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Ho Nai: a supporting-industry park on the National Highway 1A corridor — where floors must survive forklifts, dust and oil at once
Ho Nai Industrial Park has operated since 1998 in Ho Nai 3 commune, Trang Bom district, Dong Nai province, with a planned total area of 496.65 hectares in two phases: Phase 1 covers 225.71 hectares and Phase 2 covers 270.94 hectares. The park sits beside National Highway 1A and the Bien Hoa bypass, with its northern edge alongside the North–South railway, roughly 10 km from central Bien Hoa and roughly 40 km from central Ho Chi Minh City. Its positioning is supporting industries: mechanical engineering, wood and furniture, plastics, electronic components, garments, food processing, construction materials and interior equipment. This article goes deep on exactly one park — Ho Nai — instead of repeating the Dong Nai cluster overview, where Ho Nai appears in a single sentence about the traditional corridor along National Highway 1A.
A note on names: Ho Nai, Trang Bom and Bien Hoa are familiar geographic names within present-day Dong Nai (the new Dong Nai province, formed from the former Dong Nai and Binh Phuoc provinces after the merger of 01/07/2025). A separate, newer ready-built factory project by a different developer also carries the Ho Nai name; it is not the industrial park established in 1998 discussed here.
Why floors in Ho Nai differ from floors near an airport or a port
A park beside an airport or a seaport frames its flooring question around air-freight and container logistics: extreme loads, non-stop forklift traffic, and warehouse area dwarfing production area. Ho Nai frames a different, and in one way harder, question, because it piles several kinds of wear into the same factory: forklifts carrying timber boards and finished pallets along the same lane day after day, oil spreading from the mechanical zone onto walkways, fine wood dust settling from processing areas, and trucks arriving on the rhythm of National Highway 1A deliveries. No single criterion settles the floor choice here. A zone that needs a perfectly flat finish still fails acceptance if it cannot handle oil; a zone with good load capacity still fails if wood dust lodges in joints that cannot be cleaned. The right approach is to split the factory into zones by real function, then settle the system for each zone after a substrate survey and a check against the coating manufacturer’s technical sheet.
A floor map by industry inside Ho Nai
Wood and furniture: dust, heavy boards and fixed forklift lanes
Wood and furniture give Ho Nai its most recognisable face. Floors here take three kinds of punishment at once: fine wood dust from processing, forklifts carrying boards and finished pallets repeatedly along the same lane, and impact when loads are set down. The direction for general production areas is a seamless floor with few joints where dust can lodge, easy to sweep and mop after each shift — the LevelFlow self-leveling system where high flatness matters, and the RollCoat roller system for light-to-medium loads that are easy to recoat section by section. Forklift lanes need clear lane markings and anti-slip treatment at turning points, because a fixed traffic lane is where wear concentrates fastest in the whole plant. One point to settle before work starts is the dust-cleaning routine: a handsome floor without a post-shift dust extraction and mopping routine will age far faster than any paper calculation suggests.
Mechanical engineering and supporting industries: oil, machine loads and spot repair
Mechanical engineering and supporting industries form Ho Nai’s second defining group: metalworking, components and supplies feeding larger plants across the region. Floors here must carry machine footings, resist oil leaking from equipment and forklifts, and allow spot repair when one area wears out without redoing the whole plant. The usual direction is a load-bearing roller system for general production, with oil-affected areas prepared thoroughly before coating — oil soaked into concrete that is not cleaned out will break the bond of a new coating even when the application itself is faultless. See the load-bearing framework in Epoxy flooring for forklift and heavy truck floors. The general lesson for mechanical zones: do not pick a system only for how it looks at handover; pick one the plant’s own maintenance crew can patch and recoat zone by zone during a shutdown shift.
Electronics and components: flat, seamless, anti-static only where required
Electronics and components occupy less area in Ho Nai than wood or mechanical work, but they set the strictest demands on flatness and cleanliness: component trolleys must roll smoothly without catching on joints, and seamless surfaces must let dust be wiped away rather than lodging in gaps. The direction for general production areas is a seamless self-leveling floor. For areas with a genuine static-control requirement — assembly rooms for static-sensitive components, testing zones — the direction is the StatGuard anti-static system, but only within the area that actually requires it, verified against the plant’s own standard. Anti-static treatment across a whole plant when only one corner needs it wastes money; missing one corner that needs it is an acceptance failure. The anti-static scope must be drawn on the floor plan before work begins, not decided by feel on site.
Plastics, packaging, garments and food: seamless, easy to clean, anti-slip in wet zones
Plastics, packaging, garments and food put hygiene first: seamless floors with no joints trapping dirt, able to stand the plant’s routine washing schedule. Wet zones — washing areas, raw-material intake, walkways near water treatment — need added anti-slip, because a slippery floor when wet is an everyday operating risk, not a cosmetic issue. For areas still in operation and sensitive to odour, a direction worth considering is the AquaBase water-based, low-VOC system, applied zone by zone so neighbouring production keeps running. One point to settle before choosing is the plant’s actual cleaning-agent list and washing frequency: a system that tolerates ordinary floor wash water may not suit an area washed daily with strong detergents.
Warehouses and logistics along National Highway 1A: forklift loads, lane marking, delivery rhythm
Its position beside National Highway 1A gives warehouses in Ho Nai the character of transit warehouses: goods moving in and out on the truck cycle, pallets loaded and unloaded continuously, forklifts running fixed lanes between inbound doors, racking and outbound doors. Warehouse floors therefore need forklift load capacity, clear lane and zone markings, and anti-slip treatment on walkways and turning points. Warehouse acceptance should test loads and turning on the real traffic lanes rather than checking only the general surface. The warehouse work schedule also has to match racking installation and the first inbound deliveries: a floor put under full load before it has had its curing time is the fastest way to ruin a floor that was applied correctly.
Two phases, two substrate problems
What sets Ho Nai apart from single-phase parks is that its two phases pose almost opposite substrate problems. Phase 1, operating since 1998, holds many running plants on concrete floors used for decades: cracked joints, oil stains, locally peeling old coatings. The main job there is renovation, and every renovation starts with a substrate survey — whether the old coat still bonds, moisture readings, cracks and oil marks recorded — as described in Concrete Floor Preparation Before Epoxy Coating: Grinding, Crack Repair, Moisture Testing. Three decisions belong at the survey stage, not at the application stage: keep or grind off the old coat, which moisture treatment to use if the slab is still damp, and how many work sections to split the plant into so production is never fully stopped. Phase 2 holds newer floors, but the job is not therefore simple: coating a new slab too early, while it is still damp, is a common cause of later blistering even when the fresh coat looks perfect, so moisture must still be measured and the concrete allowed to reach the right condition before coating. One park, two floor ages, two methods — merging them into a single answer goes wrong at the survey stage.
Acceptance in the park: thickness readings, load tests, a record per zone
Foreign-invested plants in Ho Nai commonly accept floors against their own checklists: thickness readings at many points, load tests in load-bearing areas, adhesion checks, and a handover record for each zone. Building the acceptance file before work starts — agreeing the criteria per zone in advance, measuring and recording figures throughout the job — always costs less than arguing after the floor has been handed over. A beautiful floor without thickness and load-test figures attached can still fail acceptance, especially in mechanical and warehouse zones, where the criteria sit in measured numbers rather than in how the surface looks. Every figure settled for a given system comes from the manufacturer’s technical documents and from the on-site survey results; the framework in this article is for orientation only and replaces neither of those two sources.
Frequently asked questions
How does Ho Nai differ from the Dong Nai cluster picture when choosing a floor?
The cluster picture splits floors across four sub-regions: electronics in Bien Hoa, chemicals in Nhon Trach, airport logistics in Long Thanh, and the traditional corridor along National Highway 1A. Ho Nai is a deep cut of that last corridor, but with a clear supporting-industry profile: wood, mechanical work, plastics, components and transit warehousing. Its floor answers therefore lean toward wear along traffic lanes, oil resistance and easy cleaning, rather than heavy chemical resistance like Nhon Trach or air-freight loads like Long Thanh.
Can a running Phase 1 plant be coated with epoxy?
Yes — by working zone by zone with a low-odour system, finishing one zone before moving to the next, so the plant as a whole never has to stop. That requires a substrate survey first, oil and moisture treatment in the old zones, and a work schedule fitted to the plant’s production shifts.
What does a wood and furniture zone need that an electronics zone does not?
A wood zone needs a floor that tolerates dust and lane wear, is easy to clean after each shift, and carries clear forklift lane markings. An electronics zone needs a flat, seamless floor with little dust lodging in joints and anti-static treatment exactly where required. The two checklists differ from the survey stage onward, so one zone’s answer cannot simply be copied to the other because they share a building.
What should I send to get advice?
Send the plant’s location inside Ho Nai (Phase 1 or Phase 2), whether the floor is old or new, the industry, the area of each zone, the current floor condition, and the production schedule that must be kept. With that information, Kadier can advise whether renovation or a new floor fits and arrange a site survey.
Advice and quotation
Which phase of Ho Nai is your plant in, old floor or new, and which industry? Send the area of each zone and the floor condition to receive advice on renovation or a new floor. Quotations are prepared only after a site survey — see the process on the Epoxy Floor Coating Quote page, or reach us through the Contact page (hotline/Zalo 0899355489, WeChat wxid_95o54joujyrr12).
Illustration: a wide warehouse aisle with industrial shelving on both sides and a concrete floor, a Pexels stock photo by Engin Akyurt. This is an illustration, not a record of a Kadier project.
