Coats Bangladesh Ltd has established a technologically advanced modern Effluent Treatment Plant (ETP) in its Gazipur factory.
It was inaugurated on June 21, 2022, by Bill Watson - COO of Asia Region of Coats Group Plc in the presence of Al Kashem- managing director of Coats Bangladesh, Salman Chowdhury- assistant director, Dhaka Zone of Dept of Environment (DOE), Khalid Gaffar- deputy director, Trade and Investment, British High Commission and Kamrun Nahar Ruma-manager British Business Group, British High Commission, reads a press release.
The new ETP will be able to reduce 80% of water consumption by its recycling facility and thus reduce groundwater extraction equivalent to about 500,000 litres/day.
On the occasion, Bill Watson said: “I thank the Coats Bangladesh team for their tireless effort and contribution in improving our sustainability agenda by actively minimizing our environmental footprint across our supply chain. Coats Bangladesh team has been working on all five sustainability pillars under our sustainable strategy, actively for a long time and the establishment of this new ETP is a true testament to our effort in pioneering it.”
Al Kashem said: “Coats has always been an environmentally conscious company. We place sustainability at the heart of our transformation process and decision-making. The company has invested more than Tk34 crore to establish this new ETP, which shows our sheer commitment to sustainability. We as a company have undertaken a lot of initiatives, notable that we have reduced over 30% energy and 40% water consumption through various projects, have robust Waste management which has reduced over 27% of waste and have been a Great Place to Work-Certified two years in a row.”
Salman Chowdhury added saying that the initiative towards the sustainability that has been taken by Coats is phenomenal and exemplary for the other companies operating in Bangladesh. The water bodies are being polluted by various industrial waste streams and this ETP establishment by Coats is an example of pioneering and putting sustainability at the core of the operation from which other companies in Bangladesh can actively learn from and implement too.
