Aitken Spence commissions green printing facility

by Jayampathy JAYASINGHE

Aitken Spence Plc Chairman D.H.S. Jayawardena opens the printing museum at the new printing facility at Mawaramandiya. Pic: Sumanachandra Ariyawansa

Aitken Spence Plc Chairman D.H.S. Jayawardena and Aitken Spence Plc Deputy Chairman and Managing Director, J.M.S. Brito commissioned the state-of-the-art green printing facility at Mawaramandiya in Kelaniya.

The new printing facility is on 3.5 acres of land. It has architectural designs to make it more environmentally friendly.

Managing Director, Aitken Spence Printing Prasanna Karunathillake said it was Sri Lanka's first green printing facility with advanced printing and packaging technology.

The company prints books, corporate reports and other material. He said the latest printing technology would enable them to offer customers quality products on par with other printing facilities in the world. Jayawardena said they had chosen the venue after careful consideration having withstood pressure from several quarters which attempted to thwart the development of the printing facility. "I am sure that our coming here has not only pushed up land prices and other companies too may also set up businesses here and a new day will dawn on this city.

Our choice of coming here is a blessing in disguise and we are proud to have a contented and dedicated staff." Printing has a different dimension like the green areas but there may be other unknown areas that are in store for us.