Jt venture garment dyeing unit opens at Valuka
Sunday, 16 March 2008
FE Report
SQ Stevensons Chroma Ltd inaugurated its newly built garment dyeing and finishing factory at Valuka in Mymensingh.
It is a joint venture factory between SQ Group, one of the leading sweater manufacturers of the country, and Stevensons UK, a world renowned state-of-the-art garment dyeing and finishing company, according to a press release.
SQ is the first local company to set up such a garment-dyeing factory in the country in collaboration with a foreign entity.
M Ghulam Faruq, chairman of SQ Group, Salima Bensaid, its vice chairman, Syed Ahsan Habib, operations director at SQ I Quantum JV entities, Stuart Anderson, general manager (operations), SQ I Quantum JV entities, Gordon Cawood, technical and development director, Quantum Clothing Group, the UK, high officials from leading retailers like Marks and Spencer, GAP, H&M, TESCO, S'Oliver, Li & Fung and Echo Sourcing, BGMEA board members, high officials from HSBC along with employees from both sides and other distinguish guests were present at the inauguration ceremony at SQ Supply Chain City at Valuka.
Chairman and CEO of SQ Group Faruq in his speech, said the year of 2007 was a year of joint venture for SQ.
''We are having strategic alliances only with the market leader in the respective fields'', he added.
Faruq also assured all the business partners that SQ, would put up world class facility and product maintaining high standard.
Gordon Cawood said the Stevensons has century old experience in garment dyeing and finishing.
He also mentioned that Chroma would bring the best possible garment dyeing and finishing technology to this part of the world.
Bangladesh being one of the leading garment exporting country would greatly benefit from this facility, he added.
This newly formed facility has a complex and varied array of textile process machinery, in all different sizes offering the customer batch flexibility in terms of weight and size bands. Having a weekly capacity of 2000,000 pieces batches can be processed in anything from 20kg to 200 kg. The facility can process garments of many styles and construction including fully fashioned knitwear of fine and heavy gauges of most constructions and fiber combinations, lightweight and heavyweight knitted fabrics, i.e. T-Shirts, Trousers etc, footwear of all constructions, blended garments and intarsia constructions.
SQ Stevensons Chroma Ltd inaugurated its newly built garment dyeing and finishing factory at Valuka in Mymensingh.
It is a joint venture factory between SQ Group, one of the leading sweater manufacturers of the country, and Stevensons UK, a world renowned state-of-the-art garment dyeing and finishing company, according to a press release.
SQ is the first local company to set up such a garment-dyeing factory in the country in collaboration with a foreign entity.
M Ghulam Faruq, chairman of SQ Group, Salima Bensaid, its vice chairman, Syed Ahsan Habib, operations director at SQ I Quantum JV entities, Stuart Anderson, general manager (operations), SQ I Quantum JV entities, Gordon Cawood, technical and development director, Quantum Clothing Group, the UK, high officials from leading retailers like Marks and Spencer, GAP, H&M, TESCO, S'Oliver, Li & Fung and Echo Sourcing, BGMEA board members, high officials from HSBC along with employees from both sides and other distinguish guests were present at the inauguration ceremony at SQ Supply Chain City at Valuka.
Chairman and CEO of SQ Group Faruq in his speech, said the year of 2007 was a year of joint venture for SQ.
''We are having strategic alliances only with the market leader in the respective fields'', he added.
Faruq also assured all the business partners that SQ, would put up world class facility and product maintaining high standard.
Gordon Cawood said the Stevensons has century old experience in garment dyeing and finishing.
He also mentioned that Chroma would bring the best possible garment dyeing and finishing technology to this part of the world.
Bangladesh being one of the leading garment exporting country would greatly benefit from this facility, he added.
This newly formed facility has a complex and varied array of textile process machinery, in all different sizes offering the customer batch flexibility in terms of weight and size bands. Having a weekly capacity of 2000,000 pieces batches can be processed in anything from 20kg to 200 kg. The facility can process garments of many styles and construction including fully fashioned knitwear of fine and heavy gauges of most constructions and fiber combinations, lightweight and heavyweight knitted fabrics, i.e. T-Shirts, Trousers etc, footwear of all constructions, blended garments and intarsia constructions.