) participates in the model of organic rice production with an area of ​​4 sao. Meeting with us, Mr. Hoa could not hide his joy and said: The difference of the organic rice production model is the use of Guilin organic fertilizer and the use of manure composted with Trichoderma products. The environment in the fields of Trieu Hoa commune (Trieu Phong, Quang Tri) is greener, cleaner and more beautiful thanks to organic rice farming. Photo: PVT. Compared to HC95 rice, which farmers cultivate in the usual way, the model rice plants are organically healthy, have durable green leaves, moderate green color from the beginning to the end of the crop, and the rice plants are free from pests and diseases from the root At the top, the color of the yellow rice grain is brighter. “During the last storm of the season with strong gusts of wind, conventional farming fields all fell, especially the model fields have strong roots, so they do not fall, which is very convenient for farming. harvest”, Mr. Hoa assessed. Mr. Doan Duc Tam, another household participating in the model, said that when cultivating rice in the organic direction, it will greatly limit the situation where pesticide bottles are thrown away in the field, but instead, the awareness The people’s compliance with the process of caring for rice with organic fertilizers has been increased. “During the implementation of the model, from planting, tending to harvesting, my relatives and I always feel secure, without fear of toxicity when taking care of rice,” said Mr. Tam. Multi-faceted benefits In the process of rice production, if using inorganic fertilizers for many years, without adding organic fertilizers as well as overusing inorganic fertilizers, it will cause harm such as increasing the susceptibility of plants to diseases. , kill beneficial microorganisms, make many arable land areas lose fertility, imbalance of nutrients in the soil, hard soil, decrease crop yield and increase production costs. impact on the environment and human health… Not using chemical pesticides, focusing on integrated pest management in the field has shown farmers countless benefits. Photo: PVT. The application of organic production processes increases the fertility of the soil, increases the minerals and effective microorganisms for the soil, has a very good effect on soil improvement, especially for the soils that have been and are being developed. degraded. In the long run, it will help the rice plant’s better resistance to pests and diseases. During the flowering period, the field will be less infected with planthoppers, dry, give long cotton, rice is free of pests, rice is clear, rice is soft and has a characteristic aroma. Economically, the yield is estimated at 57 quintals/ha for the HC95 variety, with the selling price of 9,000 VND/kg, giving a profit of 25 – 27 million VND/ha, 10-15% higher than the mass market. In addition, reducing the amount of sowing seeds by using a sowing tool, making rice plants grow healthy and balanced, this is an important factor contributing to improving productivity and economic efficiency. In terms of environment, ecology, using Guilin microbial and mineral organic fertilizers, combined with manure, stubble decomposition products, creating a favorable environment for beneficial microorganisms, improved soil. Better yet, the rice plants grow in balance, the environment is safe, the field ecosystem is secure, there are fish, snails, and crabs… living in the rice fields. Organically produced rice not only ensures quality and productivity, but also significantly reduces production costs. Photo: PVT. Developing agriculture according to organic farming methods not only contributes to the creation of organic products that are beneficial to human health, but also raises awareness and changes farming methods in rice production towards organic sustainable, ensuring safe products, the country’s environment is not polluted, contributing to the protection of the environment and field ecosystems. According to Mr. Phan Ba ​​Dinh, Chairman of the People’s Committee of Trieu Hoa Commune, Trieu Phong District: Local households have also felt the risk of abusing inorganic fertilizers, abusing chemical pesticides, affecting quality. agricultural products, environment and public health, so the model implementation is highly accepted by households. Mr. Dinh has learned from experience: If the technical process in the model is followed, such as using microbial organic fertilizers and Guilin mineral fertilizers, combined with manure, Trichoderma; If the amount of water is guaranteed, the weather is favorable, it is necessary to go through many production crops, the fields are improved, the fertility of the soil is improved… “From the initial support of the Provincial Agricultural Extension Center, it has helped households to firmly grasp and understand the technical stages of organic production that are different from mass production. In the next seasons, we will direct, and have supportive policies, and at the same time continue to propagate and replicate the model, encouraging farmers to implement this superior farming model,” Dinh said. know.

The shortage of semiconductor chips globally has a heavy impact on many industries. Artwork: Reuters Some of the world’s top semiconductor buyers, including Apple Inc, Microsoft Corp and Alphabet Inc (Google’s parent company), are working with leading chip makers in the world, such as Intel Corp. , to set up a new lobbying group to promote the US Government to support semiconductor chip manufacturing. The Semiconductors in America Alliance, which includes Amazon Web Services’s Amazon Web Services division, said on May 11 that it urged US lawmakers to provide support for the CHIPS Act for the country. The United States (CHIPS for America Act), which President Joe Biden asked Congress to provide finances worth $ 50 billion. In a letter to congressional bicameral Democrats and Republicans, the coalition said funding for the CHIPS Act would help the United States build the necessary capacity for a more flexible supply chain. to ensure important technologies will be available in the US when needed. Global semiconductor chip shortages hit the auto industry heavily, with Ford Motor Co saying it may have to halve its car production in the second quarter. Automotive industry groups are pressing the Biden administration to secure chip supplies for car factories. However, government officials have been reluctant to use national security laws to divert the supply of computer chips to automakers because they fear it could harm other industries. The new alliance involves companies from other industries using semiconductors, including AT&T, Cisco Systems, General Electric, Hewlett Packard Enterprise and Verizon Communications Inc. However, they warn that the government only supports one industry like the automobile industry. Tech giants, like Apple, are also hit hard by a shortage of semiconductors, but are less severe than automakers. Last month, the iPhone maker said it would lose about $ 3-4 billion in revenue in the second quarter (ending June 2021) due to a shortage of chips. According to Refinitiv estimates, Apple’s second quarter revenue is forecast to reach $ 72.9 billion./.

Established in June 2018, VinSmart is one of the two main companies operating in the Vingroup’s manufacturing division, along with car and electric car manufacturer VinFast. This manufacturing company owns a telephone and electronic equipment factory with an annual design capacity of up to 125 million devices. VinSmart smart electronics factory in Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park. Photo: Vingroup In Hoa Lac Hi-Tech Park (Hanoi), the complex factory of VinSmart has a total area of ​​up to 15ha, of which, construction area of ​​phase 1 is only 4.8 ha. At the factory in the first phase inaugurated in November 2019, the production area reached 4.5 hectares, including the electronic circuit board manufacturing subdivisions, phone manufacturing and independent research institutes. designed capacity of 26 million devices / year. Half a year after its inception, the company launched its first four smartphone lines. After two and a half years, the total number of VinSmart phone models has increased to 18 lines, of which the first product appeared in the high-end segment, and successfully produced terminals supporting 5G technology. . In 2020 alone, VinSmart said it sold 1.95 million smart phones to the market, an increase of 225% compared to 2019 sales (600,000 units). With record high phone sales, VinSmart also became the 3rd largest smartphone supplier in the domestic market with 12.7% market share. This is the first time a Vietnamese phone brand is in the top manufacturers and consumers in the market. As of early 2021, VinSmart’s distribution network of mobile phones has expanded with 10,000 retail agents, 4 customer care centers and 101 warranty points. Notably, not only consuming phones in the country, last year, VinSmart also recognized for the first time revenue from processing and manufacturing original equipment for foreign partners. VinSmart said that last year it signed a contract and started exporting smartphones to US carriers and foreign customers, with a production of 1.3 million units. In addition, the manufacturer also expanded its product portfolio to other electronic devices such as electronic components, air purifiers … In 2020, VinSmart also became a partner in manufacturing air blower components. supplied to Medtronic PLC’s series of ventilators, exported to USA and Ireland. Not only that, VinSmart is also in charge of building technology ecosystems for its real estate projects with three core products including Smart city (smart city), Smart home (smart home) and Smart. services (number services).

The coal mining industry is one of the economic pillars of Quang Ninh province. In the deeper production conditions and higher production costs, coal industry units are focusing on promoting the application of “3 chemistry”: mechanization, automation, news chemical suit. “Green mines, modern mines, high yield mines” are important criteria set out in the resolution of the Quang Ninh Coal Party Congress for the term 2020-2025. Currently, many units have been actively applying technology to management and improving production capacity. At Ha Lam mine (Ha Long city) – where the mining is down to minus 300m, the “brain” of the mine is the centralized production operation center with CCTV system from the ground to the pit, control , centralized monitoring of conveyor systems, electricity, pump tunnels, wastewater monitoring, … communication connecting all construction sites and workshops to promptly handle possible situations. . Maximize application of mechanization to all stages of the production line, from 2015 up to now, Ha Lam Coal Joint Stock Company invested in operating two synchronous mechanized market furnaces, with a capacity of 600 thousand tons / year and 1 , 2 million tons / year, making coal production 3-5 times higher than the old market furnace technology. By 2020, the coal output of the mechanized market will reach more than 1.6 million tons, accounting for 70% of the total coal production of the unit. Mr. To Duc Vuong, Deputy Manager of Mining Mechanization Site 1 said: “Currently we use synchronous self-propelled systems from rigs, coal stage machines, rakes, conveyors, to replace very Many stages of operating the craft market kiln are as hard as before. Most of the workers are under 30 years old, grasping and learning technology very quickly and are given regular guidance and training “. Mechanization not only increases labor productivity by up to 130%, but also improves safety in the pit. “The increase in output means that the wages of workers also increase significantly. Our average monthly income is 25-26 million / month, effort is reduced a lot”, said furnace worker Hoang Anh Do. . Up to now, in Quang Ninh, there have been 10 marketplaces applying synchronous mechanization lines of 8 units of Vinacomin, Vinacomin, Vang Danh, Khe Cham, Mong Duong … Light mechanized market furnaces are also being studied and replicated to units with suitable conditions. Modern technology helps to dig deeper and reach further underground, the vast and expansive furnace lines are also equipped with automatic systems to provide circulating cooling water, ventilation, vacuuming, … Workers move in the pit by the winch, cable, and truck transport systems to the kiln long mining lines. Working conditions, healthcare, housing … have many great progresses. Over the past time, in the difficult context due to the impact of the Covid-19 epidemic, tens of thousands of mine workers have maintained a stable life, ensuring production, contributing to the positive economic growth results of the province. Quang Ninh. “Putting the park into the mine, the factory” is also the goal of TKV units. The coal mines are gradually building production according to a modern model, few people, high productivity, safety, harmony with the environment, in line with the trend of sustainable development of the mining industry and responsive requirements and goals for green growth that Quang Ninh province has set out.

The application of scientific advances in agricultural production is an inevitable trend to reduce labor force and increase crop productivity in order to bring about high economic efficiency. In particular, the use of drones (drones) to spray plant protection drugs (BVTV) in Long Dien district initially showed effectiveness not only in production, but also contributing to protecting the health of farmers. . Farmers watched the demonstration of flying equipment spraying pesticides by the District Farmers Association in coordination with SNEWRICE JSC to perform the winter-spring crop 2020-2021 on the fields of An Nhut commune. 30% DISCOUNT OF Pesticides The device for spraying pesticides for plants is unfamiliar to many farmers in the province, but to farmers in Long Dien district, this device is quite familiar. In the Winter-Spring crop of 2020-2021, the District Farmers Association in collaboration with SNEWRICE Joint Stock Company (Ho Chi Minh City) held a demonstration of spraying pesticides by drone on more than 30 hectares of rice in An Nhut commune (the company supports 100 % injection). This form initially shows practical effectiveness and promises to be able to deploy on a large scale in the near future. This is also an activity in the project of implementing high technology application in agricultural cultivation, improving production efficiency for farmers. With drones, the droplets coming out of the nozzle are very small and smooth, helping the farmer reduce the actual amount of water needed while ensuring even surface spread and high efficiency. The spraying of pesticides on rice by drones also increases labor productivity by 15-30 times, shortens the spraying time per unit area; 30% reduction in pesticides compared to conventional spraying. Witnessing the spraying equipment in the field with his own eyes, Mr. Huynh Van Manh (An Lac hamlet, An Nhut commune) said that in the past, he sprayed pesticides with a bottle on his back. Although he is equipped with protective equipment such as raincoats, gloves, and boots, he cannot avoid inhaling the smell of medicine. In this Winter – Spring season, he registered with the Farmers’ Association to spray pesticides with drones on his family’s 4ha of rice. “With the manual spraying method, for each hectare of rice, I have to pay 400 thousand dong to hire labor. In the Winter – Spring crop 2020-2021, I spray with a drone, the cost is lower, only 350 thousand VND / ha, and the amount of medicine is reduced by nearly 30%. So I will use drones to spray drugs in the coming rice crops, ”said Manh. According to Huynh Trung Thanh, Director of An Nhut Agriculture – Service Cooperative, spraying with drones saves water and pesticides while reducing rice yield loss by 150-200 kg / ha compared to conventional spraying. rice is not stepped on like when sprayed with a can. “On the fields of An Nhut cooperative, farmers linked production and cultivated simultaneously on an area of ​​more than 200 hectares, so the use of drones to spray pesticides is very effective,” said Thanh. for more info. Using drones to spray pesticides helps to save production costs, reduce the impact of pesticides on the environment and affect water and soil sources. ESTABLISHMENT OF HIGH-TECH AGRICULTURAL CO-operative Over the past years, farmers in Long Dien district have applied agricultural mechanization and brought higher efficiency in production; Contribute to agricultural restructuring, improve the quality of agricultural products and increase profits. However, the application of flying equipment in spraying, fertilizing … is still limited due to large investment costs. According to Mr. Huynh Van So, Vice Chairman of Farmers Association of Long Dien district, the spraying of pesticides with drones has shown many benefits to the fields in An Nhut commune. Therefore, on April 15, the District Farmers Association cooperated with the TT.Long Dien Farmers’ Association to set up Green Leaf High-tech Agricultural Cooperative. The cooperative has 7 members, specializing in providing services and applying science and technology in agricultural production. “Since the use of drones in agriculture in Long Dien district is relatively new, the District Farmers Union will coordinate with SNEWRICE JSC to disseminate this technique step by step. Step one, the company will make drone spraying service for farmers. Step two, proceed to training and implementation in cooperatives. Then, when the effectiveness has been verified over time, the Farmers’ Union levels will be massively deployed in the fields of An Nhut, An Ngai and Tam Phuoc communes, ”said Mr. So. The adoption of drones for agricultural production is an important transition in accelerating the mechanization of the agricultural sector. This step contributes to promoting competitive advantages, improving the efficiency and quality of agricultural products and increasing farmers’ income.

Proactive technology In Vietnam, since 2018, many localities have demonstrated the use of MBKNL in fertilizing and spraying pesticides for agricultural production. However, the results of using MBKNL in the field lack the stability, the accuracy of the equipment is not as expected, especially in the context that the current pesticides are mainly used for traditional spraying equipment, with the amount of mixed water many times higher … Facing this situation, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development and the Ministry of Defense assigned the National Center for Agricultural Promotion (NNNN) to co-ordinate with the Plant Protection Institute, Hoa Lac High Tech Research and Application Institute and its management unit. The Ministry of Defense carried out the task of “Completing the technical process of using unmanned aircraft (UAV) – HLD18 spraying pesticides on rice plants”. Close-up of the HLD18 drone and the field of Truc Hung commune (Truc Ninh, Nam Dinh) – where the demonstration of aircraft spraying pesticides. Photo: MN Close-up of unmanned HLD18. “If we use the manual method to spray pesticides a day, 3 people can only spray 20 samples. But now with this aircraft, we no longer have the trouble of spraying pesticides, the productivity is significantly increased.” . Farmer Nguyen Van Phong (Truc Hung commune, Truc Ninh district, Nam Dinh) Mr. Le Quoc Thanh – Director of VNA, said that this device is made in Vietnam, so we have complete mastery of technology, software, hardware and warranty, training “pilot” to transfer to units, cooperation groups, agricultural services … Especially HLD18 equipment ensures security and defense as well as the issue of licensing flight zones for equipment. To evaluate the results of the trial using MBKNL HLD18 to spray pesticides on rice plants, VNA recently held a demonstration conference on using MBKNL HLD18 in Truc Ninh district, Nam Dinh province. In the experimental field, the participants and farmers witnessed the “pilots” in the flight control technology demonstration service group HLD18 spraying pesticides with different flight speeds at different formulas. Experimental results show that using HLD18 aircraft helps to reduce 5% of the input pesticide, and 5-10% of water. The use of airplanes helps to control rice diseases effectively by quickly suppressing epidemics and saves time for pest management, and at the same time reduces rice yield loss by 1-2% / ha compared to spraying pine usually because rice is not trampled during the spraying process. The amount of pesticides sprayed by MBKNL on the soil and water at the initial stage of rice plant development has not changed compared with the traditional method. However, to a later period, the amount of pesticides on rice plants is higher due to the decrease of spraying in the environment. The working capacity of an aircraft HLD 18 ranges from 10-20ha / day. Replication At the seminar, Mr. Le Quoc Thanh – Director of NTPPR shared: “From practice, the biggest effect of the model is to isolate farmers from pesticides, thereby helping to protect people’s health and The machine helps to increase working efficiency, not to be afraid of the terrain, save water and drugs, and increase production efficiency “. Farmers and delegates visited the rice growing model using HLD18 drones in Truc Hung commune (Truc Ninh, Nam Dinh) Also at the conference, VNA awarded certificates to 18 trainees trained to control MBKNL HLD18. In addition to the above advantages, through the specialized agency model, the operator is also trained to use MBKNL equipment to serve farmers. The initial achieved results will serve as the basis for Nam Dinh province in particular and the Red River delta provinces to organize the replication, contributing to increase the rate of technology use in the field. As a unit with more than 700ha of area for cultivating hybrid rice varieties, Mr. Lam Van Chieu – Deputy Director of Cuong Tan Co., Ltd. (Truc Ninh, Nam Dinh) said, Cuong Tan is the coordinator of the project NN- 08II. In the process of implementing the project, the company sent staff to participate in the control engineering class MBKNL HLD18. “After more than 10 school days, trainees have been practicing directly on the rice fields of Cuong Tan Co., Ltd. and up to now, it can be said that the basic techniques of controlling MBKNL HLD18 to spray pesticides have been proficient “- Mr. Chieu shared. Also at the conference, TTKNQG handed over to Hai Duong Agricultural Extension Center and Cuong Tan Co., Ltd., each unit 3 MBKNL HLD18 for application of pesticide spraying in rice production. Ms. Pham Thi Dao – Director of Hai Duong Agricultural Extension Center said, Hai Duong currently has about 115,000 hectares of rice cultivation. The average rice yield is 745,000 tons / year. With the handover of HLD18 aircraft by VNA, this will be an incentive for farmers to be able to efficiently produce rice, reduce labor, limit exposure to pesticides while ensuring productivity.

The semiconductor shortage is due to the growing demand for technology products as consumers globally continue to work from home. This makes the need to own a computer essential for home work applications as well as the need for the latest game consoles (such as Sony’s PlayStation 5) and hardware. The semiconductor shortage not only disrupted production but even affected vehicle design and production, Peugeot announced it would stop installing the digital instrument cluster on the 308 instead. use analog clock. The decommissioning will affect both Land Rover and Jaguar models as the XE, XF and F-Type are all produced at the Castle Bromwich plant. Along with that, both the Land Rover Discovery Sport and the Range Rover Evoque currently produced at the Halewood factory will be discontinued. Land Rover’s Solihull plant will continue to produce normally, while its other factories in Slovakia, Brazil and China will continue unaffected. “Like the other manufacturers, we are currently experiencing some supply chain disruption of Covid-19. This includes the globally available supply, which is currently in effect,” said JLR spokesperson. our production schedule and our ability to meet global demand for some models We are working closely with the affected suppliers to solve problems and minimize effects on customer orders if possible “./.

Tesla owners’ rights protection incidents at the Shanghai Auto Show continued to ferment. On the evening of April 21, the General Administration of Market Supervision issued a document stating that it had instructed the market supervision and management departments of Henan Province, Shanghai and other places to safeguard the legitimate rights and interests of consumers in accordance with the law. At the same time, it is emphasized that enterprises must earnestly fulfill their main responsibility for quality and safety, and provide consumers with high-quality and safe products and services.

The China Consumers Association issued a response stating that the primary prerequisite for business operations is to respect consumers, and enterprises should implement product quality responsibilities in accordance with the law, and take effective measures to protect consumers’ safety rights. Tesla also spoke again, urging to appoint a third-party testing and appraisal agency to conduct appraisal and restore the truth.

According to the latest news, Tesla has provided relevant data.

At the same time, the China Market Supervision News, which is in charge of the State Administration of Market Supervision and Administration, disclosed the data one minute before the vehicle accident and made a text explanation.

The full text of this text description is as follows:

When the driver stepped on the brake pedal for the last time, the data showed that the speed of the vehicle was 118.5 kilometers per hour. Within 2.7 seconds after the driver stepped on the brake pedal, the maximum brake master cylinder pressure was only 45.9 bar. After that, the driver increased the stepping on the brake pedal, and the brake master cylinder pressure reached 92.7 bar. The front collision warning and automatic emergency braking function were activated (the maximum brake master cylinder pressure reached 140.7bar) and played a role, reducing the amplitude of the collision. 1.8 seconds after the ABS was applied, the system recorded the occurrence of the collision. After the driver stepped on the brake pedal, the vehicle speed continued to decrease, and before the collision, the vehicle speed was reduced to 48.5 kilometers per hour.

Source: China Market Supervision News

In summary, the vehicle is running at a higher speed, and the driver starts to depress the brake pedal with a lighter force. After that, the automatic emergency braking function is activated and has a function, which improves the braking force and reduces the impact of the collision. The driving system is normally involved in the work and reduces the speed of the car.

In addition, with regard to the condition of the vehicle 30 minutes before the accident, Tesla stated this: In the 30 minutes before the accident, the driver drove the vehicle normally and had more than 40 records of depressing the brake pedal. At the same time, the vehicle has repeatedly stopped at more than 100 kilometers per hour and multiple times.

In fact, Tesla, which is caught in the turmoil of rights defense, is also facing pressure to acquire land and expand. Recently, an industrial land mark located in the Lingang Heavy Equipment Industrial Zone of the Shanghai Free Trade Zone, which is adjacent to the Tesla Super Factory in Shanghai, has been interpreted by the market as a new site for Tesla’s expansion.

A reporter from Securities Times·e Company recently visited Tesla’s Shanghai Super Factory. The security in the factory area has been upgraded, and trucks loaded with domestic Tesla have driven out of the factory without interruption. Construction has begun on the suspected landmark plot near the super factory.

“Recent rights protection incidents at the Tesla Auto Show objectively have an impact on the corporate investment image. Even the subsequent expansion and expansion of production, it is necessary to pay attention to the impact of public opinion.” A Shanghai auto industry person told reporters that if It is Tesla who has taken the landmark, indicating that corporate funds and strategies may be under pressure to achieve such goals, or that it has no intention of expanding in the short term. However, it is expected that there will be various land acquisition actions in the future. The rights protection turmoil has not ceased for the time being, and the prospects of the stale land are still unclear. Whether Tesla can continue to stabilize the Chinese market deserves attention.

There are multiple security personnel at the entrance of the factory

A large area of ​​white exterior walls and red arched doors are located in front of the Tesla Super Factory in the Lingang New Area of ​​Shanghai Free Trade Zone. Private cars and employees have entered the factory one after another. The road at the entrance of the factory is empty, and the construction scene of the previous roar of forklifts is no longer visible.

On the afternoon of April 21, a reporter from the Securities Times·e Company saw at the exit of the super factory that many transport vehicles were fully loaded with domestic Tesla and were leaving the factory without interruption. In the open space outside the factory, there are hundreds of new cars that have just left the production line. “The first and second phases of the factory are basically completed, and the production capacity is expanding rapidly. We are now in a three-shift all-weather mode, and people are required 24 hours a day, and we are still hiring people.” A Tesi who came out of the factory Pull employees told reporters. Regarding the current rights protection incident at the Tesla Motor Show, the employee said: “It will definitely affect us, but we don’t have much to say about it.”

The degree of Tesla’s attention is positively correlated with the strict degree of security at the Shanghai Gigafactory. The reporter noticed that two security posts were arranged at the entrances of the first and second phases of the factory. At least 3 staff members wearing red hats and fluorescent green vests are on duty at each entrance. On both sides of the road far away from the door, there are staff from time to time patrolling. Whenever a visitor approaches the factory door, the staff will take the initiative to ask or intercept. “Security will only be stricter during this time.” A security officer said, and told reporters that photographing is prohibited at the entrance of the factory.

In addition, the reporter noticed that there are still cranes under construction near the second phase of the Tesla Gigafactory, and the steel structure on the roof of the plant has been basically completed. “This may be the third phase, or the 2.5 phase, and some workshops will be built to meet production needs.” A worker told reporters.

According to Tesla’s previous EIA information report, the company currently has 4 projects in Shanghai, namely the Tesla Gigafactory Plant Project, the Gigafactory (Phase 1) Phase 1 Project, and the Phase 1-Parts Production Process Improvement Project. , The new model launches the project in advance. Among them, the first phase of the Super Factory (Phase I) project is constructed in phases, divided into two phases, A and B. At present, Phase A has been built and Phase B is under construction.

As the production capacity of Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory continues to increase, the delivery of Tesla’s electric vehicles has also increased. According to Tesla’s 2020 financial report, a total of 499,500 vehicles were delivered throughout the year, which is only one step away from the 500,000 vehicles goal set by Tesla CEO Elon Musk. In the financial report, Tesla revealed that the annual production capacity of the Shanghai Super Factory Model 3 is capable of maintaining more than 250,000 vehicles. Model Y production has started at the end of 2020. It is currently in full production and is expected to have an annual production capacity of 200,000 vehicles.

Road construction has begun on suspected land

When the Shanghai Super Factory was operating at full capacity, Tesla reported the news of expanding the factory. In early March of this year, the official website of Shanghai Land Market issued an announcement on the transfer of state-owned construction land use rights, stating that it would sell a piece of industrial land in Lingang Heavy Equipment Industrial Zone with a total area of ​​about 461,000 square meters. The permitted industry type of the plot is the manufacture of new energy vehicles, and it is adjacent to the second phase of Tesla’s Shanghai Gigafactory. It is speculated that it is a new site for Tesla’s expansion.

However, the reporter found that the current transaction status of the plot is “flow mark”. On March 30, the official website of the Shanghai Land Market showed that the industrial land located in the Lingang Heavy Equipment Industrial Zone was not won by the sole bidder. The official website of the Shanghai Land Market did not disclose which car company the bidding applicant was. A reporter from the Securities Times·e Company asked the relevant person in charge of Tesla for verification on this matter, and no response was received as of the time of publication.

On the afternoon of April 21, the reporter went to this industrial land in Nicheng Town, Pudong New District. According to the data, the industrial land extends to the N01-04 plot in the east, Canghai Road in the south, N01-03B plot in the west, and Wanshui Road in the north. The land that is not visible at a glance is still in a barren state, and several bulldozers, road rollers and cranes are working in turn, and the dust is flying. “Here is to build a road. We are already piling here.” A construction worker told reporters. “We had a meeting with people from Tesla, saying that the road was first repaired, and we don’t know what the other land is going to do.” A staff member who came to inspect the construction site told reporters .

“Industrial land itself is not expensive, and the premium rate for general transactions is within 5%, so there are relatively few cases of lost bids or lost auctions.” Yan Yuejin, research director of the Think Tank Center of E-House Research Institute, said in an interview with a reporter from the Securities Times·e Company If there is a failure to bid, it may indicate that the low price is too high, or the company initially intends to acquire land, but because of the low expectations of subsequent input and output, it chooses to give up. “Follow-up may have to make adjustments in land prices and other aspects, especially the need to actively inquire about the willingness of relevant companies to acquire land.” Yan Yuejin said.

Why did the land with a starting price of over 500 million yuan fail the bid?

The reporter consulted the transfer information of the plot, and the seller was the Management Committee of the Lingang New Area of ​​China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone. The total area of ​​the plot is 461142.4 square meters and the period is 50 years. The starting price is 518.79 million yuan, and the price is increased. The margin is 5 million yuan.

“Similar plots are close to Tesla’s existing plant. Logically speaking, Tesla will usually get the land. If other new energy vehicles get land in the surrounding area, it doesn’t seem to make sense.” A person in the auto industry told reporters. It can be understood that Tesla has re-adjusted the mode of strategic expansion in the current special period, in other words, eased the acquisition of land.

From the perspective of industrial land, Yan Yuejin believes that the land needs to meet the requirements of local governments for investment promotion and industrial planning. If similar requirements are not met, land transactions may also face pressure.

One detail that can be paid attention to is that the land project requires a total fixed asset investment of no less than 6.88 billion yuan, an investment intensity of no less than 14,925 yuan per square meter, and a full-scale sales income of no less than 5 years after the land is handed over. 75 billion yuan per year, and the total tax revenue for reaching production is no less than 2 billion yuan per year. With reference to Tesla’s revenue in China in 2020 reaching US$6.662 billion (approximately RMB 43 billion), there is still a gap between its annual sales revenue of 75 billion yuan.

In addition, when building the Shanghai Super Factory, Tesla also disclosed that the company signed a 50-year land lease agreement with the Shanghai local government. If the payment is not made on time, the land must be returned to the Shanghai government. Tesla needs to complete an investment of 14.08 billion yuan (approximately US$2 billion) in the Shanghai factory in the next five years. At the same time, starting from the end of 2023, Tesla’s Shanghai plant must pay 2.23 billion yuan (approximately US$323 million) in taxes each year.

“The flow standard can be seen from two aspects. One is whether the Shanghai government’s policy on Tesla has changed. Two years ago, the conditions given for the introduction of Tesla were very favorable. Tesla’s sales and profit margins in China They are all very good, so if the second land project is given to Tesla, the conditions may not be as favorable as before.” Zhang Xiang, an auto industry analyst, told reporters that, on the other hand, other car companies are not excluded. Want to bid. Due to Tesla’s entry into Lingang, related suppliers have also been attracted to form a new energy automobile industry chain. The industry environment is relatively mature, and other companies participate in bidding, and the price of bids has also risen.

Tesla’s “attack” under the rush of production capacity

Behind the rights protection incidents and the land flow mark, Tesla, which has been advancing all the way, seems to have gradually faded. In July 2018, the official announcement announced that the Tesla Gigafactory, which plans to produce 500,000 pure electric vehicles per year, will be located in the Lingang area of ​​Shanghai.

In January 2019, Tesla’s first overseas factory officially started construction in Shanghai, with a planned production capacity of 250,000 vehicles in the first phase, with a total production capacity of up to 500,000 vehicles, and a total project investment of 50 billion yuan.

With the completion of the Tesla Super Factory in Shanghai, the domestically produced Model 3 and Model Y ushered in a rapid increase in production capacity, and repeated price cuts have also catalyzed the peak sales of Tesla’s domestically produced electric vehicles. In addition, this year, Tesla’s Shanghai Super Charging Pile Factory has been completed and put into production, with an initial planned annual production capacity of 10,000 V3 Super Charging Pile. Tesla’s layout in the Chinese market continues to deepen.

“We produce cars. In the long run, China will become our largest market and the place where we produce the most vehicles and have the most customers.” Musk said frankly in a recent interview with the media. In 2020, Tesla’s revenue in China was US$6.662 billion, a year-on-year increase of 123.6%, accounting for 21% of total revenue. In 2018 and 2019, Tesla’s revenue in China was US$1.757 billion and US$2.979 billion, accounting for 8.19% and 12.12%, respectively.

In terms of sales volume, Tesla delivered 185,000 vehicles worldwide in the first quarter, of which, Tesla sold 69,280 vehicles in China in the first quarter. Judging from the existing sales data, Tesla still occupies the top position of the Chinese market share. In terms of stock price, Tesla went from 80 US dollars in early 2020 to 800 US dollars in early 2021. Its share price has doubled tenfold in one year, and its market value has led global auto companies.

However, the ensuing problem is that Tesla has frequent safety accidents. The “brake failure” rights protection incident at the Shanghai Auto Show is not an isolated case. According to media statistics, since 2020, different media have exposed more than dozens of brake failures and spontaneous charging problems of related car companies’ products, which occurred in Beijing, China. Shanghai, Hangzhou, Guangzhou, Shenzhen, Nanchang and many other places. In addition, similar accidents have occurred in Europe and the United States. Musk himself does not shy away from talking about Tesla’s quality problems. He once said that Tesla’s quality will be worse than the stable period during production acceleration, and it will be difficult to achieve perfection if the output is to rise linearly.

“The Tesla auto show rights protection incident reflects Tesla’s quality control problems in a larger sense. The brake failure is directly related to its autopilot system, which involves the car’s hardware and software. There is a trial for new things. The process of error, for Tesla, is that it did not try out all the errors of the autopilot system and hurried mass production and commercialization. The mistakes made in the development of a technological product may be tolerated, but the mistakes made in the development of automotive products This kind of error can lead to traffic accidents and even loss of life.” An auto industry analyst told reporters.

The domestic new energy vehicle market is expected to flourish

When Tesla is plagued by negative public opinion, it is also facing heavy grips from new car manufacturers, luxury car brands and even intelligent solution suppliers.

Take this year’s Shanghai Auto Show as an example, players from all walks of life will firmly occupy the outlets of new energy vehicles. BYD released the new e-platform 3.0, a pure electric car codenamed EA1 and the X Dream concept car; Geely Automobile exhibited the luxury safari pure electric coupe Krypton001; SAIC Motor launched high-end intelligent pure electric vehicles Zhiji L7, LS, etc. Among the newly unveiled electric models, the battery life of more than 400km has become standard, and some high-end electric vehicles can reach a range of more than 600km, and the electric performance such as fast charging and acceleration has also continued to evolve.

New car manufacturers such as Xiaopeng and Weilai brought new models to their debut. Overseas brands also released SUV models taking into account the preference and demand of the Chinese market. In addition to the release of new vehicles by automakers, intelligent solution providers such as Huawei and Baidu have brought related software and hardware products such as autonomous driving and intelligent electric vehicles. The arena of the new energy vehicle market is more diverse.

The sales data in March this year showed that the new forces in domestic car-making have picked up. Huabao Securities analysis pointed out that Weilai Automobile delivered 7,257 new cars in March, and its sales performance was relatively stable when orders continued to be fully produced, with a month-on-month increase of 30.1%; Xiaopeng and Ideal both returned to growth in March. The month-on-month growth both exceeded 100%. Although this year’s electric layout of traditional car companies and Tesla’s price cut competition, new car manufacturers still remain sufficiently competitive. In addition, the giants of traditional car companies have also accelerated their deployment in the field of new energy. The market is expected to form a diversified development trend of new car manufacturers and traditional car companies.

“There are more and more new models built by the same industry, and Tesla may be threatened.” Zhang Xiang, an automotive analyst, told reporters for example. Many years ago, Tesla could run 400 kilometers on a single charge, while other domestic cars could only run. 100 kilometers, but now, some new car-building forces can run more than 700 kilometers on a single charge, which has exceeded Tesla’s cruising range. “When competing with peers, Tesla has shown fewer and fewer advantages. This is a challenge to Tesla.”

[Reporter’s Observation]Will Tesla’s development strategy in China change?

The haze of the rights protection storm has not dissipated, and Tesla has other problems that need to be answered. In Tesla’s in-depth deployment of the Chinese market, and when lowering prices and increasing volume, other electric vehicle brands have different development strategies, and the momentum cannot be underestimated.

The CITIC Securities Research Report pointed out that the “individualized” design and positioning trend of self-owned brand new cars is clear. It is expected that the core competitiveness of auto companies will shift from “cost control” to precise positioning and precise marketing in the future. New car-making forces are expected to seize the opportunity and gain a higher share in the wave of “intelligence” of electric vehicles, relying on faster response and more accurate market understanding. The electrification transformation of joint ventures/overseas brands will further provide new supply for the domestic new energy vehicle market and open up the industry space.

In addition, on the one hand, intelligent solution providers can help automakers optimize the driving experience of their products through technologies such as autonomous driving and smart cockpits; on the other hand, they can penetrate into electric components such as electric drives, thermal management, and BMS, and improve through digitalization. Efficiency and cost reduction will help automakers build “good cars.”

“At that time, the introduction of Tesla played an important role in driving all aspects of the domestic new energy automobile industry chain. In the long run, we support the development of advanced technologies and enterprises with demonstration effects in the country. In the short term, the enterprises have inappropriate Cui Dongshu, secretary-general of the National Travel Association, said in an interview with a reporter from Securities Times and e Company.

More than two years ago, Shanghai introduced Tesla, and the Tesla Shanghai Super Factory was built, completed and mass-produced domestic Tesla cars at an unprecedented speed. Two years later, the new energy vehicle market is already unique, but Tesla “stalls” due to multiple quality and safety accidents. Will Tesla, which is eager to occupy the Chinese market, change its development strategy in China?

“As the world’s largest automobile market and one of the countries with the fastest penetration of new energy in the world, China should be a strategic market for Tesla. Tesla needs to continue to increase its efforts in the Chinese market. Tesla’s challenge lies in China’s domestic market. The rise of new power brands and the dimensionality reduction attacks of potential competitors, such as the addition of smart players such as Apple and Xiaomi, will pose a greater threat to Tesla.” Liu Kun, China partner of Reese Strategic Positioning Consulting, told reporters that Musk’s The strategic intent is to subvert fuel vehicles, so Tesla will continue to expand the mass price market. This also brings another problem. Downward extension will dilute and obscure Tesla’s high-end perception, and Tesla may no longer represent high-end For electric vehicles, the high-end market also has a strategic opportunity to establish another purer high-end electric vehicle brand.

Time is changing, the conflict of rights protection has not ceased for the time being, and the prospect of stale land is unknown. Can Tesla continue to stabilize the Chinese market? Will Tesla’s expansion in China be delayed, and whose land will be sold to the market? Securities Times·e company reporters will continue to pay attention.

Acting Premier of Victoria, James Merlino. (Source: abc.net.au) On the morning of April 21, Mr. James Merlino, acting Premier of Victoria ( Australia ) announced that it would provide AUD 50 million (approximately US $ 38.6 million) to launch a project to develop vaccine production technology for mRNA at state vaccine research facilities. Under the project, it will take at least 12 months for Australia to be able to produce any vaccine under it mRNA technology . The move will pave the way for vaccines using mRNA technology such as Pfizer and Moderna to be produced in Australia, according to the Vietnam News Agency correspondent in Sydney. The Peter Doherty Institute of Infectious and Immunology will join Monash University, the University of Melbourne and a number of other research centers as the recipients of the funding to develop the above plan. Scientists at the Peter Doherty Institute say they are working on a “preventive” vaccine with mRNA technology that can be modified to fight variations. Mr. Merlino said that this plan is an important event, not only for Victoria but for the whole of Australia. Besides, he affirmed that the support budget will be increased when the project is developed in the future. Australia is currently only capable vaccine production of AstraZeneca with the initial plan that the CSL facility in the city of Melbourne will produce more than 50 million doses. Vaccination work COVID-19 Australia is facing many challenges due to the lack of vaccine supplies, as well as the safety of this vaccine related to the side effects of thrombosis.

The 3rd Corps canned food staff packed up the product. In order to achieve high production efficiency, every month, the Logistics Department carefully scrutinizes the actual situation and develops a strict and specific plan; proactively exploit food sources from the results of breeding of agencies and units; ensure that the input materials are of high quality, fresh, and have clear origin and are produced according to the demand of the unit, without leaving any excess or shortage. The production process well implemented the closed process from slaughtering to the mixing of meat and fish, pasteurization and packaging, and preserving products before being exported to the units for use. Over the past ten years, meat and fish products of the 3rd Corps have become a “brand” in the hearts of the officers and soldiers of the unit. camp. Colonel Pham Van Bien affirmed: “From the results and experience in the past years, in the coming time, the Army Logistics Department will continue to direct the specialized agency to research and improve the quality of products in order to satisfy them. increasing requirements of the army and the task of training, combat readiness of the unit ”.

Inauguration of a model combining agricultural production and solar power. The model will be deployed from May 2020, completed and connected to the grid in December 2020, exploiting electricity from the beginning of 2021. Solar power system with a capacity of 45kwp, installed on an area of ​​400m2, Below is a plant membrane house. Photovoltaic panels are designed with suitable spacing, ensuring the growth of plants. On average, the system produces 103kwh of electricity per day. From January to March 2021, the project has sold more than 4,471kwh of electricity, equivalent to more than VND 22 million. Underneath the panel system, farmers experimentally planted cucumbers. Cucumbers grown in the model had a higher fruiting rate than the outside control field. The fruits were long, beautiful, and the average fruit was harvested more than 30kg per day. Mr. Truong Kien Tho, Deputy Director of the Department of Agriculture and Rural Development of An Giang province, said that this is the first model of combining agriculture – solar power with a tripartite cooperation between people, businesses and teams. non-profit organizations are conducted in An Giang. The model helps farmers have dual income sources, increases production efficiency in a sustainable direction. The positive test results have proved the suitability and feasibility for replication. Farmers grow cucumbers in a net house, with solar panels above. Delegates visit the model.

Xu Dan

2021-04-16 12:32:10

Source: Times Finance

After Tucson is listed in the future, the commercial vehicle autonomous driving market in which it is located may also enter the eve of large-scale landing. Image source: Tuworm Creative At a time when passenger car autonomous driving is not yet mature, the field of truck autonomous driving has given birth to “the world’s first autonomous driving stock”. On April 15th, Eastern Time, the self-driving truck brand “Tucson Future” officially landed on Nasdaq. The opening rose by more than 3%, and the opening price was US$40.25, slightly higher than the IPO price (US$40), but it began to fall after rising to US$41.5, and closed at US$40 on the day, which was flat compared to the IPO issue price. It is foreseeable that after Tucson is listed in the future, the autonomous driving track will be sought after by more capital, and the commercial vehicle autonomous driving market in which it is located may also enter the eve of large-scale landing. In response to more issues related to future business planning after the listing, Times Finance tried to contact Tucson Future, but as of press time, no response has been received. Is the “first share of autonomous driving” worth US$8.787 billion? The autonomous driving track is divided into the passenger car market and the commercial vehicle market. The former, such as Baidu, Didi, etc., directly face C-end consumers, with Robotaxi as the final commercial landing scene; The specific business scenario is unmanned autonomous driving. Tucson Future was established in 2015. In the future, it will mainly provide customers with computer vision-based commercial L4 autonomous driving solutions, high-speed scenes and unmanned transportation solutions for container trucks in the port. Headquartered in Shanghai, with branches in the United States and Beijing, the main market is currently in the United States. Tucson’s future business model has been relatively clear. In July 2020, it launched its own driverless freight network “AFN”. The ecosystem consists of fully automated semi trucks, high-definition digital map routes, strategically placed terminals, and a cloud-based proprietary autonomous operation supervision system TuSimple Connect. composition. Based on this network, Tucson’s future service models mainly include three types:

Cooperate with the shipper. In the future, Tucson will use its own unmanned vehicle fleet operating in an unmanned network to provide shippers with unmanned freight services calculated by mileage.

Cooperate with the carrier. Carriers can purchase driverless trucks, operate them in the driverless freight network, and connect to Tucson’s future driverless systems when necessary.

Fleet. Fleet owners can buy and operate their own fleet of driverless trucks. These unmanned trucks will operate in the unmanned freight network according to the mileage-calculated charging mode.

Since its establishment, Tucson has gone through 10 rounds of financing in the future, and the disclosed amount of E-round financing is 350 million yuan. In addition to the founding team, Tucson’s future largest shareholder is Sina affiliate Sun Dream Inc., which accounts for 20% of Class A shares.

As the first stock of autonomous driving, what is the market value of 8.49 billion U.S. dollars? “From the perspective of Tucson’s current financial indicators such as revenue and profit, as well as its commercialization capabilities, the market value of US$8.49 billion is relatively high. However, Tucson’s future track will have high growth, and market competitors will be relatively If there is less, there is more room for imagination in the future.” Major General Ding, an IT Internet observer, told Times Finance and Economics.

The capital market has always valued autonomous driving very high. Both Baidu Autopilot and Waymo are currently valued at around US$40 billion. However, the market for autonomous driving passenger cars is very large, and the non-commercial vehicle market can match them.

Compared with its peers, Pony Zhixing, which is also on the truck autonomous driving track, is valued at more than US$5.3 billion after the latest round of financing, and Zhijia Technology is valued at US$1 billion. Tucson’s current market value can be regarded as the leader in the future. .

From the point of view of the track, Tucson’s future potential is indeed relatively large. According to an Essence Securities report, the traditional freight truck market in the United States is as high as 800 billion U.S. dollars, with high labor costs, accounting for 43% of operating costs per mile, and the problem of aging drivers is serious. 54% of commercial truck drivers are 45 years of age or older. There is a strong demand for autonomous driving technology.

However, in terms of specific operating conditions, US$8.49 billion may be more “paying for the future.” From the perspective of revenue, Tucson will always be at a loss from 2018 to 2020, with net losses of US$45.03 million, US$84.883 million, 177 million US dollars, a total of about 2 billion yuan. And Tucson said in the future that “a lot of expenses and continuous losses will be incurred in the foreseeable future.

From the perspective of commercialization capabilities, Tucson has not yet achieved mass production in the future. The prospectus discloses that it will cooperate with Navista and Volkswagen’s Traton for pre-installation and mass production to jointly build and deliver L4 unmanned trucks. At present, the vehicle has received 5,700 pre-orders and will be put into production in 2024 as planned .

Before mass production, the level of hardware reliability is not enough, so Tucson’s future half-car test vehicle still needs to be equipped with safety officers and drivers before it can go on the road.

Who is the second “Tucson Future”?

“Like the United States, it is difficult for the passenger car market to give birth to the next Tucson in a short period of time. The commercial sector is still the direction that domestic auto-driving related companies should pay attention to and make efforts.” Major General Ding said.

The passenger car autonomous driving market is vast. Most of the players entering the game are Internet companies with strong capital. Although there have been preliminary results, companies such as Baidu and Didi have already begun road tests, but they are still far from commercialization. The process is difficult.

From the perspective of the technical route alone, the domestic car-road coordinated route is still in the early stage of equipment laying, and it is far from reaching the level of mutual perception between cars and roads and other vehicles. Moreover, the current domestic laws on autonomous vehicles are basically in a blank state.

Foreign “smart bicycles” models are also full of difficulties. Earlier this month, the CEO of waymo, a leading autonomous driving company, resigned. According to foreign media reports, internal employees said Waymo did not have much direction inside, technology stagnated, and senior leaders set goals. unrealistic.

In contrast, self-driving commercial vehicles do not carry people, involve fewer safety issues, and the road conditions are relatively simple and fixed, and are easier to commercialize. The current domestic commercial vehicle autonomous driving fields are mainly truck freight and mines.

In the field of truck freight, Zhijia Technology and Xiaoma Zhixing have respectively completed D round financing and C+ round financing, and become unicorn companies. Among them, Zhijia Technology has introduced Guotai Junan International and Hedosophia as investors, both of which can provide Its listing assists, and according to media reports, it is in the process of SPAC merger negotiation in order to go public through backdoor. However, like Tucson’s future, both have not yet achieved mass production.

However, compared with the American truck freight market, the domestic truck freight market is not mature yet. Chen Mo, the founder of Tucson Future, once publicly mentioned the reasons for prioritizing the development of the American market.

First of all, there are only test licenses in China, and operations are not allowed. If trucks do not have an operating license, they cannot transport goods and cannot be profitable; in the United States, the cost of freight hardware is declining, and labor costs are rising, but the country has not yet reached the intersection; unmanned driving needs to be combined with drop-and-hook and box-drop transportation. Mode (after arriving at the transportation point, the tractor can drop the carriage and hang another carriage, which can shorten the stop time to a minimum), but many domestic trucks and trailers are integrated, and the drop-hang and drop-box rate not enough.

There is also great potential for autonomous driving in mines, with huge market space and high risk, difficulty in recruiting drivers, and strong demand for unmanned operations. According to Chentao Capital’s calculations, the total annual market size of domestic mine autonomous driving exceeds 100 billion.

Domestic mining autonomous driving solution providers are dominated by start-up companies, because mining operations are complex systems engineering, which not only require autonomous driving technology, but also dispatch and fleet management, and Internet of Vehicles communication technologies. Therefore, domestic large-scale equipment companies tend to cooperate in-depth with driverless start-up companies.

Tage Zhixing, a leading company in this field, was established in 2016 and has now completed 8 rounds of financing. Its founder and chief scientist Yu Guizhen stated that it is confident that it will be listed on the Science and Technology Innovation Board within 1-2 years.

However, according to Chentao Capital’s analysis, mining autonomous driving companies are still in the initial stage of commercial trial operation and field deployment testing. The work efficiency of autonomous driving has not yet been equal to that of manual driving, especially night operations have not yet carried out normal operations. Although many companies have received commercial orders, most of them are pilot projects and have not yet participated in the normal production operations of the mine.

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Company Kronstadt (Russia) is building a factory for the manufacture of unmanned fighter jets. (Source: Sputnik) The Kronstadt Company is the developer and manufacturer of the Inokhodets combat drone (UAV). Such aircraft can carry weapons up to 200 kg and have been used in the Syrian battlefield. In addition this type of UAV also has reconnaissance and civilian versions. “The Kronstadt Company has started building the first factory in Dubna to mass produce unmanned fighters. The factory will be built in record time when production is scheduled to begin in November. 2021, “said the company’s press department. The project has an investment capital of nearly 52 million USD and will provide permanent jobs for more than 1.5 thousand people. With an area of ​​45 thousand m2, the factory will have an environment-friendly and no-noise production process. According to a senior source in the Russian Industrial-Military Complex, “The project will meet the Inokhodets demand of both the Russian Ministry of Defense and other customers”. The Inokhodets, also known as Orion, was developed at the Kronstadt company by the order of the Russian Ministry of Defense. This device can fly continuously for up to one day. Its maximum take-off weight is 1,100 kg, combat payload is up to 200 kg. Orion is capable of using small guided missiles and guided bombs to strike ground targets. In addition, the Kronstadt Company is also developing the Grom heavy attack UAVs. (According to Sputnik)

Period 2021 – 2030, TP. Da Nang plans to mobilize VND 675 billion to implement projects and projects to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in industry and trade; cleaner production support ….

By 2025, to complete the model of eco-industrial park; 100% of public transport by bus meets Euro 4 emission standards; reduce from 1 to 2% of greenhouse gas emissions from electric energy, new and renewable energy development solutions; 85% of urban domestic wastewater is treated up to standards; The rate of solid waste collected and treated to reach the standard reaches over 95%;….

By 2030, Da Nang will have 2-3 ecological industrial zones, at least 5 ecological urban areas; 25% of public buses are powered by electric motors; the rate of GHG emission reduction reaches 5-7%; 95% of urban domestic wastewater is treated up to standards; 97% of solid waste is collected and treated to meet standards, the environmental hot spots are renovated, and there is no serious environmental pollution; 100% of households will perform waste separation at source; 100% of feedbacks and recommendations on environmental pollution have been resolved.

Da Nang Industry and Trade plays a major role in implementing goals, projects and projects related to reducing greenhouse gas emissions in industry and commerce; promoting cleaner production, saving energy in industry and developing clean energy and renewable energy in the city.

In order to fulfill the set objectives and targets, in the period of 2021-2030, the Department of Industry and Trade of Da Nang regularly conducts research and development of programs and projects for new energy and renewable energy. creation of the city; supporting key energy using basic models to build a management model according to ISO 50001: 2018; implementing cleaner industrial production solutions; deploy support for enterprises to convert and replace outdated and energy-consuming equipment with energy-saving equipment, replicate the results; make plans for the implementation of the roadmap to relocate production establishments in craft villages to industrial clusters with satisfactory technical infrastructure for environmental protection (Tuy Loan rice paper craft village, Non-handicraft village Water, Cam Ne screening village …). Total funding for these activities is estimated at about 675 billion VND; in which, the budget support is 25 billion dong, the socialized capital is 650 billion dong.

Da Nang is the first locality in the country to build a pilot model for applying cleaner industrial production to manufacturing enterprises.

In the 2016-2020 period, contributing to the goal of “Da Nang – an environmental city”, the Da Nang Industry and Trade sector has effectively implemented industrial promotion projects with funding from the national industrial promotion program and local industrial promotion.

In which, TP. Da Nang has received VND 5.25 billion from the national industrial promotion program to implement 17 industrial promotion projects. In which, mainly supporting to build 5 technical demonstration models with a total industrial promotion cost of 1.85 billion VND, capital mobilization from enterprises and production facilities is more than 32.78 billion VND; implemented 9 projects on application of advanced machinery and equipment in industrial production, technology transfer and application of advanced machines, scientific and technical advances in industrial production – handicraft with total experience. the national industrial promotion fee is 2.5 billion VND, the capital contribution of the enterprise is nearly 10 billion VND; successfully built a pilot model of applying cleaner industrial production for 01 unit with a support budget of 500 million VND, the reciprocal investment of the enterprise was over 1.3 billion VND.

In addition to the national source of industrial promotion, City People’s Committee. Da Nang has also spent 5.78 billion VND implementing 72 local industrial promotion projects to implement many consulting projects on assessment of cleaner industrial production; support consultancy to evaluate cleaner production for many units, help businesses improve efficiency, save input materials and fuels in the production process.

The support from the national and local industrial promotion program not only helps Da Nang enterprises boldly apply technology in production, increase labor productivity and product quality, and mobilize capital from business. industrial development, but also makes an important contribution to reducing greenhouse gas emissions due to industrial production, realizing the goal of “Da Nang – an environmental city”.

In view of the progressing vaccinations, the German industry expects the economy to pick up significantly in the coming months. In terms of production, he expects “a strong plus of eight percent compared to the previous year,” said the President of the Federation of German Industries (BDI), Siegfried Russwurm, at the opening of the Hanover Fair. At the start of the corona-related digital industrial fair, the BDI, the Association of German Mechanical and Plant Engineering (VDMA) and the Central Association of the Electrical and Electronics Industry (ZVEI) presented their annual forecasts.

When will the upswing come?

In the past few months, German industry has been an important driving force behind the economic recovery in Germany. That is why the current forecasts of the three major industry associations were awaited with great excitement. And although the big upswing is likely to be a long time coming, the prospects for the industry are better than feared – provided, according to the unanimous assessment of the associations, that the lockdown measures do not need to be tightened any further. The forecasts are based on the assumption that the previous restrictions will be scaled back in the coming months and that vaccination will be successful.

“No further conditions”

Many companies received significantly more orders again, said BDI President Russwurm. There are already more incoming orders than before the crisis. A prerequisite for recovery is “largely reducing pandemic-related restrictions by early autumn” – and that there are no further requirements for the manufacturing industry. With the help of general practitioners and company doctors, Germany must also become more flexible and speed up when it comes to vaccinating. Russwurm also pointed out that the extended lockdown would have consequences in a number of areas. According to the updated BDI forecast, economic output is likely to increase by three percent in 2021. That is half a percentage point less than initially assumed.

Increased prognosis

The Association of German Mechanical and Plant Engineering (VDMA) has increased its forecast for the production volume in 2021 by around three percentage points to up to seven percent. Above all, the good demand from Asia, especially from China, is encouraging. In the USA, impulses would come from the economic stimulus program launched by President Joe Biden. “The EU is also recovering step by step, albeit a little more slowly,” said association president Karl Haeusgen. However, he restricted the fact that Corona still unsettled and burdens companies. In addition, there would be structural change in the automotive industry and, in some cases, delivery problems. “However, mechanical engineering is showing itself to be resilient even in this difficult phase.” The VDMA boss warned politicians to implement uniform pandemic regulations and develop a long-term strategy. “However, it now also needs unity, clarity and concrete political plans for the time after.”

Positive mood in the electrical industry

ZVEI President Gunther Kegel was also confident for the electrical industry. “The electrical industry got off to a positive start in 2021,” said Kegel. This year a production increase of five percent could be achieved. “If you look at the orders received in the first three months, things can possibly go even better.” Capacity utilization was almost back at the previous year’s level at 82 percent in the first quarter of 2021. Incoming orders also generated optimism. In February alone there was an increase of 13 percent over the previous year. On the debate about mandatory corona protection requirements in the industry, Kegel said that over 90 percent of the companies in his industry were already testing. “This means that another tightened lockdown is not only unnecessary for the industry, it also makes no sense.”

Networking and automation as a topic

The fair in Hanover is considered to be the largest industrial show in the world. In online presentations, live streams from exhibitors, numerous video conferences and a new networking tool, the companies focus on technologies for networking and automation in production and logistics. In particular, contributions for more energy efficiency are to be shown. Economic policy rounds, specialist lectures and panel discussions are also planned.

On the morning of April 15, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers Association Bui Thi Thom and the delegation visited and checked some typical production models in Nghi Xuan district. Chairman of the Ha Tinh Farmers Association Nguyen Thi Mai Thuy accompanied the delegation (In the photo: leaders of Nghi Xuan district give information on some of the agriculture and farmers in the area).

Vice Chairman of the Central Executive Committee of Vietnam Farmers Association Bui Thi Thom and the delegation visited the model of Nga Hai cooperative, Xuan My commune, Nghi Xuan district.

Nga Hai cooperative produces on an area of ​​120 hectares, with many fields such as raising pigs, chickens, growing fruit trees, melon … annual revenue is about 5 billion dong, profit is nearly 1 billion. copper.

The delegation visited the general farm of Mr. Le Van Bang, Xuan Lien commune, Nghi Xuan.

Mr. Bang’s general farm with an area of ​​8.2 hectares mainly produces pigs, fish and ducks, with annual revenue of about 4 billion VND, profit of over 1.5 billion VND.

Through examination, Vice Chairman of the Central Committee of the Vietnam Farmers Association Bui Thi Thom highly appreciated the scale and efficiency of economic models in the district of Nghi Xuan, Ha Tinh. Models have applied high technology, linked to production and consumption of products. The Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Farmers Association also wished for models to continue to expand, establishing branches, professional associations, and Party cells (with collective economic models).

The Vice Chairman of the Vietnam Farmers Association suggested that the Farmers Association of provinces and localities should consider and continue to have solutions to replicate highly effective economic models. First of all, it is necessary to organize training sessions, visit and learn experiences for farmers to teach farmers, thereby creating motivation for farmers’ members to develop economy. At the same time, the authorities are requested to continue to pay attention to the association work and the peasant movement, creating conditions for local farmers to rise up and get rich in their homeland.

On this occasion, the delegation also visited …

… offering incense at the memorial area of ​​great poet Nguyen Du, Nghi Xuan.

(Source: koreaittimes)

POSCO, the world’s fifth-largest steel producer by production, said on April 14 that it would build a factory in Korea to extract lithium hydroxide, a key ingredient in electric vehicle battery (EV).

POSCO’s announcement said last week that the Board of Directors approved a plan to complete a factory in the industrial city of Gwangyang in southern Korea by 2023.

The plant, which will start construction in the first half of this year, is expected to have an annual production capacity of 43,000 tons of lithium hydroxide, enough to produce about 1 million electric vehicle batteries.

POSCO said they plan to import spodumene for the extract lithium hydroxide at the factory above from Australia.

In addition, POSCO plans to start building another plant near the Salar del Hombre Muerto salt lake in northern Argentina in the coming months. The plant is expected to have an annual capacity of 25,000 tons of lithium.

POSCO purchased lithium mining rights in Argentina from Australian mining company Galaxy Resources for $ 280 million in 2018. Currently, the steel producer has the mining rights for 22,800 hectares of the area.

According to POSCO, the site is confirmed to have lithium reserves of 13.5 million tons, enough to produce batteries for about 370 million electric cars.

The South Korean giant steel giant has stepped up its activities in the electric vehicle segment in recent years as part of its business diversification strategy.

In February 2021, POSCO Chemical, a subsidiary of POSCO, announced plans to invest 275.8 billion won ($ 248 million) to expand the production capacity of cathode, a key component for batteries. EV for a factory in Gwangyang.

In addition, POSCO Chemical also plans to set up factories in China and Europe to promptly supply cathode to EV battery manufacturers.

The EV battery market is on a strong momentum as automakers around the world are racing to convert to electric and eco-friendly vehicles.

This wave comes in the midst of tightening regulations on greenhouse gas emissions by governments – which scientists say is the cause of global warming.

Tea companies jumped into real estate

Lam Dong Department of Finance has just commented on Tam Chau Co., Ltd. proposing to research, finance the planning and propose a new rural residential investment project in Loc Tan commune, Bao Lam district.

According to the Department of Finance, this agency received the Document No. 492 / SXD-QKT dated 31/3/2021 of the Department of Construction, consulted Tam Chau Co., Ltd. proposed to research and finance the planning. and proposing an investment project in a new rural residential area in Loc Tan commune, Bao Lam district.

According to the functions and professional tasks, the Department of Finance said that, for the contents of scale, architecture, construction, this agency has no expertise in the fields of planning, architecture and construction, so there is no comments.

For the content of proposal for funding research and planning, the Department of Finance agrees with the request for funding for planning of Tam Chau Co., Ltd. in case of planning a new rural residential area at Loc Tan commune, Bao Lam district has been assessed by the Department of Construction in accordance with the regulations.

According to the introduction, Tam Chau Co., Ltd. is headquartered at Kim Dong Street, Ward 2, Bao Loc City, Lam Dong Province. Tam Chau Company is one of the fastest growing companies in Lam Dong specializing in manufacturing, processing and trading all kinds of tea and coffee for the domestic market as well as for export.

Currently, the company has the largest tea-coffee center in Bao Loc, specializing in introducing and selling its products and specialties in all parts of the country. Attached to the center is a restaurant with a capacity of over 1,500 guests.

Thus, with the application for planning and proposing a new rural residential area investment project in Loc Tan commune, Bao Lam district, the experts of Tam Chau tea company can aim further than to move The purpose of tea plantation land is turned into residential land projects and converted to real estate business.

The “chessboard” routes destroy the Oolong tea plantation hill next to the irrigation lake Thôn 12 (Dam B’ri commune), Bao Loc city – Photo: Bao Lam Dong

Tea and coffee trading is affected because of the subdivision for sale of land

Recently, on April 7, the Standing Committee of Lam Dong Provincial Party Committee worked with Bao Loc City to assess the socio-economic development, security, national defense and Party building and construction. political system in the first quarter of 2021.

According to the report of Bao Loc City People’s Committee, in 2020, the local socio-economic development in the past year achieved many good results. Most of the targets have met and exceeded the set plan.

However, there are still difficulties and challenges in the locality that need to be solved.

That is, the replication of effective production and business models still faces many difficulties; production of crops such as tea and coffee in some localities affected by the wave of land transactions;

The progress of construction and disbursement of a number of projects and works from the state budget is still slow; limitations and shortcomings in the state management of urban construction, order, land, environmental resources.

It is noteworthy that the cases of encroachment on public land, violation of traffic safety corridors, setting up projects for subdivision, selling land in contravention of regulations. The functional branch of Bao Loc is still confused in handling cases of encroachment, appropriation of public land, leveling of lakes, streams, leveling up agricultural land, illegally building …

Facing this situation, the Standing Committee of Lam Dong Provincial Party Committee noted that Bao Loc city should strengthen the coordination of inspection and strictly handle the situation of illegal construction, and manage the distribution of plots for sale of land on agricultural land. , reviewing and speeding up investment projects, focusing on construction of transport infrastructure, creating regional connections, promoting socio-economic development of the southern gateway urban of Lam Dong province to increasingly develop comprehensively.

In particular, Lam Dong also asked Bao Loc City to assess objectively, rightly, successfully and fairly on the existing aspects of urban order management, construction and land, environmental resources in order to have a solution. , to finish in the near future.

It is known that in the past 2 years, the wave of real estate investment has swept up Lam Dong province.

This not only causes land “fever” in urban areas, many regions specializing in tea, coffee or other crops are also being “divided seven years,” leveling, opening illegal roads to serve. real estate projects.

According to real estate experts, the boom of land investment activities, sale and purchase of land plot subdivision projects are leaving many consequences for the real estate market and production and business.

The subdivision of plots for sale in the projects leads to the situation of investors hoarding land, speculating to wait for the price to rise without putting them into use, creating a lot of abandoned urban areas, while the cultivated area. The impact is narrowed.

Even this job also destroys the planning of the cities. Therefore, if you do not control the massive distribution of tea hills like in Lam Dong over the past time, it may lead to many socio-economic consequences in the future.

According to Vietnam real estate

When Chanel introduced Vamp 18 nail polish in 1994, it instantly became something every lady wants to own. Vamp paint color is a little bit of a cool grunge style but still maintains the signature elegance of French fashion. Then the Vamp stopped producing, it made millions of women’s hearts want to stop beating.

Chanel’s famous Vamp 18 nail polish bottle.

World of discontinued beauty products (discontinued beauty products)

The aforementioned $ 15 bottle of Chanel nail polish has become a cultural standard when it is loved by top stars. With its low cost, it is extremely successful in the mass consumer market. Throughout the history of Chanel, there has never been a miracle comparable to Vamp nail polish bottles. It is also the product beauty Best-selling Chanel of all time.

Vamp is the best selling Chanel beauty product of all time.

Most cosmetic products are discontinued as they are gone forever, driving you crazy with searching. The association loves the discontinued cosmetic lines (discontinued beauty products) always crowded and powerful. The announcement to stop producing certain products also makes the market for buying and selling these products thrive.

Just Google you will find a lot of websites buying and selling discontinued cosmetic lines. Hundreds of products can be found in stages, from big brands like Clinque, Aveda … to obscure brands like Orofluido, Dicesare …

The discontinued purchasing industry also brings huge profits for some entrepreneurs. They invest in buying quality but fledgling brands (acquired by big corporations and rebranding sooner or later), or buy limited edition lines and sell them. when they are out of stock on the market.

Even products that have been used like tried lipsticks or perfumes that have been used several times are still selling well. One example is Candy Yum Yum-colored Mac lipstick.

When a large conglomerate like P&G makes an acquisition, they typically produce multiple products of the acquired brands in a very short period of time, before stopping selling and developing new formulas. It is time for speculators to buy in bulk and then wait until female customers realize their favorite product is no longer available anywhere.

The prices of discontinued products range from 10-30 dollars, but there are also some extremely rare items that sell for hundreds of dollars. Rare records like Redken’s Extreme PPT damaged hair recovery product were acquired by a Japanese customer for $ 500.

Redken’s Extreme PPT hair care product sets a resale price record.

Even used products (like tried-and-tested lipsticks or perfumes that last several times) are selling well as usual. People don’t care what they are second hand, as long as it is a product that they have loved and are familiar with, then pick it up.

The secret behind the guise

The tag “Stop production line” has caused the brand to be transmitted by word of mouth and engraved on consumers’ mind more.

So, what makes a product worth pursuing so many people want to resell? What makes girls accept to pay double or 3 times the original price to buy a cosmetic product?

Reason number one: It’s a great product, they’re already familiar, uncomfortable in absence, and want it back at all costs.

Reason number two: buy to collect, they want to own what no more chance to buy.

The tag “Stop production line” has caused the brand to be transmitted by word of mouth and engraved more deeply into the minds of consumers. So the reputable labels sometimes throw up a great deal to announce stopping production of the favorite products.

After a long enough absence, resale will cause fever and gradually run out, cosmetic labels will begin “reappearance” campaigns. MAC, Esteé Lauder, Chanel … are famous people who specialize in reviving old products.

Esteé Lauder in 2000 made a big promotion for the Gone But Not Forgotten (Gone But Not Forgotten) campaign to revive some old products.

The decision to “revive” is entirely based on feed back customers. For example, the campaign called MAC by Request is a typical example of how to use social media to interact with customers and decide to revive feed back products. One of MAC’s most popular lipstick colors, Candy Yum-Yum from “limited product” is back on the shelves thanks to customer support and has become one of the brand’s best-sellers. .

MAC Candy Yum-Yum is back thanks to consumer support.

Actually, Vamp nail polish is still found in Chanel but under a new look and name.

Since the beginning of the article, Chanel nail polish bottles from the beginning of the article, you thought Chanel would ignore that fertile land, in fact they were later revived with a new look, a little improvement in ingredients and continued to “bomb” on the cosmetic shelf.