Manufacturing firms urged to scale up
LOCAL manufacturing companies, small and large should enhance their efforts towards sustainability at any scale as may be deemed feasible for the company.
Sustainability in manufacturing is recognised to have substantial financial and environmental benefits for many businesses.
This is according to the Zambia Manufactures Association of Zambia (ZAM) Chief Executive Officer, Florence Muleya.
Ms Muleya said the aim for sustainability in manufacturing was to enable manufacturers to maximise revenues and global leadership, while conserving natural resources and protecting the environment.
She indicated that sustainable manufacturing also enhanced employee, community, and product safety.
“Promoting sustainable industries, and investing in scientific research and innovation, are all important ways to facilitate sustainable development,” Ms Muleya said in an interview.
Notably, she explained, incorporating sustainability strategies at varying levels of the business resulted in benefits such as lower resource and production costs, improved sales and brand recognition, greater access to financing and capital as employee tention.
Ms Muleya acknowledged that achieving sustainable development as a nation will required coordinated efforts between various stakeholders.
She said in tandem, ZAM urged all manufacturers to carry out a self-introspection on ways that they could contribute to sustainable development at individual level, community, national and global level.
ZAM, Ms Muleya said, would do its part by raising awareness on the importance of sustainability in the manufacturing sector .
She indicated that ZAM would showcase how sustainability could be undertaken through events that showed practical ways in which companies were walking the sustainability talk.
Ms Muleya pledge to continue highlighting these efforts in the manufacturing sector as ZAM’s commitment to the global sustainability agenda.
“Since 2019, ZAM has been celebrating member manufacturers that embrace sustainability.
ZAM instigated a recognition system through awards for companies in the manufacturing sector that embrace various efforts towards achieving sustainable development in its many different forms,” she said. well as easier hiring and re