The domestic steel market is currently inundated with various steel products, while imported steel continues to flood in, intensifying price competition for local producers.
This accomplishment not only highlights the industry''s rapid growth in production output but also signifies its increasing independence and diversification of product types.
Totally in the 11-month period, finished steel production saw a yearly decline of 11.3 per cent to 27.12 million tonnes. Sales of finished steel also plunged 7 per cent year-on-year to 25.1 million tonnes.
Hoa Phat Group (HPG) posted an after-tax profit of VND10.35 trillion (US$454.92 million) in the third quarter of this year, 2.7 times higher than the same period last year.
Steel enterprises have boosted exports while facing difficulties in domestic consumption due to the COVID-19 outbreak, according to the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA).
Steelmaker Hoa Phat Group posted VND19.45 trillion (US$825.8 million) revenue and VND2.3 trillion after-tax in the first quarter of the year, up 28 per cent and 27 per cent year-on-year, respectively.
In the first quarter, VSA-member enterprises recorded a plunge of 15 per cent in steel output to 5.4 million tonnes and 20 per cent in consumption to 4.4 million tonnes year-on-year.
Viet Nam steel production was forecasted to continue to grow slightly, at about 6-8 per cent, this year, reported the Viet Nam Steel Association (VSA).
In the first half of 2019, Hoa Phat Group poured nearly VND9.17 trillion (US$393.35 million) into Dung Quat iron and steel production complex, raising total investment in the project to approximately VND42.92 trillion.
The Hoa Phat Dung Quat Steel JSC has announced that it will apply SAP S/4HANA, a next-generation enterprise resource planning (ERP) software, for its iron and steel production complex.
Steel production and consumption showed strong growth in the first four months of this year owing to favourable weather, said Nguyen Van Sua, deputy chairman of the Viet Nam Steel Association.
Viet Nam’s steel industry will be able to produce enough hot-rolled steel in 2018 to meet local demand. Before, the nation had to import millions of tonnes of hot-rolled steel products every year.