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All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) launched programme to conserve energy
Gradual decline of fossil fuel and incline of environmental pollution has become a major global issue. Now days, government of every country is trying to devise various ways to burn less fuel and keep the environment as clean as possible. The All Pakistan Textile Mills Association also known as APTMA, has launched a program to make the textile mills of the country more energy efficient.

Along with APTMA, The National Productivity Organization (NPO), GTZ, a German based NGO, and National Energy Conservation Center (Enercon) have joined to make the programme successful. The Dawn reports:

Aptma’s Punjab chairman Akber Sheikh told Dawn on Tuesday that the programme was all the more relevant in the context of present energy crisis and the efforts being directed towards conservation.

A systematic energy audit, encompassing all sectors of the textile industry, had been envisaged to determine the efficient consumption benchmarks for the industry.

He said that the spinning and processing industries were being audited in the first phase. The energy audit of the weaving industry and composite industrial units would be undertaken in the next phase.

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The earlier audits show that there has been 10%-15% energy savings in the sample mills. NPO officers along with specialists of Faisalabad Textile University, Lahore University of Engineering and Technology and Taxila University of Engineering and technology are training energy auditors.

APTMA is doing a very good job. It is time to save energy as much as possible. Other South Asian countries can also follow Pakistan’s example and try to develop energy audit system to encourage efficient energy consumption.

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