Idealliance South Asia and Another Industry First from Aitken Spence Printing Sri Lanka
Alexandria, VA (April 11, 2019) – Idealliance HQ and Idealliance South Asia is proud to announce Aitken Spence Printing & Packaging (Pvt) Ltd, the market leader and the preferred print solution provider for discerning local and global clients with over (5) decades of industry experience in the field of printing & packaging has once again proved that they are the trend setters in the industry by obtaining G7® Master Facility Qualification-Color Space, highest level of the G7® program, of Color Standards and becoming the first ever in Sri Lanka to obtain the most globally used, recognized and sought after specification color standard and Qualification in the world.
Idealliance South Asia, led by K. Panthala Selvan, ISO Expert to TC/130, is one of twelve offices strategically located throughout the world, serving the graphic communications industry through ISO Standards Innovation, Print and Digital Workflows & Technologies Development & Integration, Certification, Training, Brand & Facility Auditing Programs. Idealliance powers the supply chain by serving brands, OEMs, service providers in print and packaging, content & media creators, creative agencies/teams, material suppliers, and innovators & developers worldwide.
K. Panthala Selvan, Managing Director, Idealliance South Asia and MENA commented, “the countless endorsements received, and the rising demands of customers have paved the way to reach new heights in matching and reproducing colors and in breaking the boundaries in the printing and packaging requirements. The wealth of experience, the proven skills and reliability coupled with unmatched level customer care has made Aitken Spence Printing a preferred printer for all forms of high-quality printing requirements, not just in Sri Lanka, but in South Asia and the region of the sub-continent of India.” Aitken Spence Printing continues to add to their world-class status through achieving G7® Master Facility Qualification-Color Space, Top Tier, which only adds to their extraordinary standards of excellence. Sri Lanka’s leading printer, Aitken Spence Printing was recognized for the fourth consecutive year as the industry’s best, by winning the Gold award in the Printing & Related Services category at the National Business Excellence Awards 2017.
The recognition is proof of its position as the ‘Best-in-Class Printer’ in Sri Lanka, which has pioneered many innovative benchmarks and enriched the industry with sought after professionals over five decades.
“Winning the gold award consecutively in the printing & related sector is reflective of our commitment, every day, to deliver value-oriented, innovative, and sustainable printing and packaging solutions to our stakeholders. We take this opportunity to express our sincere gratitude to all our customers and other stakeholders for their precious and continuous contribution, guidance and support to achieve this recognition”, said Mr. Prasanna Karunathilake, Managing Director of Aitken Spence Printing.
Aitken Spence Printing is the market leader and the preferred print solutions provider for discerning local and global clients. Its wealth of experience spans over five decades of proven skill and reliability coupled with unmatched customer care.
The National Business Excellence Awards is an annual award competition conducted by the National Chamber of Commerce of Sri Lanka (NCCSL) with a structured evaluation model of seven perspectives – excellence in leadership, excellence in corporate governance, excellence in capacity building, excellence in performance management, excellence in local and global market reach, excellence in corporate social responsibility and environmental sustainability and excellence in business and financial results.
Last year, Aitken Spence Printing received the prestigious GSK 2016 Environmental Sustainability Award alongside the US-based DOW Chemical Company. The awards recognized the vendors who excel in sustainability from an international pool of suppliers who work with GSK. Aitken Spence Printing is the only carbon neutral printer operating in a LEED-Gold certified facility, in South Asia.
G7® is Idealliance’ global industry-leading set of specifications for achieving gray balance and is the driving force for achieving visual similarity across all print processes. The G7 methodology is designed to align all print technologies for visual consistency, process and quality control, and color workflow management.
Idealliance G7®, also known as near-neutral, which is the most sought-after certification and most specified standard in the world, which is currently being revised into ISO 12647-2, works on any print technology regardless of ink or substrate, provides an extraordinary alignment across a facility and certainly across a global print supply chain. Utilizing G7 within a print production workflow improves output consistency across multiple print services, platforms, and distribution outlets, but also tremendously reduces waste and increases profitability.
“We congratulate Aitken Spence Printing on their extraordinary commitment to excellence as well as this great achievement and welcome them to the world class list of G7 Master Qualified Facilities throughout the world. The quality of their production, process control and commitment to the environment is a testament to this great organization that is so dedicated to quality, performance, minimal environmental impact, betterment of their employees and always seeking ways to deliver the highest quality and consistency time and time again to their customers. Having Idealliance South Asia K. Panthala Selvan and his team leading this region brings our purpose around the world, which is to be globally present, everywhere and always be serving and we thank them as well for their commitment to serving the industry, which is the purpose of Idealliance.” Stated by Tim Baechle, CEO, Idealliance
For information on Idealliance South Asia, G7®, BrandQ®, or any of our training programs, please visit, www.idealliance.org, or contact K. Panthala Selvan, Managing Director at panthalaselvan@pressman.in.
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Idealliance, a global think tank, is a non-profit graphic communications industry organization with 12 strategically located offices around the world. Idealliance serves brands, OEMs, service providers in print and packaging, content & media creators, fulfillment, mail delivery, creative agencies/teams, material suppliers, and innovators & developers worldwide. We do our work through ISO Standards Innovation, Print and Digital Workflows & Technologies Development & Integration, Technical Research & Industry Insights, Certification, Training, Brand & Facility Auditing Programs and serves as a Global Super Connector for brands, service providers, & OEMs throughout the world. Our specifications have transformed the graphic communications industry by defining production workflows for color (GRACoL®, SWOP®, XCMYK™, G7®, BrandQ®), content management (PRISM®), mail supply (Mail.dat®, Mail.XML™), and paper (papiNet®). Idealliance is the world’s foremost certifying body for competencies, systems, materials and facilities, and Idealliance, a Liaison ‘A’ to ISO TC130, is one of the world’s largest contributors and developers of ISO standards.
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