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Sustainability & community

Responsibility is an
operating cost,
not a campaign

01 Position

Where it
lands

A refinery, a moulding plant, a trawler fleet and a sand-washing operation all carry real environmental and safety exposure. Treating that as a communications exercise would be dishonest.

Our position is narrower and more practical: manage effluent and emissions to standard at every site, run genuine safety systems rather than paper ones, harvest within quota, and put community investment where we physically operate rather than where it is most visible.

Progress is measured against the same indicators every year and reported in the annual accounts, whether the numbers improved or not.

02 Focus areas

01

Effluent & emissions

Treatment to Department of Environment standard at every processing site, with discharge monitoring and quarterly independent sampling.

02

Occupational safety

Documented safe systems of work, mandatory protective equipment, blame-free incident reporting and investigation of near misses.

03

Responsible harvesting

Fishing within licensed quota and every closed season, with by-catch handling and gear standards applied across the fleet.

04

Material circularity

Regrind and reuse in polymer processing, waste segregation on site, and recovery of process solvents where technically possible.

05

Energy intensity

Energy per unit of output measured at each plant, with reduction targets set annually rather than announced once.

06

Community investment

Education, healthcare access and skills training concentrated in Narayanganj, Gazipur, Chattogram and Sylhet, where our sites and vessels are based.

03 National contribution

Development,
measured plainly

The most useful thing an industrial enterprise can do for a developing economy is make locally what the country currently buys abroad, employ people formally to do it, and pay tax on the result.

That is the frame we use. It does not replace environmental responsibility — it sits alongside it.

Indicator20242025
People employed3,2083,412
Apprenticeships completed151184
Lost-time injury rate1.420.96
Effluent compliance98.1%99.4%

Injury rate per million hours worked. Effluent compliance measured against Department of Environment discharge limits.

04 Community

Programmes
we fund

Four standing commitments, funded from a fixed annual allocation rather than from whatever is left over.

01 Technical scholarships Polytechnic and diploma fees for students from the districts around our plants, with a first-interview guarantee on graduation. Education
02 Plant-adjacent health camps Quarterly primary-care and eye-screening camps run for communities neighbouring the Narayanganj and Gazipur sites. Health
03 Fishing community support Off-season income support and safety-equipment provision for crew families during closed seasons at Chattogram. Livelihoods
04 Women in operations Recruitment and supervisory training targeted at increasing the share of women in plant and contact centre supervision. Inclusion