Recognized as the world’s leading auditing, inspection, testing, training, advisory, quality assurance and certification company, Intertek Bangladesh has now opened a comprehensive leather and footwear testing facility in Dhaka. The environment-friendly lab with features like energy-efficient lighting, water recycling and effluent treatment plant testing lab, is housed at Intertek’s Tejgaon, Dhaka, location, which was opened last year and is the largest Softlines testing lab in Asia. The new leather and footwear testing capabilities provide additional quality and safety assurance solutions to the leather, footwear and leather goods industries in countries such as India, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Nepal and Bhutan.
Equipped with state-of-the-art technology and centralized monitoring and controlling systems, the facility will also give a competitive edge to the regional clients who demand high standards of quality and safety for their products, while ensuring that they achieve acceptable standards for global buyers. Karthik N.D., Director Softlines and Business Assurance for Intertek Bangladesh averred, “This leather and footwear laboratory is a strategic addition to our existing softlines facility, empowering us to test and certify leather and footwear products to support this industry in the country.”
The lab was inaugurated by Hedayetullah al Mamoon, Senior Secretary, Ministry of Commerce; M. Abu Taher, Chairman, Bangladesh Finished Leather, Leathergoods & Footwear Exporters’ Association, and Chairman of Fortuna Bangladesh; and Syed Nasim Manzur, President, Leather Goods & Footwear Manufacturers and Exporters Association of Bangladesh, and Managing Director of Apex Footwear Limited.
