Before a certain exit following five years of monitoring compliance development at factories in Bangladesh, Accord for Fire and Building Safety has severed ties with 20 more factories due to failure in carrying out recommended Corrective Action Plans (CAPs).
The termination of the 20 factories, carried out through the month of August, has been announced in a press releases. Accord has requested its signatory companies to withhold from doing business with these suppliers and all factories under the same ownership.
The companies are: Super knitting & Dying Mills Ltd, Greenland Apparels Ltd, Epshita Garments Ltd, Super Synthetics, Super Thread Ltd, Visual Eco Style Wear Ltd – 6 factories of Super knitting & Dying Mills Ltd; SB Knitex Ltd., Pinnacle Garments, Piran Garments (Pvt.) Ltd. – 2 factories of Ikram Group; Minar Industries (Pvt.) Ltd., Mintex Fashion Ltd., New Labour Hosiery & Garments Ltd., Minar Textiles Ltd., Zarjis Composite Knit Industries (Pvt) Ltd. – 5 factories of Minar Group; M. S. Dyeing, Printing & Finishing Ltd., Navy Fashion, Navy Hosiery – 3 units of Navy Hosiery Group; Comfort Apparels (PVT) Ltd., Portland Textile Ltd., SM Knit Wear, and Texstream Fashion Ltd.
Accord, the platform of European retailers and brands, has been working towards compliance building at Bangladesh’s factories since the deadly incidents of Rana Plaza collapse and Tazreen Fashion fire. In a span of five years of their work, Bangladesh’s garment factories have become one of the most standardised line of factories anywhere in the world, the apparel manufacturers say.
However, Accord is most likely to leave Bangladesh this December since Bangladesh Government has clarified that they will not be extending the tenure of Accord and another similar platform of North American retailers and brands ‘Alliance’. The remediation work at the factories will be taken over by a local Remediation Coordination Cell.
