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Garment factory in Bangladesh Dhaka EPZ. According to a New York Times journalist by August 2012 the garment or textile industry which exports worth $18 billion a year, accounted for "80 percent of manufacturing exports and more than three million jobs".
It is considered as one of the deadliest structural failures in modern human history, as well as the deadliest garment-factory disaster in history, and the deadliest industrial accident in the history of Bangladesh. [5] [6] [7] Amnesty International called it "the most shocking recent example of business-related human rights abuse." [8]
Desh Garments was established in 1977 as an export oriented garment factory. [7] It was the first export oriented garment factory in Bangladesh and a pioneer of the Textile industry in Bangladesh. [8] [9] The factory sent staff to South Korea to learn about the garments trade from Daewoo in the early 1980s. [10]
The group was founded in 1983, through the establishment of one of the first garments industries of Bangladesh. [4] The founder of the group was Khalilur Rahman. [4] KDS Textiles was established in 2000. [4] The same year, KDS Steel established KYCR Coil Industries Limited. [4] In 2001, the Cold Rolling Mills Complex was established by KDS ...
The 2012 Dhaka garment factory fire broke out on 24 November 2012, in the Tazreen Fashion factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. [3] At least 117 people were confirmed dead in the fire, and over 200 were injured, [1] making it the deadliest factory fire in the nation's history. [4]
Ha-Meem Group is a Bangladeshi conglomerate in textile and garments sector. [1] [2] It owns 26 garments factories, [3] sweater factory, poly bag industry, label factory, jute mill, chemical formulation plant, tea estates, transport company, Channel 24 and Samakal, a widely circulated national daily newspaper.
The 2005 Dhaka garment factory collapse or Spectrum garment factory collapse was a structural failure that occurred on Monday, 11 April 2005 in the Savar Upazila of Dhaka, Bangladesh where a nine-story commercial building collapsed. [3] [4] The site is located about 30 km northwest of Dhaka. The explosion of a boiler on the ground floor ...
The National Garment Workers Federation (NGWF) is a registered national trade union federation of garment workers in Bangladesh.With 87 registered factory unions, it ifs considered one of the four main federations of garment workers' unions. [3]