Edtex Limited

As a textile manufacturing company, Edtex produces from its workshop at Onyadze near Winneba and has supplied handmade batik fabrics to both local and export fashion industry including private brands. Other product lines are home décor, fashion accessories and handcrafted gifts for all occasions. As a social enterprise, its employees mainly women are members of the community that has benefited from skills training that the company provides. Over the years, it has demonstrated strong initiatives in bringing about change in the local textile industry for which their managing director received as ‘Project With Most Impact In The Community’ with Ma Africa as early as in South Africa. It has recently also received recognition from Ghana Shippers Authority in Ghana in 2021 and in 2022 Edtex Limited won a Common Objective Leadership award for excellence in sustainable fashion business. Award from CO (Common Objective) a global association. Its ‘green factory’ is set up in a semi rural environment in the Gomoa district, one of the poorest districts in Ghana. The population of Onyadze is made up of mainly children whose parents have moved to the bigger towns in search of jobs. The company is focusing it sustainability development goals on responsible production with the use of safer and natural dyes, clean water and sanitation, recycling its waste water, and implementing the use of affordable and renewable energy. It is the hope of Edtex to affect the community and the district as a whole by reducing poverty through - • introduction of employable skills, • involvement of community in business activities, • wealth creation in the district • and the production and use of handmade fabrics safer for end users.