Logiventures receives ISO 9001:2008 certification
Logiventures, the Hayleys Group's logistic services specialist, has
become the first local company in the portable cabin industry to obtain
the internationally recognised ISO 9001:2008 certification for quality
management systems.
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From left : Janitha Jayanetti (General Manager -
Logiventures); Ruwan Waidyaratne (Deputy Managing Director -
Hayleys Advantis); M. Omar Raban (Managing Director -
Hayleys Advantis); Sirinath S. Heart (Senior
Surveyor-in-Charge, Sri Lanka and Maldives, Lloyd’s Register
Asia); S.R. Sadanandan (Group Director - Hayleys Advantis);
Captain Lasitha Cumaratunga (Director - Logiventures) and
Aravinda Priyankarage (Manager Finance - Logiventures) at
the ISO certificate presentation. |
The certification by the prestigious UK headquartered Lloyd's
Register Quality Assurance Ltd. (LRQA) will enable further expansion
into quality conscious foreign markets, the company said.
At present Logiventures accounts for 80 per cent of the local
portable cabin market and exports its convertainer cabins to India,
Maldives, Thailand and Africa.
The areas covered by the certification include fabrication of
convertainers to customer requirements, rigging of containers for
carriage of garments and liquids, maintenance, repair and resale of
freight containers and sale of security seals and holograms, at the
Logiventures complex at Welisara.
The certification followed stringent audits by a team of lead
auditors from LRQA India, the company said.
"Since our convertainers most often accommodate people in site
offices, workshops, sanitary units and similar applications, quality
management systems pertaining to the conversion process are particularly
important," said General Manager of Logiventures (Pvt) Ltd. Janitha
Jayanetti.
He said the company expects an increase in local demand as a result
of the impending construction boom in the country.
The receipt of ISO 9001:2008 certification was therefore timely and
would increase the competitiveness of the company's product offering.
A member of Hayleys Advantis, the logistics and transportation arm of
the Hayleys Group, Logiventures specialises in the sale and hire of
empty containers, cargo handling and transportation, supply of
tamper-evident seals and stickers, storage facilities and numerous
services related to logistics chains. |
