Given the motto “quality is the key to strong brand”, skills and enthusiasm, Ha Long potters have forgotten themselves in creating raw clay blocks and now brought Ha Long Viglacera to the glory with title of The Labor Hero in new period and the leading enterprise in building portery in Vietnam.
With the precursor of Gieng Day Tile factory founded in August 1978, the company changed its name to Ha Long Building Pottery and now is known as Ha Long Viglacera Joint Stock Company. So far, the company has always followed and expanded the market, renovates technology, introduced many durable and beautiful terra-cotta products, meeting domestic and foreign customers’ preference. It is thank to changes from manual production to semi-mechanical, completely mechanical and semi-automatic mechanical production, from baking by coal to by gasified coal etc. Gasified coal technology enables manufacturing highly durable, beautiful and sophisticated products and saving a half cost against using gas.
The French in the past evaluated that land from Dong Trieu to Hoanh Bo (Ha Long) to have the highest reserve of best clay in Vietnam. Therefore, the company built 3 factories there, in which Tieu Giao factory is the first one and specialized in producing baked clay products such as building brick and tiles.
Especially, Gieng Day Cotto factory under Ha Long Viglacera has been invested with modern technology with the capacity of 4 million square meters of paving tile per year (according to calculation, the value of 1 kilo wall paving tile exported to South Korea is equal to that of 10 kilos cement). With technology of Sacmi firm – an Italian leading one, procedures of dry grinding, plastic squeezing, drying, quick baking, the factory has manufactured over 30 products of high rank. Notably, there’s a wall outside paving tile which increases beauty of apartment with good ability of heat-resistance and damp-proof. This product is selling well in South Korea.
At present, concerning the quality, quantity and types of products, Viglacera is the leading one in Vietnam, which results in their product’s presence and reputation in 63 national provinces and 35 countries in the world. After 30 years of tireless effort, development, with knowledge and skills of workers, excellence of leaders, Ha Long Viglacera has become a strong brand of Vietnamese’s pride.
Seeing the company’s contribution in economic-social development, in 2008, the Government presented it the title “Labor Hero” in new period, which was a prestigious award encouraging Ha Long viglacera to expand more.
The best difference between Ha Long Viglacera and others is its attention to accommodation for workers. In factories, there are neat and clean collective quarters, which also include lake, trees and sport courts etc. Each suite is 40 square meters large and equipped television, gas cooker, hot water tank, wardrobe and bed and only costs VND 50,000 per person-month for rent. Workers’ households are able to buy apartments equipped modern devices at cheap price and with installment payment (thank to premise and building materials which are produced by the company itself).
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