Following a recent permission from the Da Nang government, Dana-Y and Dana-Uc steel factories, both located in Hoa Vang District’s Hoa Lien Commune, resumed their operation on Monday, but for only 6 months.

Municipal People’s Committee Vice Chairman Ho Ky Minh announcing the city’s instructions at Monday’s meeting

The brief re-opening aimed to enable the 2 polluting steel plants to process their stockpiles in a bid to reduce their losses.

Afterwards, these factories will be closed and relocated after finishing the work.

Addressing Monday’s meeting to announce the city’s instructions, municipal People’s Committee Vice

Chairman Ho Ky Minh urged relevant local agencies to give suggestions to the city leaders about options for the shutdown of the 2 polluting plants.

They were also asked to complete procedures for cancelling the relocation of affected families residing in the factories’ neighbouring areas. 

In particular, the municipal government also asked the 2 plants neither to expand their production scale nor conduct further material purchase contracts during the brief re-opening.

Meanwhile, the municipal Department of Natural Resources and the Environment will be responsible for tightly monitoring the environmental improvement activities at the 2 plants, and their surrounding areas as well, in order to ensure that there will be no environmental violations.

Dana-Uc plant workers resumed their work on Monday to prepare for steelmaking

Highly hailing the above city-made permission, representatives from the 2 plants vowed that their businesses would strictly obey the national laws and the city’s instructions. 

Previously, the operations of the 2 plants were temporarily suspended from 28 February due to their reportedly polluting activities.

The shutdown decision was adopted after a large number of local residents had complained continuously that the operations of the 2 steel factories had affected the local landscape and residents’ lives, and were not in line with the development orientation for the area. 

They protested outside the factories, putting up tents to show their determination to get the situation resolved because they could not stand unbearable dust and noise that have bothered them for many years.