Piramal Glass Most Outstanding Exporter in Large Industry Sector at 21st Annual NCE Awards

The National Chamber of Exporters of Sri Lanka which conducts the annual export award ceremony to recognize and encourage the performance of the Sri Lankan exporters, held its 21st Annual NCE Export Awards Ceremony recently.

Piramal Glass Ceylon PLC (PGC), is a leading glass container manufacturer and a mem- ber of the Piramal Group with production facilities located in India and USA, as well as Sri Lanka. PGC with a history of over five decades in Sri Lanka, started focusing its attention on export markets with the establishment of a 250MT per day production facility in Horana. Over the last six years PGC has been able to built its reputation for strin- gent quality and unique bottle shapes and colours which were unmatched by manufacturers in Asia. This unique manufacturing ability coupled with the service offered has enabled the company to increase exports of its glass containers to many international markets.

The company won its 4th consecutive Gold award in the Large Industry segment in the Ceramic sector at the recently concluded NCE awards ceremony.

In addition to this, for the first time at the NCE Awards, PGC was recognized as the proud overall winner of the "Most Outstanding Exporter" in the Industry sector.

"The award winners were selected by a very elite panel of judges and it is a testimony of our performance" said MD / CEO, Piramal Glass, Sanjay Tiwari . "Inspite of the prevailing difficult global economic conditions and tough competition from many of the international low cost manufacturers, Piramal Glass Ceylon has shown a healthy growth in its operations".