In the first seven months of the year, total sales of finished steel exceeded 18.32 million tonnes, a 9% increase compared with the same period last year.
The leading steel manufacturer Hoa Phat Group sold nearly 558,000 tonnes of steel in August, of which the volume of construction steel hit 306,000 tonnes, up 18% month-on-month and the highest since the beginning of this year.
In the early days of this year, Hoa Phat Group secured many orders to export its steel products to the US, Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Australia, Malaysia, Hong Kong (China), and Cambodia.
Vietnam's leading industrial manufacturing group Hoa Phat recorded the highest ever after-tax profit in a quarter at 10.3 trillion VND (453 million USD) in the third quarter of this year, 2.7 times higher than the same period last year.
Vietnam’s largest steelmaker, the Hoa Phat Group, sold a total of 3.7 million tonnes of steel products in the first five months of this year, up nearly 70 percent against the same period last year.
Leading steel manufacturer Hoa Phat Group sold more than 2.16 million tonnes of steel in the first quarter of this year, recording strong increases in the sales of all products in the period.
Vietnamese steel producer Hoa Phat Group will launch its Hoa Phat Dung Quat 2 iron and steel factory project in early 2022 with a capacity of 5 million tonnes per year, focusing on hot rolled coil (HRC) production using latest technology.
Despite the impact of COVID-19, the Hoa Phat Group still recorded a surge in both revenue and profit in 2020, the inter-sectoral conglomerate has said.
Vietnam exported over 400,000 tonnes of construction steel in the third quarter of 2020, increasing by 4 percent and 37 percent compared to the first and second quarters, respectively, according to the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA).
The industrial manufacturer Hoa Phat Group posted 24.9 trillion VND in revenue in the third quarter of this year, up 62.7 percent year on year, and after-tax profit of over 3.78 trillion VND, doubling the figure recorded in the same period last year, the highest result that the firm has made in a quarter.
Construction steel sales are predicted to recover in the remaining months of 2020 after a fall in the January-August period due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Vietnam Steel Association (VSA).