Fire in garment and printing factory, Bangladesh - 2025

Based on reporting in Bangladeshi media and by the Clean Clothes Campaign, on 26 October 2025 at least six workers sustained severe burn injuries following an explosion in a room reportedly housing the gas meter of two adjoining garment factories — M.S. Dyeing, Printing and Finishing Limited, and Fair Apparels Limited — located in Fatullah.

On 14 October, a five‑story building housing two printing factories and at least one active garment factory in the Mirpur area of Dhaka burned down after a neighbouring chemical warehouse caught fire. Workers were trapped inside with no means of escape. The death toll currently stands at 17.

The factories in Mirpur are linked to international brands’ supply chains, and the Fatullah factories also have connections to international brands. Trade data link M.S. Dyeing, Printing and Finishing Ltd. to New Yorker (Germany), Gor Factory (Spain), Storm Textil (Denmark), Camac Arti and Sei Due Sei (Italy), and Solo Invest (France).

Fair Apparels Ltd. (also located in the BSCIC Industrial Estate, Narayanganj Fatullah) counts among its buyers Willy Maisel (Germany), Brandbq (Poland), Unibrands (Sweden), Socim (Italy), Piazza Italia (Italy), Rip Curl (USA/Australia), Lager 157 (Sweden), Terstal Textiel (Netherlands), Toads (France), and Sabor Srl (Italy).

According to reporting by the Clean Clothes Campaign, one of the factories involved in the Fatullah explosion—M.S. Dyeing, Printing and Finishing—had even been publicly listed by the Accord as unsafe. It was covered by the Accord programme until 2018 and later entered the final stage of the programme’s escalation process for repeatedly failing to address life‑threatening safety risks. Once a factory reaches this stage, all signatory companies must terminate their business relationships with it, the factory is placed on a publicly available list of unsafe factories, and workers are informed.

Clearly, the brands sourcing from this factory not only chose not to sign the worker‑safety Accord programme, they also placed orders without conducting even minimal due diligence. For Accord signatory brands, sourcing from factories on the ineligible factories list is strictly prohibited. 

Basic Information

Case ID: 2026.002

Affected Country: Bangladesh

Date of occurrence: 2025-10-14

Social Sector Risks concerned:

• Occupational Safety and Health (Conventions Nr. 155 & 183 & 184; Recommendations Nr. 164 & 192)

Supplier Details

M.S. Dyeing Printing & Finishing Ltd.
B-237, B-252, B-260-273, BSCIC Industrial Estate, Enayet Nagar, Fatullah,
Narayanganj Sadar
Fatullah
Bangladesh Phone
+880247670244

Supplier Website: https://www.msdyeing.com

Production Site

M.S. Dyeing Printing & Finishing Ltd.
Narayanganj Sadar
Dhaka

Phone number of production site: +880227670244

Total number of workers/employees:
6.500

No gender specific information available.

Workers movement

No information about unions available.

No information about workers commitee available.

Business Relations

Known Buyer/Brands:

• New Yorker SE

Source of information buyers: https://cleanclothes.org/news/2025/two-bangladeshi-tragedies-why-have-some-brands-still-not-learned-their-lesson

None of the buyers has the duty to report according to the Supply Chain Act / CSDDD.

Follow up

Sources

Name of reporting organisation: Clean Clothes Campaign

Contributor: INKOTA-netzwerk