‘LANKAPAK 2014’ fair will feature Sri Lanka’s packaging skills to overseas markets
View(s):The Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging (SLIP), which represents the Sri Lankan packaging industry, together with events organiser, MP Events Lanka has announced ‘Lankapak 2014’ exhibition scheduled to be held from 18 – 20 July at the Sirimavo Bandaranaike Exhibition Centre.
Organised by SLIP and its ‘technical arm’, the Packaging Development Centre, Lankapak 2014 will uncover the vast potential of Sri Lanka’s packaging industry and parallely unveil the latest international products to a growing international clientele, the organizers said in a media release. It is supported by the Ministry of Industry and Commerce and two global and regional packaging organisations – The World Packaging Organisation and The Asian Packaging Federation respectively. Lankapak 2014 is sponsored by CMC Engineering (Platinum Sponsor) and Euroasia Packaging (Gold Sponsor).
Chairman of the Organising Committee and Past President of Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging, who is also the current Chairman of the Packaging Development Centre, Dharmatilake Ratnayake said, “The city of Colombo has always been a centre of attraction for the suppliers of state-of-the-art packaging equipment and new products, to exhibit to a receptive clientele. Being a country which is totally dependent on imported raw materials and equipment for packaging, Sri Lanka has, over the past three decades, mastered the art of adding value to its packaging conversions and hence to its export products through high quality package designing and processing as seen in many locally produced export product”.