UNIDO invites bids for waste management project in Sialkot
26/02/2019
Funds from UNIDO’s global environmental facility and technical assistance will be available to the bidder that wins the contract. Companies have until April 19 to submit bids for the work.
UNIDO has explained that the Sialkot Tannery Zone came into being because the disparate leather manufacturing set-up in and around the city was making environmental management particularly difficult to manage.
Industrial development officer for UNIDO leather projects, Ivan Král, has told World Leather the organisation has counted 189 tanneries operating in and around Sialkot at the moment. Construction of the Sialkot Tannery Zone is taking place now, with the authorities hopeful that production can commence there in mid-2020.
Mr Král said the new tannery zone covers more than 100 hectares and is divided into 556 lots. Even though larger operators are likely to purchase more than one plot, and some leather manufacturers may even relocate production from Karachi, he said there should be room for everyone.
He added that the bid UNIDO has launched now is for the first of four modules for the common effluent treatment plant. It expects this first phase of the work to be ready by the middle of next year, in time to allow the first tanners to commence operations at the new site.
Details of the procurement exercise can be found at this link.
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