Ceramic Industry in Bangladesh
About Ceramic Industry in Bangladesh
Ceramic Industry manufacture of useful and ornamental articles from clay by shaping and hardening it in high temperature. The industry is basically a development of indigenous pottery works. Broadly, ceramics denote the manufacture of any product made from a non-metallic mineral hardened at high temperatures. Industrial ceramics comprise all industrially used solid materials that are neither metallic nor organic. Major ceramic products include glass, earthenware, porcelain, and white-ware, porcelain enamels, brick tiles and terracotta, refractories, cement, lime and gypsum and certain abrasives. Ceramic manufacturing is a gas-based, labour intensive and skills-oriented business.
The types of ceramic products mainly produced in the local markets of Bangladesh include insulators, tiles, float glass, tableware, sanitaryware, and tamla (drinking water glass). There are over a dozen of ceramic factories in Bangladesh, which produce over 40,000 tonnes of ceramic products a year. Monno, Shinepukur, Bengal Fine, Standard, Peoples and National Ceramic are engaged in tableware while RAK, Fu Wang, China-Bangla and Mir are engaged in tiles and sanitary ware. Monno, Shinepukur, Bengal Fine and Peoples Ceramic are the major players in local ceramic tableware market. Bangladesh ceramic industry, which exports the products mainly to the EU countries and the US, imports raw materials from China, Rumania, Indonesia and Germany. Ceramic manufacturers also urged the government to reduce tariff on gas, used in the ceramic factories. It will help them compete in the international market.
The export of tableware products has been registering more than 6.0 per cent yearly growth for the last ten years making a substantial dent in the US and European markets. Bangladesh exported ceramic tableware worth over $33 million in fiscal 2008-09, of which over 80 percent was destined to Italy, UK, USA, Germany, France, Canada and Sweden.
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Ceramic Industry manufacture of useful and ornamental articles from clay by shaping and hardening it in high temperature. The industry is basically a development of indigenous pottery works. Broadly, ceramics denote the manufacture of any product made from a non-metallic mineral hardened at high temperatures. Industrial ceramics comprise all industrially used solid materials that are neither metallic nor organic. Major ceramic products include glass, earthenware, porcelain, and white-ware, porcelain enamels, brick tiles and terracotta, refractories, cement, lime and gypsum and certain abrasives. Ceramic manufacturing is a gas-based, labour intensive and skills-oriented business.
The types of ceramic products mainly produced in the local markets of Bangladesh include insulators, tiles, float glass, tableware, sanitaryware, and tamla (drinking water glass). There are over a dozen of ceramic factories in Bangladesh, which produce over 40,000 tonnes of ceramic products a year. Monno, Shinepukur, Bengal Fine, Standard, Peoples and National Ceramic are engaged in tableware while RAK, Fu Wang, China-Bangla and Mir are engaged in tiles and sanitary ware. Monno, Shinepukur, Bengal Fine and Peoples Ceramic are the major players in local ceramic tableware market. Bangladesh ceramic industry, which exports the products mainly to the EU countries and the US, imports raw materials from China, Rumania, Indonesia and Germany. Ceramic manufacturers also urged the government to reduce tariff on gas, used in the ceramic factories. It will help them compete in the international market.
The export of tableware products has been registering more than 6.0 per cent yearly growth for the last ten years making a substantial dent in the US and European markets. Bangladesh exported ceramic tableware worth over $33 million in fiscal 2008-09, of which over 80 percent was destined to Italy, UK, USA, Germany, France, Canada and Sweden.
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