wiredInUSA February 2018

International recognition

The Sri Lankan electrical cable manufacturer Kelani Cables PLC, has been recognized at the “World Class Global Performance Excellence awards – 2017” organized by the Asia Pacific Quality Organization (APQO). The awards ceremony was held at the Okada hotel in Manila, Philippines. “We are pleased to announce that 22 organizations in 11 Asian and Pacific Rim countries are being recognized as exemplary companies of world class quality performance. They have achieved the ‘Global Performance Excellence Award’ modeled after [the] US ‘Malcolm Baldrige Performance Excellenceaward’,” saidCharles Aubrey, chairman of APQO and the global performance excellence award executive committee. Dr Aubrey held top positions at several Fortune 500 companies and worked with Dr Juran at the Juran Institute.

He helped draft the original Baldrige criteria and served as a senior examiner for the Baldrige Program for four years. The GPEA is the only formal international recognition of performance and business excellence and is a strategic enabling tool for global performance excellence. Evaluation of the national quality award and the World Class Global Performance Excellence Awards is based on seven criteria: leadership, strategy, customers, measurement analysis and knowledge management, workforce, operations and results. Mahinda Saranapala, director/ CEO, Kelani Cables PLC, said: “We are on the fast track towards capturing international markets. This award is an endorsement [at] international level in recognition of our product. A company that wins the World Class Global Performance Excellence Awards becomes a world class company.”

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