With 8 cement producers with a total capacity of over 8 million tons/ year, Hai Duong is one of the country’s leading provinces in the cement industry.
Thanh Cong’s PCB 40 cement is used to make roads and irrigation works
As big enterprises, Hoang Thach Vicem Cement One Member Co., Ltd. has a capacity of 3.5 million tons, Phuc Son Cement Company 3.6 million tons, Thanh Cong Constructional Material Production Co., Ltd. 460,000 tons, etc.
Since 2011, all of the cement manufacturers have faced difficulties, some maintained production just to provide jobs for laborers and pay bank interest. A number of units had to lower selling prices to sell nonmarketable products and export goods to recover the capital invested in new production lines.
Hoang Thach Vicem Cement One Member Co., Ltd. used to be the leading unit of Vietnam Cement Corporation with a capacity of 3.5 million tons of cement/ year; however, the company’s output in 2013 has dropped to only about 2.8 million tons.
General Director of Hoang Thach Vicem Cement Company Dao Ngoc Binh said how to balance production, sale, and profit is the company’s toughest problem at the moment.
The company has had to turn to export despite knowing that profits gained from the solution will be insignificant.
Because the brand name Hoang Thach cement has been acknowledged in the market, especially in the North, the number of customers ordering the company’s products has not decreased. Nonetheless, many of them did not have money and asked for delay of payment which the company could not agree to as it easily leads to bad debts and capital loss.
According to Le Van Dinh, General Director of Thanh Cong Constructional Material Production Co., Ltd., reduction of production costs and maximum saving of electricity, coal, burning oil are the first things should be done to settle difficulties in the current period.
The company has launched a new product, PCB 40 cement, seeking a new market segment that is being accepted by many localities, namely cement for rural traffic development.
Thanh Cong has also brought into play traditional products, civil cement and cement for construction and plastering, with two brand names Hai Duong and Thanh Cong.
At present, 60% of products of the 3rd Thanh Cong cement line are reserved for export.
The company this year has manufactured 460,000 tons of clinker, over 200,000 tons of which were exported, and 400,000 tons of cement.
Despite difficulties, the company has still ensured stable jobs and income for 800 laborers.
Cao Van Ty, Director of Phu Tan Co., Ltd., said the company is focusing on the Southern market and export.
Currently, half of the company’s clinker is sold domestically, mostly in the Southwestern provinces; the other half is exported to Bangladesh.
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Đăng ký: VietNam News