Illustrative photo (Photo: VNA)HCM City (VNA) – Green, clean, energy-savingproduction is urgent to improve competitiveness of Vietnam’s garment-textile enterprisesas each year the sector spends up to 3 billion USD on production energy, hearda workshop in Ho Chi Minh City on April 11.
Vu Duc Giang, Chairman of the Vietnam Textile and ApparelAssociation, said Vietnam’s garments-textiles are under the pressure of price,production cost, environmental safety and labourers’ health.
Commitments to corporate social responsibility have beenalso mentioned in articles of free trade agreements to which Vietnam is asignatory, he stressed.
Joerg Bauersachs, general director of Tal Apparel Limited’sdyeing factory, said since 2009, his factory has applied energy-savingsolutions, helping cut 26 percent of emissions and 36 percent of water used inproduction.
Nguyen Thanh Ha, a representative of the Stateadministration for comprehensive growth project of the US Agency forInternational Development (USAID), said the problem lies with how to reduceemissions and waste water.
He also underlined the need for enterprises to revamp theirproduction processes towards international standards for emissions, waste andwaste administration.
The USADI has partnered with the Vietnamese Ministry ofIndustry and Trade (MoIT) to improve garment-textile firms’ energy-savingcapacity, while helping them access loans to carry out energy-saving projects,he said.
According to Hoang Van Tam from the MoIT said an alliance ofsustainable garment-textile firms is expected to officially make its debut inVietnam in June 2018, assisting the businesses in improving productionenvironment and cutting pollutants. -VNA
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