Pres. Export Awards: Anverally & Sons and Jacobi Carbons

*Anverally & Sons

Anverally & Sons won the award for 'Highest Value Added Exporter - Tea Sector' for 2015, at the Presidential Export Awards ceremony organized by the Export Development Board (EDB) recently.

"This award recognizes the dedication and commitment that my team and I have achieved in ensuring that customers receive the best quality tea at a competitive price," said Mohamed Anverally, Chairman of Anverally & Sons (Pvt) Ltd.

"In all our tea exports the highest standards are sustained to guarantee that only the premium leaves, highest quality packing materials and ingredients are used," he said.

The product range of Anverally Tea is wide and varied, consisting of tea in packets, bottles, bags, and in metalized pouches, iced tea and the latest introduction is instant premix tea.

"Our brands include Tea 4U, specially designed for the European and Russian palate and consisting of over 80 different flavors, Anverally Tea is a popular brand in the North African region and Sultan Tea is popular in Africa," a company spokesman said.

"The company's flagship brand, Al-Otuor Tea, is an Earl Grey-flavoured tea which continues to be the market leader in the Middle Eastern region.

The latest addition to our brand portfolio is Revna Tea, a premium lifestyle tea for the health-conscious tea drinker," he said.

The company's manufacturing facilities consist of over 200,000 sq. ft. of world-class facilities that follow quality and food safety programs along with state-of-the-art blending, tea bagging, packaging and an in-house laboratory, the spokesman said.

*Jacobi Carbons

Jacobi Carbons Lanka (Pvt) Ltd (JCL) won the Presidential Award for Highest Foreign Exchange Earner in the Non-Kernel Product Category for 2014 and 2015 at the 20th EDB Presidential Export Award Ceremony at the BMICH recently.

Jacobi Carbons is a Board of Investment (BOI) approved company which manufactures coconut shell-based, activated carbon products for the export market.

Country Manager, Jacobi Carbons Lanka, Rasanga Adikara said it is a great achievement for the company. "Our strategy is to become the number one such exporter in 2020."

JCL exported 20,620 metric tons and 19,900 metric tons of activated carbon in 2014 and 2015, bringing in USD 35 million (Rs. 5.1 billion). The activated carbon is used for wide range of purification and adsorption applications such as, drinking water purification, air purification, cigarette filter carbons, decolourization including food grades, pharmaceutical applications, gold and precious metal recovery and many other toxic and non-toxic chemical adsorption and purification purposes.

JCL exports include, high precision and microgranulated activated carbon, acid wash activated carbon, impregnated activated carbon, catalytic activated carbon and powdered activated carbon products.