Riding High Ltd.
The Riding High factory is located at Srimongal in the Sylhet division of Bangladesh. Our 29,000 sq ft manufacturing unit also comprises of management office buildings, canteen facilities for the workers, childcare unit for their children and medical room for all personnel on site. The scenic beauty of the tourist city and the Tea Capital of Bangladesh keeps all our staff energetic all the time. The site has excellent connectivity with an international airport within 50 miles, only hours by road to the capital or the main sea port. As part of an ongoing development programme, the factory itself has seen substantial growth.
We have expanded the internal site as well as the external storage area with secure facilities. This has considerably improved our storage and shipment facilities. Our factory has all the right attributes: it utilises bright spacious facilities, modern methods, provides comfortable conditions and convenience for local communities. We go to extraordinary lengths to maintain safety and build our factory with the finest components. For example, the electrical supply system within the factory is done using busbar trunking system from Italy to ensure quality and safety.
Key factory info
Production capacity
Maximum capacity 15,000 units per month
Factory worker capacity
200 (capable of having 400 workers to achieve full capacity).
Compliance
Fire Safety, Electrical System Safety, Building Code.
Worker support
Worker friendly factory environment with dedicated medical and childcare facilities for workers,
Canteen and purified drinking water facilities for workers.
Accessories sourcing
All accessories are sources from Spain, Italy and South Korea.
Raw material sourcing
At least 80% of the leather imported from Italy, Germany, Spain and South Korea under custom bond ensuring no duty for 100% export.
Factory machinery
All our factory machines are imported from Germany and Italy.
EVERY STEP WE TAKE
Environmental impact
No Air Emissions
As we only stich and design leather products, we do not cause air pollution, since the operation of our factory does not result in the emission of pollutants. These pollutants can both harm public health and damage the environment We contribute zero effect.
No Land Pollution
The nature of our operations at the factory does not involve any of these.
No Hazardous Materials
Production in our factory does not involve any sort of hazardous material or chemicals. Hazardous materials are widely used in a variety of different businesses, including industry of other natures. But we are free from these impacts.
No Noise Pollution
Frequent or prolonged exposure to loud noises is not only a nuisance, but can cause damage to a person’s physical and mental health. All our machineries are imported from Germany and Italy with EU inspection and legal processes. Therefore, we have made sure there is no noise pollution caused by our factory highest concern thus we are playing our part in protecting the environment.
We address our environmental management concerns in the following ways:
- Analysis of the input and output mass flows in our production.
- Well-documented procedures for the maintenance of our factory and the storage, dosage and preparation of the chemicals if and where used.
- Education/Training of our employees.
- A functioning information and communication structure throughout the length of our value chain.
The processes in the leather manufacturing industry are highly complex. Therefore, we work closely with our suppliers.
Compliance and Health & Safety
Thanks to different action groups and overseas buyers finally putting pressure on manufacturers to have a clean, sustainable and socially responsible supply chain. At the moment, labour conditions are quite challenging in Bangladesh, although in the RMG sector significant steps forward have been made after the dramatic events at Rana Plaza. This action is buyer driven, which means that buyers must impose their demands.
At Riding High, we had labour compliant factory setting from the very beginning of our journey when these issues were not even on the table of discussion. We built our factory in accordance with the building code regulation and compliance. We made sure there are medical and canteen facilities for the workers on site. We made sure sufficient childcare facilities are available for our workforce.
We put supply facility of purified drinking water facility approved by Bangladesh University of Engineering Technology (BUET). We made sure factory health and safety issues are given high priority. We put state of the art busbar trunking system from Italy for our entire factory’s electric supply. We also have ensures all safety measures for our own electric substation within our premises.
No Air Pollution
As we only stich and design leather products, we do not cause air pollution, since the operation of our factory does not result in the emission of pollutants. We difficult it may be. The government in Bangladesh