Millions of fashion-conscious people residing in North-Eastern states in India are excited to study current duty-free access facilities accorded to Bangladeshi products, including textile items, which won’t be flooding in the North-Eastern markets, as Bangladeshi products are cheaper in price and much superior in quality, comparing to those made in India. Bangladeshi textile products already remain much before the products made in India, due to superior craftsmanship in Bangladeshi factories. Moreover, Bangladesh updates the latest trend and design almost on a day-to-day basis, keeping eyes on the global market. That has probably placed Bangladesh in the number one position as textile product exporters in the world.
The traders in North-Easter states in India believe that once Bangladeshi goods enter the Indian market, the retail costs of garments there will fall by 20-30 percent due to the inexpensive labour and low production price of goods in Bangladesh. Moreover, transportation price of Indian textile products to the North-East is far higher than the transportation price of Bangladeshi products to those markets. In addition to denim items and fashion textiles, Bangladesh will also have a big market of cotton lungi and Bangladeshi Jamdani saree to this market. Leaders of Bangladeshi textile products are seeing a new width of exporting textile products worth US$ 2-3 billion in the North-Eastern part of India as well as Nepal and other bordering states, under the prevailing trade benefit accorded by the Indian state. Importers and traders in the North-Eastern states in India will also find interest in buying various kinds of stock heaps of textile items from Bangladesh.
In addition to the textile items, Bangladesh will be in a position to export its top-class ceramic items to the North-Eastern states in India. Bangladeshi ceramic items are presently exported in a considerable number of Western states as well as America and the Middle East.
Monno Ceramic Industries started producing porcelain tableware for the Bangladesh home market in 1985, and secured its first export order the next year. Monno shortly earned an exciting name for both quality and worth. The subsequent introduction of bone china to its range of quality dinnerware has only served to strengthen that reputation. As the first exporter of porcelain dinnerware ‘Made in Bangladesh ‘ Monno is proud to make a contribution to the expansion of the Bangladesh economy. In a developing country the kudos accorded to exports and the valuable foreign exchange derived is important. Today in Bangladesh Monno is a well-known name and regarded as one of the states premier firms.
Monno offers products in Porcelain, New Bone China, Ivory China, and real Bone China. Actually they source the materials in their bone china body and glaze from Stoke on Trent, to which is added pure water filtered from their own wells. So Monno likes to think about it as ‘English ‘ Bone China. Patrons include many well known distinguished malls, speciality and chain stores around the world for whom they manufacture own label products. Some buyers have been with Monno for so long as 20 consecutive years and Monno is content to enjoy an intimate relationship with them. They work with consumers to develop their own shapes or decorations, or can offer designs from their extensive stable. Their accomplished groups of artists and designers work closely with the experienced engineers of an own in-house decal print unit. That mix of man and machine helps achieve striking results.
Monno’s Porcelain & Bone China factories are perhaps unique in being able to offer under one roof the flexibility and versatility of many producing strategies as best suit the size or nature of the product. Monno has invested in modern machinery and can boast high pressure casting, ISO Static Pressing, vehicle cup lines, car dip glazing, spray drying, and an open firing system. That technology helps them in their never ending pursuit of excellence. Manufacturing capacity is in the order of 2 Million pieces a month.
Monno Products are safe! Tests carried out by CERAM show their products fall well under the thresholds for lead and cadmium release in tableware or cooking utensils coming into contact with foods as stipulated under current Western european regulations. They also meet Australasian and US Fed wants as well as those specified by California’s tough ‘Proposition 65′.
RAK Ceramics is one of the leading ceramic factories in Bangladesh. RAK Ceramics [Bangladesh] Limited, a UAE-Bangladesh JV company, was incorporated in Bangladesh on 26 Nov, 1998 as a private company restrained by shares under the Corporations Act 1994. The name of the Company was afterward modified to its name from RAK Ceramics [Bangladesh] Non-public Limited to RAK Ceramics [Bangladesh] Limited as a public limited company. The company is engaged in producing and promoting of ceramics tiles, lavatory sets and all kinds of sanitary ware. It started commercial production in November, two thousand. The commercial manufacture of new sanitary ware plant started in Jan, 2004.
The company has over 1,000 different models and shapes of its products and regularly adds newer designs to the product portfolio. RAK’s production capacity is 22,000 square meter floor / wall tiles and 3,400 pieces of sanitary ware per day. Products of the company are constantly exported to the Middle Eastern markets. RAK Ceramics [Bangladesh] Limited is an ISO 9001:2008 licensed organization.When we talk about ceramics, we can say that a good ceramics is very rare. In Europe, in some countries you can also find a good ceramic products.For example,in Bosnia and Herzegovina you can find ceramics or in Bosnian keramika.
Shinepukur Ceramics Limited is an affiliate of the Largest Non-public Sector Multinational, BEXIMCO, in Bangladesh with about 30,000 people in the permanent payroll, handling a diversified range of produce to and from Bangladesh. The Group’s in-house producing interests encompass Seafood, Jute Yarn, Pharmaceuticals, Textiles, Knit, Denim, Attire, Real Estate and Engineering. BEXIMCO is also involved in Media, PCs and the IT Arena’s. As a part of a carefully planned growth program of the Group, BEXIMCO has setup this up to the minute Ceramic Tableware Plant, SHINEPUKUR CERAMICS LIMITED. ( SCL ) on the fringes of Dhaka in 1999. SCL is a 100 pc export orientated unit, fitted out with the most recent and modern Machinery’s and Kiln’s from TAKASAGO MINO, and SKK Japan and comprises of two independent units making prime quality Porcelain and Bone China Tableware. The Porcelain unit has a capacity of 60,000 pieces, whilst the capacity of the Bone China unit being ten thousand pieces a day. The Bone China unit has in fact been setup on the basis of the latest technology from NIKKO Japan, coupled with intensive training facilities to our Production team, both regionally and worldwide.
Additionally, SCL is equipped with the top-of-the-testing and Quality Controls Laboratory facilities, Decal Plant, Carton-Packaging Plant, Modeling Unit, and has at its disposal its captive gas-based Power Generation capability, and the best effluent discharge mechanisms ready. The Company is also an ISO 900 half 000 licensed Company.
Since commencement of the commercial manufacture at the end of 1999, Shinepukur has successfully developed a substantial export market for the state-of-the-art Bone China and Porcelain Tableware and the purchaser portfolio now includes world-renowned Tableware corporations in England, USA, Spain, Italy, Australia, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Russia, UAE, Denmark, Germany, France, Mexico, Turkey, and India.
Decal Plant and Design Studio : Decal production started in Aug 2001. Total Printing Capacity is about 120,000 Sheets per Month, starting from single colour upto eight Colours with Gold / Platinum, both Onglaze [840 degrees Celsius] and Inglaze [1220 degrees Celsius], and absolutely Lead and Cadmium Free. The Company has set up Designing Studio in the Plant in 2005 and in Italy with Rody Time s.r.l. In 2006.
Packing Plant : Production in the Packing Plant started in June 2003. Assorted about three hundred thousand Pieces White and / or Brown Cartons per month are presently being produced in this facility. In addition, the Company also supplies 4-6 Colour Outlined Cartons.
Exports from Shinepukur Ceramics comprise about 60% of the Nation’s Tableware Export turnover of Bangladesh. As recognition of this contribution, SCL has been awarded Nationwide Export Prize [Gold] in December 2003 for the Finance Year 2000-2001and 2002-2003 as reported tagza.com.