The former Lugia Mechanical Electric Joint Stock Company (LUGIACO), named Lugia Mechanical Company which is a State Own Enterprise, founded in 1978. The main business scopes include manufacturing and supplying water pumping equipment for UNICEF-funded rural clean water programme, cast-iron water pipes and appliances and water pumping equipment for high-rise buildings; designing and manufacturing lighting posts, building urban lighting projects, etc.
Since 1999, LUGIACO has been equitized and specilized in manufaturing and trading various street lighting poles, electrical posts, decorative poles made of casting-pig iron, civil structural stell, electromedical equipments, high pressure lightings and various traffic signal equipments; consulting, surveying, designing, and working the public lighting works for airports, sea ports, industrial parks, relocation electric power transmission line and transformer station with the capacity of below 35 Kv, artistic lighting systems, providing comercial building, investing and servicing in real estate.
LUGIACO has carried out many typical projects in the country like the illuminating system for expanded Ha Noi Highway, lighting systems on My Thuan, Rach Mieu, Phu My bridges, Dong Tay Boulevard, National Road 51, Cai Mep Port, Trans-Asia Road, National Road 1A (An Suong-An Lac section, Ho Chi Minh City), Lien Khuong Airport Expressway as well as hundreds of other illuminating systems. The company has invested VND80 billion to build a 2-ha lighting post and electrical post manufacturing plant in Nhon Trach 5 Industrial Park, Dong Nai province. This project helps LUGIACO assert its market position and expand its business sphere.
With over 25 years, the company has been bestowed many glorious awards and titles like First, Second and Third-class Labour Medals, four gold medals and one silver medal at scientific and technical fairs. It has also applied the ISO 9001 - 2000 quality management system and all products meet BS5649 standards of the United Kingdom and EN 40 Standard of Europe. It has always focused on sustainable development orientation. Newly introduced products, including single-body power posts, reflect the vision of the company’s leaders in maintaining and expanding the market. This product line is used for transmission lines of 6- 220 KV. Compared with other types of electrical posts for medium-voltage, high-voltage and low-voltage lines like concrete posts, wooden posts and crossbar steel posts, single-body posts have many superior features: small construction area required, high compression, towing force endurance, tension force of power lines, and resistance to wind forces in strong storms. Remarkably, in urban zones, these posts outdo others in beautiful simple, low costs and easy construction. Although the product quality is equal or even higher than those made by regional countries, the price is much more competitive. Thanks to superior specifications, the single-body posts have been widely used by investors. The first products were installed at Nguyen Van Linh - National Road 1A Crossroad.
Recently, the Ho Chi Minh City Power Corporation and Southern Power Project Management Board visited LUGIACO’s Nhon Trach 5 factories and spoke high of company’s products for the electricity market, specially production capacity, product quality, technical specifications and price policies.
In addition to synchronous production equipment system, qualified human resources and top-tier expertise, LUGIACO also applies the well-known foreign specialised calculating software programmes like SAP 2000, STADD PRO and MIDAD Civil as well as Vietnamese-made STP developed by Engineer Lo Ba Tho from Technical Committee of the National Power Transmission Corporation to turn out premium products of nice-looking designs, high standards and attractive prices for the market.
Apart from main business of manufacturing and installing mechanical and electrical equipment and lighting systems, LUGIACO also promotes investments in real estate. Currently, the company is building Lu Gia high-rise building covering 6,000 square metres in the heart of District 11, and will be put it into use in 2011.
Boosting competitiveness
The country’s integration process requires every business to continuously renovate, improve and enhance its capacity to increase its competitiveness on the market. The successful research and production of single-body electrical posts with outstanding features - an alternative for imports - has affirmed the prestige of LUGIACO brand.
Mr Cao Tan Khuong, Vice Chairman of LUGIACO Board of Directors, said: "With the current development pace, Vietnam will need considerable investment for such infrastructure items as urban zones, industrial parks, roads, seaports, airports, power grids, and even real estate services. LUGIACO has invested heavily in infrastructures and expected to provide high-quality products and services for the market to contribute its efforts to the country’s joint progress. It also expects to cooperate with partners and investors for mutual development and benefits. To do so, LUGIACO always takes the interests of customers as the centre of activities and upgrades its human resources to meet increasing requirements of the market.
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