Wayamba Printpack wins three national awards at National Business Excellence Awards 2019

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Wayamba Printpack Managing Director Nashad Nawas receiving the awards

Wayamba Printpack Ltd. has been awarded the Gold Award in Printing and related services sector, a special category Gold Award for Excellence in Business performance and the first runner-up amongst the medium-scale companies in the country, at the National Business Excellence Awards 2019 held at Hilton Colombo on 13 December, organised by the National Chamber of Commerce Sri Lanka.

Wayamba Printpack is a prominent flexible packaging company in Sri Lanka registered under BOI, catering the comprehensive range of Flexible Packaging Solutions across the territory. The factory is ideally located at Export Processing Zone, Mawathagama, Kurunegala in the North Western Province. It has reached reputation for the most trusted packaging supplier in the market. Its production line is facilitated with state-of-the-art high-tech Japanese and European machineries for extrusion, printing, laminating, slitting and pouch forming. Machineries are maintained by highly-skilled and well-trained professional team for high quality of services to exceed customer expectations.

Wayamba Printpack has fully-equipped modern laboratory facilities to ensure the quality standard by a competent technical team. Their range of packaging solutions are in the form of laminated reels, pouches and sheets converted from Aluminium Foils, BOPP, LLDPE, PET, MET PET, Nylon, and PVC printed by using high quality inks.

Additionally, it has an in-house designing team to visualise the customer design imagination in to heart touching and eye-catching prints. Its technology and manufacturing practices ensure 100% accuracy, quality assurance and consistency in all process starting from prepress to final product. To ensure the highest level of standardisation, the company has acquired ISO 22000, GMP and HACCP quality certifications.

In 2016, Wayamba Printpack confronted the misfortune caused by a fire accident which led to the destruction of the entire business property including buildings and machineries. Nevertheless, Wayamba Printpack Managing Director Nashad Nawas and his team kept a remark by challenging a very competitive packaging industry within a short period and accomplished the targets much more successfully than ever before, is a mark of excellence on its own.

His positive futuristic focus led him to re-establish the business and start the productions once again just after four months and the fact that they could, was a victory in the very sense of the word to have been able to stabilise the business within a short period of time following the complete destruction, and had seized the award for the Most Excellent Young Entrepreneur of the year by Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industries of Sri Lanka in February.

Furthermore, the company also has acquired Wayamba Wijayabhimani Award by Industrial Service Bureau (ISB) in 2013, 2015, 2018 for Best Productive Enterprise and Best Enterprise in the region, Gold and Silver Awards at Lanka Star Awards by Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging (SLIP) ceremony in the years 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017 and 2018.

Wayamba Printpack has plucked the Sri Lankan Entrepreneur Award in 2013, and CNCI Excellence Award in 2014. Nashad Nawas emphasised that all these achievements are the result of a collective effort enacted by all the employees of Wayamba Printpack.