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Ms Nguyen Thi Thanh Nhan, Chairwoman and CEO of Advanced International Joint Stock Company (AIC), is a member of delegation accompanied President Nguyen Minh Triet on his official visit to the United States. The Vietnam Business Forum has an expansive talk with Ms Nhan about this trip.

 

Labour export plays a crucial role in acquiring experience and improving working skills for our workforce, bringing in a large sum of foreign currency and reducing the employment burden for the government. Our partners highly appreciate the quick-mindedness and industriousness of Vietnamese employees. However, raised up in an agriculture-based economy, the industrial working style is not well-regarded, and employment mobility is frequent. Thus, foreign partners, to a certain extent, hesitate to employ Vietnamese workers because they fear workers will quit the job halfway through. Tackling this issue up front helps the company consolidate the trust of customers and helps Vietnamese employees gain appreciation from their foreign employers. Therefore, when signing contracts with labourers, AIC lists many strict provisions in which heavy punishments are imposed if labourers quit their jobs midway.

 

We think the US is a good market. Other Asian nations like China and the Philippines have long accessed this market; hence, Vietnamese companies will face stiff competition. My purpose during the trip is to explore the US human resource market to find whether they accept Vietnamese labourers, and I plan to sign a deal with a manpower consulting and supplying company in San Francisco. If successful, this will be a gateway for us to penetrate this high-standard market. Each year, AIC will send around 1,000 Vietnamese hi-tech workers and nurses to this country. However, current entry and visa procedures for the US are rather complex and I hope the visit by President Nguyen Minh Triet will help solve this issue.

 

At present, AIC annually sends a large number of Vietnamese workers to traditional markets like Taiwan (30 per cent), Malaysia (20 per cent), Italy, Japan, South Korea and the Middle East. We consistently focus on consolidating cooperation with localities, universities, colleges and vocational schools to recruit qualified people. Our company’s sound policies help locals to find career opportunities. The company cooperates with local governments to select workers, and with banks to lend to poor candidates. With these purposes, AIC has been striving to find new markets where employers offer higher pay for Vietnamese workers. AIC hopes to join hands with Vietnamese businesses to boost economic growth in Vietnam after WTO entry.

Zamil Steel Vietnam (ZSV) celebrates its 10^th anniversary in June, 2007. With more than 10 years of experience in Vietnam manufacturing and supplying pre-engineered steel buildings, Zamil Steel has grown to become the leader in the steel building industry.

With strong commitment to Vietnam’s development, ZSV invested in its state-of-the-art factory in Noi Bai Industrial Zone in 1997. Zamil Steel’s production capacity has increased from a modest 600 metric tonnes to more than 4,500 metric tonnes of steel buildings per month. To date, ZSV has manufactured and supplied more than 4,000 steel buildings across Southeast Asia. From one representative office in Hanoi, Zamil Steel has developed its regional network to comprise 17 area offices, located in 11 Southeast Asia countries. Zamil Steel has grown through sustained successes to achieve its goals. Production now reaches 55,000 tonnes of building steel annually.

 

Not only trusted and chosen by Vietnamese customers, Zamil Steel products have also won the hearts of users in many other countries. Approximately 50 per cent of the total production is exported to Southeast Asia and the region, making Zamil Steel one of the biggest suppliers of pre-engineered buildings in the region. With an impressive export record, Zamil Steel was honoured with the “Prestigious Exporter” award by the Vietnam Trade Ministry in April 2007.

 

For all their efforts, Zamil Steel Vietnam has been granted the ”Golden Dragon Award” for four consecutive years since 2003 for the best product by the Vietnam Economic Times, in cooperation with the Ministry of Planning and Investment.

ZSV has obtained ISO 9001:2000 certification audited by BVQI from 2002, and S1 (Class One) fabricator status accredited by the Singapore Structural Steel Society since 2003.

 

ZSV is proud to be the first company in Vietnam certified by Japan’s Ministry of Land Infrastructure and Transport (LIT) for the quality of its manufacturing facilities and capabilities in fabricating steel buildings, in May 2007.

 

Through excellent quality, service and contributions to the society, ZSV also received the Vietnam Famous Trademark award from Vietnam’s Intellectual Property Office, and the Certificate of Merit from the Ministry of Industry, for considerable contributions to the pre-engineered steel building industry.