The Intergrated Office
In order to propel the organization forward, a set of decisions needs to be made. One of them is focusing on facilities, which led to the advent of the Integrated Office.
The new office space got its name for a very simple yet practical reason – we wanted every department to sit in one place and function as one united whole; hence, the name Integrated.
The word “Integrated” also denotes our desire to place the office division as close to its production counterpart as much as possible. Therefore, see-through glass walls are set up to foster constant communication across the workers, the technicians, the white-collar folks and the decision-makers.
Ultimately, such juxtaposition allows us to create both sample and mass-produced products in good quality and speedy fashion.
Apart from mitigating the waste in time and efforts spent on physical and information travels across departments, the new space offers a first-of-its-kind experience to those who live and work in it.
High and open ceiling inherited from the old factory building is optimized by the specific LEED-certified designs that offer abundance of natural lighting, ventilation, and green masses. Therefore, while the energy consumption is greatly reduced, the comfort level stays within the sustainable level.
R&D Capability
In the ever-changing world of fashion, footwear products as an accessory are no exception. Over the past few years, we have witnessed a huge shift in the level of intricacy in our clients’ footwear designs. They come in a wide range of materials, embellishments, shapes and technical requirements. Some of them have never been applied in traditional vulcanized shoes.
And through many trials and errors, we have been able to develop such designs and successfully break them down into production-friendly specifications while also quickly alarming our clients of the potential fallibility for the sake of saving time and effort on both sides.
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Such intricate bead embroidery was hand-made in India with our particular selection of raw materials and meticulously designed upper patterns.
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Due to the inherited nature of hand-made embroidery, every upper piece came out at slightly different level of finishing. However, the catch is once assembled with the foxing tape, no gaps between the bead-embroidered upper and the tape are allowed. The result came out perfect with neither gaps nor broken beads thanks to our meticulous calculation and craftsmanship.
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Though it might look like the patterns are printed on, in actuality, die-cut pieces of rubber are put together by hands to create finished outsoles.
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Due to the nature of vulcanization, it is highly challenging to endure adhesion between net materials and rubber foxing tape. We took on the hard job to accommodate our clients’ ideas and brought to fruition.
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Again, the artwork came up by the designer required real texture of calendered rubber. No other techniques could replace the hand-crafted rubber insertion to achieve the desirable results.
Total number of technical / Officer 26
Total number of workers: 35
Daily capacity: 35-40 pairs
Lead time: 7-15 days
The Green Factor
In the pressing time of environmental issues to countries, organizations, and Tuan Viet as well, the “Green” factor has always been considered and implemented more than ever before.
The green area currently occupies about 1/4 of total land, not only bringing the aesthetics but also protecting the ecosystem and biodiversity, improving the quality of air and water, reducing solid waste and conserving natural resources.
Most recently, the “green” trends for architecture have been applied to the Integrated Office. Being optimized following the specific LEED-certified designs:
– Space receives natural light through the Synoptic panels. The artificial lighting is still installed but only used up to 83% capacity when the natural light is dimmed – approximately 20% of the office hours.
– Although installing 44 air-conditioners (2HP models) following the construction design for the entire space, in fact only 20 of them (at 25 degrees C) were actually turned on.
– Therefore, while the comfort level is still secured the energy consumption is greatly reduced, contributing to our sustainable development.
Most importantly, Tuan Viet considers sustainability not be the long-term success of our company only, but as well as protecting the natural energies and resources also. Therefore, even in our production, Tuan Viet always aims for effective solutions to reduce negative impacts on our environment.
– Using natural rubber completely, and avoiding any impurities which may deter decomposition after using.
– Recycling supposedly-discarded materials, such as rice husk to produce shoe insoles and outsoles.
– Utilizing excess fabric or leather for decorative purposes, samples or small-quantity productions for domestic products.
