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My Tho Industrial Park was the first industrial park in the former Tien Giang area: just 79.14 hectares at Trung An and Binh Duc, bordered by provincial road 864 to the north and by the Tien River to the south, about 3 km from the centre of My Tho and about 4 km from National Highway 1A. After nearly three decades in operation, almost all of its leasable land is occupied. That changes the flooring question completely. In My Tho, epoxy is rarely about choosing a floor for a brand new factory drawn on a blank sheet. The realistic question is different: a plant is already running, its concrete floor is worn along forklift paths, its joints have cracked, and ground moisture has worked into the slab through many rainy seasons — so how do you refurbish zone by zone without stopping the whole line. This article starts from that situation: the industries actually present in the park, the floor each group needs, and how to choose a coating system by functional zone inside the plant.
Administrative note: from 01/07/2025, the former Tien Giang province merged into the new Dong Thap province, whose administrative centre is at My Tho. In this article, “former Tien Giang” is only the familiar geographic name that searchers recognise; the current administrative unit is Dong Thap province. The name “My Tho Industrial Park” is kept unchanged because that is the name investors and contractors still use when searching. This article describes floor needs of plants in the park; it does not claim that Kadier has carried out work in My Tho or served any specific company in the park. Every system suggestion below is a direction to consider, and the actual floor requirement of each plant must be confirmed by a site survey. The wider picture covering My Tho, Tan Huong and Binh Minh together is presented separately in Epoxy Flooring for the Tien Giang and Vinh Long Industrial Clusters.
An old, full park: refurbishment first, survey before coating
In a full park, every factory floor has age on it. Years of forklift traffic carve wear paths into the same lanes; washing areas and damp-material zones absorb moisture in cycles; expansion joints crack, letting dust and water underneath, so an old coating peels exactly where the concrete is weakest. Coating over such a floor without a survey only hides the surface for a short time. In My Tho, therefore, the first step is not colour or system selection. It is measuring slab moisture, checking for cracks and local settlement, assessing how well the old coating still bonds, and identifying the spots that need concrete repair before any paint goes on. A riverside site makes this step even more important: high ground moisture is the classic cause of blistering after the first rainy season, and that failure only shows once the new coat is finished.
Refurbishment inside a running plant brings a second constraint: work must be phased. Each zone is enclosed, prepared and coated, then handed back before the next zone starts, so the rest of the line keeps running. That approach is slower than coating a whole empty floor in one pass, but for most plants in a park as full as My Tho, where there is no empty workshop to move a line into temporarily, it is the only workable method.
Industry map of the park and the floor each group needs
My Tho is not a single-industry park. Within less than 80 hectares it gathers several different production groups, and each group puts a different demand on the floor. Mapping the floor by group, instead of choosing one system for the whole plant, is how you avoid waste and avoid choosing wrong.
Seafood processing, fishmeal and fish oil. This is the clearest wet-zone group in the park. Wash water, water from fresh raw material and cleaning solutions appear every day, so floors need to be seamless, easy to hose down, slip-resistant when wet, and able to stand frequent cleaning. Raw-material intake and equipment-washing areas should be treated as independent wet zones, with drainage falls and sealed joints, rather than coated with the same thin system as the dry area next door. Odour and humidity from this group also mean that coating work near a running line needs a low-odour system and a shift pattern that keeps coating away from production peaks.
Animal feed. This group has three distinct floor traits. First, dust: dust from dry raw material and packaging builds up continuously, so floors must be seamless, low in dust retention, and easy to sweep at the end of a shift. Second, machine load: mixers, bagging machines and internal forklifts create even wear over a wide area, not the extreme concentrated load of a container yard. Third, moderate wet areas: washing zones and equipment-cleaning zones need slip resistance and moisture resistance, but they are not continuously submerged. For this group, the RollCoat roller system often fits production and dry warehouse areas well, thanks to fast application over medium areas and durable lane marking for vehicles and people.
Rice paper, rice noodles, farm produce and beverages. Dry food and beverage groups need flat, clean, easily cleaned floors, above all in packing areas, where dust and packaging fragments affect the product directly. Packing zones with higher flatness and cleanliness requirements can be considered for the LevelFlow self-levelling system. Dry raw-material stores, by contrast, are well served by a roller system, and drawing that distinction at the start stops a plant paying for a level of flatness that a dry store does not need.
Garments. A garment workshop needs a low-dust floor that is easy to clean, with clear marking for walkways, cutting, sewing and packing zones. Loads here are far lighter than in feed plants or cold stores, so the main problem is not extreme load-bearing but keeping the floor clean, bright and non-slip where fabric offcuts and fibre dust gather. A roller system with clear lane marking usually covers the need, and refurbishment spending can concentrate on repairing the stretches of floor most worn by constant foot and trolley traffic.
PP packaging and cold storage. PP packaging goes together with finished-goods stores and cold stores, where forklifts run continuously in fixed lanes and low temperature changes how the floor expands and contracts. Forklift lanes need a wear-resistant coat and durable marking, while cold-store doorways need attention to condensation and slipperiness as vehicles move between cold and normal environments. Before coating any cold-store area, moisture and temperature must be surveyed separately, because a wrongly chosen coat in a cold store peels far faster than the same coat in a dry store in the same plant.
Ready-mix concrete and building materials. This is the group where the limits of epoxy must be stated most plainly. Aggregate yards, truck routes and truck-washing areas take abrasion, impact and mud at a level that an epoxy floor coat is not made to withstand; coating those areas only produces a good-looking layer for a short time before it breaks up. For this group, epoxy makes sense indoors only: batching control rooms, laboratories, maintenance workshops and offices, where floors need to be clean, easy to wipe, and moderately resistant to oil. Separating outdoor yards from indoor floors is a precondition for any honest quotation.
Construction and repair of inland waterway vessels. The Tien River frontage gives My Tho a distinctive group that few small parks have: shipbuilding and vessel repair. A riverside mechanical workshop deals with oil, metal swarf, heavy point loads and short movements of heavy forklifts. Workshop floors need a wear-resistant, oil-resistant coat together with a separate oil-collection area, not a thin decorative layer. Slipways and launch areas outdoors, on the other hand, are outside the scope of epoxy floor coating; putting them in the same flooring package misunderstands the work.
Riverside, city-edge location: moisture, odour and delivery rhythm
The location of My Tho creates three site constraints that a contractor arriving from elsewhere can easily miss. First, riverside slab moisture: ground and concrete near the Tien River tend to be damper than floors further inland, so moisture measurement and slab moisture treatment must be inside the quotation, not an extra discovered afterwards. Second, neighbours: the park sits close to the urban area of My Tho, so coating work must limit odour and dust affecting people nearby, especially when coating close to areas where people are working. For areas in operation, phased work and a low-odour system near production lines and finished-goods stores are the right default. The AquaBase water-based system, with low VOC, is worth considering for that group of areas, but actual loads must still be checked before a final choice.
Third, delivery rhythm. My Tho lies about 72 km by road from Ho Chi Minh City, close to National Highway 1A and the expressway corridor toward the city, so the common model is small and medium plants delivering to the large market within the day. Loading and dispatch floors therefore take constant truck and forklift movements and need durable lane marking plus separately reinforced loading zones. A warehouse floor that looks good but cannot survive wheel wear at the dispatch door will fail exactly where the plant needs it most.
Choose a system by zone, not one system for the whole plant
The industry map above points to a single rule for My Tho: divide the plant into functional zones, then choose a system for each zone. Dry production and dry stores take a roller system; packing zones needing high flatness and cleanliness take a self-levelling system; areas close to working people and areas coated while production continues favour a water-based, low-odour system; and a static-control system should be considered only where a tenant genuinely has static-sensitive equipment or processes. The StatGuard system is not a default need for most plants in this park, and fitting anti-static flooring in a workshop that does not need it only raises cost without raising useful performance. Conversely, outdoor yards, slipways and heavy aggregate areas should not be put into an epoxy package at all, but given a different flooring solution.
Refurbishment without stopping the line: sequence and pre-quotation checklist
A workable refurbishment sequence for a running plant in My Tho usually runs: survey and measure moisture across the whole floor; repair concrete, fill joints and treat local weak spots; grind to profile and remove dust; prime and coat zone by zone; and accept each zone against its own criteria before handing it back to production. Acceptance zone by zone matters more than one final overall acceptance, because a wet zone and a dry store cannot be judged by the same criteria.
Before settling a proposal, a plant owner should be able to answer six questions: how damp is the existing floor, and has it blistered before; what is the heaviest real load on the floor, meaning which forklift type and what weight; which areas are wet zones and which are dry; which areas must be coated while the line keeps running; which areas face oil, cleaning chemicals or low temperature; and which areas of the plant should actually not receive epoxy at all. With those six answers, a quotation reflects the reality of that specific plant instead of being a generic offer for every industrial park. For an old, full park like My Tho, that is also the only way the new coat outlasts the old coat it replaces.
