When Schle Woodthanan, managing director of Textile Gallery, was a young journalist, he visited many factories, including his family-owned factory, and discovered that the working environments were poor. The bad conditions had a negative effect on the health of workers, so when Schle took over his family business, he decided to build a new green factory, Pasaya, manufacturing home textile products.
The Pasaya factory provided a better working environment and did not cause any pollution. In 1995, before any buildings were built at the would-be factory site in Ratchaburi, a wastewater treatment pond was first constructed.
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