Nghe An: Bustling production atmosphere at the beginning of the year

(Baonghean) - At the beginning of this new spring, in factories, enterprises, and construction sites of projects... in Nghe An, labor and production have entered a rhythm, striving to achieve results right from the first quarter, creating the premise to successfully complete the year's plan.

From the factory...

Going back to work right after the traditional Tet holiday - that is the tradition of many factories and businesses, because completing orders, ensuring salaries and wages for workers, both to retain workers and to ensure the rapid consumption of raw materials for farmers in the new planting season... are vital requirements of production and business activities.

At Hoa Sen Nghe An Factory, there is no break during Tet, according to Mr. Pham Tien Phuong - Deputy Director of the factory: If there is a break, the machine will take a lot of time to restart, each month the factory only produces 28,000 tons, if it stops, each day it will lose 600 tons of products, while the products are not enough to supply the market.

Staff of Hoa Sen Nghe An Steel Factory do not have Tet holiday. Photo: Chau Lan

To ensure the regime for workers during Tet, each person is given an additional allowance of 500,000 VND. The salary is still 3 times higher than the normal month, and the factory has to arrange for 3 production lines with over 200 people. Last year, production and business began to stabilize at the factory, thus creating conditions for the average salary income of 800 workers of over 5 million VND/person/month.

Thai investors inspect finished products at Royal Foods Thailand Factory. Photo: CL

NASU Sugarcane Company Limited (Quy Hop) started operating on the 5th day of Tet. Since the beginning of the season, the company has pressed more than 400,000 tons of sugarcane, with sugar output reaching 100 million VND/day. According to Mr. Ngo Van Tu - Deputy General Director of the company, the price of sugarcane that NASU is paying to farmers in the field is 980,000 VND/ton. Not to mention the factory's bonus and sugar content adjustment; in the 300,000 tons of sugarcane imported to the factory, the factory has already deducted 6.7 billion VND in bonuses. So in terms of production efficiency, it will not be high, but there is a joy in this year's pressing season: the factory has produced excess electricity and sold it to the national grid with 4-5MW/day, earning 100 million VND in electricity bills/day; thanks to one day the factory produced 10MW from bagasse and only used up 6 MW.

As for Song Con Sugar Factory, production resumed on the 6th day of Tet. In January 2017, the factory pressed 67,000 tons of sugarcane, yielding 71,000 tons of sugar. Last year, the factory pressed 394,000 tons of sugarcane, producing 37,000 tons of sugar. In the 2017 pressing season, the factory strives to press 350,000 tons of sugarcane. Thanks to efficient production, during the last Tet, with its efforts, the factory was able to provide enough salary and income for more than 300 workers...

...to the construction site

Last year was a year of quite vibrant investment attraction in Nghe An and achieved many results. Thanks to that, the local industry has had positive changes. Many new factories appeared: Hoa Sen Nghe An Factory in Dong Hoi Industrial Park with NOF technology plating line with a designed capacity of 400,000 tons/year, Son Ha Nghe An Factory with a capacity of 75,000 water tanks/year, Cargill Animal Feed Factory, Vinatex Hoang Mai Garment Factory with a capacity of 10.58 million products/year, Nghe An Wood Processing Factory (Phase I) with a capacity of 12,000 m3 of wood bars/year and 130,000 m3 of MDF fiberboard/year... creating new capacity to promote economic growth in the province.

The hotel and conference center area of ​​the Vinpearl Cua Hoi project is nearing completion. Photo: CL

Currently, at construction sites and projects such as Vinpearl Cua Hoi, VSIP urban industrial park, Vissai Nghi Thiet port, Mavin AustFeed feed factory in Zone B, Nam Cam... machinery, equipment and workers are still on duty day and night to complete the progress soon.

In particular, Mavin AustFeed Feed Factory in Zone B is preparing to inaugurate on the occasion of meeting with investors in Nghe An in the early Spring. Vinpearl Cua Hoi project is striving to inaugurate the hotel conference center on April 30, 2017, the rough blocks of the project phase 1 have been completed.

For VSIP Nghe An urban industrial park, the investor has attracted 3 investors and is speeding up the construction of wastewater plants, roads, offices and other items... These are also key projects of Nghe An in 2017 to welcome new investment waves with new momentum and spirit.

Chau Lan