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Unique paper product:
Maximus bags Presidential Export Award
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Award: Director Maximus, Chulanthi Mathew with the Presidential
Export Award which was awarded to Maximus for the sector
handcrafted paper products at a ceremony on August 23 at the
Presidential Secretariat.
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World’s first elephant dung paper manufacturer and last year’s BBC
World Challenge 2006 winner, Maximus walked away with the Presidential
Export Award for the sector handcrafted paper products.
It was in 2005 that the American Apparel and Footwear Association (AFFA)
recognised the work done by maximus in turning out elephant dung to an
unique paper product and awarded them the “Excellence in Social
Responsibility” award at another ceremony in Florida, USA.
Value added products manufactured by Maximus are now exported all
over the world thus bringing in much needed foreign exchange to the
country.
Maximus based in Pinnawala, Kegalle now employs over 150 and is
currently in the process of setting up factories in Dambulla and
Sigiriya where an abundance of elephant dung is found.
Maximus believes the elephant to be a national and an economic asset
and the best way to save the elephants from being killed by angry
farmers eager to protect their cultivations through ways to use the
elephant as a sustainable economic resource. |
