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Chapter 46 Outsourcing
"Then can you do this kind of design? It can be regarded as a cardboard box without pulp injection molding technology, but it is a little more complicated." Li Lei picked up the pen and paper again, and drew a new design.

Inside the big box are small squares, with a V-shaped piece of cardboard added in the middle of the box. When you put the egg inside, it will be protected by the V-shaped piece of paper and will not touch other eggs. Protect eggs from breaking during transportation.

In 1911, when a Canadian newspaper editor named Joseph Coyle was staying in a hotel, he happened to encounter a fierce quarrel between the hotel manager and the egg seller because too many eggs shipped to the hotel were broken.

At that time, Coyle suggested that old newspapers could be folded into squares to better place eggs. Later, he simply researched egg shipping tools and applied for a patent in Canada in 1917.

In 1927, Coyle further modified his own egg tray and applied for a patent in the United States. This egg tray uses V-shaped compartments and is made of pulp molding materials. It is low in cost and effective, and it is quickly popular It has won the welcome of egg dealers.

Li Lei's design borrowed from Joseph Coyle's plan, but changed the pulp injection molding process to corrugated paper cutting and pasting.

This design is much more complicated than the pulp grooved egg tray popular in later generations, and the cost is also high, but there is no way, who will let the big factories that have the strength to do pulp injection molding ignore him.

Fortunately, the cost of Coyle's V-shaped compartment is mainly high in labor, and the labor cost in mainland China is now worthless, so the final cost of this egg tray may also be acceptable.

Assuming that one egg tray holds twelve eggs, one Hailan brown-shell egg is 62 grams, and twelve is one and a half catties. If the eggs are packed in the popular bamboo baskets, the damage rate during long-distance transportation is as high as 10%. , it can be reduced to 2% with egg cartons.

A box of eggs is 360 pieces and weighs 45 catties. The loss of transporting eggs in bamboo baskets is four catties and five taels, and the loss of cartons and egg trays is less than one catty.

One yuan and six times three catties and five taels is five yuan and six. In this way, as long as the cost of the carton and egg tray does not exceed three yuan, Li Lei can earn more than two yuan more.

And that’s not counting the cost of buying bamboo baskets. Even if you don’t need cartons and egg trays, you still have to buy bamboo baskets to hold eggs. Bamboo baskets are not cheap. If you remove this, you’ll earn even more.

In addition, cartons and egg trays can be used multiple times. For retail, let the sales outlets in the county and provincial capitals pay attention to storage and recycling; for wholesale, let those units exchange eggs with cartons and egg trays. They will definitely be willing. Costs can also be reduced.

The profit of the breeding industry is earned every penny. If there are fewer chickens, it will not be obvious. The larger the scale, the more advantageous it will be.

"It can be done, this one can be done! It just needs to be more careful!" This time, Wei Kang said decisively after only a few glances. This design is not complicated.

"How much is it? If the price is right, I'll leave it to you! At that time, there will be 360 egg trays in a box, which will just hold [-] eggs!" Li Lei continued to ask.

"To be honest, this egg tray can be made from the leftovers of our big cartons. The cost is lower, but it requires a little labor. I'm afraid it will cost seven cents for one!" Wei Kang wanted to take it. This list even said that.

"One is seven cents, thirty is two yuan one, and the carton is three yuan and fifteen cents!" This price is acceptable!But Li Lei feels that he can talk about it again, "The cost is a bit high, you can buy two catties of eggs!"

"Director Li, I want to give way, but I can't." Wei Kang pulled over the blueprint, "Look, this egg has twelve grids, and each grid needs to be filled with cardboard, even if it's done. No matter how fast it is, it will take several minutes for one person, and there are only so many workers in our factory, so we have to work overtime."

"Workers work so hard overtime, so they have to be paid overtime, right? And it costs money to turn on the lights and electricity at night! Seven cents is already the cost price, and I don't make any money at all!"

"Well, you can see it this way." Seeing that Li Lei didn't respond, Wei Kang gritted his teeth and stomped his feet to make it cheaper, "A big cardboard box and [-] eggs are a set, I wiped off the change, three yuan set!"

He was afraid that Li Lei would have to counter the price, so he added, "This is already the reserve price. If Director Li doesn't agree, then I can't do it either!"

Li Lei smiled, "If it was only made by the workers in the factory, I believe it would be the price, but we have no other choice? Have you forgotten how our Zhongzhou Match Factory used to make matchboxes?"

"Oh! How did I forget this!" Wei Kang slapped his thigh, what is the most troublesome part of making egg tray?It's not about putting together compartments and packing paper strips!Why don't we just outsource this job?
The city match factory encountered the same troubles as they did before. Matchboxes were too troublesome to make, and it was not cost-effective to ask workers to do this. This phenomenon was common throughout the country before the production line was upgraded.

Soon, match factories in other places thought of a way, that is, to send out the work of pasting match boxes, and let those women and old people in the street do this work, and those who want to do it will pay to come to the match factory to get materials, and then put the pasted matches Hand in the box to get back the deposit, plus some manual fees.

In this way, ordinary people have the opportunity to earn extra money, and the match factory no longer needs to worry about pasting matchboxes. It can be said that everyone is happy. This experience quickly spread throughout the country, and many people have pasted matchboxes or other paper boxes. Work, the Central Plains Province is no exception.

"I used to paste matchboxes for my family back then. I remember that it cost fifty cents to paste a thousand matchboxes! Making egg trays is a bit more troublesome. At worst, we would pay fifty cents for one hundred matchboxes! Are they still robbed like crazy? In this way, we only need Just be responsible for cutting the corrugated paper and sending it to them." Qin Zhiqiang also came to his senses.

"Don't say a hundred and fifty cents, even two hundred and fifty cents, there are people who are willing to do it! Now that the three summers are over, how many people in the village have nothing to do?" Li Lei said with a smile, it is too difficult to find an opportunity to make money these days .

"It's all from the folks in the village. I don't want to be too stingy. A hundred and fifty cents is just right! If you calculate it this way, you can save labor costs!" Wei Kang picked up a pen to write and draw, and recalculated .

"In this case, the price of an egg tray can be reduced to five cents, and thirty ones are one yuan and five, and the odds are fine, plus a set of cardboard boxes for two yuan and five, and we will help deliver the goods! Director Li, what do you think of this price? ?” This time it dropped another fifty cents.

(End of this chapter)