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STAR BUSINESS DESK

Concord Group is going to set up its fifth green block manufacturing plant installing a German machine in Munshiganj’s Gajaria upazila.

Managing Director Shahriar Kamal launched the construction through a ceremony at Renaissance Dhaka Gulshan Hotel yesterday, said a press release.

The first and second plants use machines brought from Spain capable of producing 59,520 blocks every eight hours.

The third uses a machine from Germany manufacturing 26,080 blocks while the fourth one made in the US producing 12,000 blocks, all within the same period.

Nazia Karishma Kamal, director of the group, Md Abdus Salam Molla, superintending engineer of Local Government Engineering Department, and Md Ashraful Alam, director general of House and Building Research Institute, were present.