To welcome the year 2019, in the morning of 11th February 2019 ( 7th January in Lunar calendar) – the first working day of the whole country, Viglacera corporation – JSC solemnly hold the groundbreaking ceremony of the culture institution for social housing area in Yen Phong – Bac Ninh Industrial zone and activate the Tree planting festival. This is a crucial activity which showed the orientation of Ministry of Construction’s leaders, Bac Ninh Provincial Party, People’s Council and People’s Committee ‘s leaders in caring for workers both physically and mentally, especially workers in industrial zones.

Overview of the ceremony

The guests joining this ceremony included Mr Pham Hoang Ha – Member of Party Central Committee – Minister of Construction, Mr Nguyen Nhan Chien – Member of Party Central Committee – Provincial Party secretary – Bac Ninh National Assembly Delegation leader, Mr Nguyen Tu Quynh – Provincial Party Deputy Secretary – President of Bac Ninh People’s committee, Deputy Ministers of Construction, Standing members of Bac Ninh Provincial Party, Bac Ninh province and Yen Phong county ‘s People’s Committee leaders, Construction Ministry ‘s Departments and companies ‘s leaders, Mr Choi Joo Ho – General director of Samsung Vietnam complex and other representatives of investors who were operating in Yen Phong – Bac Ninh Industrial zones. After finishing the Social housing project for workers in 2017, the Culture Institution project once again affirms the engagement of Viglacera corporation – JSC as the enterprise leading not only in investing on Industrial zone’s infrastructure and facilities but also in investing on the urban area with the goal of improving the working, living and transportation conditions for workers which results in the increasing engagement of workers in Yen Phong 1 Industrial zone.

Mr Tran Anh Tuan – Centered projects management Department ‘s Leader of the Corporation spoke at the ceremony

The culture institution for social housing area in Yen Phong Industrial Zone is a multi-functional complex including: 01 primary school (15 classes), 01 kindergarten school (12 classes), 01 culture building (capacity of 1000 people), clinics, park and gym & sport zone with the total area of 17.000 m2. This complex applies the open space structure with 2-3 floors, yards blending into housing blocks, big roof system connecting the elevations which creates a unique point making different buildings become a whole unifying complex.

The culture institution for social housing area in Yen Phong – Bac Ninh Industrial Zone

With the goal of developing the Industry – Urban zone together with ensuring environment protection, Viglacera commits to actively mobilize all resources, speed up the process of building industrial zones, social housing and culture institutions for the industrial zone ‘s workers, cover most of the area with trees to improve environment condition, follow the orientation of creating the modern and sustainable industrial and urban zones.

Mr Nguyen Tu Quynh – Provincial Party Deputy Secretary – President of Bac Ninh People’s committee spoke at the ceremony

Mr Nguyen Tu Quynh – Provincial Party Deputy Secretary – President of Bac Ninh People’s committee spoke at the ceremony about the excellent achievements of Bac Ninh province in the last period of time, especially the achievements in attracting foreign investments, developing industrial zones to create resources for developing the local economy. To achieve those positive results, there is a big contribution from the caring and support from Ministry of Construction. Mr Quynh also highly appreciated the high determination of Viglacera as the pioneer in Social housing and Technical infrastructure building field. Viglacera not only cared about sustainable development with green development strategy but also actively took the social responsibilities such as investing on synchronizing technical infrastructure development with social infrastructure development; building modern infrastructures, beautiful landscapes, complexes which are friendly with the environment. The sustainable development orientation which shows the high responsibility of Viglacera is the strong driving force for development of Bac Ninh province.

Mr Pham Hong Ha – Member of Party Central Committee – Minister of Construction

Speaking at the ceremony, Mr Pham Hong Ha – Member of Party Central Committee – Minister of Construction stated that 2 years ago, also at Yen Phong industrial zone, he joined the groundbreaking ceremony for the Worker housing construction project. Until now, the project was finished as the time that Viglacera committed. Caring about the living standard of factory workers, bringing the essential culture and mental values to the local community is the humane development road that Viglacera bring to factory workers in all industrial zones in general and in Yen Phong industrial zone particularly.

Mr Pham Hong Ha – Minister of Construction directed to commence the Culture institution in Yen Phong – Bac Ninh industrial zone

Together with the joys of the whole country in the first working day of 2019, Minister Pham Hong Ha with other leaders of Bac Ninh provinces and Viglacera’s leaders activated the Tree planting festival 2019 as the famous saying from Ho Chi Minh “Planting tree for the benefit 10 years later”. This festival is an expectation on a green future, a clear environment and sustainable development in the future.

At the beginning of 2019, leaders of Viglacera Corporation also visited employees at Viglacera AAC factory. The image of factory workers working passionately in the first day of the year is a strong motivation for the whole corporation ‘s employees to contribute and develop more building a stronger Viglacera.

Deputy Prime Minister Trinh Dinh Dung has just signed a Decision approving the policy of investing in the construction of technical infrastructure of Yen Phong II-C industrial zone (Bac Ninh) with the investment of VND 2234 billion with the area of 221 ha.

Yen Phong II-C industrial zone with the investment of VND 2234 billion and a scale of 221 ha

Yen Phong II-C industrial zone is located in Cho town, Dong Tien and Tam Giang commune, Yen Phong district, Bac Ninh province, developed by Viglacera Corporation – JSC. The project with a scale of 221 ha attracted a total investment of VND 2234 billion including VND 3574 billion of investors’ capital, VND 5585 billion of loans and VND 1318 billion of other capitals.

The operation duration of the project is 50 years from the date of the Decision of investment policy. The progress of project implementation is 5 years since the Decision of investment policy.

The annual TISE international exhibition held in Las Vegas is the most significant event of the tiles and natural stone industry in the North American market. The show also attracts customers who are the manufacturing and distribution companies of building materials field, design companies, and construction units to survey and study the development trends of tiles market.

After a long time of the market survey, product positioning for each product line and demand segment for building materials field, Viglacera – the only brand from Vietnam has brought the latest technology products to introduce and display at TISE 2019 – the USA.

Participating in product introduction and customer contact at Viglacera booth are some of Viglacera’s significant partners in the US. These are partners who have had time to work with the company, have knowledge of Viglacera’s products andwant to work with the company in direct access to customers to widely advertise and expand the distribution system of Viglacera products in the US market.

In the TISE’s exhibition space, Viglacera booth brings a new style to introduce synchronous and diverse products from ceramic tiles, sanitary wares to high quality baked clay bricks to meet all market needs. These are typical building materials products that are suitable to promote and export to the US market in the coming time.

For ceramic tiles, the US market is favoured to use tiles with dimensions of 15x60cm, 15x90cm, 45x90cm, 60x120cm, wood-based trend patterns, rich, deep tones and stone colours. Therefore, when bringing these products to the exhibition, Viglacera booth has received considerable attention from customers.

For sanitary wares, the trend in the US is to use a seamless tank with large size, pure colour and water saving features. Viglacera’s comprehensive set of bathroom equipment from shower, basin, sink to faucets brings convenience to US customers who value time more than anything.

In the forefront of developing the Latin America market, in 2018, Viglacera invested in Joint venture factory for ceramic tiles and sanitary ware in Cuba. When the factory officially comes into operation, it will be convenient to supply goods in the Caribbean and the Americas. The expansion in the US market is an essential step in the export development orientation of Viglacera Corporation in 2019-2020 while affirming its name and position in the world market.

As the first event of the new year, the TISE exhibition has become a place for companies to launch new products and introduce them to consumers. The exhibition includes three world-class trade shows: SURFACES, StonExpo/Marmomac and Tile Expo. The International Surface Event is the most comprehensive event of the US building materials industry taking place in 3 days from January 23 to January 25, 2019. The exhibition has about 800 booths and attracts 100,000 visitors.

On 16th January 2019, in Ho Chi Minh city, Viglacera corporation – JSC had honor to be listed in top 500 biggest enterprises in Vietnam in 2018. This result is based on the analysis and independent evaluation of Vietnam Report.

Viglacera corporation – JSC ranks the first among top 500 biggest enterprises in Vietnam ‘s building materials market in 2018. This achievement not only confirms the advanced position of Viglacera among Vietnamese business community with large business scale and high revenue but also is a result deserved with all effort of the whole corporation in innovating, applying “green” technology, improving business activities in a professional and sustainable way.

Viglecera Corporation – JSC ranks top 500 biggest enterprises in Vietnam ‘s building materials market

2018 is evaluated as a successful year to Viglacera corporation – JSP in all operating fields, especially in the field of manufacturing and trading building materials: The solution of converting to manufacture 100% Viglacera terracotta got the exclusive certificate of useful solution; The national scientific project went into production in Viglacera AAC factory; The Viglacera My Xuan Sanity Ware started operating and increased the capacity of the whole Sanity Ware division of the corporation to 2 million products per year; Viglacera invested in Super white float glass factory with productivity of 600 tons per day to meet the demand of manufacturing solar battery.

Besides, Viglacera also pays high attention on investment projects in Real Estate field: Viglacera activated the strategy of investment in foreign countries by the Vimariel – Cuba special economic zone project; Viglacera is delegated from Prime Minister 2 new industrial zone projects: Yen Phong II-C (Bac Ninh) and Yen My (Hung Yen) to invest on construction and infrastructure; Viglacera marked a new turning point in real estate development strategy with the project of luxury ecotourism area in Van Hai – Quan Lan, Quang Ninh. Moreover, Viglacera also concentrates on investment in constructing worker housing, social housing to increase the value of infrastructure and services for industrial zones etc. Due to all of those activities, the reputation and brand position of Viglacera is more and more recognized.

The fact that Viglacera continues to maintain the brand and ranks highly in VNR500 chart shows the main and pioneer role of Viglacera corporation – JSP in building materials manufacturing & trading and real estate investment in Vietnam and confirms the achievement, effort and devotion of Viglacera for the national economic-social development.

In the chart of top 500 biggest enterprises in Vietnam in 2019, Viglacera ranks 128th and ranks 1st among top biggest enterprises in building materials industry. The VNR chart is established based on the analysis and independent evaluation of Vietnam Report.

The criteria are actual revenue, total capital, total employees, profit after tax and others such as ROA, ROE, reputation, etc. Enterprises don’t have to submit any fee to be listed in the VNR500 chart.