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Many people say it’s a dying Which segment would you How crucial is the role of rather we produce paper materials Our R&D department
industry, but it has been say there is more potential R&D to remain competitive in across the board. Paper mills in has been quite
maintaining a worldwide growth for growth? the global market? Bangladesh would only produce productive and
rate of over 6%. In the modern More potential for growth in the Our R&D department has been quite writing and printing paper, which inventive from the
age, there is a movement to go industry is in tissue, thermal productive and inventive from the you see as normal A4 paper or paper beginning, I personally
paperless, but despite the paper and packaging paper. beginning, I personally look after its for newsprint. Instead, we have look after its regular
digitization and this shift to an Thermal paper is what you use regular operation. Every time, based taken ourselves away from the
online dominion, the tangibility of on a credit card machine, POS on market data/ feedback, we decide conventional market, geared up operation. Every time,
paper is irreplaceable. ourselves for the next market, which based on market data/
machines etc. It is an import for the development of new SKUs or is a specialty grade. Your everyday feedback, we decide for
'Bashundhara Paper' has substitute. Generally, product range, it all starts from my use for thermal paper which is used the development of new
been the biggest paper Bashundhara Group enters in any endorsement and goes into trial to on every POS machine, NCR paper, SKUs or product range
exporter from Bangladesh industry with aims to take the the market with my concurrence duplex board, packaging paper –
for the past few years. place of the import substitute. also. It is always critical to keep these are the growth markets we are
What are the factors that The products that were once track what new facility can bring looking at. So we are segmenting
helped "Bashundhara imported, now we can produce it about and ultimately this is the only more in different specialty grades. initiatives are running across
Paper" to reach this locally and export it as well. approach we take to be competitive There’s a growth and sustainability many fields around us.
position? What are the in domestic as well as in the global over there, as well as positively Somewhere free eye clinic is
such a machine. Then we devised future goals? You have recently received arena. impacting employements. giving supports to the poor and
a plan on how to get the machine We have been adding capacity FSC-CoC (Recycled Paper) needy, somewhere Bashundhara
to Bangladesh, do the every year to match the demand certificate from the How is Bashundhara Group Bashundhara Group's core Ad-din Medical College Hospital in
construction on time, and get it regulatory authority constantly innovating value is 'For the People, For Keraniganj is providing the
As the Managing meticulously. Before we go machine in 18 months. It is up and running. Finally, once it of the market. We have recently Control Union. How themselves? the Country'. How has this cheapest medical care in its
Director of live with a machine at located in our Unit 1 which began running, it is not only listed ourselves on the Dhaka & crucial do you think it is value shaped the company
Bashundhara Paper production, we run it is in Narayanganj. The supplying in Bangladesh, but Chittagong stock market being the for consumers to use Bashundhara Group believes in and its operations over the 500-bed hospital, yet Friday
Clinics in Manikganj and Comilla
opportunity-creation for the nation;
Mills Ltd. and Vice through an extensive machine is so highly products are also being exported biggest paper mill as well as the responsibly sourced paper years?
Chairman of troubleshooting process, technically configured that in volumes. exporter. In terms of quality, products? hence innovation is the key to make awaits with best doctors of the
Country. A Special Children
it happen. The Group as a whole try
Bashundhara Group, following that it goes back it was quite difficult for Through this challenge we India- our neighboring country - As a company when we say For the
you have to oversee to the R&D department. people here to figure out achieved specific knowledge of has a bunch of paper mills all It is surely a responsible to remodel itself every now and then People, For the Country; we mean it. Foundation for the autistic, for
underprivileged children, having a
to stay updated with the trend, as
numerous operations. This is a daily routine we how to operate regularly. how to do team building, proper over, however very few of these recognition, but for Bangladesh All the concerns are built in for the
Do you have a maintain to stay on top of We did not have planning in tough times, then we could compete with the quality market we have not seen much of well as to remain competitive in the people, for the country. They are capacity of 250 students, is a
perfect institution of its kind. We
business arena.
strategy/ routine to any problems that may Bangladeshi expertise on did it a test scenario case and paper that we manufacture. That a big impact yet about FSC, adding value to the country, and it is
ensure the efficiency arise. this. The regular paper then we implemented it. is why our export market has mostly due to knowledge gap. Whenever we think of a new a value addition for the employees as have an orphanage of 1000
children, which is located in
investment, we always look for
of the processes? Can you please share machines require about grown substantially in India right But for the export market, it has well. Take our real estate business
with us about a 80-100 people to run but now. India has a gap of 300,000 been giving us a competitive edge import-substitute. We look into the for example, when we started back in Bashundhara also. We always try
Yes, I do follow a strategy challenge that you this new one can be run by Who are the people that tons of paper per annum. We are for marketing and exporting. industry, and in our R&D department 1987, we sold 3 lac Taka per katha, to remain beside the needy in
and I believe it is an faced as a leader and engaging just only 3 people. have shaped the person basically filling that gap in, When we export to Europe, that we are always working on products which in turn of time over 3 crore at crisis time e.g. during the winter
integral part of being a how you pushed So, to tackle this head on, you are now? partially which is why export of is a must. When we export to the that will be an import-substitute, present. So, we single- handedly as a season, we always extend our
leader. We have weekly through? we decided to go for My idol is always my father. I our quality paper & tissue U.S. and the U.K, these even the ones in the pipeline right company, made 50,000 supports all the Country with
meetings where we prepare extensive scheduled sincerely look at him, and thereby products have gone up. certificates are also must to give now. They all will be substituting multi-millionaires in the country. We warm clothing, relief supports to
ourselves for every Recently we have set up a training. We sent our people he has shaped me as the person I Our future goals are to practice documents. import-goods for Bangladesh and handed over 50,000 plots. Other the flood or, cyclone-affected
upcoming week. I need to new tissue machine from to Austria and China to get am today. Other than that, I would cost minimization and run the The full form of FSC is “Forest will be saving foreign currency. than that in all our products, we coastal people.
ensure my Head of Austria, which has the Stewardship Council”. Basically, During early 2020, our new Bitumin
What are the qualities Departments and Head of capacity to churn out 100 trained on how to operate say the next person is my business more efficiently. At plant will be in production. As never compromise on quality and we What would you like to say
do you believe that a Plants report back to me on MT tissues per day. We took headmaster from my boarding present, out of 14 machines, we when pulp is produced from Bangladesh is embarking upon always do extensive R&D, training to the new entrants in to
successful leader must a regular basis. Being the the challenge to erect the school back in the U.K. His guidance have made 10 of our machines as trees, it could be an Acacia tree building huge infrastructure, for for our employees so that they are the business sector?
have? Managing Director I always has been invaluable to me. closed loop machines, which or it could be a Rainwood, or roads and bridges, Bitumin is a well fitted and well educate, in every
Eucalyptus tree. To produce pulp,
means that the water discharge is
sphere of their lives.
From my boyhood, I was always
To be a successful leader, I have to have a bird’s eye fascinated by machinery and almost zero. Before, we had to use trees are uprooted and because of product which has been imported a I started 10 year ago, back in
2009. I would say where I am
think a person must view of the entire equipment. I am also fond of cars, 20 tons of water to make 1 ton of this, for every one tree taken out, lot, from all over the world. We will Apart from running such a today, obviously I have been given
possess a blend of absolute organization in real-time. so I was always into fixing and paper. We have reduced that down ten trees have to be replanted. have the capacity to cater to the massive company, the position to be where I am, but
integrity, honesty, Our integrated ERP system engineering things. I was keen on to 7 tons of water. We have made These pulp producers provide national demand, as well as export. Bashundhara Group also I have taken things furthermore
decisiveness and must be a generates resourceful pursuing engineering, but substantial reduction on relevant certificates and Our Bitumin will be guaranteed for engages in CSR activities. up. But remember to dedicate
team player. Having these reports that enable us to eventually I opted for studying electricity, steam consumption, as necessary endorsement before 10 years, once it is put on the road. Can you elaborate please? yourself to your work as your
qualities also grows the build the necessary tools to business administration, well as chemical consumption. We giving us pulp products. The passion. Whatever work you do,
capability to empower forecast the challenges. We technology always fascinated me. have switched to chemicals that chemicals which we are using to How does meeting innovation I believe great success comes with you should enjoy it. Do not think
others to work efficiently. have deadlines and This is how I ventured into the are bio eco-friendly. So, all these recycle the paper, de-ink the requirements affect the rate great responsibilities. Although of it as a burden. When I do my
Leaders have to be able to timelines for every piece of paper mill industry. They say, aspects we are doing day in and papers, those chemicals has to be of employment? Bashundhara Group has always been work, I really enjoy doing it, I take
rest their faith on their work, and from project to when you are born, you are given day out, and cutting our costs, certified by FSC-COC, which Bashundhara paper mill is not just very much submissive about all of it as a passion. I am a passionate
team and fully understand project basis. We set our a piece of paper, and when you while also becoming more implies they are not harmful to an ordinary paper mill, we do not its philanthropic initiatives, it is of golfer and passionate
how to properly delegate. KPIs and monitor them die, you are also given another. environmentally conscience. the environment. produce only simple writing paper no doubt a big range of its CSR businessman also.

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