For this Sri Lankan company’s founder, Sathis Abeywickrama, going flexo was the ‘khela hobe’ moment in 1993, when he decided to take the plunge into the tea tags and envelope making business. He knew that flexo was the way to go. His son, Isuru continues to play by the same rulebook Isuru (l) and Sathis Abeywickrama, the men behind Flexiprint in Sri Lanka
Flexiprint was started by Sathis Abeywickrama in 1994. Its emergence was necessary for the market at that point of time. There were few companies producing tags and labels in Sri Lanka using gravure technology, giving customers very little choice with timely supplies, quality or even cost. A few of the tea manufacturers had even begun contemplating to import tags and envelopes which wasn’t good for the local economy of Sri Lanka. “The chairman of a prominent tea company approached my father, who has been in the industry since the late 70s, to consider starting a new pr