Polysius Cement from the “bay of descending dragons”
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In the twilight of Halong Bay, approx. three hours drive from Vietnam’s capital Hanoi, the latest project by Polysius rises into the evening sky. Here, the plant construction company is currently working on a cement plant with an output of 6,000 tons per day for its customer Thang Long Cement. Engineer Hubert Spliethoff is in charge of realizing the project and – as project manager – bears overall responsibility for the work.
He and his team were by no means breaking new ground in Vietnam. The company had already supplied a cement plant to the Southeast Asian state at the beginning of the seventies. The current job involves realizing a complex successor plant within the agreed quality, cost and time framework.
Spliethoff and his colleagues were faced with a number of challenges in this respect: “This country practically started again from scratch in the mid nineties and there was no continuity in terms of personnel or organization – as such, we had to reorganize everything,” says the 61-year-old engineer. The new plant in Halong Bay will supply cement for both North and South Vietnam and went into operation in November 2008.
Fabian Schmidt / Photo: Julian Baumann