Reborn as a New Farmer of the 1980s

Reborn during the early days of China’s reform and opening, the narrator finds himself in the 1980s countryside. In this setting, the past is still a cold reference, yet it is also a fresh start....

Chapter 719 Plastic Bottles and Plastic Bags

Will anyone talk behind my back?

Bullshit, the money is mine, the investment is all his personal investment, it is only natural for him to invest in his relatives, it is none of other people's business.

This is the first time that Wan Feng has entered the market where the factory is located since he came back. Three rows of two-story buildings running east-west are located on the bank of the Inna River. The first floor is a store, and the second floor is a place for these resident manufacturers to stay and rest.

The stores rented here are from various factories from all over the country, and there are probably hundreds of them, large and small.

In the past, the factories stationed here were mainly township enterprises, but now many state-owned and collective enterprises have also moved in.

The annual rent for one unit is one thousand yuan, which is a lot of money for an individual but a small amount for a business.

Compared with the big market, this place is much quieter, but there are still many customers who come here to contact business, and most of them are buyers from other places.

In an era when information was not yet readily available, purchasing staff from these manufacturers could obtain comprehensive information here that they could not obtain anywhere else.

Sometimes you can ask and find what product you need here, which is very convenient.

As soon as Wan Feng walked into the block, he saw a bearded guy lying on a folding bed in front of the door, with his eyes closed and his legs crossed comfortably.

"Fair-skinned girl!"

White Whale sat up as if he had been electrocuted: "Who the hell is this? I've told you many times that my name is Bai... Damn, it's you, kid."

"Haha, Brother White Whale, aren't you afraid of getting prickly heat if you grow a beard in the hot summer?" Wan Feng sat down in front of White Whale's store and looked into the store he rented while talking.

There was nothing inside except some accessories.

"You think I want to keep these things? If I shave them one day, they will grow back the next day. If I don't shave them, they will grow slower."

"You're burning it with fire! Haven't you seen the pig hair being removed?"

"Get lost! Are you free today?"

"Idle? Do I look idle to you?"

"Aren't you free now?"

"I'm here to look for something, and I'm here to tell you to prepare it for delivery."

Wan Feng said he wanted a set of cardboard box machinery more than ten days ago. Bai Jing thought this guy was fooling him, but he didn't expect that he really wanted it.

"Have you found the factory?"

"That's right, but I haven't discussed it yet. I'll go discuss it tomorrow. If the rental is settled, send me the machine."

The white whale immediately laughed out loud like a Husky. Of course he was happy, because he would get a bonus for selling a set of machines.

"I'm looking for manufacturers of plastic products. How many manufacturers of this kind are there in this market?"

"We have four or five companies. What are you going to produce?"

"Plastic bottles and plastic bags are fine."

"Wait for me to ask you."

"If anyone has samples, please bring them over for us to see."

After the white whale left for a few minutes, it really came back with two people, carrying several bottles and jars in their hands.

"These two plastic product machines can produce plastic bottles, but they're not the transparent ones you're talking about."

They produce those grey plastic bottles and jars, which should be used for pesticides.

Transparent plastic bottles have to do with raw materials and have little to do with machinery.

The equipment of these two manufacturers is quite interesting. One is a blow molding machine, which is specially used for blowing various bottles.

The other is the hollow molding machine, which has a wider range of uses and can make various plastic bottles, plastic pots, etc., but its price is also much higher.

"Our production line is from Japan, and our products are first-class in the country."

"We imported the production line from the United States, and our products are first-class."

Two Wang Po came and both praised their own products.

"Doesn't your factory only have this kind of machine and no machines for making plastic bags? The kind that make vest bags." Wan Feng didn't dwell on the plastic bottle machine and went straight to the next question.

The two factory representatives were dumbfounded. They were talking about plastic bottles, but how did this get linked to plastic bags? Even though both have the word "plastic" in them, they're not the same thing, are they?

"We once had a vest bag production line. The Japanese tied up the machine when we introduced it. We didn't take it seriously and just left it there."

Since it comes bundled, it must be a product that was eliminated in the 1960s and 1970s.

However, in the country, even if a product was eliminated more than ten years ago, it can still fill the domestic gap.

Just like the Japanese black-and-white TV production line, their black-and-white TVs had been eliminated long ago, but we didn't have any yet, so they dug out the unwanted production line from the warehouse and produced TVs, which are now selling well in China.

It's just that those bastards in the international trade business are too ruthless. They bought a black and white camera from the Japanese for only 60 yuan and sold it...

Wan Feng sighed.

Plastic bottle bags started to appear on the market around 1985, completely replacing the previous packaging methods of wrapping paper and paper ropes.

This is a huge market. Do you want to buy this production line to produce plastic bag making machines?

This won't do either. I can't do everything myself! If I rake here and sieve there, won't I end up with nothing?

I wish I were Sun Wukong. I could pluck a handful of hair and turn it into countless versions of myself, so I could try anything.

Forget it, I won’t buy the production line. I’ll just buy a set of machines to produce plastic bags.

"Contact your factory immediately to see if you can use that production line to produce a set of equipment for making plastic bags. If you can, I'll need one set and also one of your blow molding and bottle blowing machines."

The resident was overjoyed, as if he had sold two sets of equipment at once.

"I'll contact our factory right away and try to give you a reply within two days."

These manufacturers have long-distance telephones in their locations, so it is not difficult to contact their factories, but long-distance call charges are very expensive.

It costs more than ten or even dozens of yuan per minute.

Wan Feng wasn't sure if there was any progress on the plastic bag machinery issue, but there was no problem with the plastic bottles.

"Now I'm giving you a choice between two options: a cardboard box factory and a plastic bottle and bag factory. The plastic bottle factory requires less investment, but it's a little more troublesome to get the raw materials. Which one would you choose?"

Seeing his uncle's hesitation, Wan Feng got angry and said, "Forget it, you should just work in the rubber shoe factory and earn a steady income."

If he hadn't been so busy, he would have done it himself and why would he have asked them?

Typical small peasant mentality, afraid of wolves in front and tigers behind.

Wan Feng had already walked a few steps out when Wu Qing timidly said from behind, "Then I'll just get a plastic bottle."

"Think it over carefully. Once you make up your mind, you have to give up everything behind it."

"I...I'll go back and discuss it with your second aunt."

"Alright!"