Ciel Textile is a large scale company based in Port Louis, Mauritius that specializes in textile production. With a daily production capacity of 25,000 pieces, the company is considered a large scale producer in the textile industry. With SWITCH Africa Green support, the company carried out a baseline to understand the type of waste available. As a result, the company noted that plastic formed a significant amount of waste. This led the management to come to the decision of halting packaging of fabric in plastic to reduce amount of plastic coming in.
The company has effectively incorporated significant SCP practices and pat- terns and is a model company for waste exchange to smaller MSMES in the country. These include companies dealing with recycling and waste management.
Of the 850 workers employed at the company, 60% are female. Ciel is a subsidiary of Ciel Group which ex- ports 31 million garments annually to Europe, India, South Africa and USA. Ciel Textile is a listed company on the Mauritius Stock Exchange since 2006.
