Selmo marks 30th anniversary
Selmo private Limited, a company in the forefront of the Sri Lankan packaging industry, celebrated their 30th anniversary recently. When long standing staff members were recognized and thanked for their service and contribution towards the development and success of the company. They were presented by gifts and trophies. At the celebration the Managing Director Mr. Anton Hemantha, presented gifts.
Selmo manufacture and supplies innovative packaging solutions to the needs of companies producing various consumer items and foodstuffs.
Speaking about 30th anniversary Anton Hemantha says, "Selmo was birthed in the midst of trouble times in the history of the Sri Lanka in August 1983. The idea was conceived when neighbour was seeking to obtain inexpensive packing materials for his tea export business and he was trying to help the neighbour through a friend's polybag factory to get the packing for the neighbour. This was never intended as a business start-up. However when more and more orders began to flow in and realised he was making his monthly salary in his job at the time in just one single polybag order and decided to focus on the supply of polybags instead of working for another company. There was no question of turning back from that day. And we then went in to supply the fast growing garment export trade in addition to the tea industry. Today, Selmo is a recognized packing supplier to Sri Lankan industry."
Speaking further, Hemantha said, "Maintaining a venture for three decades, facing the ups and downs within this competitive environment is a great challenge and surviving in it is a victory.''
"During the past 30 years, we added a number of and new product lines. We added the flexible packing line in 1995 with a new production location in Dekatana from where we are able to supply laminates."
Selmo supplies multicolour printed and unprinted packing products in pouches or in reel form for FFS machines for chocolates, toffees and confectioneries like cakes snacks, biscuits, drinks and soft drinks, tea, noodles, soya, meat products, condiments, dry foodstuffs, agro-chemicals products as insecticides weedicides and fertilizers. These are made out of converted aluminum foil, polyester, polypropylene or nylon films. Goods packaged in these hi barrier packaging materials even under various storage conditions. Packaging material is designed to restrict the admission of Oxygen and moisture and other gases.
Selmo is
using
modern machines and used in the world for pack. We also obtained several international certifications for the standard of the maintaining quality of their packaging solutions. Additionally they obtained ISO 22000:2005 international quality certifications for the food safety production process of their packaging factory located at Dekatana.