light engineering industries

Enhance light engineering capacity to diversify exports: experts

Bangladesh needs to strengthen local capacity, enhance value addition, and develop backward linkages in agricultural machinery, automobiles, and light engineering to ensure sustainable growth and diversify its export base, according to experts and industry leaders.

Lower sales of agri-machinery, spare parts hurting light engineering sector

Segments of the light engineering sector suffering from significantly lower sales for the past one-and-a-half years

Bogura’s foundries flourish against odds

The foundry and light engineering industries in Bogura are thriving amid various challenges but they now need more land, easy loans and technological support to position themselves for the next phase of growth and fight off cheap imports, entrepreneurs say.