Knauf Vietnam signs strategic cooperation agreement with Zinca Vietnam

According to general director of Knauf Vietnam David Thomas, the agreement is a remarkable milestone that would help Knauf Vietnam strengthen its nationwide coverage and promote brand awareness.

“Zinca Vietnam is a well-known building material manufacturer and distributor in the industry with 20 years of experience. We strongly believe this cooperation would bring us both market leading positions and a lot of successes in the Vietnamese building material market”, said Thomas.

Over the past two years, Knauf Vietnam has set-up offices in Hanoi, Haiphong and Ho Chi Minh City and been developing a distribution network throughout the country. It has been supplying the Vietnamese market with high quality gypsumboard products using German technology such as StandardShield, MoistShield and FireShield, as well as Knauf Danoline and Cleaneo. With three distributors in total, Knauf Vietnam has the ability to supply various projects be it industrial, commercial and residential.

According to Thomas, Knauf Vietnam’s factory in Haiphong had started commissioning and expected to have commercial board by May 2016. The factory will have a capacity of 20 million square metres.

“By working with our key distributors we will grow our market share and achieve our ambition of becoming a market leader in the Vietnamese building material industry,” said Thomas.

Knauf Group, founded in 1932, is a multinational producer of building materials and construction systems that operates more than 220 production plants in over 60 countries with roughly 25,000 employees. Recently, Knauf has been expanding into a number of East European and Asian markets. Knauf Vietnam applied for and gained an investment license in 2013 to build a gypsumboard manufacturing facility in Haiphong that is expected to be operational within 2016.