Bangladesh recently beat China on exporting denim to the European Union and is creating more opportunities for the country. With that in mind, BUTEX Business Club has recently arranged a program titled “Professional Talk” for varsity students sponsored by DyStar, a leading manufacturing company of dyestuff & chemicals and brought professionals from denim sector. So, they could know about the current trends and scopes in the denim sector.

Rafat Hasan Chowdhury, Deputy General Manager of Amber Denim Ltd. & Ibrahim Khalil Tipu, General Manager, Washing of Nice Denim were the guest speakers of the program. They both are young leaders in the denim sector having proven record of success. Arif Iqbal, Lecturer of the Department of Textile Engineering Management began the session by asking them to share their experiences.

They shared their life stories from their student life to professional life by reminiscing their leadership journey and the strategy of reaching top positions. They inspired the student not only strengthen their communication, leadership and management skills but also keep up-to-date with the demand of the market to do well in the future. They can replace the foreigner workers in the industry by acquiring these skills.

Rafat Hasan said, “We appreciate the persistent and energetic candidates for entry level positions. That’s why we create a rigorous recruitment process to judge the ability of fresh graduates.” Both of them said that the students should prepare themselves from student life for the sector they want to enter. As a result, they will be well informed about their scopes and the common tendency of students of switching company swiftly will be decreased. The students should build up the attitude of continuous improvement by gathering knowledge to reach a leading position.

The students of Industrial Production Engineering, a new department of BUTEX got to know that they can rise in the sector if they start taking initiative and become proactive. Ibrahim Khalil said, “Though the environmental impacts of the textile sector in Bangladesh is not in a good state, we believe this situation would change considering the growth of value added product in future.

They talked about the present scenarios of the denim industry in Bangladesh.  The market is growing rapidly but there is scarcity of skilled people. So, there are huge scopes for development in every department of the denim industry for fresh graduates. The students may also consider starting their career in the weaving industry and all over printing as these are also the rising sectors in Bangladesh.

Md. Majaharul Islam Sumon, Country Manager of DyStar appreciated BUTEX Business Club for arranging this type of knowledge session. He hoped that the program will feature Weaving, Knitting, Printing etc. in future. He was really impressed seeing such initiative by the club and the enthusiasm of students’ crowd. Finally, he closed the program by presenting souvenirs to the guest speakers in order to show gratitude for their presence.