In a world where consumer demands go beyond simply wearing fashionable garments — now requiring “smart apparel” that is waterproof, heat-retaining, durable, and capable of providing maximum protection in the harshest conditions — technological manufacturing capability becomes a matter of survival.
For Viking, producing premium laminated products, high-performance GORE-TEX jackets, and advanced protective workwear is not just a strength — it is a long-term strategy, backed by concrete action: building a new factory equipped with cutting-edge machinery and smart management systems, aiming to conquer the global export market.
✳️ Why Is Viking Investing in a New Factory?
Due to the surging demands of the global market, such as:
GORE-TEX waterproof products must pass performance tests after 20 washes.
Partners require seam sealing performance under water pressure of up to 15,000 mm.
Laminated fabrics must maintain consistent color across lots, precise stretch tolerance of ±3%, and resistance to distortion in humid environments.
These standards cannot be met with outdated equipment or traditional processes.
That’s why Viking has chosen to invest in a brand-new facility — designed as a closed-loop ecosystem where manufacturing, testing, quality control, and data systems are fully integrated and synchronized.
Unlike traditional expansion models that focus solely on increasing capacity, Viking has chosen a more challenging but sustainable path: reconstructing its entire production system with deeply embedded technology, elevating quality control benchmarks, and training a workforce aligned with high-tech manufacturing standards. From factory layout, operation flow, to each screw in the sewing lines — everything is carefully calculated to comply with international standards like GORE-TEX, ISO 14001.
🔧 Technology Is the Core of Viking’s Manufacturing Strategy
The highlight of the new factory isn’t just its scale, but how Viking uses technology as the “conductor” of quality.
🌀 Machines are selected based on 4 criteria:
1.Capability to handle high-tech materials: Seam sealing machines can customize temperature, pressure, and speed — allowing bonding across various 2-layer or 3-layer laminates without melting membranes or leaving thermal marks.
2.Digital integration and real-time control: All cutting, sewing, and inspection machines are connected to a central MES (Manufacturing Execution System), enabling real-time monitoring of performance, defects, and quality.
3.Automation and semi-automation at scale: Programmed sewing machines, laser-based waterproof testers, and color-deviation scanners using optical sensors — all minimize human dependency and maximize quality consistency.
4.Smart memory and formula management: Pressing and programmed sewing machines can store and recall hundreds of formulas for different fabrics and products, ensuring accuracy even in mass production of thousands of units.
🏭 A Factory Space Designed to Serve Technology
Viking doesn’t just buy machines — it designs the factory for machines to operate at their best:
Raw material, fabric, and accessory flows are arranged logically to prevent cross-contamination between GORE-TEX, standard, and eco-friendly products.
Walls, ceilings, lighting, and temperature are regulated to stabilize fabric color — a critical factor when inspecting 3-layer laminated materials.
Each area is optimized for its function — from physical testing zones to seam sealing inspection and packing areas — ensuring no defect goes unnoticed.
🧠 Technology Doesn’t Replace People – It Empowers Them to Be More Precise
Viking understands that technology is merely a tool — quality still comes from the knowledge, autonomy, and commitment of people.
That’s why, alongside investing in advanced machines, Viking also builds a professional training system for operational engineers with 3 core focuses:
Understanding machine operations to avoid technical errors.
Detecting and troubleshooting defects in sewing, bonding, or lamination.
Analyzing system data to make quick and precise process improvements.
The true differentiator of Viking lies in its people. Each engineer isn’t just a machine operator — they understand fabric properties, and the relationship between pressure, temperature, and timing in sealing processes. Viking invests in its people as it invests in quality: sustainably, responsibly, and elevating.
No one is merely a "worker" at Viking — everyone is a quality guardian, trained to spot visual anomalies, sense irregularities by experience, and respond with real-time data-backed decisions.
🚀 A Bold Leap, Not Just an Expansion
Viking’s investment in a new facility, high-tech equipment, digital measurement systems, and world-class workforce training is not just about scaling up.
It is a quantum leap in operational thinking, aiming to set new benchmarks for Vietnam’s high-tech apparel industry on the global stage.
👉 Welcome to Viking – where technology and people unite to create world-class garments.