UK based Coats world’s leading industrial thread company offers more than 20 products in 10 sizes of thread. But in color it supplies more than a hundred thousand colors. Coats launched many ranges of innovative threads. One of these is the waterproof AS thread, used in footwear and down jackets. The company has also made investments in its effluent treatment plant, where it reuses 30 per cent water after treatment and is looking to increase that to 100 per cent. In Bangladesh Coats is the first company which offers garment factories recycled thread. The company uses plastic bottles to make chips, which are then converted into plastic threads. It also aims to make all its premium polyester threads from 100 per cent recycled material by 2024.

Coats, has been operating in Bangladesh for 30 years and wants to be a partner to the garment factories by offering solutions that add value to their operations. Other value solutions Coats offers customers are speed, innovation, digital and sustainability. The company has expanded its capacity by around 40 per cent in the last two years.