Atlas Axillia is celebrating its 60th anniversary with a range of projects aimed at enhancing children’s lives across the nation. The firm intends a bursary and fresh innovative warehouse products to be launched. Viraj Jayasooriya, Chief Operating Officer of Atlas, says his firm has invested strongly in its business and can generate a high-quality product at a good cost.
Atlas pens have remained at constant prices since 1999. Jayasooriya said, technological and productivity improvements, permitting the company to maintain prices and more or less improve the quality in the future. The factory produces nearly two million items on a daily basis. Production requires the movement of 75 tons daily. The defect rate is 0.0004 percent, while productivity had grown to 20 percent year on year, during the last three years. Paper trimmings waste was 3.5 percent, compared to the industry norm of 10 percent. There is .01 percent plastic waste in the manufacture of pens.