Sustainable Cotton Production in Pakistan’s Cotton Ginning SMEs (SPRING) aws European Union funded project under the umbrella of SWITCH Asia. This project was executed by WWF Pakistan and WWF UK. Cleaner Production Institute was the consultant for providing technical input in the project. This project worked in cotton ginning sector of Pakistan to promote energy and resource efficiency technologies and providing enabling environment for the SMEs in the areas of resource efficient technologies, financial institutes, policy makers and industrial associations.

CPI conducted following activities under the project:


1. Conduct environmental and energy audits in 60 ginning mills of Pakistan.
2. Project management activities
3. Prepare business cases of resource efficiency for ginning mills.
4. Contributor in drafting Better Ginning Practices (BGPs) manual