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Bangladesh targets US$5 billion in leather exports by 2021

Published: October 2, 2019

The government of Bangladesh is said to be aiming to reach US$5 billion worth of leather and leather goods exports by 2021.

ECCO agrees a Joint Venture in India

Published: February 25, 2019

The Denmark headquartered tanning and shoe manufacturing Group is to open its first store in India in the first quarter of 2019.

Tanneries continue to pollute river Ganges

Published: September 19, 2016

A report from India’s Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) indicates that the tanning and textile sectors together with sugar, paper and pulp industries are discharging a total of 212.42 million litres of waste daily across the Ganges river.

German team looks at Ganga river pollution

Published: October 14, 2014

A two-member German study team of an Indo-German joint venture for cleaning up the river Ganga was stunned when it came to know that 41 million litres of untreated water is being discharged per day in the river in the city.

River Ganga treatment plants cannot cope with tannery waste

Published: July 3, 2014

The Indian government is considering a separate ministry for rivers with special focus on the Ganga, the national river where a number tanneries around the Kanpur are blamed for pollution partly due to the under capacity of treatment plants.