Packaging Alliance wins Best Manufacturing Company in Packaging for 2021

The South Asian Business Excellence Awards (SAPSAA) held at the prestigious Monarch Imperial gave way to recognising and acknowledging business excellence and the results gained by the trailblazers of the corporate domain, in the face of an ever-increasing competitive market. The awards acknowledged the many challenges faced by industry leaders and the tremendous adversity faced in the South Asian region, and celebrated those entities, teams and individuals who have shown resilience and ingenuity and achieved turnaround results during the pandemic. SAPSAA 2021 celebrated notable achievements by businesses in the COVID era, and those who have coped with unprecedented change and growth. 

Judges engaged in the process of evaluation consisted of a select group of professionals who have direct experience in relevant industry with an in-depth understanding of the current state-of-the-art standards in the company’s development and technology. Awards were presented to a wide range of businesses in Banking, Exports, FMCG, Apparel, Food Agro, Healthcare, HR, Real Estate, and ICT to name but a few. The regional competition was especially encouraging with a level playing field among South Asian nations including India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka, Bhutan, Napal and Maldives. 

Among the winner’s, Packaging Alliance was named the ‘Best Manufacturing Company in Packaging Materials’. The award was received by Founder and Managing Director Stefan Tranchell. Packaging Alliances specialises in growbags, the most effective multipurpose growing medium available on the market today for crop growth. With a vast range of options in terms of drainage, porosity and water retention, the company creates a range of growbags to suit a wide variety of crop yield requirements. Reputed on premium quality, products come in various rectangular configurations, with different substrate options.

Packaging Alliance, led by industry leaders in packaging, specialises in hydroponic bag manufacturing with the latest technology and innovative methods, supplying plastic grow bags to Sri Lankan exporters and international buyers. The product focus revolves around grow bags, planter bags, sulphur UV bags and biodegradable hydroponic products used in the agricultural industry.

The company is said to use best in class materials to produce durable, user-friendly, cost-effective grow bags enabling plants to create a robust root system. While their grow bags are used in hydroponic plant nurseries mainly in Europe, USA, Australia and China, Packaging Alliance supplies to multinational companies, global exporters, and large-scale suppliers of coco peat, an alternative growth medium to soil. 

“Packaging Alliance has a deep rooted environmentally conscious strategic focus. Our company goals are aligned with a planet friendly future for packaging which is a journey of continuous improvement and innovation. We specialise in packaging solutions that are good for business and good for the planet. Our leading product range Panarobic Growbags focuses on providing biodegradable, inventive and technically superior hydroponic solutions,” said Tranchell.

“Our products include revolutionary active ingredients and patented plastics additives, which is a unique proprietary additive that when placed into polymers, rapidly enhances the ability for plastic to biodegrade in anaerobic and aerobic environments. Our products when placed into active microbial environments begin to decompose at slow rates by microorganisms. We use a world-renowned biodegradable plastic additive which enhances the ability for the plastic products to decompose by microorganisms. Our products that have been treated with the biodegradable plastic additive can see results of biodegradability in landfills, anaerobic digestion systems and aerobic conditions”

Packaging Alliance is a member of National Chamber of Exporters, a member of the Export Development Board of Sri Lanka and a member of Plastics and Rubber Institute and strives to be an exemplary corporate citizen during these challenging times of post-COVID economic revivals by carrying out various CSR initiatives to benefit the community. 

Speaking further to winning the award Tranchell expressed his sentiments as: “We see winning the South Asian Business Excellence Awards as an opportunity to develop and strengthen our management systems and processes of our organisation to improve performance and create value for stakeholders. In our business dealings with the rest of Asia and Europe, this recognition will be of value especially in B2B business. Winning this award adds value to our stakeholders and will be of tremendous motivation and improvement in morale for our staff. We believe that winning this award will have a direct impact on our competitiveness and business performance and it will assist us in our journey towards continued excellence.”