Mina Textile: To Run Businesses In Africa

"Printing and dyeing plants abroad is not to pfer backward production capacity, nor to bring pollution."

Yesterday, Wei Changjun, general manager of Zhejiang Mina Textile Co., Ltd., said that in 2014, the company invested more than 100 million yuan, and set up a printing and dyeing plant in Ethiopia, Africa. The investment in sewage treatment equipment amounted to 14 million yuan, equipped with a set of sewage treatment equipment that accords with EU standards, and it can handle 2500 tons of sewage daily.

As a textile foreign trade enterprise, in the textile city gathered by export enterprises, "Mina textile" can be said to be unknown, but in Ethiopia, the fame of the enterprise is not small.

They set up textile and dyeing factories locally, and trained the first generation of textile workers for Ethiopia.

According to introducing, "Mina textile" began to do textile foreign trade in 2001.

Later, Wei Changjun became acquainted with a businessman in Ethiopia and tried to invest in timber in Ethiopia.

In 2011, Wei Changjun invested heavily in 117 million yuan to acquire the state-owned textile enterprise which was on the verge of collapse in Ethiopia, so that the enterprise was brought back to life.

In 2014, Wei Changjun bought more than 200 acres of land locally, and built 36 thousand square meters of printing and dyeing workshops, 5 production lines including knitting, weaving, printing and dyeing. The workshop's production was based on European COD emission standards.

"The enterprise order is not worrying at all. Now the company produces 160 thousand tons of grey cloth per day, with an average of 14 cabinets per week, and sends it to the printing and dyeing factory in Ethiopia."

Wei Changjun said that after dyeing and finishing, the fabrics will be sold to the local and surrounding Kenya, Sultan, and the United States, Europe and other places.

Next, he is going to extend to the garment industry to form the whole industrial chain of textile, dyeing and finishing, and garment making.

"Foreign trade enterprises need to have an international vision to run enterprises in Africa. We should change the idea of" short, flat and fast ", and work hard to build and manage talents.

Wei Changjun said that the more than 30 management team of the printing and dyeing enterprise set up in Ethiopia is all domestic personnel, sending excellent employees to the international fashion capital such as Italy to train and integrate with the international market.