The Federation of Bangladesh Chambers of Commerce and Industry (FBCCI) has underscored the need for an international standard central waste treatment plant (CETP) for the leather industry of Bangladesh, which it feels is essential for the development of the sector.
The FBCCI president Md Jashim Uddin reportedly stated this while addressing the 2nd meeting of the FBCCI standing committee on hide and skin, leather and leather goods and artificial leather in Dhaka recently even as he opined the leather sector was one of the most promising sectors in the country, which contributed 100 per cent value addition.
However, Md Jashim Uddin added due to lack of better management, the local rawhide was rotting and leather goods producers had to depend on imported raw leather even as he urged for a speedy introduction of an international standard CETP at Savar’s Hemayetpur to utilise the potentials of the sector.
