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E J Brooks Company, the oldest security seal manufacturing company in the world in collaboration with Vigilant Security and Investigation Services conducted a presentation for companies in the Katunayake Export Processing Zone (KEPZ) in Seeduwa recently.

E J Brooks is the world's leading manufacturer of tamper evident seals and meter related security products. For over 130 years, the company has offered the broadest line of security seals and locking devices for untold sealing requirements, within the transportation, cash in transit, retailing and utility industries. They provide the highest quality products and have instituted a sophisticated CQI (Continuous Quality Improvement) process.

The presentation titled 'Loss Prevention and Asset Protection using Security Seals' was held to generate awareness on what seals are and how they can be used to protect cargo. Sealing has become a safety and security imperative in every industry. This is especially relevant to the garment industry when exporting clothes in bulk to other parts of the world to prevent tampering, pilferage or theft of what is being exported.

"The United States will soon require all containers entering the country to be sealed at the point of stuffing the container using barrier seals compliant to ISO PAS 17712. This requirement is a de facto mandatory requirement within the C-TPAT volunteer program.

For those shippers wishing to use the 'green' or 'fast track' lanes at the Port of entry into the US, without the use of correct barrier seals it is going to take longer and be more inconvenient for the container to pass through the system to enter the USA.

So for the garment manufacturers of Sri Lanka, which is a major exporter here, the better they are prepared to secure their containers using the correct seals, the faster their containers will get through the system," said Andrew B McNeice, Vice President International Sales, E J Brooks Company.

Mario Perumal, Managing Director, Vigilant Security and Investigation Services said that a good seal should be tamper evident by indicating tampering at a glance, should have the company name, a sequential number to promote quality control, and should be designed for one time use only.

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