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Knit & Woven Dyeing & Finishing

Unifill Group develops digital printing impression

How sustainability practices reduce cost of S.F. Washing

Knit & Woven Dyeing & Finishing

Prospect of manufacturing textile chemicals in Bangladesh

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Prospect of manufacturing textile chemicals in Bangladesh

Besides government support, the mind set of dyes and chemicals users in Bangladesh and the mid set of global brands also has to be changed towards locally manufactured dyes & chemicals.

If locally manufactured chemicals can comply with the quality and other requirements then why would we prefer using imported chemicals? Using local chemicals will reduce cost significantly.

Textile Today Research The textile processing industries in Bangladesh are seeing a momentum in orders and growth in recent times. Such companies have been suffering for gas supply for quite a long time.

As currently Bangladesh could resolve the supply shortage of gas by importing LNG, the dyeing, finishing and washing mills are quite in a good shape now.

Though the government is going to increase price of gas, now at least the factories will not have to keep machines stopped due to gas supply shortage.

On the other hand when China is closing bulk of the factories which are polluting environment, huge orders of dyeing and finishing of fabrics is flooding to Bangladesh.

Growth in apparel export is also boosting the backward linkage dyeing industries. Buyers prefer to source fabric locally as it provides lower lead time and quality support benefits to them.

So, the textile processing mills in Bangladesh is growing fast which is creating huge demand for textile dyes and chemicals.

Bangladesh is mostly dependent on import to cater the demand of textile chemicals for the dyeing printing and washing factories.

But with the increase of the size of the industry, now there is huge potential to manufacture textile chemicals in Bangladesh.

Some companies are already manufacturing textile chemicals and it is growing fast.

Md. Amanur Rahman, Managing Director, Dysin which is one of the leading companies supplying dyes chemicals and equipment

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has told to Textile Today recently, “Keeping the growth potential in mind we are increasing textile chemical manufacturing in Bangladesh. Dysin has increased

The local manufacturing companies have to have long term vision and plan in the business.

Besides manufacturing right products they need to invest in branding communication and marketing. The local companies also need to invest in getting certificates and make sure compliance towards RSL (Restricted Substance List) and MRSL of ZDHC and other global brands.

100 percent export oriented chemical industries into 5 units in a short span of time.” He also told that their manufacturing chemicals have global compliance certificates like GOTS to comply with the global requirements.

Currently there are some companies who are manufacturing some basic chemicals which are being used on textile industries there are few companies who are producing textile auxiliary chemicals. But still bulk of the textile dyes and chemicals are being imported. Globally leading chemical companies who have lion market share still have not set their manufacturing bases

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in Bangladesh yet. Experts have opined that the government has to provide right policy support for farther growth of textile chemicals manufacturing in Bangladesh.

The current policy supports duty free import of chemicals for textile processing mills so there are no incentives for the local manufacturers.

Recently Textile Today was talking to a Pakistan based textile chemicals manufacturing company and explored that in Pakistan textile chemical manufacturing became very matured mainly because of the policy support. Even the company like Archroma has manufacturing units in Pakistan. Most other globally leading textile chemical manufacturing companies also have their own manufacturing plants in Pakistan. Now when Bangladesh textile dyeing printing and washing industry is one of largest in the region definitely, government should come up with the policies to facilitate raw materials manufacturing inside the country which is to make the supply chain more stable.

Many Chinese and multinational companies are interested to invest and manufacture dyes and chemicals in Bangladesh. Even though dyestuff manufacturing is a large scale industry and requires huge land and infrastructure, leading Chinese company Color Root was keen to invest about USD 500 million to set up manufacturing plants in Bangladesh. In an interview with Textile Today Mr. Delwar of D&D Chemicals who is Color Root’s

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local agent in Bangladesh told that the investment went back as they didn’t get proper support and facilities in Bangladesh.

Besides government support, the mind set of dyes and chemicals users in Bangladesh and the mid set of global brands also has to be changed towards locally manufactured dyes & chemicals.

If locally manufactured chemicals can comply with the quality and other requirements then why would we prefer using imported chemicals? Using local chemicals will reduce cost significantly.

The local manufacturing companies have to have long term vision and plan in the business.

Besides manufacturing right products they need to invest in branding communication and marketing. The local companies also need to invest in getting certificates and make sure compliance towards RSL

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(Restricted Substance List) and MRSL of ZDHC and other global brands.

Keeping the prospect of the dyes and chemical manufacturing in Bangladesh, Bangladesh University of Textiles recently opened a dedicated department for producing graduates for textile dyes and chemicals manufacturing. Many Bangladeshi professionals have foreign degree and experiences on the subject.

Chemical engineers from BUET and other universities are also quite capable of producing right quality chemicals for textile industry. And so the country won’t have shortage in human resources for the sector.

A report published in Textile Today August 2018 on the trend of global textile chemical manufacturing, it has been said that, the estimated dyes & chemical demand for Bangladesh’s existing export

oriented processing mills is USD 800 million. And this market is expected to grow by about 10 percent every year. Companies producing dyes and chemicals here in Bangladesh also will be able to export to the regional and other countries in the world if they rightly comply with the international requirements.

Pakistan could be a good model to follow for further flourishing the dyes and chemicals manufacturing industry in Bangladesh. Existing infrastructure and gigantic local demand can be good enough to attract global chemical companies to manufacture here in Bangladesh. However major changes will still require like providing fast track services for legal approvals other utilities and business related things, making international trade and transactions easier and faster, increasing the efficiency of ports etc.

Alliance member brands to continue monitoring Bangladesh factory safety Total 400 factories have completed Alliance Corrective Action Plans (CAPs), remediation progress reaches 91 percent.

Desk Report After the dissolution of the Alliance, Alliance member brands will continue to monitor conditions in Bangladesh factories from which they source to verify that those factories remain safe and going forward, an official press release said this quoting Alliance Executive Director Amb. Jim Moriarty.

“We are confident that the vast majority of factories operating under the Alliance that supply our member companies will be in excellent shape and will function fully in accordance with our rigorous safety standards at the time of our transition at the end of this calendar year,” he said.

“We are pleased to report that remediation of Alliance factories continues at a rapid pace,” said Jim Moriarty.

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completions, five factories were suspended in August, which brings the total number of factories suspended to 173. This is the first time since March that the Alliance has had to suspend factories that did not make adequate progress.

Figure: Alliance member brands to continue monitoring Bangladesh factory safety.

The Alliance for Bangladesh Worker Safety (Alliance) announced on 10 September that 36 more Alliance-affiliated factories completed all material components outlined in their Corrective Action Plans (CAPs) since the month of July, bringing the total to 400. To date, 91 percent of factory remediation is complete across all Alliance factories. Alliance suspends five factories for failing to progress.

In addition to the new CAP

“This milestone is a testament to the hard work and dedication of everyone involved in the remediation process, from the engineers and inspectors who have guided the process, to the factory owners, managers, and workers who have made safety a priority within their factories,” said Alliance Chief Safety Officer Paul Rigby.

“These factories now meet international standards of safety, something for which they should all be proud.”

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How sustainability practices reduce cost of S.F. Washing Biological ETP in washing sector is rare, but S.F. washing Ltd has set an example to others.

FT Research Team Denim is a fast growing industry in Bangladesh in terms of production volume, quality and development.

Recently the concept ‘sustainability’ has emerged as an obligatory part for the industry and many giant buyers, including H&M, Zara etc., are driving the concept to be established in the industry. Many Bangladeshi denim factories are practicing sustainability as a buyer’s requirement, however, S.F.Washing Ltd., one of the renowned and leading washing factories, is practicing sustainability in a different way.

They are aware of a holistic approach to sustainability, have installed state of the art biological ETP plant and added cooling pad. They are using transparent sheets for sunlight, condenser recovery pump for saving energy and building awareness for the employees.

S.F. Washing Ltd. mostly produces kids and boys items where per kg fabric’s needed avg. 45-50 liter water. Currently, their washing capacity is around 55 thousand

Figure 2: Biological ETP of 100m3 per hour capacity at S.F. Washing Ltd.

pieces per day. They are producing garments for many of the world’s renowned brands like C&A, H&M, Benetton, Mothercare, Tom Tailor, and ICS etc.

Shamim Bhuiyan, ED of SF Washing Ltd, said, “The company has installed highly efficient and cost-effective biological ETP plant considering the water and energy sustainability aspects compared to other methods because of least operation and maintenance cost due to very low chemical

consumption, low labor cost, less sludge treatment, and disposal cost as well as eco-friendly.”

“Joseph EGLI has supplied this treatment plant and they continuously follow up the plant and all the processes. Its treatment capacity is 100m3 per hour,” he added.

Diponcor Chowdhury, Asst.

General Manager of S.F. Washing Ltd said, “Earlier we had biochemical ETP plant for wastewater treatment but since 2017, we have set up a biological ETP plant aiming maximum treatment of wastewater. Also, the rainwater harvesting project is under construction.”

Biological ETP in washing sector is rare, but S.F. washing has set an example to others. In the dry process, they use 3D whisker machine, 3D wrinkle demy, destroy machine and so on, which generates high temperature.

This hot environment is not work friendly for the workers and considering their comfort, the

Figure 1: Ranges of denim products at S.F. Washing Ltd.

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management has placed cooling pad in the entire dry process floor.

“Cooling pad creates a sustainable working environment for the workers and it always keeps the temperature in between 25-30 degree Celsius,” added Diponcor Chowdhury.

To avoid the effects of hazardous chemical on the environment, they follow the international chemical mixing guideline strictly. And wearing safety equipment’s is a must for the workers.

“Instead of fluorescent light, S.F washing installed LED light, which saves 3% electricity cost. Moreover, we are saving 20% light energy by installing a transparent sheet on top of our production floor. In

Figure 3: Transparent sheet installed on top of the production floor to save energy.

addition, to reuse the heat energy, we are using condensing recovery pump, which is remarkable,” he continued.

As part of their sustainability

practice, they arrange weekly meetings, in-house training to increase the awareness of the employees by using different innovative tools and means.

H&M picks 70% of Z&Z development collections Different fashion fabric manufacturers from around the globe participated in H&M’s ‘Mill Week’ with their autumn-winter collections.

Desk Report Zaber & Zubair Fabrics Ltd, a major integrated textile producer in Bangladesh, participated with their own woven product development in the ‘H&M Mill Week’ at Shanghai, China on 27 August 2018. Zaber & Zubair hit the pitch most successfully and more than 70% of their developments has been chosen by the H&M selection team.

and new idea and they encourage the suppliers to bring new developments.

It’s their continues process to guide their valuable suppliers all over the world.

Figure: Zaber & Zubair Fabrics Ltd showed their products at H&M Mill Week in Shanghai, China.

SubodhTalukder, General Manager, Business Development; Eftekharul Islam, Sr. Manager, Sales & Marketing and K.M. Saiham Siddique, Manager, Sales & Marketing of Zaber & Zubair

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Fabrics Ltd were present at the fair and showed their developments.

Every year H&M arranges this ‘Mill Week’ for their supplier. In the fast fashion era, before every season H&M hunts innovative products

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“Three months prior to every season, we submit our developments. They choose design and product depends on their to requirements developed and right quality. As the core supplier of H&M, we always try to meet their requirements and regularly participate their ‘Mill Week’,” said Mozzamal Hossain, General Manager, Marketing, Zaber & Zubair Fabrics Ltd.

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Unifill Group develops digital printing impression FT Research Team Printing is one of the rising sectors in Bangladesh. Considering the customer needs, digital printing demand has been increasing rapidly across the decade, which is financially rewarding for the industry.

Unifill Composite Dyeing Mills Ltd, one of the renowned factories of Unifill Group, revealed an innovation in printing arena by developing a design, which seems nearly digital printed fabric in all over printing machine by employing their own strategy.

Sayedur Rahman, General Manager (operation), Unifill Group, shared, “Now buyers are looking for variety in designs, they don’t want to take single design clothing much. Two years ago, as per as M&S buyer requirements, we added more colors in AOP design to get digital printing impression in all over printing machine by adopting pressure and other relevant technology.”

“Buyers have willingly accepted this attractive product and appreciated us for this innovation.

Moreover, we are getting more prices for digital impression than normally printed fabric,” he added.

very positive for the future digital printing industry as they offer different choices for the end users. Digital printing can satisfy the customers demand without increasing cost and waste.

However, digital printing is expensive, but some forwardlooking Bangladeshi companies have started making the digital printing to fulfill the customers’ demands.

Figure 2: UDCML developing new design and concept in AOP.

In near future, we have plans to install digital printing machine in our factory because we are seeing digital print as an attractive location for investment.

A report shows that 1.9 billion sqm of digitally printed fabric represent only 5.5% of the total printed fabrics, which means the other 95% is an opportunity for digital printing technology.

SAYEDUR RAHMAN, GM (OPERATION), UNIFILL GROUP The dedicated and expert design team is continuously working on the Unifill Group to seek the attention of buyers for their designing creativity. This effort has achieved different buyers order for long terms.

Sayedur Rahman expressed, “In near future, we have plans to install digital printing machine in our factory because we are seeing digital print as an attractive location for investment.”

Unifill Group has 12-color two printing machines with knit fabric printing capacity of 8-20 ton per day and woven fabric printing capacity of 60-80 yards per day.

Figure 1: Sayedur Rahman, GM (operation), Unifill Group has shared their success story with Textile Today.

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It is creating new value and adding business opportunities for fabric printers and this development is

Figure 3: Digital printing impression developed by Unifill group through AOP.

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‘Is it only the suppliers who need to pay the price for sustainability?’

As long as the customers are not giving better prices for their products, the demand to ensure sustainability and compliance will create a burden for the manufacturers.

Rubana Huq, Managing Director, Mohammadi Group Mohammadi Group started operations in 1986 in garments industry with merely 52 workers; today its employees over 9,000.

While the focus remains on garment manufacturing, the company has over the years diversified and excelled in various industries including Real Estate, Power Generation, Information Technology, Media and Entertainment. Mohammadi Group Achieved ‘Gold Supplier’ award from H&M for the Year 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2016.

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Rubana Huq, Managing Director of Mohammadi Group, revealed her thought on automation, skilled manpower, sustainability, fair price and so on. The prominent women entrepreneur also suggested women entrepreneurs to come forward and take entrepreneurial positions. Here is the glimpse of the discussion for Textile Today readers.

Textile Today: As far as we know, the knitting process of Mohammadi Group is fully automated. How is automation

helping your company in terms of production cost, labor cost, and lead-time? Do you think automation is a threat for garments workers?

Rubana Huq: Human resources actually are the best asset of Bangladesh. So, when we talk about automation, we also talk about some threats that come along with automation. As a group, we are not fully automated. We are semi-automated. Especially we have applied automation to our sweater sector. But automation is

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not the only thing that basically brought the industry forward.

It is value-addition in terms of designing and also beating the seasonal challenge in sweater remains as the biggest challenge because we work for 8 months and we do not work for four months.

Labor is the biggest asset for Bangladesh. Therefore automation does pose some threat to our manufacturing sector. However, when we consider automation we also consider a reduction in labor cost and we also consider the factor of efficiency. Productivity is not something that Bangladesh is great at. The average productivity is less than 50 percent still. So when it comes to sweaters, for design capability and for the pace automation is required.

And as a group we are semiautomated, we are not fully automated. We have done a careful balancing. The point is a careful balance has to be carefully considered as well. Because in our woven sector when we have been trying to cut down on labor and when we have tried eliminating the helpers from the lines we have seen productivity with the automation but also these jobs have been lost. Not to a great extent but they have been lost.

Now I hope that these labor would be able to go somewhere else and find some work. The point is that the lack of diversification in this sector still poses a great threat.

Because unless we diversify into other sectors labor will face a challenge because it is the era of automation and automation will continue to grow. And yes it does help to reduce our production cost.

Textile Today: You know that the scarcity of skilled manpower is a big problem for the industry.

What do you think-Should we hire foreign employees or improve the skills of existing manpower to remove this problem?

Rubana Huq: Lack of skilled labor has always been a challenge for

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the industry because of a lack of skilled labor we have limited productivity and we are still struggling to achieve the optimum.

Sri Lanka is way ahead of us. They have almost 80-85 % productivity.

In terms of being competitive, we also need to improve our labor skills. But labor skills are not the only challenge. There is more.

There is a mid-level management challenge that we face as well.

Most of the times we cannot delegate much to our mid-level management because we have not been able to train them up as well.

So most of the times, when there are some problems or disturbance in the factory its mostly coming from the challenges of mid-level management not being able

The point is in order to be that sustainable we also require our products to secure better prices. You know, as long as our customers are not giving us better prices and as long as they keep on demanding our levels of sustainability and compliance to grow up I don’t think it is going to be a very fair deal. to address the concerns of the workers properly. So, there comes the question of hiring experts from abroad. We have Indians, we have Sri Lankans we have other nationalities as well in the industry. This has to come down.

Because it is a mature industry and we have reached a point where we really don’t need foreign supervision or direction to run our industry. In terms of compliance, in terms of management, in terms of productivity and you know the level of Bangladeshi product has also not gone up to a great extent. We are still at a very basic level. So, I think that we have

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that capability of managing our factories by ourselves. In case if we cannot then we should see consultants only in products which are value-added. Suppose, if it is a suit factory then we may need to hire consultants from abroad. But for basic products that we are very used to in this country, I see no reason behind employing experts in our soil and watch a huge foreign currency loss.

Textile Today: Maintaining sustainability is very important for the planet, people and profit. How do you maintain the sustainability issues on your garments factory?

Do you have any sustainability management department?

Rubana Huq: Sustainability has been an issue which has been our production discourse lately quite a lot. What has been happening is that we have more conscious consumers abroad who worry about where the product is made. We have more conscious customers wondering about where the cotton is coming from. We have more consumers wondering clothes are washed. So, you know it’s a whole chain of sustainability.

Sustainability is not anymore an option. It is a definitive choice. So, in order to be sustainable all of us have to grow up our sustainability department. For ourselves, we still let our HR & compliance people manage our sustainability.

However, it’s a department that required a full pledged concentration.

The point is in order to be that sustainable we also require our products to secure better prices. You know, as long as our customers are not giving us better prices and as long as they keep on demanding our levels of sustainability and compliance to grow up I don’t think it is going to be a very fair deal. So, we need to put additional pressure on our customers just to make them aware that as long as they are putting enough pressures on us on improving our sustainability levels

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and compliance levels they also need to be critically aware of their own margins. Because we need to be paid the right and the fair price.

If you are talking about fair supply and if you referring to fair supply chain all the time you need to also conscious about fair sourcing practice as well. Therefore, sustainability has come into the industry in different forms. For instance, we now have a Higg Index. Higg is an index, which asks us to even mark our secondary & tertiary suppliers. Therefore, that is another challenge, which is coming up. We are happy to do that.

We are happy to be sustainable.

Because the earth has to be a sustainable place for the next generations to come. However, the point is who is paying the price for sustainability. Is it only the suppliers who need to pay the price for sustainability or buyers are also part of the challenge game?

Textile Today: Mohammadi Group mainly produces woven garments, lingerie garments, and sweater. Do you have any plan to increase your product range?

Rubana Huq: We have woven, we have laundry and we have sweaters in our group. As far as the expansion plans are concerned I sincerely believe that you know it’s the value-addition that we should be targeting and not just capacity extension of what we have. Because that is not going to bring any good results for any of us. In addition, whoever is in the industry I would also like to appeal to all of them to optimize their production lines and think about producing the next better product instead of just increasing lines. Because adding another 100 lines will only get me an order of another basic product which I am not interested in. So, for us the suppliers the keyword should be the fashion challenge, the lead time challenge and of course the product challenge. If we are able to somehow address these three areas, we should be set for the

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next two decades at least.

Textile Today: As a prominent women entrepreneur what is your suggestion for the new women entrepreneurs? How should they start, what types of challenges will they face and how should they overcome that?

Rubana Huq: Very unfortunately, we do not have enough female entrepreneurs in this sector. Maybe because there is a hick of access to capital is still very much no deal for anyone who seeks a loan in this sector. I do not think it’s just women not getting loans or not having access to loans that creating the barrier for women

If you are talking about fair supply and if you referring to fair supply chain all the time you need to also conscious about fair sourcing practice as well. Therefore, sustainability has come into the industry in different forms.

sector. So the gender priority must come in. In terms of trade union leaders, in terms of workers getting promoted to supervisory levels and managerial positions and of course for more female entrepreneurs to be able to come there must be an incentive. There must be an incentive for female entrepreneurs to come into this sector. Because I believe it makes a difference being a woman in this sector. We have more empathy than men. So, when I work on a production floor, I automatically display a lot more empathy. I communicate a lot more than any of my male counterpart and I am absolutely confident about that.

So my walking creates another level of confidence for my female workers. So for the betterment of the industry and for the smooth functioning between owners & labors I sincerely believe that female should come forward and take an entrepreneurial position to change the current scenario.

Textile Today: After the death of Mr. Anisul Haque do you find any management problems in your business?

getting to the next level, I also think that it is the age-old mindset which stops women from going to the next level. If you talk about my challenge, I think I just fought back hard enough to be where I am today. However, I do not know where I am going to be the next 5 years. Because being a woman is something that conceptually we need to deal with. There is a male gage everywhere; there is a male mindset that we need to battle.

If you look at today’s board of BGMEA there is not even 1 single female director in the entire board.

Strangely, the sector is filled with women. 80% percent of the manufacturing is done by women.

We do not even have enough female trade union leaders in the

Rubana Huq: We have been in this business for the last 20 years.

We not only have garments, but we also have power plants, and we have full on a television channel.

We have digital distribution, we have software, we have real estate and I am the group head. A group or a commercial entity is actually very much process based. And my late husband used to say that you are never a great CEO unless you are not missed in the office. The point is business goes on, life goes on and if you are in a leadership position your job is just to focus on the sustainability of the group and of the economy in general and just move on. Because life would not stop. Because somebody has left us, life still demands continuity.

And I hope to experience no tremors in my journey because I haven’t for the last 20 years, anyway.

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Cadira®- a new initiative of DyStar to reduce water, waste and energy consumption Cadira ® is a new module in DyStar’s Resource Efficiency program. The concepts considerably reduce water, waste and energy consumption.

Staff Correspondent DyStar Singapore Pte Ltd. organized a seminar on ‘DyStar Cadira® concept-saving valuable resources’ to launch Cadira® concept in Bangladesh on 20 September at Le Méridien, Dhaka. In the program, they discussed their new products and other accessories to show the beneficiary aspects not only for the environment but also for the supply chain of the industry.

DyStar Singapore Pte Ltd. is a supplier of products and services for the textile, leather, paper, plastic, and other chemical industries. Cadira® is a new module in DyStar’s Resource Efficiency program.

Their concepts considerably reduce water, waste and energy consumption.

Cadira® will help brands & retailers and their production partners to save valuable resources and to reduce the carbon footprint of their textile goods.

Eric Hopmann, CEO of DyStar Group, shared his perspectives on the vision of DyStar and discussed on the environment of the global textile market. He said, “I have been working for 30 years in this industry and China has had a tremendous influence on this industry from which we have however learned many lessons.”

“According to the analysis of WTO in 2016-2017, the textile industry export market is about 800 billion and the Chinese industries take about 45% of this market, which is around 350 billion in exports of garments and textiles. However, in the last 3 years the global exports of Garment and Textiles have started to fall by about 100 billion USD and those of China by 50 billion USD.” he said.

He mentioned two reasons behind this. “First of all, the costs of China’s Textile production

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production processes better and have invested in waste treatment facilities which are effective for the industry and will help them to stay.

Figure 1: speaking at the program, Eric Hopmann; CEO, Head of Global Sales and Marketing, DyStar Group.

Strengths of garment making, dying, finishing is so much developed in Bangladesh and the cost of manpower is so effective to grow the businesses here.

That’s why we are saying Bangladesh is the key market for DyStar.

“Small and medium companies were shut down for not enhancing their processes. But Bangladesh is developing very nicely and it has reached in 2017 more than 30 billion dollars export sales. This is only the beginning of fruitful years for the Textile Industry in Bangladesh,” stated Eric Hopmann.

Bangladesh has a big advantage now as compared to China. But the local producers should not repeat here what has happened there!

- ERIC HOPMANN; CEO, HEAD OF GLOBAL SALES AND MARKETING, DYSTAR GROUP are rising day by day, especially manpower but also the energy costs which are important in this sector. Another most important issue thing is the environmental situation in China as the government has embarked in cleaning up the country, forcing various textile and chemical factories to shut down.”

Nowadays the textile industry is moving progressively out of China to overseas for these reasons.

Many provinces in China are extremely polluted and this is why the Chinese government is pushing down the industry, which is one of the most polluting sectors in the country. 1000 chemical industries will be shut down in coming three years in the Jiangsu province as recently announced by the central government. However, big Textile Groups are handling their

Eric Hopmann said, “Strengths of garment making, dying, finishing is so much developed in Bangladesh and the cost of manpower is so effective that business will continue to grow here. That’s why we are saying Bangladesh is the key market for DyStar and we are here to give our best services to every factory for developing a concept of pollution-free industrialization, which can be cost effective too.”

Jayant Khera, Vice President of South Asia said, “Firstly I am very glad to announce that we are starting a branch of Texanlab in Dhaka. We are testing here different type of dying and printing quality. Also, we are working on the development of a different type of printing auxiliaries of DyStar Company. We are also ready to provide complete digital printing solutions to our customers.”

The DyStar econfidence® program is planned to provide a guarantee to our textile customers such that the dyes and chemicals we supply comply with legal requirements and to consult so that the selected products are compliant with voluntary and brand & retailer

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RSL (Restricted Substance List) requirements. It allows DyStar to build partnerships along the textile supply chain to foster a more sustainable textile production.

The econfidence® program allows DyStar to build partnerships with the textile supply chain to foster more sustainable textile production and to meet the retailers’ RSL. Emphasizing on the word ‘econfidence®’ Jayant Khera said, “In the word econfidence®, the first part of this word ‘eco’ which have a different meaning for different people. For someone it is economy and for someone else, it is for ecology. But here from this word econfidence®, we prefer both meanings. Here we also ensure that the economic issue of the industry and resolve the ecological value, which is very much needed to make the environment clean. Because DyStar believes in quality, not quantity.”

Bertram Seuthe, Global Business Development Manager discussed on ‘DyStar Cadira® Reactive/ Disperse dyes for continuous’. He explained about their different new products such as Levafix®, Remazol®, Dianix® etc. He also showed the effects of SERA

processing auxiliaries and introduced the benefits of their web-driven program – eliot®.

Figure 2: Distinguished guests from the industry were present at the program.

In the word econfidence®, the first part of this word ‘eco’ which have a different meaning for different people. For someone it is economy and for someone else, it is for ecology. But here from this word econfidence®, we prefer both meanings.

Here we also ensure that the economic issue of the industry and resolve the ecological value, which is very much needed to make the environment clean. Because DyStar believes in quality, not quantity.

Reiner Werschnitzky, Global business development manager highlighted ‘DyStar Cadira® Disperse concept for polyester’ where he said about their “Optidye PES” machine and the full operation procedure of this.

He also discussed their Cadira® process optimization and Cadira® full optimization process.

Ghanshyam Mishra, Regional Business Development Manager Printing pointed out on ‘DyStar printing package-reactive, printing and digital’. He said about their new concept “Jettex4.0” in which they provide DyStar reactive inks like Jettex® inks. He also discussed DyStar Vat inks for digital printing and technological evolution of textile printing.

Eric Hopman also said, “We need to also sometimes to cancel some products because of ecological issues. Again, for environmental protection, cost increases will be inevitable, as wastewater treatment and other waste management do have their price now”.

JAYANT KHERA, VICE PRESIDENT OF SOUTH ASIA, DYSTAR GROUP

CHTC Fong’s to present one-stop sustainable solution in dyeing and finishing at ITMA ASIA+CITME 2018 Desk Report The CHTC Fong’s Group will present the “one-stop” sustainable solution in dyeing and finishing range of “pre-treatment, dyeing, post-treatment and wastewater treatment” at ITMA ASIA + CITME 2018 in Hall 6, D05 and yarn conditioning and heat setting in Hall 2, E04, National Exhibition and Convention Center, Shanghai, China from 15 to 19 October.

CHTC Fong’s has been committed to the development and manufacturing of dyeing and finishing equipment for more than 50 years. In the past decades, CHTC Fong’s devoted to the

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Monforts, CHTC Fong’s dedicated in the development of Smart Dyeing and Finishing and join with the customers to build the intelligent dyeing factory.

Figure 1: most advanced heat recovery and air filtration technology.

development of energy-saving and emission reduction machines and now it becomes the basic conditions for dyeing factories.

Together with its well-known brands: Fong’s, Monforts Fong’s, Xorella, Then, Goller, FWT and

CHTC FONG’S will exhibit a full line of the most advanced and innovative products and technology including our new products- Fong’s TECWIN High Temperature Dyeing Machine, THEN AIRJETWIN Aerodynamic High Temperature Dyeing Machine, GOLLER DYEPADDER ECONOMICA Nip-in-Trough, MONFORTS FONG’S MONTEX 6500 Stenter Frame Range, MONFORTS FONG’S MONTEX 6500 AIR FILTRATION OMNI

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Product Name

Description

FONG’S TECWIN

High-Temperature Dyeing Machine

THEN AIRFLOW AIRJETWIN

Aerodynamic High-Temperature Dyeing Machine

The 2018 New GOLLER DYEPADDER ECONOMICA

Nip-in-Trough with Double Impregnation Mechanism

MONFORTS FONG’S MONTEX 6500 AIR FILTRATION OMNI

Stenter Frame Range- The most advanced heat recovery and air filtration technology

FONG’S WATER RECYCLING SYSTEM

By this system, one can reuse any kind of qualified discharge water

Stenter Frame and MONFORTS FONG’S MONFONGS STRAHM HiPer Shrink Astra.

In addition, CHTC Fong’s will also demonstrate the innovative smart dyeing and finishing at the booth, according to an immediate release.

The potential of Industry 4.0, in combination with the drive to reduce waste and minimize raw materials usage, has led to some significant new developments by Monforts.

At this year’s ITMA Asia + CITME, in Hall 6 at booth H6/D05, visitors can learn about the company’s latest Qualitex 800 control system, which along with the Web-UI app, allows the remote visualization of Monforts technologies via smartphones and tablet devices.

“We are already embracing many Industry 4.0 principles in our approach to new machine concepts and the Qualitex 800 has all the intuitive features operators will be familiar with from touchscreen devices,” explains Monforts Vice-President of Sales and Marketing Klaus Heinrichs.

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Figure 2: Fong’s water recycling system.

machine parameters,” he continued.

Resource efficiency is being addressed via the latest technologies such as the company’s Eco-Line for denim, based on two key technology advances – the Eco Applicator for minimum application of the selected finishing chemicals and the Thermo Stretch.

In many textile mills globally, the cost of energy for running integrated manufacturing lines – especially those for fabric finishing that can involve numerous sequences of heating and subsequent drying – is now eclipsing the cost of paying people to operate them.

The ability of the Eco Applicator to significantly reduce energy costs has seen it rapidly accepted on the market.

The Monforts Thermo Stretch unit meanwhile carries out the skewing (weft straightening), stretching and drying in a continuous process.

“The Eco Line system reduces energy requirements and losses, increases thermal transfer and keeps the drying energy on the textile material longer,” says Monforts Area Sales Director and Head of Product Management for Denim Hans Wroblowski. “As a

result energy savings of up to 50% are being achieved.”

Monforts is also the only manufacturer which is able to offer completely integrated coating lines from a single source and at ITMA Asia + CITME 2018, the company’s specialists will be on hand to explain how its latest coating heads are being tailored to drying technology for maximum benefits.

For an unprecedented range of options, Monforts now offers multi-functional coating heads for both its industrial texCoat and All-round coating units. Module options include those for screen printing, magnetic coating and knife coating, either integrated into new lines or retrofitted into existing installations.

“Our system has the shortest fabric path from the coating unit into the stenter and all of these options are available in wider widths,” says the company’s Head of Technical Textiles, Jürgen Hanel.

“Whatever your company’s specialism, we have the technologies and the process knowledge to help you take your business to the next level,” adding this Klaus Heinrichs also said, “We look forward to meeting customers old and new in Shanghai.”

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