Phenikaa builds $87 million compound quarzt slab factory in Hoa Lac
Vietnam's A & A Green Phenix Company (PHENIKAA) will build an $87 million plant for manufacturing quartz slabz made by bonding together quartz grits and powder with unsaturated polyester resin, using vacuum-vibro press technology that is exclusive technology transferred from Italy’s Breton.
Located in Hanoi’s Hoa Lac Hi-tech Park, the project will include two phase. In the first phase, Phenikaa will invest $59 million for a production line with the total capacity of 600,000 square metres of high class stone a year. The second phase, planned for 2017-2018 period, will have the total investment cost of $28 million that will expand the total production capacity up one million square metres of high class a year.
Phenikaa announced that it signed a technology transfer contract with Italy’s Breton for applying the latest technology in the production line, manufacturing quartz slabs with 90 per cent made from pure natural quartz. The production line is designed with the optimised layout and process allowing making the superior products that no company in the country has ever applied before and that others may have much difficult in copying. The line will also help Phenikaa improve quality and capacity under the tough weather (tropical-high humidity) condition in Vietnam, .
According to the signed contract, the Vietnamese company has got the exclusivity in buying machine and transferring this exclusive technology from Breton company in Vietnam within six years from 2014. This means, no company in Vietnam can by production technology from Italy’s Breton, a well-know stone manufacturing technology provider in the world, from now to 2020.
source: vietnamnet.vn
