Around a dozen local companies supplied materials such as rods, steel products and cement for the construction of the country's first metro rail, signifying that products made in the country are achieving international standards.
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The country's ongoing multi-dimensional crisis will deepen further if industrial raw materials and essential goods cannot be imported owing to the dollar shortage, opined Mohammed Amirul Haque, managing director of Seacom Group and Premier Cement. In an interview with TBS, he stressed the need for uninterrupted gas and power supplies to factories to keep the wheels of the
Cement makers are passing tough times amidst a decline in demand from public construction in tune with the government's austerity measures and sluggish private initiatives on building homes and other facilities for inflation.
Cargo movement through waterways between Bangladesh and India rose to a new height in fiscal year 2021-22 as local entrepreneurs, particularly cement makers, found the river routes convenient to bring their raw materials, mainly fly ash, from the neighbouring country.