Encouraging the development, manufacture and use of Non-fired brick production equipment
20th March 2018 in Hanoi, The Promotion of Non-Fired Brick (NFB) Production and Utilization in Vietnam Project has organized a workshop on "Policy formulation and propose new standards to promote domestic manufacturing and to encourage utilization of domestic NFB equipment". The workshop aimed to collect wide contributions from experts and participants on assessment of current domestic NFB equipment production manufacturers’ capacity; to evaluate current status of mechanisms and to propose new standards or supplement, amend standards related to non-fired brick production.
The workshop has been participated by the Director of Department of Science and Technology for Economics - Technical branches - Ministry of Science and Technology, Mr. Nguyen Dinh Hau; Director of Construction Materials Department - Ministry of Construction, Mr. Pham Van Bac; UNDP Program Officer, Ms. Vu Thi Thu Hang and representatives from relevant agencies, scientists, and consultants.
At the seminar, Phd. Dao Danh Tung - Construction Materials Department (Ministry of Construction), head of consultant team has reported the survey results, the assessment on current capacity of domestic non-fired brick production equipment manufacturers and market demand on domestic non-fired brick production equipment, spare parts domestically. He also mentioned the current status of the issued mechanisms and policies, proposed mechanisms and policies to be amended, supplemented, and criteria to encourage the domestic manufacturing and usage of non-fired brick production equipment.
Regarding non-fired brick production equipment in Vietnam, there are currently more than 40 enterprises researching, designing, manufacturing and supplying non-fired materials production equipment such as: Thanh Phuc Mechanical and Construction Material Joint Stock Company; Doan Minh Cong Joint Stock Company; Duc Thanh Joint stock and Investment & Technology ... Domestic enterprises have met more than 50% of the demand on domestic non-fired materials production lines and equipment production lines, mainly concentrating on cement brick production.
Basically, domestic enterprises have mastered the design and manufacture of cement brick production lines with a capacity of up to 40 million standard brick units per year. However, most of the AAC brick production lines and equipment are imported.
Non-fired brick products ready for market
A number of shortcomings under the non-fired brick production machine and equipment manufacturing sector has also been pointed out as: high level human resources for research and development in enterprises is limited while the coordination between research institutes, universities and enterprises have not been effective; The machine models are self-studied mainly based on experience or copy from foreign samples; The national standards system for the construction machinery sector is lacking, the manufacturing enterprises have not published the basic standards; Non-fired brick production equipment system with high productivity and automation capacity is mainly imported from Korea, Spain, Japan, ...
Within the workshop framework, participants have exchanged and shared practical implementation and experience, influencing mechanisms and policies related to mechanical engineering and construction; To propose mechanisms and policies suitable to reality; To improve the capacity of local organization on research and development for high quality products, especially considering the development of standards on safety and environmental protection (vibration, noise, ...), the quality of NFB production lines and equipment should meet with the increasing requirements of the domestic non-fired building materials industry in completely replacing the fired clay brick products.
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