strategic mgt
Eco Leather production in Apex Group Ltd.
A contemporary business case
Student Name Md. Mostain Belal
ID Number
1235325
Topic Area
Environmental Issue
Project Title
Production of Eco Leather by using the latest Technology in Apex Tannery Ltd.
Introduction
Background to the Project
Leather is created by tanning hides and skins of animals; primarily cattle hide. Generally tanning (series of chemical operation) of leather involves using heavy metals like chrome which is later on discharged in the rivers near the tanneries polluting the water and soil causing hazardous intoxications to the human beings, and environment around. Ecological leather is the most advanced in respect to environmental protection. It is chrome free leather tanned using only organic compounds.
Apex Tannery Ltd has been setting industry standards in Bangladesh leather export industry since 1976, equipped with the state of the art Italian modern machinery and maintaining high quality strictness. Through the years, its production has been progressively entailing a constant expansion of building and machinery. Annual production exceeds 23 million square meters and company sales turnover amounts to over US$30 million, thus creating an exemplary model for corporate development in the tannery sector. They have been producing a range of products for example, cow full chrome, cow semi chrome, cow vegetable, goat full chrome, goat semi chrome and also various types of finished leathers for shoes and leather goods. Most of these products are being produced by using the conventional Chrome Tanning Method which is solely the indication of environmental hazards as well as the final product.
The today’s world has become more concerned about the Global Warming and consequently the Governments and other environmental organisations especially in the developed countries are
A contemporary business case
Student Name Md. Mostain Belal
ID Number
1235325
Topic Area
Environmental Issue
Project Title
Production of Eco Leather by using the latest Technology in Apex Tannery Ltd.
Introduction
Background to the Project
Leather is created by tanning hides and skins of animals; primarily cattle hide. Generally tanning (series of chemical operation) of leather involves using heavy metals like chrome which is later on discharged in the rivers near the tanneries polluting the water and soil causing hazardous intoxications to the human beings, and environment around. Ecological leather is the most advanced in respect to environmental protection. It is chrome free leather tanned using only organic compounds.
Apex Tannery Ltd has been setting industry standards in Bangladesh leather export industry since 1976, equipped with the state of the art Italian modern machinery and maintaining high quality strictness. Through the years, its production has been progressively entailing a constant expansion of building and machinery. Annual production exceeds 23 million square meters and company sales turnover amounts to over US$30 million, thus creating an exemplary model for corporate development in the tannery sector. They have been producing a range of products for example, cow full chrome, cow semi chrome, cow vegetable, goat full chrome, goat semi chrome and also various types of finished leathers for shoes and leather goods. Most of these products are being produced by using the conventional Chrome Tanning Method which is solely the indication of environmental hazards as well as the final product.
The today’s world has become more concerned about the Global Warming and consequently the Governments and other environmental organisations especially in the developed countries are