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O Mon Industrial Park sits in Phuoc Thoi ward, O Mon district, Can Tho City, on the Hau River and close to National Highway 91, next to the Tra Noc 2 industrial park. Under planning, the park covers around 600 hectares and is oriented as a multi-industry park, including auxiliary industry serving the energy sector — a position tied directly to the O Mon Power Complex located right beside the park. For an investor building a new factory here, or a workshop owner fitting out a mechanical workshop or warehouse inside the park, the epoxy question at O Mon therefore has its own character: floors for new plants and heavy riverside workshops, not renovation floors for a decades-old inner-city park.
Name check — read this first: this article covers only O Mon Industrial Park in Can Tho City. The O Mon Power Complex is a power station complex beside the park, not a zone inside the industrial park, and the Can Tho High-Tech Park of around 200 hectares in O Mon ward is a separate project, not the same as this industrial park. All information in this article belongs to O Mon Industrial Park; figures from the two neighbouring projects are not used for this park. This article does not claim that Kadier has carried out work at any specific plant or company inside the park.
Unlike the broader picture of the Can Tho cluster and the central Mekong Delta, which covers seafood processing, cold chain and rice and fruit processing across the whole cluster, this article focuses on a single park: which industries O Mon has, what each functional zone inside a factory needs from its floor, and in what order a new riverside plant should have its floor done so it does not have to be redone after the first rainy season.
A riverside park oriented toward energy-supporting industry
Location is the first thing that sets O Mon apart. The park stands at the northern gateway of Can Tho City, with Hau River frontage and the National Highway 91 road corridor, and it sits within the city port and logistics cluster, with the planned O Mon port nearby. For a factory inside the park, that means two freight flows cross the factory floor: raw materials and finished goods moving by road along Highway 91, and heavy or bulky cargo that can move by river. Warehouses and yards are therefore not an afterthought — they are part of the flooring question from day one, with forklifts, trucks and loading areas wearing the surface continuously.
The second difference is the link with the energy sector. The O Mon Power Complex beside the park creates demand for supporting industry: mechanical workshops for machining, repair and maintenance of equipment, spare-parts stores and structural fabrication shops. These workshops place demands on the floor that light manufacturing does not: concentrated loads at machine feet and heavy-equipment positions, oil and metal swarf on the surface, and forklifts carrying moulds and heavy parts moving back and forth. A floor that only looks good but cannot carry concentrated loads will crack exactly where machines stand, and a floor coated over oil contamination without proper substrate preparation will peel with the old oil layer underneath.
The third difference is the stage of development of the park. O Mon is still completing its infrastructure and attracting investment, so the common flooring question here is the floor for a new factory or a workshop being fitted out, not renovation of a floor that has run for decades. New concrete has the advantage of never having been oil-soaked or load-cracked, but it brings two requirements of its own: the concrete must be old enough and dry enough before coating, and substrate moisture on a riverside site must be measured before the primer is chosen. Coating in a hurry over damp new concrete is the fastest way to blistering after the first rainy season, even when the floor looks perfect at handover.
Common industries and floor types at O Mon Industrial Park
Food, agricultural processing and canning: seamless, easy to clean
Food, agricultural processing and canned fruit and vegetables are among the investment directions of the park. Washing, preparation and packing areas are regularly exposed to wash water and cleaning solutions, so floors there need to be seamless, with no joints holding water and residue, easy to wash down at the end of a shift, and free of ponding at low points. Dry stores and forklift aisles can use a roller system, while areas demanding higher cleanliness, absolute flatness and easy cleaning should be considered for a self-levelling system. This article does not claim that an epoxy floor by itself confers any food-hygiene or food-safety certification — certification belongs to the factory own system.
Mechanical engineering and energy-support workshops: flat, load-bearing, oil-tolerant
Mechanical workshops, parts machining and equipment maintenance place the heaviest demands on floors at O Mon. Machine positions need high flatness so machines do not vibrate out of alignment, machine feet and forklift turning points need concentrated-load capacity, and the surface needs to withstand oil spills during machining. Before coating, a mechanical workshop floor must be ground back to sound concrete, old oil must be treated under its own procedure, and cracks must be filled with a compatible material. Once the substrate is stable, a self-levelling system delivers the flatness and continuity that machine areas require, while aisles and parts stores can use a roller system with lane markings and anti-slip additive.
Electrical, electronics and assembly: flat, low-dust, anti-static only where required
Electrical equipment, electronics assembly and high-technology production need floors that are flat, seamless, low-dust and easy to wipe down, because dust from a delaminating floor can affect products and equipment directly. For positions where static control is mandatory, no single blanket standard can be applied to every factory: the investor own standard must be checked and on-site measurement carried out. Anti-static solutions are installed only in the area where they are required, with earthing and testing under the procedure issued by the investor, rather than applied across the whole factory.
Building materials and light manufacturing: abrasion-resistant and forklift-proof
Building-materials and consumer-goods production brings high forklift and trolley traffic, heavy raw materials and continuous dust. Floors need to be flat so vehicles do not judder, abrasion-resistant on main aisles and loading areas, and easy to clean so dust does not accumulate in cracks or delaminated patches. Raw-material stores and finished-goods stores need a surface with stable load capacity and no local settlement that could topple stacked goods.
Riverside and Highway 91 warehouses and logistics: anti-slip and lane-marked
Warehouses, forklift aisles and inbound and outbound areas take the heaviest wear in a factory at O Mon, because goods moving by both road and river pass through them. Warehouse floors need abrasion resistance, anti-slip treatment on aisles and turning areas, and clear lane markings so forklifts and pedestrians do not share an unmarked lane. For a warehouse in operation, phased work is the usual approach: finish one zone completely and hand it back for use, rather than closing the whole warehouse for days.
Choosing a system by functional zone
Divide the factory by function before choosing a system. For large areas with light to medium loads where fast application matters, on general production floors and aisles, consider the RollCoat roller system. Where an absolutely flat, joint-free, easy-to-clean surface is demanded, consider the LevelFlow self-levelling system. Where anti-static protection is mandatory, use StatGuard only in the area required, with earthing and testing under the investor procedure. Where the area is in operation and sensitive to odour, or close to packing areas, prefer the AquaBase water-based, low-VOC system. Warehouses and forklift aisles additionally need anti-slip additive and lane markings.
The riverside ground problem: substrate moisture is the number-one risk
Soils in the riverine Mekong Delta are naturally high in moisture, and a Hau River-front site such as O Mon cannot escape this problem. Moisture vapour pushing a coating off the concrete, especially after the first rainy season, is the most common cause of floor failure in the Mekong Delta. The procedure for O Mon must therefore include substrate moisture measurement before coating, settlement and crack inspection, and a moisture-barrier primer when moisture exceeds the limit permitted for the chosen system. For new concrete, one more step cannot be skipped: wait until the concrete is old enough and dry enough, then coat — a factory handover schedule must not be allowed to shorten this step. Coating over a settling or damp substrate without treatment only moves the failure a few months later, at a much higher repair cost.
Sequence for a new plant floor at O Mon
A sound sequence starts with a substrate survey: moisture measurement, concrete grade identification, a list of cracks and the areas that will carry concentrated loads. Next, the contractor prepares the substrate according to the survey findings, applies a primer matched to the measured moisture level, and coats zone by zone following the factory handover schedule. The coating schedule must fit three factory schedules: machine installation, goods intake and trial operation. In areas next to equipment being installed, prefer a low-odour system, improve ventilation and put up temporary partitions separating the coating zone from the installation area. At acceptance, check thickness at many points, run a forklift trial with turning at the highest-load point, inspect for delamination and ponding, and wait out the full curing time before the zone carries full load. Only after the survey, when area, substrate condition and the system for each zone are known, does a quotation have a factual basis. Any figure given before the substrate has been seen is an estimate, not a construction commitment.
What recoating cannot fix
Epoxy is a coating, not a structural repair. A substrate that is still settling will pull the coating into cracks at exactly the old positions; settlement cracks must have their cause surveyed and the substrate treated first, and cannot be hidden under a thick coating. A heavily oil-contaminated substrate that has not been deeply ground and degreased under the right procedure will make the new coat lose adhesion. A working joint that is coated over will crack again along the joint. Recognising these limits before work starts saves the factory owner a second repair that costs more than the first.
Frequently asked questions
When should a new factory at O Mon Industrial Park have its epoxy floor done?
After the concrete is old enough and dry enough, substrate moisture has been measured within the limit permitted for the chosen system, and before heavy fixed machinery is installed. Coating too early, while the substrate is still damp, is the most common cause of blistering after the first rainy season; coating too late, after machines are installed, makes phased work harder and more expensive.
How does an energy-support mechanical workshop floor differ from a light-workshop floor?
A mechanical workshop needs flatness at machine positions, concentrated-load capacity at machine feet and forklift turning points, and resistance to oil. A light workshop prioritises flatness, low dust and easy cleaning. Using one system for both areas without zoning leaves one of the two areas below standard.
Which areas inside a factory at O Mon need anti-static protection?
Only positions where the investor or the product standard mandates static control, such as electronics assembly and quality-inspection areas. Anti-static protection is installed in that area only, with earthing and on-site testing, rather than across the whole factory.
What should a riverside, Highway 91 warehouse floor allow for?
A warehouse sees continuous forklift and truck movement, so the floor needs abrasion resistance, anti-slip treatment on aisles and turning areas, and clear lane markings for forklifts and pedestrians. Phased work lets the warehouse close only one zone at a time instead of shutting down entirely for days.
How is an epoxy quotation for O Mon Industrial Park calculated?
Kadier quotations follow an on-site survey, based on area, substrate condition, the system for each functional zone — especially concentrated-load and wet areas — and the work schedule. This article gives no specific price, because price lists circulating online are not Kadier prices and do not reflect the substrate condition of any particular factory.
For advice and a quotation: send the factory or warehouse location, industry, area and the zones to be coated through the Kadier quotation or contact page. Direct contact: hotline/Zalo 0899355489, WeChat wxid_95o54joujyrr12. Illustration: stock photo, a general illustration of an industrial floor, not a Kadier project.
