National Productivity and Competitiveness Council (NPCC) did a training with our employees through quality circles. Each quality circle comprised of employees from different departments, who worked together to identify problems within the organisation and to come up with innovative ideas.

One of our quality circle teams proposed solutions in decreasing the internal consumption of plastic bags by making use of reusable fabric bags to keep 1L paint buckets instead of using low density polyethylene (LDPE) bags for the packing department. Till now, a 15 % decrease in the plastic films has been observed since it has been initiated in October 2021. Their second solution – ‘SOwrap’ won a Bronze Award in the category of Large Private Companies for the project NPQC 20/21 pursuing Productivity and Quality organised by NPCC. ‘SOwrap’ came as a reusable and locally made alternative for the stretch films, which were utilized in securing our store finished goods.