Binh Duong: Ceramic enterprises are strong thanks to innovation and investment in new technologies

Pottery is known as a handicraft with a long tradition in Binh Duong with more than 300 ceramic production facilities, each year providing 130-150 million products to the market, the export value is about 150 million USD / year. and consume domestic market about 70 million USD / year. Recognizing this role, ceramic enterprises in Binh Duong have actively invested in technology and innovation in production to improve production productivity and product quality.

Phuoc Du Long Company is one of the typical enterprises, taking the lead in investing in technological innovation and pioneering innovation. The company has replaced gas furnaces instead of traditional wood-burning methods since 2006, failing but not giving up, the company continues to study to perfect the technology and invest in a 120m3 ceramic kiln and success. With gas furnace, Phuoc Du Long’s ceramic products have been made with higher quality, the products have beautiful designs and competitive prices in the market. Not only that, the model of gas furnaces has also been applied by many ceramic companies of the province.

By participating in the project to improve energy efficiency in Vietnamese small and medium enterprises in Binh Duong, Chan Thanh Ceramic Production – Trading – Service Co., Ltd has invested energy-efficient ceramic kiln works, mobile kiln shells replacing wood-burning furnaces. With this new technology, Chan Thanh Pottery has reduced the cost of burning materials by nearly 40% compared to wood burning; Product quality is also improved. Previously burning wood, the Company took a long time to get a batch of products and labor-intensive to watch fire for each firing period, but with new technology the company reduced labor costs and time, increase productivity and reduce the rate of defective products and defects caused by incineration.

Cuong Phat Ceramics Co., Ltd. Identify the importance of product quality, enhance competitiveness, besides investing in equipment, Cuong Phat Company has applied quality management systems such as ISO 9001. -2008, Kaizen and 5S quality productivity tools help the company save on average 2.5 billion / year. In addition, thanks to Kaizen, the Company has improved the kiln system, saving more than VND 600 million annually on burning materials by recovering soil from waste sludge, saving nearly VND 26 million per month on raw materials costs.

With bold investment in innovation, Binh Duong ceramic enterprises not only reduce production costs, save raw materials, improve product quality and also contribute to environmental protection and conservation of traditional technologies in ceramic production.

Productivity and Quality Office