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Certification awarded by Bureau Veritas Lanka to Aitken Spence PLC Deputy Chairman and Managing Director Brito and Aitken Spence Printing Managing Director Prasanna Karunathilake
The comprehensive audit was carried out and certification was awarded by Bureau Veritas Lanka Ltd.
Previously the company’s 77,000 sq. ft. new facility spread over 3.4 acres on the outskirts of Colombo with modern technological and sustainable features was awarded LEED-NC: GOLD Certification under the newly established campus category, by the US Green Building Council.
“We recognise IMS is well-aligned with our long-standing commitment to sustainability and with our reputation for providing the industry with the best and most innovative solutions in sustainable printing and packaging. We believe in an adaptive manufacturing style that will continuously help us to grow by developing differentiated, practical, and ingenious solutions while building lasting customer relations,” said Aitken Spence Printing Managing Director Prasanna Karunathilake.
Fonterra, New Zealand Director – Group Procurement Andrea Gregory handing the Finalist award for ‘Sustainable Vendor Award 2014’ to Aitken Spence Printing Managing Director Prasanna Karunathilake with Fonterra, New Zealand Regional Procurement Manager Murray Bays and Aitken Spence Printing Assistant Vice President Rohana Navaratne
The only Sri Lankan organisation to be selected as a finalist at the ‘Sustainable Vendor Award 2014’ at the Fonterra Vendor Awards and International conference in New Zealand in year 2014, the company continues to be internationally recognised for its commitment to sustainability. The awards are presented to exemplary organisations that consistently demonstrate outstanding success in their work in the criteria of commitment, potential benefits, innovation and best practice, and ease of implementation.
Noting on emerging as a finalist, Karunathilake added, “We are pleased to place Sri Lanka in the global map for sustainable printing and packaging solutions. It’s extremely rewarding to see how our company has evolved quickly to a sustainable printing and packaging solution partner internationally.”
“Having grown along with our success, we are committed to sharing and supporting local communities and industries in Sri Lanka,” he further added.
Such an initiative was recently concluded with the re-establishing and refurbishing deaf and blind school’s offset printing unit. The school enables care to over 400 students who are now able to access the renovated facility that was in dilapidated condition. Further the company has arranged tailor-made training programs for differently-able students and recruited an individual.
The printing facility’s surrounding – the Mawarmandiya community is constantly engaged through creation of job opportunities for the youth, while providing English and Computer training programs for the children through the parent company’s initiative – ‘Empowering Sri Lanka First’ (ESLF).
The company continues to invite scholars to factory in order to study, evaluate and understand best practices and sustainable initiatives followed by the organisation.
With a heritage spanning over five decades, Aitken Spence Printing is known as an innovative quality printing and packaging solutions provider for prestigious international brands in fast moving consumer goods, tea, confectionary, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals and apparel industries locally and globally. It is also recognised as top quality printer for corporate reports, coffee-table books, magazines and other high-end publications.
