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Italian co offers help in leather sector
A leading Italian company will offer technical and marketing assistance for local entrepreneurs in shoes and lealhergoods manufacturing sector, reports UNB.
Lampomacchine International. specialised in offering complete turn-key project in shoes and leathergoods sector, has joined hands with Roberto Pratelli. an Italian shoe expert now residing in Bangladesh, to provide the assistance, the company's local agent told newsmen here yesterday
The company, established in 1961. will offer its worldwide experience in engineering layout production lines and technology including selection and offering of correct machines to the Bangladesh entrepreneurs.
There will be a team of experts. headed by Roberto Pratelli. to render after-sales service of machine™. Assistance in locating and selecting proper raw materials and components of shoe manufacturing will also be available.
Pratelli's company. CP ln-ternational. engaged.in introducing newly-setup companies to the buyers in Europe, particularly in Italy, will act as a catalyst between the forthcoming factories and potential overseas buyers as marketing assistance.
Challenge Chemical and Technology (CCT), the agent of Lampomacchine in Bangladesh, organised a press briefing here to mark launch-
Ing assistance programme.
Reza Chowdhury of CCT and Roberto Pratelli of CP International and Stefano Pagllal of Lampomacchine International spoke on the occasion.
They said due to the fast changing scenario of world economy countries in Asia like Bangladesh have emerged as potential grounds for production bases of various products with low wage but easily adaptable workforce
The recent closure of about 200 tanneries in India due to environmental reasons, many interested buyers of Europe started coming to Bangladesh to locate suitable factories to secure production of shoes and other leather products.
But most of the buyers returned with disappointment as they could not locate factories capable to produce the leather items of acceptable quality due to lack of proper machinery and proper guidance of produc-Uonplanning, they alleged.
There are many small shoe manufacturing factories in Bangladesh. But/bnly tKretMO four companies are manufacturing export quality shoes and leathergoods despite the abundant supply of hides and skins in the country.
Commercial Attache of Italian Embassy in Dhaka Maria Adele Cioffi, and members of the shoe and leathergoods expert team Antonio Bendinelll and Iqbal Ashraf were present.