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Business Briefs Lanka at Expo Riva Suhul in Italy Sri Lanka Export Development Board (EDB) in collaboration with Sri Lankan Embassy in Italy will organise Sri Lanka's participation at the "Expo Riva Suhul" trade fair from June 19 to 22 in River Del Garda, Italy with the objective maximising on the opportunities offered by the European Union (EU) tariff concession granted for the footwear sector. This will expand Sri Lanka's exports to the European region and to explore the possibility of attracting joint collaboration to outsource shoe upper finishing, a senior official of the EDB told Lankapuvath. Export Development Board already selected eight footwear manufacturing companies to exhibit in the national pavilion at the fair. BPL Tea estates top Western High Catalogue Bogawantalawa Estate fetched a top price of Rs. 225 per kilo for a Broken Orange Pekoe (BOP), while Loinom fetched the top price of Rs. 295 per kilo for an Invoice of BOPF (an invoice is a minimum of 1,000 kilos) among Estates in the Western High grown category at the last tea auction held on June 16, 2004. Both Estates are managed by Bogawantalawa Plantations Limited. MBSL Total Productive Maintenance seminar Merchant Bank of Sri Lanka Limited (MBSL) will hold a two-day intensive seminar on Total Productive Maintenance on June 21 and 22. It will be conducted by Merchant Bank MD/CEO Sunil G. Wijesinha and R. Mukundan, a certified trainer of Japan Institute of Plant Management (JIPM). In a competitive business scenario, organisations world-wide are focusing on cost optimisation through elimination of all kinds of waste in manufacturing activities. Also, with the progress of automation and new manufacturing technologies, the demand for the job content and expertise from shop floor personnel has now changed and needs to be updated. The concept of Total Productive Maintenance (TPM) was initiated in Japan during 1971 based on the preventive maintenance measures developed in USA in the '50s, but with the typical Japanese approach of getting all employees involved. TPM goes beyond the engineering scope and is considered a new management system at keeping the plant and equipment at peak efficiency. TPM aims at maximising equipment efficiency and establishing the total system of PM intended for equipment life cycle. TPM builds a mechanism at the workplace and in the product to prevent all types of losses before hand and thus leading to zero accident, zero defect and zero breakdown covering the entire life cycle of the production system. Seminar on e-Banking A seminar on "e-Commerce, e-Banking and data protection in developing countries has been organised by the Information Technology Committee of the Bar Association of Sri Lanka will be held on June 23 at 3.15 pm at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo. Chief Justice Sarath N. Silva PC will be the chief guest. The main speaker will be Dr. Ian Walden, the Head of the Institute of Computer and Communication Law at the Queen Mary University, London. There will be a brief presentation on "ICT Legal Reforms in Sri Lanka by Jayantha Fernando of the Information and Communication Agency of Sri Lanka. Panel of speakers will include Court of Appeal President Justice Saleem Marsoof PC, Legal Draughtsman Ms. Therese Perera PC, Prof. V.K. Samaranayake of the School of Computing at the Colombo University and Senior State Counsel Ms. Dilrukshi Dias Wickremesinghe. |
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