JUKI Corp VP Noriaki here for newer, bigger stitch

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Pioneering tech provider to Lankan apparels starts new initiative today
Aiming to stop sector’s brain drain: Juki VP Noriaki

As Sri Lanka’s apparel sector crossed the $ 4.3 billion mark in 2013, Juki Corp, the pioneering industry scale machine supplier to the Lankan apparel sector, is preparing for a new thrust in the country. “We extend a warm welcome to Juki’s Vice President Sales Saito Noriaki and we thank Juki Corporation for its ongoing engagement with Sri Lanka’s apparel sector since the very beginning of it,” said Minister of Industry and Commerce Rishad Bathiudeen. Minister Bathiudeen was acknowledging the new initiative in Sri Lanka by Juki Corp, scheduled to be launched in Sri Lanka on 06 February in Colombo. Juki Corp’s Saito Noriaki, the Singapore based Executive Vice President (Sales, South Asia region) arrived in Colombo yesterday (5) with four top officials from Juki to kick-off the latest Lankan initiative. Currently, Juki has an estimated 750,000 industrial grade sewing machines in operation in Sri Lanka’s apparel sector. “With our new high end training facility, we are planning to stop Sri Lanka’s apparel brain drain,” said Vice President Noriaki on 3 February speaking from Pakistan. “We have more than a 50% industrial sewing machine market share in Sri Lanka and our presence is well known. We believe that it is time that apparel factory personnel to be able to maintain high end equipment by themselves in their own plants without visiting maintenance offices outside. We will be launching our latest initiative in a small way for now and will also be introducing our new line of industrial sewing machines at the 6 February event in Colombo,” Noriaki said.