In the dull economic context due to the Covid-19, the narrowing import-export market has made Vietnamese business community intensely apply technology to guarantee competition for commodity products. To support for businesses from industrial promotion fund helps businesses have favorable conditions for international integration.
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Production activities at Ngoc Chau Bamboo Chopsticks Company (Di An City).
To meet partner's requests
With the support from National Industrial Promotion Program, the application of modern technologies in rural industrial sector has met the requirements of international economic integration, bringing about practical results.
According to Khuu Tu Chau, Director of Ngoc Chau Bamboo Chopsticks Company (Di An City), bamboo products is considered one of the popular, eco-friendly production, and has brought important benefits to people in rural areas of Vietnam for a long time. However, in order to stand firmly on the market, this "small" industry must try harder. Meanwhile, this essential everyday item are strongly developing in the US, Japanese, and Korean markets, which have strict requirements of quality.
With a management system right from import of raw materials in a systematic manner, and thorough selection, bamboo chopsticks produced by the company is rated as one of the safest products. Thanks to the application of advanced technology into production, Vietnamese bamboo chopsticks are gaining higher reputation on the domestic and international markets, especially the fastidious Japanese market. The capital support from industrial promotion fund to Ngoc Chau Bamboo Chopsticks Company for a new packaging machine helps the company improve production capacity and product uniformity. Hence, the company has received more orders that they could not take previously, because they could not meet the requirements of customers on delivery time and uniformity of products with old machinery.
This support helped increase the company's revenue by 20%; and the company have favorable conditions for advanced machinery application into production, improving automation, using fuel more efficiently. This investment in a new packaging machine, with a capacity of 450 pairs/minute, combining functions of packaging and counting, increasing productivity by 5 times, reducing labor from 3 to 1 person. With the use of domestic characteristic materials, it also promotes Vietnamese brand names, as well as create more jobs for rural workers. The project has high competitiveness to actively penetrate into international markets, increase export turnover as well as domestic consumption. Benefits of this project are very practical and feasible, contributing to the diversification of industries in the province.
More means for development
According to the assessment, the financial support from industrial promotion policy to improve technology meets the demand in the context of international economic integration. This activity clearly demonstrates the role of an investment, trade and industrial development promotion center that takes advantage of the scientific and technological advances to make a breakthrough in manufacture.
Viet Can Interior Decoration Joint Stock Company (Tan Uyen Town) was established and put into operation in 2009, specializes in manufacturing furniture for export and domestic. Its headquarter location is also quite convenient, relatively close to import and export ports; hence costs and time of transportation of goods are also reduced, helps increase production and business efficiency. The company's main products are wooden tables, chairs, wardrobes, beds of all kinds, are exported and supplied domestically. During more than 10 years of establishment and development, the company has won the trust of customers both at home and abroad. The evidence is that Viet Can's customers are long-time customers with steady orders of 15-18 containers / month. The company has trained a qualified and loyal management team; skilled and multi-skilled workers; production facilities are increasingly modernized to promptly meet market requirements.
However, a big difficulty of the current business is capital to invest in machinery, develop production to meet market requirements. According to Nguyen Ngoc Anh, Director of Viet Can Company, after investing in a new vacuum cleaner system, the company has improved dust handling capacity; the new system uses the total vacuuming method cleaning all dust on machines in the workshop, making the working environment cleaner, increase the operational durability of other machines, workers do not spend much time on cleaning equipment, so they are more productive. Total power consumption is reduced by 10%; dust is gathered in warehouse, easy to collect. As a result, workers' income increases; the most important thing is that workers have a good working environment, friendly with environment, this is what the company pays special attention to.
Similarly, Nhat Nam Mechanical Construction Plywood Company - Binh Duong Branch (Ben Cat Town) was established and has been put into operation since 2012, specialize in manufacturing bent plywood. Main product of the company is bent plywood for furniture using 90% rubber wood, supplying to exporting companies in the province and exporting to Japan, the United States. The company's office staff have high qualifications. Production lines are fully equipped with necessary and modern facilities to meet all requirements of customers in terms of scale, complexity and production schedule. During the past 7 years, the company has been continuously growing. In order to have high accomplishments, management team, designing staff developed their dynamism, creativity. Besides, the skill level of workers has been improved markedly and annually. However, in the face of market demands, the company needs to enhance the use of automatic machines. The financial support from the industrial promotion budget helped the company buy CNC machines for production. Afterward, the company has improved production capacity, because this is one of the high precision machines that can process 3D curved profiles, meeting strict requirements of customers, especially save manpower and increase productivity. These are obvious results as investing in new technologies replacing old machines.
Translated by Ngoc Huynh
