MAS Active Linea Intimo has signed on with JAT Holdings for a chemical leasing deal.
MAS Active joined forces with the National Cleaner Production Centre (NCPC), the national co-ordinating and regulatory authority of Chemical Leasing in Sri Lanka, to forge a tri-partite agreement with JAT Holdings, a company involved in the furnishing and finishing industry.
As part of a commitment to be zero toxic in all products and processes by 2025, MAS Active Linea Intimo has taken a stand to reduce chemical usage in their painting operation.
CEO of MAS Active Chelan Goonetilleke said, “This is one of the many projects we have lined up in achieving the goal of ensuring our products are zero toxic by 2020. We support innovation across the board and we are committed to ensuring that our journey towards sustainability grows from where we began a decade ago.”
“Reducing and removing hazardous chemicals is part of our chemical management journey as a group and we hope this brings more awareness about the toxicity of everyday products we take for granted,” he said.
Managing Director of JAT Holdings Aelian Gunawardene said, “We are proud to be taking the lead in Sri Lanka’s first-ever chemical leasing project of this nature. Having always given top priority to innovation, as a growing company, we believe in a commitment towards continuous research and development of products.”
“We believe this is the key to our success and are humbled in being able to further our efforts towards environmental sustainability. Our intention is to further invest in R&D with the objective of providing a vast array of innovative and quality products to JAT’s constantly expanding portfolio,” he said. Director Environmental Sustainability at MAS, Sharika Senanayake said, “Chemical Management is a major part of MAS’s overall group sustainability strategy.
These are long term commitments we have put much thought into and the journey has already begun.
We hope we can shine a light on innovative solutions that will help us fight climate change and inspire more industries to strive to make positive impact on the environment and not simply look to reduce harm.”
Successful trials of the Chemical Leasing Project have been carried out at MAS Active Linea Intimo factory premises and the new leasing arrangement will see JAT teams paint the facility and when they leave they take all the waste with them for recycling. Linea Intimo has also requested for water-based paints for all processes instead of the toxic solvent based paints.