World Bank takes interest in new Pakistan tanning cluster
19/12/2017
Out of Pakistan’s total of 800 tanneries, Sialkot is home to 250 and, at the moment, these plants function in ten different parts of the city, making a high level of environmental management difficult to achieve. The Sialkot authorities believe leather production there can become more sustainable if they can establish an up-to-date leather industrial zone with a dedicated wastewater treatment plant. They have already acquired a site for the new zone and begun constructing roads and boundary walls.
Total cost of the project will be an estimated $30 million, around $12 million of which will go into building the effluent treatment plant. The authorities have said they are hoping for “special cooperation” from the World Bank in bringing the project to fruition.
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