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Note on names: Tan Tao formerly belonged to the former Ho Chi Minh City and still belongs to Ho Chi Minh City after the merger effective 01/07/2025; this article does not use any old area name as a current administrative unit.
This article looks at Tan Tao from the inside out, with exactly three angles of its own that the Ho Chi Minh City cluster article does not go into depth on: first, going industry by industry within a single industrial park instead of listing many parks; second, renovating 25–30-year-old inner-city workshops as the article’s single axis; third, working without stopping production in a crowded urban area, handing over zone by zone instead of shutting down the whole factory. Tan Tao was established in 1996 and has been in operation since 2000 according to the source, so most workshops here have reached the age when floors need renovation, and this is no longer a market for new floors.
One industrial park, four industry groups, four flooring problems
Unlike the cluster article, which looks at the whole city, this article looks at only one industrial park and divides it into four industry groups with four separate flooring problems. This is a standalone article on Tan Tao alone. This division matters because a single coating system for the whole park would be excessive in some places and inadequate in others: garment areas need fabric-dust control, engineering areas need oil and machine-load resistance, food areas need seamless floors and wet areas, and warehouses need forklift loads and lane markings. Workshop landlords also need this view, since each tenant in a different industry group sets different floor requirements for the same workshop area.
Renovating 25–30-year-old workshop floors: grinding, crack and oil treatment, overcoat or strip and redo?
After 25–30 years, a concrete substrate usually shows every sign of deterioration: cracked joints, a worn surface, oil contamination and an old coating peeling in patches. Renovation starts with grinding the substrate, repairing cracks and cleaning oil, and only then deciding whether to overcoat or strip the old layer and redo it. Overcoating only suits cases where the substrate and the old layer still adhere well after treatment; if the substrate is already weak, widely cracked or deeply oil-contaminated, stripping and redoing will last longer even though it takes more time. This decision must rest on a survey of each area and cannot be generalised across the whole workshop. This article does not state an absolute total area for Tan Tao, because sources differ on the measurement scope (the existing park, the expansion area and the accompanying residential area).
Floors for garments, footwear, paper and packaging: fabric dust, easy cleaning, abrasion resistance
The garment, footwear, paper and packaging group produces constant fabric and paper dust, so floors need to be flat, low in dust retention and easy to clean. The RollCoat roller system is often considered for this group’s production and warehouse areas because it resists abrasion and transport vehicles well, while cutting areas with heavy fabric dust need a floor surface with no joints where dust can collect. Whether cleaning is dry or wet also affects the system choice, so the actual cleaning method should be recorded during the survey.
Floors for plastics, rubber and engineering: oil and grease, machine loads, oil resistance
The plastics, rubber and engineering and electrical machinery group faces oil, grease and machine loads: leaking oil reduces adhesion if untreated, and heavy machinery causes localised abrasion and impact. Floors here need oil resistance and machine-load capacity, with the substrate ground and thoroughly degreased before coating. Fixed machine positions and raw-material transport routes need separate surveys, because concentrated loads at machine feet differ from evenly distributed loads on a warehouse floor.
Floors for food, pharmaceutical chemicals and cosmetics: seamless, wet areas, easy cleaning
The food, pharmaceutical chemical and cosmetics group needs seamless floors that are easy to clean and withstand washing, with wet areas needing additional slip resistance. The LevelFlow self-levelling system is often considered for clean areas because it creates a seamless flat surface, but the specific cleanliness requirement is still set by each factory’s own internal standards. The warehouse areas attached to this group, thanks to the site’s frontage on National Route 1A and its proximity to a port and an airport according to the source, return to the problem of forklift loads and lane markings for import-export warehousing.
Working in an operating workshop in the inner city: low-odour systems, phased work, zone-by-zone handover
This is Tan Tao’s hardest angle and the reason this article stands on its own apart from the cluster article: workshops sit in a crowded urban area, and production cannot stop entirely just to coat a floor. The solution is phased work — doing one zone at a time, handing over zone by zone, using low-odour systems near production areas that are still running — and coordinating the work schedule with the factory’s production schedule. Workshop owners need a plan to move machinery temporarily zone by zone, rather than expecting the whole workshop to be coated in a single short shutdown. If any zone has a weak substrate or heavy oil contamination, that zone needs extra substrate treatment time and should not share the schedule of zones with good substrates.
Frequently asked questions
Must a 25–30-year-old workshop necessarily have its old layer stripped? Not necessarily. If the substrate and the old layer still adhere well after grinding and treatment, overcoating is a viable option; if the substrate is weak or deeply oil-contaminated, stripping and redoing lasts longer. The decision rests on a survey of each area.
Can floors be coated without stopping production? Yes, with phased work and low-odour systems, handing over zone by zone. But the area being worked on must still be separated from production areas, and zones with poor substrates need extra treatment time.
Why not use one coating system for the whole Tan Tao park? Because four industry groups in the same park have four different problems: fabric dust, oil and grease, wet areas and warehouse loads. A uniform coating would be excessive in some places and inadequate in others.
How does this article differ from the Ho Chi Minh City cluster article? The cluster article looks at the whole city with many industrial parks; this article looks at only one industrial park, going industry by industry within it, with old inner-city workshop renovation and work without stopping production as its axis.
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