The appointment paves the way for a wide range of safe bacterial barrier packaging products in the Arjowiggins Sterimed® and Sterisheet® portfolios to be marketed in Sri Lanka, propagating the use of sterile medical paper in the wrapping of surgical and other medical instruments used in local hospitals.
The Sterimed range of packaging solutions for the medical device and pouch-making industry comprises of coated and direct seal web packaging for single-use medical devices, protection wraps, drape and gown fabrics, medical Kraft and reinforced coated paper and microbial barrier substrates for pouches and rolls.
The Sterisheet range designed for Central Sterile Supply Departments (CSSDs) of hospitals comprises of bio-designed sterilisation wraps, cellulose-based sterilisation wraps and Spun-Melt-Spun (SMS) sterilisation wraps.
“Bacterial barrier paper from Arjowiggins is used by leading hospitals around the world to keep surgical instruments and other medical devices sterile,” Papyrus Corporation Chairman and CEO Ashan Abeyesundere said.
“These are truly state-of-the-art medical paper products, and we are privileged to be appointed their authorised distributor in Sri Lanka.”
He said the appointment represents an important diversification as well as an expansion of the remit of Papyrus Papers, which has represented the Arjowiggins fine and specialty papers range including the heritage brand ‘Conqueror’ in Sri Lanka for more than 12 years.
Following the appointment of Papyrus Papers as the company’s distributor in Sri Lanka, Tomas Dovrtel, Sales Manager for Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East at Arjowiggins Healthcare visited the country to train the company’s staff and to visit key customers in the private hospitals sector.
With sales and production facilities in three continents, products sold in more than 60 countries around the world, millions of users of its products and clients and partners in the hospital sterilisation and medical device industries, Arjowiggins Healthcare is striving to produce and develop solutions to fight nosocomial diseases through safe bacterial barrier packaging products that are cost-efficient in performance and eco-friendly in design.
The € 1.5 billion Arjowiggins is the world leader in creative and technical papers.
Papyrus Papers is a fully-owned subsidiary of Papyrus Corporation which also owns companies such as the digital quick print specialist Print Point (Pvt) Ltd., JAMPhoto, the company that pioneered the production of digitally printed Photobooks in Sri Lanka and is the undisputed leader in the segment, and Ashalin Investments (Pvt) Ltd., the Group’s property management company.
Papyrus Papers accounts for a 70 per cent share of the country’s fine and specialty papers market.
Photo caption : (From left) Jude Silva, Chief Operating Officer of Papyrus Papers, Ashan Abeyesundere, Chairman/CEO of Papyrus Corporation and Tomas Dovrtel, Sales Manager for Eastern Europe, Africa and Middle East of Arjowiggins Healthcare at the training session in Colombo for Papyrus staff.