Sustainability Initiatives

VIYELLATEX GROUP
Bridging Progress & Sustainability
Sustainability / Green
Initiatives
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Introduction
 Started as a small family business of knit apparel manufacturing in
1996
 Leading multi-dimensional business conglomerate of Bangladesh
 Have since diversified the business in different sectors
Knitting
Spinning
Logistics
Support
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Dyeing
Production
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Sustainability…
is 3Ps
PLANET
PEOPLE
(Environmental
Sustainability)
(Social
Sustainability)
Taking care of our planet and its
people
In an economically sustainable
and viable way
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PROFIT
(Economic
Sustainability)
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Carbon Reduction Strategies
 Reusing Condensed steam -saves
180,000 m3 of natural gas every month
 Using Dryer Exhaust – saves 7500 m3
of natural gas every month
 Co-Generation Chiller & Boiler – saves
140,000 m3 of natural gas every month
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Carbon Reduction Strategies (contd..)
 Energy Efficient lighting &
machinery – resulting in 35% of
energy costs
 Evaporative cooling pad –
replacing conventional cooling
systems, that saved 632,458 m3 of
natural gas in the last fiscal year
 Steam traps in ironing devices –
type of automatic valves to
remove condensate without steam
escape
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Water Reduction Strategies
 Waste water of effluent treatment
plant re-used for toilet flushing
for 7500 workers – saving 44.2
million liters of water per year
 Drop and fill process at dyeing
unit – saving 650,000 liters of
water every month
 Rain Water harvesting system –
saving 45 million liters of water
per year
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3R (Reduce, Reuse &Recycle) programs
 Participation in the Paper
Recycling program of Centre for
the Rehabilitation of the
Paralyzed (CRP) and Shishu Polli
Plus, for generating envelopes,
greeting cards, etc
 Organic Compost fertilizer – from
food residue, kitchen waste and
micro-cotton dust, producing
31,086 kg of compost fertilizer
every month
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Carbon Offsetting program
 Building of environment (green)
friendly factories – in 2013, two such
factories will go into operation.
 Plantation – To offset existing
emissions, we plan to plant 6 million
trees by 2015
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Social / Medical Camps
 0-5 Clinics – held quarterly
 Expanded Program on Immunization
(EPI) – held monthly, to provide
women & children medical services
 Eye camp
 Blood Donation program
 Antenatal care (ANC) – a continuous
program where medical services
such as ultra sonograms are
provided to pregnant employees
 Employment of 72 physically
challenged people
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Promoting Education
 BIKASH school – a school for the
physically challenged and
underprivileged children
 Early Childhood Development
(ECD) – a school project in
association with PVH, USAID
and Save the Children, where 7
schools are being administered.
 Work to Learn Advanced – an
apprenticeship program in
association with UCEP & Save
the Children.
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