Comfit Composite’s $ 12.5 m green unit to create 2,500 jobs

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Green project of Comfit Composite Knit Ltd will create employment for 2,500 more people. The expenditure of the total project has been estimated as US$ 12.5 million and 60 per cent of the amount would come from self-financing and rest from bank loan, director of the factory Akbor Haider Munna informed The Independent.

The project, a 6 storied building situated in Comfit Composite knit, is built maintaining all requirement of Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certification from the USA . “We are maintaining energy modeling, Water Treatment Plant (WTP), rain water harvesting, sites management, recycling materials and zero discharge from effluent treatment plant (ETP). We will have knitting, sewing, international standard 3rd party testing lab etc in the project,” said Akbor Haider.

The director of the factory also said the project has already been started partially with some tiny productions without destroying environment.
“We are managing garbage, growing plantation, recycling few material, using low water. We will collect rain water, reduce our energy use with LED and use solar energy in implementing the project,” he said.

“Our knitting has been started and full operation will be started within 2 months and sewing will partially be begun within next month. We have plan for Tee, Basic Polo & Lingerie,” he said.
Answering to a question Akbor Haider told The Independent: “Of course we are trying to be cost effective but our main target is social and environmental responsibilities.”
Environment friendly Comfit Composite Knit Ltd has been established in 2006 on 22 acres land in Mirzapur of Tangail district.

Being a composite factory, products are exported directly from the factory after completion knitting and sewing.
At present more than 4,000 people have been working in this factory. This is the only factory in the country having a satellite clinic, he said.

Under the direction of Kumudini Hospital the workers receive medical services from the clinic paying only 50 per cent of their total treatment cost and it is paid by the factory authorities.
Kumudini Hospital now has seven hundred and fifty beds. Undoubtedly the largest privately built hospital in the country and that too in a village!

About the satellite clinic, Akbor Haider said productivity of a factory is hampered if a worker gets sick. The extra expenditure to run the clinic is less than the amount of loss which might come when an employee becomes unable to work.
Besides, there are future fund, welfare fund and training centre for all the employees in the factory.
The factory exports products of US$ 6 crore annually. The regular buyer companies of the products of the factory are H&M of Sweden, C&A of Belgium, C & A , engelbert strauss of Germany, Russia’s Sport-master and Spain’ Zara.