Economic Reporter :
The country’s first ever testing lab for electronics and electrical good’s quality ‘NUSDAT-UTS (Universal Testing Services)’ has officially received accreditation from the Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) on Thursday.
With the aim of testing the quality of electronics and electrical products, the country’s first ever testing lab NUSDAT Universal Testing Services (UTS), owned by local technology conglomerate Walton Group kicked off its journey in 2015.
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu handed over the BAB accreditation certificate to Walton Group’s Executive Director (Policy, HRM and Admin) SM Zahid Hasan at a programme on “World Accreditation Day” at the conference room of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) in the capital on Thursday.
The minister attended the function as the chief guest while DCCI President Hossain Khaled was present as special guest.
The programme was presided over by BAB Chairman Dr Altaf Hossain, while Senior Industries Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Director General of BAB Abu Abdullah and Director David Paul Khandaker, among others, were present.
Addressing the function, Amir Hossain Amu said Bangladesh is moving ahead with a vision of turning into a middle-income country by 2021 and a developed country by 2041. Thus, the country’s present export figure would have to be increased through expediting industrialization process, he said adding, “Exports would not be increased if we do not manufacture quality products.”
With the help of accreditation bodies in Bangladesh, exporters will get facilities of getting higher price in the international market, the minister said.
Apart from NUSDAT-UTS lab of Walton Group, the industries minister also handed over BAB accreditation certificates to four other institutes, including Julphar Bangladesh Ltd, Quitex Solution, Amber Textile Services Ltd, and Concrete Innovation and Application Centre.
NUSDAT-UTS, established at Chandra in Gazipur, has achieved accreditation certificate from BAB for meeting the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2005.
Earlier, there was no lab in Bangladesh for testing the quality of electronics products. As a result, the exporters of consumer based electronics products had to get quality-testing certificate from the testing institutions of different countries, for which they had to count both huge time and local currency.
With the advent of NUSDAT-UTS in Bangladesh, the local exporters of electronics and electrical products will now easily get the testing certificates of their export goods without wasting their valuable time and spending huge amount of foreign currency.
The country’s first ever testing lab for electronics and electrical good’s quality ‘NUSDAT-UTS (Universal Testing Services)’ has officially received accreditation from the Bangladesh Accreditation Board (BAB) on Thursday.
With the aim of testing the quality of electronics and electrical products, the country’s first ever testing lab NUSDAT Universal Testing Services (UTS), owned by local technology conglomerate Walton Group kicked off its journey in 2015.
Industries Minister Amir Hossain Amu handed over the BAB accreditation certificate to Walton Group’s Executive Director (Policy, HRM and Admin) SM Zahid Hasan at a programme on “World Accreditation Day” at the conference room of Dhaka Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DCCI) in the capital on Thursday.
The minister attended the function as the chief guest while DCCI President Hossain Khaled was present as special guest.
The programme was presided over by BAB Chairman Dr Altaf Hossain, while Senior Industries Secretary Mosharraf Hossain Bhuiyan, Director General of BAB Abu Abdullah and Director David Paul Khandaker, among others, were present.
Addressing the function, Amir Hossain Amu said Bangladesh is moving ahead with a vision of turning into a middle-income country by 2021 and a developed country by 2041. Thus, the country’s present export figure would have to be increased through expediting industrialization process, he said adding, “Exports would not be increased if we do not manufacture quality products.”
With the help of accreditation bodies in Bangladesh, exporters will get facilities of getting higher price in the international market, the minister said.
Apart from NUSDAT-UTS lab of Walton Group, the industries minister also handed over BAB accreditation certificates to four other institutes, including Julphar Bangladesh Ltd, Quitex Solution, Amber Textile Services Ltd, and Concrete Innovation and Application Centre.
NUSDAT-UTS, established at Chandra in Gazipur, has achieved accreditation certificate from BAB for meeting the requirements of ISO/IEC 17025:2005.
Earlier, there was no lab in Bangladesh for testing the quality of electronics products. As a result, the exporters of consumer based electronics products had to get quality-testing certificate from the testing institutions of different countries, for which they had to count both huge time and local currency.
With the advent of NUSDAT-UTS in Bangladesh, the local exporters of electronics and electrical products will now easily get the testing certificates of their export goods without wasting their valuable time and spending huge amount of foreign currency.
