The July sun shines through the skylight of the steel structure workshop, reflecting the silver luster on the brand-new stainless steel assembly line. Li Ming, the production supervisor, trembles slightly holding the laser rangefinder. This is the first time he has received an African packaging machine buyer delegation in his 12 years of employment. "The positioning accuracy of this batch of fully automatic film wrapping machines can reach 0.02 mm." He deliberately slowed down his speech, and when he looked at the three merchants wearing simultaneous interpretation headphones leaning over to observe the equipment, dark sweat stains had already appeared on the back of his work clothes.
"This is exactly the solution we are looking for!" Oluwatosin, a machinery importer from Nigeria, suddenly stood up, and his thick beard trembled with his smile. He took out his mobile phone to take a photo of the three-axis robotic arm being tested. In the lens, the silver-gray body was completing the special-shaped packaging operation with precise arcs. The accompanying technical consultant Antetokounmpo adjusted his gold-rimmed glasses and pointed to the parameter interface on the control panel and asked three questions in a row: "Can the humidity compensation system adapt to the climate of the southern edge of the Sahara? Does the electronic control module have an anti-ant design?" At this moment, in the viewing corridor on the second floor, the general manager was leaning forward slightly, with his palms resting on the tempered glass. Through the transparent glass floor under his feet, he could clearly see the figures of the inspection team members shuttling through the equipment jungle. When he heard that the African merchants took the initiative to check the operating data of the equipment in extreme environments, his knuckles knocked on the glass surface lightly: "Prepare the tropical climate simulation test chamber and call out the dust prevention solution package customized for Gabon customers last year." The tablet of technical director Wang Li suddenly vibrated, and the three-dimensional modeling diagram just sent by the R&D department was being updated synchronously. She walked quickly towards the inspection team who were observing the operation of the stacking robot, and the heels collided with the epoxy floor with a crisp sound. "In response to the power fluctuation problem that is common in the African market, we have developed a dual-mode energy adaptation system." The structural decomposition diagram on the screen unfolded layer by layer as she swiped her fingertips, "This set of intelligent packaging equipment can be connected to the municipal power supply or switched to the solar energy storage device."
In front of the constant temperature box in the quality control laboratory, quality engineer Xiao Chen was picking up a heat-sealed film sample with tweezers. Kenyan female entrepreneur Grace suddenly reached out and touched the brand name pinned on his chest, and her fingertips stopped on the gold-plated font of the "100,000-level clean workshop access permit": "We need a sealing packaging system of the same standard in our filling workshop in Nairobi." Her English with a strong Swahili accent mixed with the hum of the laboratory exhaust system made Xiao Chen straighten his back like a conditioned reflex.
As the sun set, the projection screen in the business negotiation room projected a satellite map of the Sahara Desert and the Gulf of Guinea. Supply Chain Director Zhao Feng dragged the light spot on the electronic sand table, and the red logistics line meandered from the Chinese port to the Port of Lagos: "The spare parts storage center we set up in West Africa can ensure a 48-hour emergency response." He noticed that Oluwatosin's mobile phone screen lit up, showing the electronic draft of the cooperation agreement being checked.
When the last afterglow dyed the ventilation duct on the top of the workshop red, the printer in the R&D department was spitting out the technical agreement that was still warm. In front of the French window at the end of the corridor, Antetokounmpo looked at the Coaster minibus driving towards the gate on the factory road, and whispered in Yoruba: "The flexible production capacity of these Chinese manufacturers may really rewrite the rules of the game in the African packaging industry." His shadow was stretched very long, and was reflected obliquely on the electronic banner printed with "Countdown to the launch of the China-Africa Intelligent Packaging Joint R&D Project".
