'Lankapack 2014' showcases packaging excellence

The Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging (SLIP) with MP Events Lanka organised the 'Lankapack 2014' exhibition at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Exhibition Centre recently.

The exhibition showcased the vast potential of Sri Lanka's packaging industry and unveiled the latest products to a growing international clientele. It was organised by SLIP, the key organisation representing the Sri Lankan packaging industry and its 'technical arm', the Packaging Development Centre.

"Colombo has been the main centre where suppliers of state-of-the-art packaging equipment exhibit their products to a receptive target market at international packaging exhibitions of this nature," said Chairman of Lankapack'14 Organising Committee and the Chairman of the Packaging Development Centre, Dharmatilake Ratnayake.

"Sri Lanka which is totally dependent on imported raw materials and equipment for packaging, has over the past three decades, mastered the art of adding value to the products.

"Locally produced quality export products are seen all over the world," he said.

President of the Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging, Dudley Thambinayagam said, "Being perhaps the oldest packaging industry association in South East Asia, SLIP has a history dating back to more than three decades of improving the standards of Sri Lankan packaging to the highly competitive position it enjoys today."

"Promotional exhibitions portraying local packaging developments and technical advances in the developed world have been held with regional and global giants in the field of packaging," he said.

The Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging was set up in 1975.

Being an active member of the Asian Packaging Federation, SLIP had called upon its member countries such as China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia and Thailand to promote their manufacturers of raw materials and machinery to exhibit at Lankapak 2014.

MP Events Lanka, a subsidiary of Pico, has organised over 250 exhibitions over the past 18 years. MP Events Lanka is an accredited professional exhibition organiser and an active member of MICE promotion spearheaded by the Sri Lanka Convention Bureau under the aegis of the Ministry of Tourism.