Staff Reporter, Dhaka : On a landmark occasion, His Excellency Ambassador of the USA, Peter Haas, attended Beximco’s State of the Art ETP & RO Inauguration and hand-over the LEED Platinum Certificate to Beximco at Beximco Industrial Park on Friday 23rd December 2022. The ceremony was hosted by Beximco Group Director & CEO Mr. Syed Naved Husain.

The program was held in presence of Mr. Salman F. Rahman, Private Industry and Investment Adviser to Honorable Prime Minister Sheikh Hasina and a member of the Jatiya Sangsad, and Honorable Vice Chairman of Beximco Group.

Syed Naved Husain, Beximco Group Director & CEO took Ambassador Haas to show all the units of Beximco’s Vertical Leeds Green Certified Industrial Park and they took great interest in Beximco initiatives on value addition and innovation using Technology, Education, and R&D as key drivers. They were also very keen to be updated on Beximco’s initiatives on Sustainability including Collaboration with Recovertex (A global leader in recycling Post Production Consumer Waste) and other Recycling initiatives taken by Beximco, State of the art effluent treatment plant along with RO systems for Recycling water, the most advanced technology based the world largest sustainable washing plant under one roof and Beximco’s automated garment manufacturing factories.

The US Ambassador was overwhelmed by knowing the huge initiatives taken by Beximco into Pharmaceuticals, PPE, Banking, Beximco’s Own Fashion Brand YELLOW, LPG & a wide range of Solar Energy. He was amazed to see the wide range of value-added fabrics and apparel produced by one company at one location and the widespread use of digitalization across the campus and 3D modeling linked with key customers. Ambassador Haas was also overwhelmed by Beximco’s important steps towards solving Bangladesh’s textile waste problem and establishing a closed-loop industry by recycling.

A series of speeches were made during the ETP & RO inauguration and the LEED Platinum Certificate Handover ceremony by Mr. Syed Naved Husain, H.E. Ambassador Peter Haas, and Mr. Salman F Rahman highlighting the importance of Effluent Treatment & Reverse Osmosis. Beximco’s ETP is established with the State-of-the-Art US Technology company Stamford Scientific International, Inc. It has 450 m3/hr treatment capacities, Advanced Moving Bed Bio Reactor (MBBR) Technology, Central panel with an automatic controlling system. Beximco has achieved the LEED PLATINUM Certificate certified by U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC).