Sathis Abeywickrama-Managing Director, Flexiprint (Pvt) Ltd. receiving the Award together with Rusiri Cooray, Manager-Finance (extreme left) and Nishantha Perera, General Manager-Sales & Marketing (extreme right) at the 2015 National Business Excellence Awards ceremony


Flexiprint (Pvt) Ltd - one of the largest suppliers of tea bag tags and tea envelopes to the tea bagging industry in the world won the accolade for business excellence as the Runner-up for the Printing Sector at the recently concluded 2015 National Business Excellence Awards Ceremony held at the Colombo Hilton. 

This is the second time that Flexiprint has won this award for business excellence at the National Business Excellence Awards. They have also been the recipients of other worldwide awards such as the Annual AFTA Award while improving upon their category of victory each year.  
 
Flexiprint is the market leader in Sri Lanka’s tea bag tags, envelopes and the tagged pyramid mesh market supplying approximately 62 percent  of the country’s needs and is a very important catalyst contributing to the export of Ceylon Tea to the world. In addition to their prestigious clientele in Sri Lanka, Flexiprint is the supplier of choice to a large number of clients worldwide including in New Zealand, Far-East and the Middle East. Flexiprint has also started marketing their state of the art products in the African sub-continent as well. 

Speaking of Flexiprint’s trailblazing success and future plans, Managing Director Sathis Abeywickrama said “A new state of the art factory with over 90,000 sq. ft of usable space is currently under construction to cater to the growing needs and sophistication of demand for its products. The new factory will give us higher capacity and better production facilities to service the ever increasing demand from our overseas clientele”.

“The new facilities combined with the knowledge, dedication and loyalty of our experienced staff in the production, sales & marketing, finance & administration teams will enable Flexiprint to achieve the ambitious goals set for ourselves over the next 3-5 years in the local and international market. 

Team Flexiprint’s overarching goals are to be the best quality tea bag, tag, envelope and tagged pyramid mesh producer contributing to our clients’ success, enabling them to operate their production facilities at the highest speeds” he added.

Abeywickrama also stated that they are lucky to have a dedicated team of workers with access to climb the ladder to become the future leaders of the flexoprinting industry.