| Factory Location : | |||||||||||
| Name of Factory : SIMFTEX Apparel & Washing Ltd | |||||||||||
| Address : BHABANIPUR, GAZIPUR SADAR, GAZIPUR, BANGLADESH. | |||||||||||
| City : Gazipur | |||||||||||
| Zip Code : 1700 | |||||||||||
| Country : Bangladesh | |||||||||||
| Telephone No. | 09613- | 000888 | |||||||||
| Fax No. | (880-2)- | 9007093 | |||||||||
| Distance from Airport/Hotel : | 60-minutes | ||||||||||
| Factory Contacts : | |||||||||||
| Contact Person : Syed Taifur Hossain, Director, Compliance | |||||||||||
| e-mail address : This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. | |||||||||||
| Factory Area : | |||||||||||
| Year of Operation : 1999 | |||||||||||
| Type of Factory : Woven | |||||||||||
| Area of Factory : 38,517 sq.ft | |||||||||||
| Total Land Area : 10,800 sq.ft | |||||||||||
| Area For : | Sewing | Cutting | Finishing | Packing | Store | Office | Common | Total | |||
| Sq. Ft | 18,100 | 3,137 | 7,266 | 1,784 | 3,230 | 1,000 | 4,000 | 38,517 | |||
| Any other Factory in the same building/location : | |||||||||||
| Under Same Management : | YES | ||||||||||
| Factory Layout : 9- storied building | |||||||||||
| Basement: | Finished goods area/Store/Inspection room | ||||||||||
| Non-confirming & Fabric reject area/Inventory area. | |||||||||||
| Ground Floor : | Finishing & Packing area/Generator Room & Sub station /Pump House | ||||||||||
| Security office/Boiler Room/Spot room/Day care room/ Welfare room/ | |||||||||||
| Fire command room/ CCTV Control room. | |||||||||||
| 1st Floor : | Sewing-1 /Fusing/Sub-store/ Maintenance room/Dining & Canteen area | ||||||||||
| 2nd Floor : | Sewing-2 / Office/Training room/Dining area | ||||||||||
| Common Facility : | Generator Room /Canteen /Medical Room /Day Care Center/Sample | ||||||||||
| Other facility | CCTV covering all floor/Fire equipment/Male & female toilet/Fire pump house | ||||||||||
| Fire hydrant/All exit door fitted with Industrial Light | |||||||||||
| Other Benefits | Attendance Bonus, Eid Bonus Maternity Benefits, Earn Leave encashment, | ||||||||||
| Free health & safety planing from internal renowned NGO like GSK, | |||||||||||
| Merie stops, Free examination of tuberculosis. | |||||||||||
| Licenses : | No. | Renewal upto : | Documents Available : | ||||||||
| Trade License : | 802411 | Building Approval : | Yes | ||||||||
| Factory License | 11134 | Fire Drill Register : | Yes | ||||||||
| Fire License : | 13009/2000 | Accident Register : | Yes | ||||||||
| Export License : | 30553 | Yes | |||||||||
| Import License : | 125746 | ||||||||||
| Boiler License : | 3779 | ||||||||||
| BGMEA Reg. No. | 3190 | ||||||||||
| Govt. Approval for : | Manufacturing of garments | ||||||||||
| Factory Ownership : | Private Limited Company | ||||||||||
| Production Capacity : | |||||||||||
| Monthly Production Capacity : | 2,30,000 Pcs/Month | ||||||||||
| No. of Lines : | 6 | ||||||||||
| No. of Machines : | 403 | ||||||||||
| Machines | Plain | 2-Needle | Barteck | Overlock | B/Hole | B/Stitch | Others | Total | |||
| # | 252 | 8 | 3 | 66 | 9 | 15 | 24 | 377 | |||
| Stem Iron | Electric Iron | Vacuum Table | Boiler | Light Box | |||||||
| 36 | 25 | 36 | 2 | 1 | |||||||
| Fabric Inspection Machine : | 1 | Cutting Machines | 5 | ||||||||
| Needle Detection Machine : | 1 | Cutting Table 72'x6' | 2 | ||||||||
| Fusing Machine : | 1 | Computerized Marker System | 1 | ||||||||
| Thread Sucking Machine | 2 | ||||||||||
| Customers/Buyers : | |||||||||||
| Association with this Customer/Buyer : | 9-years with Walmart | ||||||||||
| % allocated for this Customer/Buyer : | 30% | ||||||||||
| Other Customers : | |||||||||||
| Export | USA | EU | Canada | ||||||||
| % | 55 | 35 | 10 | ||||||||
| Factory Man Power : | |||||||||||
| Section | Workers | Supervisor | Staff | Total | |||||||
| Male | Female | Male | Female | Male | Female | ||||||
| Sewing Unit : | 200 | 444 | 20 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 668 | ||||
| Cutting Unit : | 59 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 62 | ||||
| Finishing Unit : | 75 | 46 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 128 | ||||
| Packing Unit : | 16 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 19 | ||||
| Quality Unit : | 61 | 19 | 5 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 88 | ||||
| Mechanical Unit : | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 7 | ||||
| Electrical Unit : | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | ||||
| Office : | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 | 12 | 18 | ||||
| Sample Unit : | |||||||||||
| Total : | 419 | 509 | 34 | 0 | 18 | 12 | 992 | ||||
| Contract / Piece Goods Labor : Nil | |||||||||||
| Factory Working Hours : | |||||||||||
| Starting Time | Closing Time | Lunch Break | Overtime Hours | ||||||||
| 0800 AM | 0500 PM | 1 - 2 PM Friday (12.45-2.00) |
5 PM - 7 PM | 2 | |||||||
| Daily Regular Working Hours : | 8-hours | ||||||||||
| Weekly Regular Working Hours : | 48-hours | ||||||||||
| Total Working Hours (including OT) : | 60-hours (including overtime +/-) | ||||||||||
| Working days : Friday - Wednesday | |||||||||||
| Weekly Holiday : Thursday | Peak Season : Oct-Feb & Jun-Aug | ||||||||||
| Wages : | |||||||||||
| Minimum Wages Paid : | Tk. 5300/00 | US$ 69.73 | |||||||||
| Minimum Wages for Trained Workers : Tk. 4180/00 | US$ 55 | ||||||||||
| Overtime Rate : Double of Basic wages | |||||||||||
| Wages Paid : Cash | Payroll Records kept for 1-year | ||||||||||
| Wages Paid on : by the 6th | |||||||||||
| Health & Safety : | |||||||||||
| Medical Officer : | 1 | Toilets | Male | Female | Total | ||||||
| Para-medics : | 2 | # | 12 | 21 | 33 | ||||||
| # First Aid Box : | 11 | ||||||||||
| Trained First Aiders | 22 | Drinking Water Station : | 7 | ||||||||
| Fire Extinguisher | Fire Hose | Fire Exit | Gong Bell | Bitter | Hook | Lock Cutter | |||||
| ABC | 53 | 9 | 10 | 5 | 10 | 10 | 5 | ||||
| CO2 | 27 | Stretcher | W. Bucket | Rope | Dust Musk | Gas Musk | Fire Dress | ||||
| Other | 8 | 32 | 4 | 16 | 46 | 4 | |||||
| Total : | 80 | Smoke Detector | PA System | Fire Alarm | Trained Fire Fighters | ||||||
| 65 | 5 | 10 | 66 | ||||||||
| Blanket | Belcha | Torch Light | Helmet | Fire Hose Pipe | H. Gloves | ||||||
| 20 | 4 | 8 | 8 | 8 | 40 | ||||||
| Water Drum | 12 pcs | ||||||||||
| Water resorvoir( Under ground) | (52,333 Gallon) | ||||||||||
| Water resorvoir( Overhead ground) | (10961Gallon) | ||||||||||
| Fire Equipment Box | 05 Pcs | ||||||||||
| All Doors open out-wardly : | Yes | Machines fitted with | |||||||||
| All Doors fitted with EXIT Sign | Yes | Needle Guard | Yes | ||||||||
| Eye Guard | Yes | ||||||||||
| Scissor/Cutter fitted with string | Yes | Pulley Cover | Yes | ||||||||
| Scissor/Cutter identified by name | Yes | Finger Guard | Yes | ||||||||
| Emergency Lights : | 56 | ||||||||||
| Documents maintained for review : | |||||||||||
| 1 | Daily Patient Register | ||||||||||
| 2 | Accident Register | ||||||||||
| 3 | Accident Enquiry Repots | ||||||||||
| 4 | Re-imbursement Record of First Aid Box Items | ||||||||||
| 5 | Expired Medicine Register | ||||||||||
| 6 | Training Records of First Aid Workers | ||||||||||
| 7 | First aid receivers Register | ||||||||||
| 8 | Fire Drill Records | ||||||||||
| 9 | Fire training from Fire Service & Civil Defence & Accord | ||||||||||
| 10 | Machine Maintenance Records (Daily) | ||||||||||
| 11 | Training Records on PPE | ||||||||||
| 12 | Training Records on Chemical Use | ||||||||||
| 13 | Training Records on Health, Safety & Environment Issues | ||||||||||
| 14 | Follow-up Register of Pregnant Workers | 3 | |||||||||
| Welfare : | |||||||||||
| Canteen Facility : | Yes | Maternity Benefit | |||||||||
| Dining Facility : | Yes | 112-days leave with average salary | |||||||||
| Dining Capacity : | 30% | Registered maintained as per Govt. Rule | |||||||||
| WWC : | Yes | ||||||||||
| Environment : | |||||||||||
| 1 | Developed Environmental Policy Papers | ||||||||||
| 2 | Segregation & disposal of waste as per category | ||||||||||
| 3 | Appointment of Disposal Contractor | ||||||||||
| 4 | Follow-up on the end use of waste | ||||||||||
| 5 | Compliant with Government/buyers COC | ||||||||||
| 6 | Introduction of issues on Conservation of Energy especially water/electricity | ||||||||||
| Factory Practices : | |||||||||||
| 1 | Inventory made of all incoming fabrics & accessories | ||||||||||
| 2 | All Fabric inspected at 4-Point System | ||||||||||
| 3 | Shade Bands are made | ||||||||||
| 4 | Quality checks of fabrics & accessories | ||||||||||
| 5 | Quality checks of Cutting fabrics | ||||||||||
| 6 | Fabric relax records maintained | ||||||||||
| 7 | All cutting parts numbered and bundled before delivery | ||||||||||
| 8 | Pre-production Meetings organized | ||||||||||
| 9 | Test Production reviewed before bulk cutting | ||||||||||
| 10 | In-line inspection performed at AQL-2.5 | ||||||||||
| 11 | End Table inspection recorded | ||||||||||
| 12 | Daily defects analysed and reduction goal set | ||||||||||
| 13 | Weekly defects records displayed | ||||||||||
| 14 | Daily meetings of Quality & Production Staff on the production | ||||||||||
| 15 | Repair & reject records maintained | ||||||||||
| 16 | Hourly/Lot Inspection before poly/Carton | ||||||||||
| 17 | Day Final Audit after cartoning | ||||||||||
| 18 | Daily Needle Check Records | ||||||||||
| 19 | Daily Fusing Check Records | ||||||||||
| 20 | Daily Machine maintenance records maintained | ||||||||||
| 21 | Broken Needle Records maintained | ||||||||||
| 22 | Daily Calibration Test performed | ||||||||||
| 23 | Fabric/Accessories stored on pallets | ||||||||||
| 24 | Export cartons stored on pallets | ||||||||||
| Note | AAL-Arunima Apparels ltd. | ||||||||||
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