TOMECO Mechanic - Electrical JSC Enhancing Competitiveness for Sustainable Development

The year 1993 marked the beginning of TOMECO - a trailblazer in consulting, designing and manufacturing industrial fans and environmental treatment equipment in Vietnam. Up to now, TOMECO has risen with a new and much bigger stature, continued to maintain its pioneering position and spirit and brought its industrial fans to almost every corner of the country and to international markets such as Laos, Cambodia, Malaysia, Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States.

Investment in cutting-edge technology

Over the past 25 years, with the mission of “Pioneering in consulting, designing and manufacturing industrial fans in Vietnam”, the TOMECO brand has grown constantly. TOMECO always stands side by side, understands and shares with customers to make best products for them. TOMECO's current success comes from many factors: Close attention of the company's leaders, a consistent, sustainable but flexible business strategy to adapt to the market, the utilization of its internal strength, and constantly improved competitiveness for sustainable development.

Right from the early days of operation, TOMECO understood that, to sustain its development, a company must prevent risks and operate stably. Therefore, TOMECO particularly approached the ISO quality management system very early, and, at the same time, effectively managed its brand development. If the company failed to ensure the quality issue, it cannot go long and far, said Mr. Le Quy Kha, Chairman of the Board of Directors of TOMECO Mechanic - Electrical Joint Stock Company.

The development path of every business is built on both its ups and downs and glory. This is also the case for TOMECO. Going on the chosen path and constantly seeking innovations, TOMECO has heavily invested on product research and development (R&D) and technology investment to bring the best solutions to customers and investors. In fact, after more than two decades of development, through thousands of works of all scales, TOMECO has developed its solutions, which not only help meet specifications required by customers but also save investment costs and operational costs for them. Using the TCVN 9439:2013 measurement system, equivalent to the ISO 5801:2007 international standard, and modern testing equipment, every product made by TOMECO is strictly controlled and guaranteed for quality such as noise level, pressure flow and vibration. Besides, holding and controlling the whole value chain in the fan manufacturing industry, from the research and development stage to design, production, installation and warranty, TOMECO can customize “tailored” products according to specific requirements of each project - the value that makes the difference of TOMECO.

Knowing that technology is key to sustainable success of the company, TOMECO has constantly improved and invested in cutting-edge technologies from developed countries in the world, including CNC laser steel cutters, CNC-controlled horizontal and vertical machining center, dynamic calibration machines & digital vibration analyzers, U.S. programing and designing software for designing and simulating industrial fans. TOMECO researched and decided not to use chemicals to clean the surface but replace it with metal spray technology, which makes products better in quality but does not produce wastewater and chemical sludge that needs treatment before discharging into the environment and may cause secondary pollution. With its advantages of modern technology platform and good management system, TOMECO has maintained its market leadership and sped up to surpass many other brands in designing and manufacturing capacity, product supply and after-sales service. Moving steadily on the chosen path during 25 years of persistence and unremitting efforts, the TOMECO brand has affirmed its leadership in industrial fans and environmental treatment equipment in Vietnam and in the region.

Advancing extensive integration

In 2007, TOMECO designed and manufactured industrial vacuum cleaners for crane painting stages for AVC Crane Company (a joint venture with Australia). Other companies suggested using fanning systems of up to more than 100 KW but TOMECO designed a system that used just only 30KW fans. This design helped customers save investment and operating costs while ensuring a safe environment.

From that success, Australian experts came to cooperate with TOMECO, opening up a new direction for TOMECO, which enabled it to invest, expand production and distribute its products to foreign markets. The first order worth nearly US$60,000 was destined for Australia. From this successful deal, the partner recommended TOMECO to other customers in Australia. This also helped TOMECO to expand into other markets. Especially, from 2012, TOMECO officially became a supplier of global supply chains run by world-renowned brands such as General Electric Group (GE) of the United States and a supplier for Greens Combustion Company of the United Kingdom in 2014. After 10 years, TOMECO's products have gained a firm foothold in the market and have been highly appreciated by partners.

With the view “If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together”, on its development path, TOMECO always aims to develop a collective consensus to prepare for global business presence. At TOMECO, people are always at the center, the source and the motivation of development. TOMECO places special emphasis on people policy, unity and social responsibility. TOMECO invests in training, communications and human resource development to raise technological level, management skills and corporate culture while encouraging workmanship development towards global human resources. Recently, the Labor Federation of Quoc Oai District sent five TOMECO employees to represent the district to attend the Excellent Workers Contest in Hanoi and four of them won prizes, including two first prizes, one second prize and one consolation prize. Therefore, TOMECO employees are always proud to be employed and devoted under the roof of TOMECO.

Chairman Le Quy Kha said, TOMECO always puts itself in a challenging position to improve its sustainable competitiveness by adopting good governance practices, seeking long-term development and approaching the world. Since its inception, TOMECO has aimed for sustainable development by making energy-saving products which are appreciated and favored by customers. Although it always faces price competition when it produces energy-efficient products, TOMECO is still consistent with its approach to build prestige and brand in the domestic and international market. The support from JICA's Vietnam Supporting Enterprises Development Program or the Supplier Development Pilot Program by the World Bank’s IFC have helped TOMECO improve its production management system towards advanced models in the world. However, the company also hopes for stronger support policies of the government for industrial companies. At the same time, the government also needs to build a good community culture and investment policies on technology innovation to inspire businesses to compete fairly and transparently in the market.