Bangladesh’s spinning millers have stepped up investments in synthetic and blended yarns in response to the increasing use of such yarns globally. The country's spinning mills imported 1 lakh ton of polyester staple fiber in 2020, while it was only 10 lakh ton in 2015, according to the Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA).

Engr Razeeb Haider Munna, Director, Bangladesh Textile Mills Association (BTMA) informs, many spinning millers are converting a part of their capacities to manufacture synthetic yarns and some are investing to set up new units for synthetic and blended yarns. He hoped production capacity of such yarns will be higher within a year.

South Asia’s leading textile giant Noman Group has invested in setting up a 100 per cent synthetic yarn unit, which is under trial production. Its new unit will produce about 100 ton of synthetic yarns per day, which is scheduled for commercial operation by the end of this month, saus Mohammad Enamul Karim, Executive Director-Spinning.

Noman has also started construction of another spinning mill to produce blended and cotton yarns, whose production capacity will be 125 ton a day. The under-construction unit, involving an investment amounting to Tk500 crore, will come into production by October 2022. It will also create about 1,500 new jobs.

As per the BTMA, local spinners can meet about 80 per cent of the demand for export-oriented knit yarn and 40 per cent of that for woven yarn, while synthetic and mixed yarns are mostly imported from China.

Envoy Group is also investing Tk125 crore to set up a synthetic blended yarn production capacity. The new unit will produce 12 tonne of yarn per day. Similarly, Envoy Group, Matin Spinning Mills, a sister concern of DBL Group, has also invested Tk186 crore to set up a special unit to produce synthetic yarn.