Mask Associates

Mask Associates (pvt.) Ltd.
Type	Private
Industry	Jute trade, manufacture
Founded	1982
Founder	S.B. Kader
Headquarters	Dhaka, Bangladesh
Area served	Worldwide
Key people	S. B. Kader (Chairman & Managing Director)
Products	raw jute and jute yarn, hessian/sacking cloth/bag, and caddies
Revenue	US$5 Million-US$10 Million
Owner	S.B. Kader
Number of employees	50+
Website	http://mask.associates/

Mask Associates is a social business in Bangladesh that is involved with jute manufacturing and export. It was Established in 1982 by S.B. Kader. MASK Associates started its business by representing REB Willcox of London, UK. Kader is a Commercially Important Person (CIP) declared by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, Bangladesh. The company exports raw jute and jute yarn, hessian/sacking cloth/bag, and caddies worldwide.

S.B. Kader

A Social business, as defined by Nobel Peace Prize laureate Professor Muhammad Yunus and described in his books, is a business that was created and designed to address a social problem and is a non-loss, non-dividend company. ^[1]^[2]

In 1993, Syed Mustaq Kader, son of S.B. Kader and a director of the company, became the leader of the company. One of the key achievements of the company is the develop a system to clean-up oil spill using jute during the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010, a system that was endorsed by United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). MASK Associates is also an ISO Certified Company for the standardisations ISO 9001:2008 and ISO 14001:2004, since 2012 and 2015.

Sources

আশরাফ আলী, তেলদূষণ থেকে সমুদ্রের জীববৈচিত্র্য রক্ষায় পরিবেশবান্ধব পাট ও পাটের দড়ি ব্যবহার, Daily Naya Diganta, 17 May 2018
Mask Associates (pvt.) Ltd., Alibaba

Footnote

↑ Yunus, Muhammad (2009). Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. PublicAffairs. p. 320. ISBN 978-1-58648-667-9.
↑ Yunus, Muhammad (2011). Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. PublicAffairs. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-58648-956-4.

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[1] Yunus, Muhammad (2009). Creating a World Without Poverty: Social Business and the Future of Capitalism. PublicAffairs. p. 320. ISBN 978-1-58648-667-9.

[2] Yunus, Muhammad (2011). Building Social Business: The New Kind of Capitalism that Serves Humanity's Most Pressing Needs. PublicAffairs. p. 256. ISBN 978-1-58648-956-4.