History and Achievements
The chairman and founder of Flexport is a 5th generation descendant of a traditional master craft family, whose great grandfather was honored by Her Majesty, Queen Victoria in 1886 by inviting him to the Buckingham Palace and commissioning him to train jewelers in Great Britain and granting job opportunities for seven generations in any British Colony.
UK 1982 (Qualified for Guinness Book of World Records)
Designer of the Satellite communication Award (Arthur C. Clark Award) 1987 and commended by USA – NASA Directorate.
The first Sri Lankan to enter into Who’s who in the World Catalogue, USA and UK for Arts and Crafts and Design excellence – 1986
International Selection Commission – Germany declared “Coirpack global Greening” a World Green Project – ’99
Lanka Star Award winner for packaging from Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging and holder of several World-wide patents.
Published by the world press and CNN world news telecast of 8th November 1992 which brought 104 Franchise requests from all over the world within few hours of its telecast.
Presidential Award winner for Inventor of the Year ’95
Winner of “International Man of the Year ’95-’96” from Biographical Institute Cambridge, UK.
Winner of Export Award ’95 (Gold) from National Chamber of Exporters
The Platinum Award Winner in Entrepreneurship ‘97
Selection of PacGro as a World Green Project by International Selection Commission for the implementation of Earth Summit Agenda 21- ’99.
2002 Earth Summit – Attending World Summit on Sustainable development as a national delegate only one from the industrial sector appointed as a adviser to the ministry of industries.
2003-Winner of “Royal Crown to Excellence” from The World Marketing
Top Award Winner for Designs & Craft – Jaycees International 1982
1987 to make the industry more flexible in Flexible Manufacturing Systems.
Top Award Winner for Designs & Craft – Jaycees International 1982
Pioneer in Sri Lanka in Chemical Milling, PCB, Signage’s, Flock Technology, Automated OEM 3 axis drives, Manufacture of Limited Edition Museum Pieces for export – creating 30 pioneering R&D projects.
Winner of two World Star Awards for no-waste, garbage free packaging invention from the World Packaging Organization – Paris ’92
Designer & maker of world’s most valuable Diamond trophy for world Tennis championship ’93 valued at US $ 305,000 and won by Steffi Graff.
Winner of Swarnathilaka Award ’95 for Creativity and Innovation.
Winner of the International Inventors Award ’96, in Geneva, (IFIA Gold Cup) and 2 Gold Medals for the invention, PacGro – the World’s First Garbage-free packaging, from over 1000 entries from 43 nations. Styrofoam & Plastics.
Winner of Entrepreneur Award ’96 (Gold)NATIONAL Most Outstanding Entrepreneur ’96
International Gold Award ’99 – India
WIPO – World Intellectual Property Organization declared “PacGro Invention” as product meeting a world demand for environmental friendly packaging material in February 2000