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Chinese firm to build long-awaited treatment plant in Bangladesh

07/12/2011
A long-standing problem for the Bangladeshi tanning industry appears to be nearer a solution after the government in Dhaka approved a contract-award that gives a Chinese company responsibility for building a new common effluent treatment plant.

Tanneries in the Hazaribagh district of the capital were ordered years ago to move to a new site at Savar, 30 kilometres to the west of the city. Owners of the almost 160 tanneries said they were willing to move but could not afford the capital investment required for a common effluent treatment plant at the new site. They insisted the government should pay.

By the end of 2010, four UNIDO consultants had become involved in the project and the result of their work is that Chinese firm JLEPCL-DCLJV Limited has won the contract to build the $60 million treatment plant, with the cabinet committee on government purchase approving the funding.


 


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