Tien Nong., JSC – a good start for RP

Tien Nong fertilizer factory – the first name of Tien Nong Industrial & Agricultural Joint Stock Company (Tien Nong JSC.) was established in January 4th, 1995. From the small factory with unique fused phosphate, Tien Nong JSC. now consists of three factories with the capacity of 150,000 tons per year to produce many types of fertilizers used for plants and soil. Tien Nong has invested to build a large scale fertilizer production industrial complex with 21.5 ha in area at Bim son – Thanh Hoa Industrial Park with the capacity of 350.000 tons per year. The RP project was applied at the Factory No. 3 where they have approximately 180 employees.

VNCPC’s experts and RP team had followed the suggested RP tools as provided in the RP toolkit CD. The main hotspots were for Ammonium Sulphate, Ammonium Chlorite, Urea and other fertilizers (as raw materials) at storage and production areas.

RP was first introduced to General Director of the company, then he encouraged to apply RP as demonstration project at Factory No. 3. Because RP methodology was new to management board, staff and workers, and chemical management was a sensitive matter to them, the VNCPC’s expert team used an indirect approach instead of direct one: (1) carrying out other RP-related aspect assessment (material, water, and energy assessment), then (2) training for key members of RP team, (3) integrating and applying RP tools during assessment of RP-related aspects and finally, (4) training for more participants from company based on their demand.

With the characteristics of fertilizer production in which Ammonium-contained materials are used at huge amount and producing within an open environment (materials processing on rotary trays, open conveyers, etc.), the NH3 generated from decomposing of those materials becomes the most dangerous threat for workers, equipment and even material loss.
Thanks to the application of RP approach and methodology, and RP tools, the company was able to build the inventory for using chemicals, raise awareness in chemical management, and implement some proposed RP and RP-related options. The project will be continued at the Factory No.3 and will be replicated at other ones, especially at the under-construction one.

NISHU Nam Ha., JSC – A good case for maintaining chemical management tasks

NISHU Nam Ha JSC – Nishu Nam Ha Joint Stock Company – was established and came into stream on 3^rd July 2007. This small sized enterprise has about 100 employees. The main business operations including: construction materials products, Nishu paint and surface coatings products, Import and Export line business products of company. The company has 2 workshops. One is to produce water-based paint and the other is to produce solvent-based paint. The second workshop is still under construction. So, the main produced output is the water-based paints.

VNCPC’s experts and RP team had followed the suggested RP tools provided in the RP toolkit CD. The hotspots were mainly for chemicals belonging to anti-mould, anti-moss and preservative chemical groups.

The RP project at this company was received the high commitment from top managers. Several members of RP team had been trained from another chemical management project. RP pilot project is another support project that they participated in. Thanks to training courses and practical RP tools, the RP team of the company responded to Chemical management tasks quicker and more effectively. Because of the above reasons, the RP project at this enterprise was to support them in maintaining the chemical management tasks, turning the chemical management aspects to a higher practical level via using RP tools, and integrating them into the management system (ISO 9000) that is existing at the company. More importantly, the new workshop for solvent-based paint products will be applied RP approach and methodology from the preparing equipment, arranging them, etc. to better risk reduction and prevention.

Chemicals at storages are in good order and condition

Self-invented stand for better handling/unloading chemicals.