Epoxy Flooring for Trang Bang Industrial Park (Tay Ninh): Recoating Floors in a Fully-Filled Park Since 1999

Textile mill interior with large fabric rolls on stands and a worn concrete floor, no people

This article covers one park only: Trang Bang Industrial Park (An Tinh ward, Decision 100/QD-TTg of 9 February 1999, developer INDECO) — not Thanh Thanh Cong Industrial Park (An Hoa ward), and not the town or ward of Trang Bang in general. The three names are often lumped together because they share the Trang Bang name, but they are three different places, and the flooring question in each is different.

Which park this is: Tay Ninh’s first park, essentially fully filled

Trang Bang Industrial Park was the first industrial park of Tay Ninh province, established under Decision No. 100/QD-TTg of 9 February 1999 of the Prime Minister, with Tay Ninh Industrial Park Infrastructure Development Joint Stock Company (INDECO) as its infrastructure developer. The park covers about 189–191 hectares in total, of which about 132–136 hectares is industrial land; listings put the occupancy of the industrial land at about 99–100%, meaning the industrial land is essentially fully leased. The park sits in An Tinh ward, Tay Ninh province — the new An Tinh ward from 1 July 2025, formed from the former Loc Hung and An Tinh wards of the former Trang Bang town; the new Tay Ninh province from the same date comprises the former Tay Ninh and Long An provinces — on National Highway 22 (the Trans-Asia Highway), in the corridor towards the Moc Bai border gate. The park came into operation in 2000 and its first phase was already fully utilised by mid-2001, so most plants inside it have been running for many years. Industries operating in the park include food processing, textiles and garments, leather and footwear, construction materials, chemicals, mechanical engineering and packaging. According to the developer’s profile via VCCI, the park has a central wastewater treatment plant with a capacity of 5,000 m3/day, in operation for many years — background for the wet-zone discussion, not a discharge guarantee for any individual plant. This article names no tenant, gives no project count, rent or lease term, because listings disagree on those figures and no source is firm enough to state them flat.

Why an old, full park asks a different flooring question from its neighbours

Because the industrial land is essentially fully leased, the main flooring question in Trang Bang is not a new-build floor on empty land. It is recoating an old floor inside a running plant, zone by zone, with no vacant land to move production into while the work is done. That frame is different from every neighbour. The article on epoxy flooring for Thanh Thanh Cong Industrial Park surveys industries and floor types across a large complex that still has a new-tenant story. The article on epoxy flooring for Phuoc Dong Industrial Park deals with two generations of plants inside one very large site: long-operating factories beside new plots still waiting for investors to build. The article on epoxy flooring for Hiep Thanh Industrial Park deals with new-build floors on fresh concrete in a park whose infrastructure has only just started, where there is no operating plant yet to refurbish. And the articles on the Tay Ninh industrial cluster and border gates and on the Tay Ninh border-gate warehouse and logistics cluster take the whole region and the whole border-logistics cluster, not a single park. In Trang Bang, the central question is the refurbishment question: what state is the old floor in, how is the work phased so the line does not stop, and what is tested at handover while the plant keeps running.

A zone map for operating plants: four industry groups, four different floor demands

Food processing: seamless, washable, slip-resistant in wet zones. Processing areas need a seamless floor with no tile joints to trap dirt, easy to wash and resistant to daily washdown water and cleaning chemicals. Wet zones, washdown areas and chilled transfer zones should not share one specification with dry packing areas; each zone needs its own slip-resistance and moisture-resistance level, set after a site survey. Chemical resistance must be checked item by item against the coating manufacturer’s resistance table, for the actual chemicals, concentrations and contact times used by the plant — including cleaning chemicals. The park’s central wastewater plant does not replace this requirement: the floor inside the plant still has to resist the exact cleaning agents that plant uses.

Textiles, garments, leather and footwear: low fibre dust, easy end-of-shift cleaning, wet zones separated from dry zones. Textile and leather plants generate fabric dust, fibre fragments and lint throughout the shift. A suitable floor is seamless, low-dust, easy to sweep and mop, with no tile joints to hold dust. Aisles between machine rows, raw-material trolley routes and inspection areas need added slip resistance, because dry fibre dust on a glossy floor can reduce grip. Where a plant has dyeing or wet areas, those areas need their own specification from the start — slab moisture and resistance to water and chemicals surveyed first, slip resistance raised in wet zones and aisles. Coating directly over a damp slab or over chemical residue without treatment is a common cause of peeling within months.

Packaging and mechanical engineering: abrasion, impact, oil resistance, local strengthening at turning points. Packaging and mechanical areas carry wheel loads, tool impacts and oil every day. Coatings here need abrasion resistance, oil resistance and impact resistance; at forklift turning points, load-concentration points and heavy-machine positions, the survey must separate those spots for local strengthening instead of thickening the whole floor evenly. Old oil is the deciding point: shallow surface oil and oil soaked deep into the concrete must be distinguished. Shallow oil may be removed by grinding; deep oil needs deeper treatment and an adhesion check after treatment. Skipping this step is the fastest way for a new floor to peel even when the system chosen was the right type.

In-plant warehouses and dispatch areas: forklift traffic, slip resistance, lane markings. Warehouse floors inside an operating plant serve high-frequency forklifts, so they need wheel-load capacity, slip resistance when wet, and clear lane markings separating vehicle and pedestrian flows. At turning points, the survey must separate the truck routes for strengthening; lane markings on an old floor must be redone after coating, not reused from worn old markings. Because finished goods from many plants here move along National Highway 22, the dispatch rhythm by shipment must also be recorded at survey: dispatch lanes must carry concentrated loads in the hours when trucks arrive together, not only the loads of the production lines inside.

Recoating an old floor in a running plant: survey first, phase the work, test at handover

Working on a plant in this park follows four steps. First, survey the old floor: how well does the existing coating still adhere — tested by adhesion tests at many points, not by looking at the surface; is old oil shallow or deep; where are the cracks and movement joints, how wide are they, and are they still moving; how flat is the floor, measured with a straightedge along the actual forklift and walking routes; what is the slab moisture, measured with instruments, especially in ground-bearing areas and near drainage; and what is the history of this exact plant — a plant previously used for food, dyeing or mechanical work will fail its floor in different places. Second, choose a system for each functional zone as analysed above, and decide which zones need a self-levelling system for high flatness, which need only a roller system for large areas, and which need a water-based, low-odour system because they sit near running lines — low odour does not replace load capacity, so load and chemical requirements for each zone must still be checked before the choice is fixed. Third, work in phases if the plant is operating: divide the floor into zones, coat and hand over one zone at a time, protect machinery, keep dust away from coating areas, and schedule work outside peak hours and around production shifts so production never stops entirely. Coating over an old coating is allowed only after adhesion testing and grinding for grip; where the old coat has already peeled in patches, the failed parts must be removed rather than coated over. Fourth, hand over properly on site with the investor: measure thickness at many points, check flatness, test adhesion, run forklifts and turning at load-bearing points, check for peeling and ponding, and allow the full curing time before operations resume.

Points to have answered before signing a refurbishment contract in Trang Bang

Before signing, a plant should have answers to these points: how well does the old coating adhere, and which parts must be removed rather than coated over; is old oil shallow or deep, and is there a treatment plan before coating; have cracks and movement joints been recorded with position, width and state; has slab moisture been measured with instruments, especially in wet zones and ground-bearing areas; how many work phases is the floor divided into, when is each phase handed over, and how does the schedule fit production shifts; what is the maximum load and the actual vehicle route, including turning points and load-concentration points; what is the full chemical list, including cleaning chemicals, with the concentration and contact time of each; and what does handover testing cover — thickness, flatness, adhesion, slip resistance — with which acceptance thresholds agreed in writing by both sides. The final system choice rests on the coating manufacturer’s technical data and the survey results at the plant, not on the size of the park or the park’s general name.

Advice and quotation

For advice on a system suited to the plant’s industry, old-floor condition and phased work schedule in Trang Bang Industrial Park, and to arrange a survey, send the area, the type of plant or warehouse, and the industry. See the epoxy floor coating quote page, or contact us through the contact page (hotline/Zalo 0899355489, WeChat wxid_95o54joujyrr12).

Illustration: Pexels stock photo (photo ID 38357014), by Dmitriy Steinke. Illustration only, not a Kadier project and not a floor inside Trang Bang Industrial Park.

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