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Learn About Africa'S Important Textile Production Base, Grogbe, Benin

2022/4/20 19:11:00 0

　　 Recently, Vikas budhiraja, vice president of textile business section of SHENGFEI integrated industrial park, gave an interview with foreign media. He talked about the four reasons why the country of golugibe Industrial Park in Benin, which belongs to SHENGFEI, can become an important textile production base in Africa

　　 Q: what are the main considerations for SHENGFEI to choose West Africa as the location of its industrial park? (SHENGFEI has industrial parks in Benin and Togo in West Africa)

　　 A: West Africa is rich in raw material resources, including raw cotton, cashew nuts, soybeans, timber and other agricultural raw materials, which provides a huge development space for the development of processing and export-oriented economy. At the same time, West Africa has a very good geographical location, with major maritime ports, which directly connect to Europe and the United States.

　　 Secondly, West Africa is politically stable. With the strong support of the government, the business environment has been continuously improved, and there are abundant youth labor resources.

　　 The two countries, Beninese (and Togo), where the promotion of Africa is located, have joined the African Growth Opportunity Act (AGOA) and the everything but arms (EBA) Treaty of the European Union (EU). They enjoy duty-free privileges in Africa and the EU.

　　 Q: for investors in the textile industry, what are the unique advantages of upgrading the production in the non integrated industrial park?

　　 A: The raw material supply of cotton and the ecology of industrial cluster are the important advantages of upgrading to Africa. For example, in the park, spinning enterprises can obtain stable cotton supply, knitting enterprises can obtain stable yarn supply, and garment enterprises can obtain stable cloth supply.

　　 The park will also provide a stable and highly competitive power supply compared with independent investment. Our textile and clothing training center will provide pre job training for employees, and finally invest in the park and enjoy half of the basic salary subsidy of employees within 18 months after the local government put into operation.

　　 How can investors pay more attention to environmental protection in non textile industries?

　　 A: Sustainable development has always been one of the core concepts of SHENGFEI. We will assess the carbon footprint of all commodities leaving the park from the perspective of water and energy, and ensure the energy traceability of commodities. For example, all cotton stored and used in the park can be traced back. The park also set up a special sewage treatment plant.

　　 Q: what is the first reason for Benin to become a garment enterprise?

　　 A: In addition to the favorable labor force and policies, and the software and hardware support of Benin grujibe Industrial Park invested by SHENGFEI, Benin, which is also rich in cotton, is gradually favored by the market due to the low geopolitical risks. In the cotton picking season 2020-2021, Benin ranks ninth in the world with an average annual output of 700000 tons. Benin already has 19 ginning factories, and the textile industry chain has begun to take shape.

　　 With regard to the supply of cotton, the grojibe Industrial Park of Benin purchases cotton from the cotton trade union (AIC) of Beninese. These cotton follow the principle of sustainable development and are traceable. They are marked as made in Africa or CMAI, which is equivalent to the BCI certification of African version. At the same time, it is authorized to directly pick cotton from local cotton farmers.

　　 The shortage of shipping container resources and the floating freight rates during the epidemic period are important factors for enterprises to consider. The geographical location of Benin can give full play to its advantages. It only takes about 20 days to reach the European Union, and 20-25 days to reach the United States. The geographical location of Benin makes the possible floating space of freight rates between the United States and Europe smaller. Compared with shipping from Asian ports, the management risk of the enterprises is smaller, This may be another reason why Beninese has become a popular investment destination.

　　 Located in the economic community of West Africa, the grugbe Industrial Park in bening, which belongs to the industrial park of non integration, is located in the economic community of West Africa.

　　 The industrial park is located in West Africa with complete infrastructure, stable supply of raw materials, long-term tax relief, integrated production and operation service mode. It is located in West Africa and enjoys the most favored nation treatment for exporting to Europe (EBA) and the United States (AGOA), and tariff-free economic community of West Africa (ECOWAS).

　　 Among them, the textile park is supplemented by stable and highly competitive power supply, supporting sewage treatment plant, half of the basic salary subsidy for employees within 18 months after putting into operation, and rich traceable raw materials.