Jiffy Products Sri Lanka receives multiple accolades at National Business Excellence Awards

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Jiffy Products Sri Lanka recently won three awards at the National Business Excellence Awards 2017.

The company was the winner for Excellence in Global Market Reach, first runner-up in the Large Category and clinched a merit award in the Agriculture and Plantation Sector.

Jiffy Products Sri Lanka was incorporated in 2003 as a BOI venture at the Mirigama Export Processing Zone. The company has four manufacturing facilities in Mirigama, Pannala and Kobeigane with a total investment over Rs. 2 billion as of today.

Jiffy Products Sri Lanka is engaged in manufacturing and exporting coco and coir-based plant propagation products to Europe, the US, Canada, Africa, Japan and 35 other countries.

Commenting on these accolades, JPSL Managing Director Ruwan Rajapakse said: “We are delighted and honoured to receive three prestigious awards from the National Chamber of Commerce this year in recognition of our excellence in all-round performance in 2016. It has been a remarkable year for us as we also won the silver award in the Agriculture Value Added Sector Large Category at the 25th Annual NCE Export Awards held in September last year.

Since 2009, we have reached many milestones in the Agriculture Value Added Sector at the NCE Export Awards. JPSL was also selected and awarded for its outstanding contribution towards the economic transformation of Sri Lanka by the Board of Investment in Sri Lanka, during their 40th anniversary, and was among the 40 best enterprises out of 1,600. Jiffy Products Sri Lanka has always placed a great deal of focus on quality and as such has obtained several quality standard certifications to this effect. The company has in place the ISO 9001:2008 - Quality Management System, ISO 14001:2004 - Environment Management System, ISO 18001:2007 -Occupational Health and Safety Management System, OMRI - Organic Material Review Institute Certificate, GMP - Good Manufacturing Practice and the RHP quality mark by the European Certification.

Jiffy Products Sri Lanka carries a comprehensive line of Coco-based products that are renewable and environmental friendly solutions. These include Jiffy Pellets, Grow blocks, Growbags, Coco Discs and Coco Plates.

Jiffy 7C pellet is the highest value-added media for crops being propagated under stressful conditions or for crops requiring a high level of air porosity in the substrate. Many different crops such as strawberry, banana, pineapple, papaya, rose, poinsettia, carnation, roses, begonia, cyclamen, anthurium, petunia, teak, etc. are grown in this media. JPSL has a fully-fledged plant propagation plastic tray/pot manufacturing process to support the requirement of grow media carriers, adding further value mainly to the Jiffy-7C and Grow Block range.

JPSL pumped over Rs. 800 million into the rural economy in terms of raw material purchases and employment (Rs. 600 million for raw material purchases from fibre mills and village level suppliers and Rs. 200 million for employment) along with a further Rs. 200 million into the service sector of Sri Lanka. Currently, the company has created about 10,000 direct and indirect jobs. The company’s core strategy is to add value to the raw material (coir fibre pith and husk chips) rather than exporting this valuable resource as unprocessed bulk material.