Cotton USA, leading U.S. cotton fiber promoter and manufacturer of cotton products, arranged a technical seminar on ‘Driving Long Term Profitability for Mills and Manufacturers with Cotton USA Solutions’ on 31st March 2020 at Radisson Blu Water Garden Hotel in the Capital.
This program was aimed to widely introduce ‘Cotton USA Solution’ a cotton consultancy service to uphold the next level of business transformation for greater profitability, improved productivity and the latest techniques by Cotton Council International (CCI).
Around 200 stakeholders from different factories, brands, technology providers and cotton specialists were present at the event.
The event was organized in 2 sessions. In the first session, Ali Arsalan, Managing Director of Atiya Consulting and CCI Consultants and Representative in Bangladesh delivered the welcome speech and hosted the whole event; Bruce Atherley, Executive Director of CCI gave the latest updates on Cotton Council International; US Cotton Trust Protocol (USCTP) News by Stephanie Thiers-Ratcliffe, Director (Brand and Retails) of CCI; COTTON USA Solutions + Mill Mastery Course Introduction by Chris Faerber, Member of CCI Technical Team and Dr. Rubana Huq, President of BGMEA also joined in the program virtually and shared her remarks in the seminar.
Cotton USA is proudly offering the following solutions to the spinning millers for achieving higher efficiency, reducing costs and assuring optimum quality-
- 1:1 Mill Consults
- Mill Studies
- Mill Exchange Program
- Technical Seminars
- Mill Mastery™ Courses
An expert pool of CCI technical team combining from different countries is assuring all these solutions to the factories by connecting virtually or physically. Currently, Bruce Atherley, Executive Director of CCI (from the USA) is leading this 10 members, technical team.
Bangladeshi spinning millers who use 50% cotton of the total capacity from Cotton USA, will get US cotton licensees and can enjoy these services as complimentary. The rest of the mills also can be benefited from this service with a license which will cost 500$ per year.
In the second session, leading technology providers and technical experts joined in the session and shared their views on different technological development and technical issues that could help Bangladeshi Cotton Spinners for spinning mills efficiency and further business growth. In the session following presentation has been elaborately shared- ‘Spinning Mill Automation Increases Spinning Mill Efficiency’ by Gerd Moch, Key Account Manager of Saurer; ‘Think Quality™ from Fiber to Yarn’ by Oswald Baldischwieler, Executive Vice President (Textile Technology) of Uster Technologies; a data-driven Case Study on ‘Yueda Textile Mills’ by Roger Gilmartin, Managing Director of Triblends Consultants Ltd. and ‘The Barriers to Profitability- The CCI Experience including Profitability Model’ Joerg Bauersachs, Head of CCI Technical Team.
The closing remarks of such a knowledge-sharing session were delivered by CCI Bangladesh representative Ali Arsalan and then his teammates Jamil Ansari invited all the valued attendees to join in the networking session.
Cotton Council International (CCI) has 60 years of experience promoting U.S. cotton fiber and products to trade and consumers.
