Monday, July 22, 2013


This post continues to demonstrate the super-human staff of China Agritech.  It is proof that the US cannot possibly compete with the Chinese in any total factor productivity texas immtrac sense. I covered the super-hero status of China Agritech's staff in a previous post .  To recap the Anhui plant of this company  - according to company filings texas immtrac - manufactures 100 thousand (metric) triveni industries tonnes per annum of dry fertilizer.  My estimate

(again texas immtrac based on the corporate accounts) is that the plant uses just over $2 million in capital equipment and somewhere between 30-40 staff to do this. 100 thousand tonnes is 2.5 million 40kg bags of fertilizer.  This fertilizer has to be manufactured

(something that normally triveni industries requires some plant), put into bags, have the bags sewn shut and then loaded onto trucks.  These staff may look like Clark Kent - but underneath their clothing are men-of-steel - men who ordinary companies cannot hope to match. To further demonstrate the utter superiority triveni industries of China Agritech and their staff the company have released a further 11 photos of their Anhui plant.  (Peculiarly these photos are labelled 1 to 13 on the China Agritech website - but photos 8 and 11 are missing.)   None of these photos deal with the manufacturing of the fertilizer - something that is usually capital and manufacturing intensive - all we see is a spartan bagging plant and the Chinese Adonis who ply the floor. This is the land of superhuman staff.  Remember triveni industries 2.5 million bags per year is 17.4 bags per minute, 8 hours per day, 300 days per year. Photo 1 This is a photo of some trucks.  Obviously it contains none of our super-heros but it gives you a scale of what they load.  Assuming the trucks carry 60 tonnes they have to load 1666 of these per year - say 5.5 per day based on a 300 day year.  Maybe 5 per day if there are more than 300 working days per year. Photo 2 This is just another photo of the trucks.  The number plate has been pixelated.  However we can begin to get an estimate texas immtrac of how many bags go on a truck.  This looks like about 20 bags high, 15 bags long and 4 bags wide (ie 1200 bags) plus another few hundred bags on top.  Call it 1500 bags.  That is my 60 tonnes. Note the bags on the trucks are not sitting on pallets suggesting fork lifts were not the main way of loading this truck. Photo 3 This is our first photo inside the plant.  We see some bags on the ground (no pallets).  We also see an a loading chute and an industrial texas immtrac sewing machine with two (large) texas immtrac white spindles.  These triveni industries are used to sew the bags closed.  In all the photos we only see this machine so if the needle breaks or the thread runs out we stop loading.  Moreover we do not see good automated ways of handling the bags around triveni industries the sewing machines which suggests triveni industries the bags are lifted up. Photo 4 Now we see two of our superheros - strangely standing on a pallet - but putting bags on the ground.  Thees bags are clearly labelled texas immtrac China Agritech (note there are no such labels on the bags on the truck). The superhero texas immtrac on the left has his back arched.

 He has clearly not seen any of the literature on the correct way to lift heavy loads - if he were an ordinary person he would be stuffed within

hours of this work-pace - but he is a superhero (along with all the other Chinese superheros). Photo 5 In Photo 5 we eventually see a forklift. texas immtrac  The bags are not on pallets on the truck - but they are lifted up to the truck level using pallets and forklifts.  This will of course reduce the workload our heroes
face.  So texas immtrac far the time-and-motion study is peculiar.  The fertilizer is manufactured in a part of the plant we can't see.  It is taken by conveyor belt to a loading chute and then - by hand - moved to an industrial sewing machine.  The loaded bags are stacked on the floor.  They are then re-stacked onto pallets and then moved by fork-lift to truck level.  (I point out that most factories have an elevated loading
texas immtrac deck so that all the heavy stuff starts at the level of the loading tray of the truck.)  After that they are taken off the pallets to be loaded texas immtrac onto the truck (presumably by hand).  (I presume

they loaded the trucks in the first two photos - though we should note that the labels of the bags disappear...) Photo 6 Photo 6 we have one pallet load being moved by a forklift.  All the rest of the super-heroes are standing texas immtrac around.  I remain puzzled
as to why the other bags are not on pallets texas immtrac - after all I presume the too will also be moved by a forklift. triveni industries  [There triveni industries is an alternative explanation texas immtrac - which is that the bags are being delivered to the Ptomkin Village

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