State owned company, earlier known as Sonitextil and renamed to Enitex after it had been taken over by China World Best in 1997 is suffering due to problems like high production costs and competition of cheap fabrics from Asia.
After privatization, Enitex had upgraded and renovated its plant but from 2004 its business had declined following harsh competition from Asian companies, informed textile industry trade unionist and Department Head of Enitex, Aboul Nasser Seydou.
In 2005, company's sale dropped 48 percent to 2.3 billion CFA franc from 4.4bn CFA franc.
Lack of protectionist policy and heavy imports from Asian companies have made company inefficient.
Government has decided to curtail cheap imports by hiking anti-dumping duties.
On the other hand customers prefer cheap fabrics imported from Asian countries as they are almost two time less expensive than produced in country.
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