RFL, one of the country’s leading business conglomerates, has recently started exporting PVC pipes to the United States.
The first consignment of PVC pipes was sent to the US from the factory of RFL Plastics Ltd, read a press release on Sunday.
“In the past, about 90 per cent of the total pipes used in Bangladesh were imported from different countries including China, India and Malaysia. But now the situation has changed a lot. Almost all the pipes used in country are made by domestic producers,” RFL Plastics Ltd Executive Director Md Jahangir Alam said.
“For this reason, our main goal is to increase the country’s export earnings by exporting large quantities of pipes. In 2021, the United States imported plastic pipes worth about $3.37 billion. Therefore, we will make great strides if we capture this pipe market.”
He added, “We are getting good purchase orders from the US. One shipment has already been shipped from our factory and we will ship several shipments in the next few months. Hopefully, this trend will continue and we can send different categories of pipes there.”
The RFL group currently manufactures pipes in PVC, HDPE, PPR, cPVC and Soft PVC or Flexible PVC categories. The total pipe market in Bangladesh is about Tk 6,000 crore annually. Annual growth is approximately 30 per cent.
Till now, RFL pipes are being exported to six countries including India, Fiji and Brunei.
