In the 1970s, VITEXCO was the biggest company in its field in Vietnam in terms of staffing, investment capital and production equipment. Its production equipment and technology became outdated many years after they were put into operation. This obsolete machinery consumed large amounts of energy. Cleaner production offers an important solution for the company to save energy and use energy efficiently.

VITEXCO was one of the first beneficiaries of the Cleaner Production in Industry (CPI) program in Phu Tho Province. After VITEXCO's potential for cleaner production application was evaluated, the company applied nine CPI solutions before and after the program was kicked off to save energy, use energy efficiently and reduce production cost. These solutions helped VITEXCO reduce power consumption by 1,000MWh of electricity and coal consumption by 200 tonnes or a total of US$60,724 annually. It took the company an average of four months to recover investment capital for each of the nine solutions.

Before VITEXCO joined the CPI program, its transformer stations, which were installed in the 1970s, just operated at 50 percent of their design capacity. Under the program, the company installed new capacitors for these transformer stations while at the same time concentrating power transmission from six stations to four stations. With a cost of US$2,930, this solution helped VITEXCO save 113MWh of electricity or US$5,831 per year. It took the company six months to recover investment capital for this solution.

Improving the ventilation system for the fabric workshop no 2 is another notable solution. This workshop was designed for cotton storage but was used as a fabric production workshop. This was why the area’s ventilation system was not suitable for fabric production. In the hot weather, the temperature inside the area once increased to 40oC and therefore the central cooling system worked at its maximum capacity, which pushed up related production cost considerably. The company made more windows in the workshop to strengthen natural convection while at the same time installing an additional seven ventilators and improving the use of the central cooling system. This solution helped VITEXCO save 223MWh of electricity monthly.

Before the company joined the CPI program, its 14 fiber production machines operated according to old processes and had a low productivity.

The company decided to change the thread count to improve fiber production machines' productivity. This solution helped improve raw fiber quality and did not affect small threads' quality. It helped increase production output by 14 percent and save 133MWh of electricity per month.

CPI solutions helped the company reduce about 1,096 tonnes of gas emissions. The company will continued cleaner production even when the CPI program ended. VITEXCO is one of businesses doing a good job in CPI solution application./.