Copper Casting Trade Village

The copper casting trade village is located in Van O village and Long Thuong village in Dai Dong commune, Van Lam district. This is a traditional trade village that has been long-standing mentioned in the folk verse:

Scrap-iron dealers come to Cau Nong

Girls that talk loudly go back to live with their father.

Cau Nom in Dai Dong commune is the place gathering scrap metals for the trade village. Products of the trade village were bell, peak, statue, pot, and copper coins. Nowadays, products of the trade village mostly are worshiping objects of three executions (Tam Su) and five executions (Ngu Su), bell, crane, crown. The trade village also casts and processes many copper parts used for the mechanical manufacturing industry. The production techniques are mostly manual from moulding, mould drying, casting and pouring.  Some phases of the production use mechanical equipments including drilling, lathing and dressing. Currently, the major type of the organisation of the trade village is in terms of households from production to product consumption. Major customers of the trade village are retailers in Hanoi; recently there are some local retailers selling some parts of the products for the village.

The number of labourers is 200 people; the production output of the trade village can reach 120 tonnes per year; the turnover is VND 4.5-5 billion; average income per labourer can be between VND 300,000 and 350,000 per month.

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