Brandix Eco Centre hosts beauty queens
The Green Plant of Brandix, Sri Lanka’s largest apparel exporter,
recently hosted two reigning beauty queens on a familiarisation visit.
Miss Netherlands Melissa Sneekes and Miss Sri Lanka Mariyah Colombage
toured the three eco-friendly manufacturing facilities that make up the
Brandix Casualwear complex at Seeduwa and were briefed on the remarkable
savings it had achieved in energy and water consumption and the
reduction of carbon emissions by 80 per cent, through a redesign of the
building and the installation of eco-friendly air-conditioning.
The Brandix Green Plant at Seeduwa was an eye-opener for me. Besides
being one of the most eco-friendly apparel factories in the world, it
also provides a very comfortable working environment,” Sneekes said.
“There can be no better example of Sri Lanka’s commitment to
environment-friendly manufacturing than the Brandix Green Plant at
Seeduwa.
The commitment and effort that has gone into creating a showpiece of
clean manufacturing is truly commendable. Sri Lanka can be proud of
facilities such as this, which demonstrate that we can be world leaders
in eco-friendly apparel manufacture,” Colombage said.
The 130,000 square-foot Brandix Casualwear factory at Seeduwa is the
Group’s lead manufacturing plant for top international retailer Marks &
Spencer (M&S), and surpasses internationally-stipulated Green factory
standards for energy consumption, water conservation, solid waste
management and carbon emissions. |