Viet Quang is formerly a household business with two members working in the field of seafood product trading from 1988 to 2004. In 2005, the company was officially established in line with the decision no. 3302080508 dated 11th March 2005 issued by the Department of Planning and Investment. After one year of operation, the company has built up its own reputation towards domestic and international clients. Orders have been increasingly received. In 2006, Viet Quang therefore invested in expansion and upgrading of its workshops and facilities to be in line with the fishery sector’s standard. Its product quality and productivity are enhanced day by day.

Before applying CP, the serious problem of the company is wastewater with huge volume and flow overwhelms old sewage treatment systems and polluting the environment surrounding area (water pollution and bad smell). For solving these problems, in 2008, the company received the support from the Ministry of Industry and Trade via the Cleaner Production in Industry Component (CPI) to conduct Cleaner Production Assessment and Application

Under the MOIT support, in 2008, the company had implemented CP assessment. In the 1st phase (from October 2008 to June 2009), the Company established a CP team led by Mr. Van Cong Man – Deputy Director of the company and other 3 members to assess the whole production line. The Team has conducted a walk-through assessment on the tea production line at place. After the assessment and identification of waste streams, the Team has conducted mass and energy balances for the whole production line. All collected data have been used to analyze and identify Cleaner Production options for each production step

After conducting CPA and identifying improvement options, the enterprise had implemented 24 no cost and low cost options a total budget of VND 32 millions. The benefit gains 1,6 billion dong in  2010. In the second phase (from July 2009 to November 2011), under the supporting of technical and financial components CPI, the company has actively implemented high-investment options to address thoroughly the emerging environmental issues as change into use a new refrigeration compressor system with auxiliary system and R507 refrigerant, substitute the current electricity transmission wires by the larger cross-section ones made of copper, reconstruct waste treatment system with the total investment cost of 3,6 billion dong. Benefits from those solutions are 2,1 billion dong in 1st quarter of 2011.

Particular benefits derived from Cleaner Production are as follows: