Z A B E R & Z U B A I R F A B R I C S L I M I T E DB A N G L A D E S H

Factory :Pagar, Tongi, Gazipur, BangladeshPhone : (+880 2) 9817356-60, 9802645-7, 9804335-6.Fax : (+880 2) 9810200, Web : www.znzfab.com

Corporate Office :Adamjee Court, Main Building (4th floor)115-120 Motijheel C/A, Dhaka, 1000, BangladeshPhone : (+880 2) 9578401-2,9578407-8, 9578131Fax : (+880 2) 9564336, E-mail : nomangr@bangla.net

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M i s s i o nis to be leading & flexible manufacturer in thehome textile industry and satisfy the needs ofour customers.

B u s i n e s s i d e asustinable business growth

being competative with minimum lead time &healthy work environment

As like every growing industry, we have goals & aspirations to keepthe growth curve upwards. We dream of a production facility thatwill be capable of producing every variety of fabric & FinishProduct under single roof.

We are also working with the latest technological advancements toharness the sustainable energy, and to becoming a zero carbonemission company.

ha i l i n g t ow ar ds f u t u r e w i t h a

o u r f u t u r est epp i n g t ow ar dsTowards an one stop Home textiles solution provider

Towards a zero carbon emission company

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Zaber & Zubair Fabrics Limited has successfully passed another challenging year and turned towards its 14th year, which is the reflec-tion of dedicated team work with clear mission in mind.

Last 13 years everyone in this organization worked hard with delega-tion of authority, true leadership of the management and developed Zaber & Zubair as a successful organization that now ready to move forward with more enthusiasm and better preparation to achieve bigger target in this changing environment of global market.

I must admit that, this success came through the guidance and trust of our each valuable customer around the world! I extend warm grati-tude along with our honest compliments to all of them.

Our mission is to be leading & flexible manufacture in the home textile industry and satisfy the needs of our customers. Our commit-ment is to cost effective production, with the compliance to the mini-mum requirement of product standards. At the same time we ensure that Zaber & Zubair complies with all legal, social and environmental requirements.

This year we have invested further for increasing the capacity by putting more brand new machineries in spinning, weaving, processing and stitching. To ensure that Zaber & Zubair safely disposes all its effluents, we have set-up biologicl ETP. The employees are given adequate trainings for their development in skills, personal safety and environmental protection.

Zaber & Zubair is completely ready with enough capacity and adequate human resources to face future challenges.

All the Best!

f r om t h e cha i rman ’s d e s k . . .

Md. Nurul IslamChairmanNoman Group

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Z AB ER & ZUBA IR F ABR ICS LTD .one s t o p t e x t i l e & appa r e l s o l u t i o n

❏ Yasmin Spinning Mills Ltd. Spinning unit with 80,000 spindles.❏ Sufia cotton Mills Ltd. Spinning unit with 50,000 spindles. ❏ Talha Spinning Mills Ltd. Spinning unit with 60,000 spindles. ❏ Zaber Spinning Mills Ltd. Spinning unit with 82,000 spindles.❏ Zubair Spinning Mills Ltd. Spinning unit with 72,000 spindles.❏ Noman Spinning Mills Ltd. Spinning unit with 76,000 spindles.❏ Ismail Spinning Mills Ltd. Spinning unit with 30,000 spindles.❏ Artex Fabrics Ltd. Largest warp knitted fabric manufacturers in South East Asia.❏ Marium textile Mills Ltd. Producing a variety of synthetic fabrics❏ Sufia Fabrics Ltd. Producing synthetic fabric for curtain and lace.❏ Saad Saan Textile Mills Ltd. Weaving unit with 1234 Sulzer looms.❏ Noman Textile Mills Ltd. Weaving unit with 238 Tsudakoma Airjet looms.❏ Noman Weaving Mills Ltd. Weaving unit with 388 Toyota Air jet looms.❏ Ismail Textile Mills Ltd. Weaving unit with 232 Tsudakoma Air jet looms❏ Noman Composite Mills Ltd. Weaving unit with 456 Tsudakoma Air jet looms.❏ Noman Home Textiles Weaving unit with 352 Airjet looms.❏ Zarba Textile Mills Ltd. Weaving unit with 180 Airjet looms.❏ Talha Fabrics Ltd. Weaving unit with 426 Aitjet looms.❏ Noman Fashion Ltd. Dyeing, printing and finishing unit.❏ Talha Tex Pro Ltd. Dyeing. printing and finishing unit.❏ Zaber & Zubair Fabrics Ltd. Vertically integrated textile mills, manufacturing home textile product & exporting 100% to international market.❏ Noman Fabrics Ltd. Vertically integrated textile mills, manufacturing textile & garments product & exporting 100% to international market.❏ Zaber & Zubair Accessories Ltd. 100% export oriented accessories.❏ Zubair & Brothers Ltd. Housing & Real Estate.

❏ Saad San Apperls Ltd. 100% Export Oriented Fashion Fabric Industry.❏ Noman Terry Towel Mills Ltd. 100% Export Oriented Terry Towel, Yarn Dyeing & Twisting Industry with 144 Nos. Terry Looms.

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1968 is the year of establishment 1975 is the year of first mesh fabric production unit, 28 companies under the group Noman Group, being one of the largest fabric producing group in south Asia, has its humble beginning in the year 1968. A small trading company, established by the current chairman with only 10 employees back then, now matured to a giant production facility of 45,000 people.

The organization stepped in the production sector in the year of 1975, starting with mesh fabric items. With the visio ary leadership, soon the business expanded into a wide variety of textile products.

Once a single concern company, today became a conglomerate of 28 companies, and still expanding. Operating in diverse business fields related to textile & garments, we aim to keep the legacy of growth onwards.

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1968 is the year of establishment1975 is the year of first mesh fabric production unit28 companies under the group

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Zaber & Zubair Fabrics was incorporated in 1997 with a mission to grow up as an internationally recognized home textile manufacturing company, by meeting day to day’s market requirement and achieving customers’ satisfaction.

Zaber & Zubair has commenced its commercial production from March 2000.

The manufacturing process of Zaber & Zubair is vertically integrated with Spinning, Weaving Printing & Dyeing with complete Back Process including CAD Designing Studio, Sengeing & Desizing, Continuous Bleaching Plant and Stitching Unit

The mill is located at Tongi, near to Dhaka, the capital city of Bangladesh.

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The company has invested around US$ 400 million to set up the state of the art machineries to meet the chal-lenges of 21st century’s Textiles World.

The mill have daily capacity of producing about 700,000 meters of finished fabrics or 120,000 sets of various home textile products including bed linens, window furnishings, table and kitchen linen.

Due to the true leadership of the Management, highly skilled expatiates from various countries and 11,500 dedicated and hard working employees; Zaber & Zubair has crossed over US$ 1150 million of exports till 2013.

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qua l i t y w e ca r e

q u a l i t y p o l i c yZaber & Zubair Fabric Limited is committed to satisfy cus-tomer ‘s needs & expectations; aggressively striving for excel-lence and continual improvement by producing quality prod-ucts, confirming fully to customer’s internal & regulatory requirements. This in turns ensure our continuing growth and success in global market, thanks to our happy customers.

The company work on the concept of “Everyday product quality”. The essence of our success lies in our effective qual-ity management system, spirited, competent work force and conducive work environment. The company measures the performance of all of its functions to monitor the progression towards the achievement of our quality objectives which is a key to continual & consistent improvement.

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A C H I E V E M E N T S

We believe, opportunity for improvement is always there. Zaber is not only concentrated to improving its quality and service, the management also have the intension to improve and maintain international standards in working, social & environmental aspects in an acceptable level.

A dedicated compliance team, with close monitoring of management people maintains all the working conditions, social & environmental requirements of local authority as well as customers' code of conducts. Zaber maintains one of the largest ETP (Effluent Treatment Plant) of a capacity of approx. 600 m3 per hour with technical support from a European company to treat the entire used water of different chemical process.

Since we came into being we have been validated by lot of third party reputed institutions, recognized international bodies & Customers representatives, who came to assess and audit us on variable scopes. The certifications we received shows the confidence of these international bodies shows on our organizational stature. The details of those certifications are as under:

❏ ISO 9001:2000 (Audited by URS) ❏ ISO 14001:2004(Audited By Global Group) ❏ BRC Global Standard Customer Product (by British Retail Consortium) (Audited by SGS, Pakistan) ❏ Oeko-Tex (By Testex) ❏ GOTS(Global Organic Textile Standard) Audited by ETCO ❏ "OE" (ORGANIC EXCHANGE- “BLENDED"/ "100" TEXTILE STANDARDS) Audited by ETCO ❏ BSCI (Business Social Compliance Initiative) (Audited By EUROCERT) ❏ SMETA Audit/ Sedex Member ❏ Several audits on ETI (Ethical Trade Initiative), ICS (Initiative Clause Sociale), and WCA (Workplace Conditions Assessment) based code of conduct by different third party Audit Company Following standards are under implementation and will be audited within 2014 ❏ WRAP (Worldwide Responsible Accredited Production) ❏ GSV (Global Security Verification ) ❏ SA 8000 (Social Accountability 8000)

The company is also audited and approved by many customers through third party auditor according to their code of conducts.

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Zaber & Zubair’s one of the efforts is to continuously cope up with market trends with innovative ideas and workmanship. We facilitate our customers with our diversified range of products. Z&Z is specially equipped to develop and produce embellished products like embroidered, piped, laced, pin tucks, appliqué etc. Spe-cially we are doing embroidery with our in house machines.

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Zaber & Zubair has 10 embroidary machin which contin 9 colors & 33 cm repeat. Daily production capacity 12 milion stitches

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w i n d o w sZaber & Zubair has a wide range of window treatment. Apart from different type of curtain like Loop, Lined, Tab Top, Header Channel, Eyelet, we are producing different kind of embellished curtain as well i.e. embroidered, piped, laced and many other.

As a part of this, Zaber is producing specialized fabric for curtain. Half Panama, Slub yarn, Voile, Twill, Jacquard, Duck, higher count sateen and many type of heavier weight curtain fabrics are in range.

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k i t c h e n l i n e n sApron, Tea Towel, Table Runner, Table Cloth, Place Mat, and Napkin is in regular product range.

Specialized fabrics are been woven and different fabric treatments are been arranged for this type of products.

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s p i n n i n gOne of the strong spinning bases in the country equipped with brand new state of art machiner-ies strongly back up the entire process. Well-organized spin-ning units have a capacity for constantly checking quality standard and a distinctive prod-uct variety.

The group has seven spinning mills that contains 450,000 spindles and produces 250,000 kgs yarn daily.

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w e a v i n gZaber & Zubair Fabrics has 1234 shuttle-less SULZER & 2272 Airjet looms. Wider width loom includes 465 dobby machines producing 700,000 meters of fabric in a day. This is one of the strength of the company and biggest among the similar trade throughout the country.

More Air Jet looms are expected to be in operation by June 2014 that will add another 80,000 meters of fabric.

In total the mill will have the capacity of producing 780,000 meters of fabric per day by end of 2014.

With this strong backup of weaving unit, Zaber & Zubair is capable to produce lower till higher thread count in plain & sateen weave fabric using single, double and four pick insertion, twill, half panama, voile & different types of dobby patterns.

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Pre - Treatment5 Singeing / De-sizing Osthoff Germany 2.8m-3.2m4 Continuous Bleaching Goller, Brugman Germany, Holland 2.8m-3.2m3 Mercerizing Brugman, Goller Holland, Germany 3.2m

Printing & Dyeing6 Rotary Printing (12-16-20-26 Col) J-Zimmer Austria 1.6m-3.2m3 Coupon J-Zimmer Austria 2.8m3 Flat Bed Printing J-Zimmer Austria 3.2m2 Thermosol Kuster, Aztec, Monforts Germany, U.S.A 3.2m2 Pad Steam Babcock Germany 3.2m1 IR Stenter Monforts Germany 3.2m

Finishing6 Curing Stork, Arioli, Babcock Holland, Italy, Germany 2.8m-3.2m13 Stenter Babcock, Monforts Germany 2.8m-3.2m2 Washing Brugman Holland 3.2m3 Calendar Ramisch Guarneri Italy 2.8m-3.2m2 Sanforizing Monforts Germany 3.2m 1 Peaching Karu Italy 1.8m1 Steaming Arioli Germany 3.2m

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s t i t c h i n gA dedicated workforce of 6,500 highly skilled workers enable our stitching unit to process 120,000 Bed Sets, 8,000 Pairs Curtain & 1000 quilted comforter a day.

Current Production lines includes Quilt Cover, Valance Sheet, Curtain, Flat & Fitted Sheet, Pillowcase, Decorative Pillows and Comforter to meet customer demands.

Also the unit is capable to produce a wide range of high quality embellished prod-ucts of various attachments like trim, lace, piping and many others.

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l a b o r a t o r y"Quality concern for everyone" is philosophy for professional workforce at Zaber & Zubair Fabrics. Quality control proce-dures are carried out at every stage during production. From selection of cotton, spinning, weaving, printing, stitching and packaging of final product, each process is scrutinized and controlled to the market's individual quality standards. Keen commercial thinking and ever mindful of the exacting specifi-cations and requirements of international standards, as well as crucial balance between the quality and value of customers’ satisfaction.

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d e s i g n i n gDesign Department of Zaber & Zubair Fabrics includes both CAD and Manual designing section with 7 CAD Stations, 2 Drum Plotter, 2 Auto Film Processors, Large format scanner & Laser Engraving.

An expert team of designers create the design with professional touch. Apart from that, Zaber & Zubair have a collection of their own designs. Keeping in mind the trends and changes of taste in different market; we buy designs from renowned International Studios to support our cus-tomers.

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Sustainability is one of main conerstone & corporate Social aim doing busness of Zaber & Zubair. Our firm commitment in conserving the environment reflected in our state-of-the-art ETP plant, one of the largest in South Asia.

To treat our effluent we have modified & newly installed 3 Effluent Plants having 600m3/Hour capacity including future expansion plan. We have also set up an in house Test lab having facility of testing all effluent parameter. We do keep control over the process of the treatment and ensure effluent is meeting highest legal requirement.

Biological effluent treatment plants 600m3/Hour capacityFully equipped ETP test Lab.

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Child Care: for a smiling futureMedical Facility with medicationBank Account /ATM: for all 11,500 workers

As textile is one of the labor- intensive sector so people has always been focused by us. As part of better working condition for our worker we have set up a Day care where our worker can keep their children without any worry as food supplement, clothes & toys are provided by us.

Our full fledge Medical center open for the familymembers of our worker as wellincluding medication facility at free of cost. A major part of our employees are female, enjoying full facilities during pregnancy & maternal leave.

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