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Intertek Testing Services Lanka (ITS) together with Sri Lanka Apparel Exporters Association have organised a conference on worldwide Responsible Apparel Production (WRAP) in Sri Lanka. The one-day conference will be held on May 30 at JAIC Hilton followed by a one-day training program on the next day at the same venue. ITS is the WRAP accredited independent monitoring firm in Sri Lanka.

The resource personnel for the conference will be Steven Jesseph and Ron Martin. Mr. Jesseph is the Executive Director (Global Workplace Values and Safety) at Sara Lee Corporation of USA, who is also the Chairman of WRAP International Advisory Group and the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AAFA) and Martin currently serve as the Director of Compliance, Internal Audit at VF Corporation of USA.

WRAP is an internationally recognised factory certification program designed to ensure that apparel products are manufactured under humane, legal and ethical conditions have now become a recognised mechanism to measure and validate socially responsible management practices. WRAP now has 700 recognised factories in 58 countries and around 200 of these firms are certified to date. Sri Lanka currently has 19 factories registered under WRAP and 16 of them are working towards the WRAP certification where as three factories are already certified.

ITS Lanka Ltd is a member of ITS Caleb Brett International Group and is the oldest and largest company in the inspection and testing business in the world and provides its services to all types of industries from petroleum, apparel to the tea sector. It has over 500 offices and 245 laboratories around the world with more than 10,000 professionals. ITS Lanka is a joint venture between the Caleb Brett International and Mercantile Merchant Bank Ltd. 

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