Rohan Victoria appointed Asian Packaging Federation President

 The Asian Packaging Federation has appointed a President from Sri Lanka, namely Rohan Victoria to its board of administration for the third time in its 50 years of existence.

He takes over the reigns from the 01st of January 2018 from Dr. Kie Shim of South Korea who held this position for two years.

 The APF, the only international packaging organization representing the Asian Packaging Industry was founded in 1967 in Kyoto , Japan with five countries as founder members comprising China, India, Japan, Korea and the Philippines.

 One nationally recognized leading packaging organization from each country in the Asia Pacific Region is eligible to be a full member of the APF except for the Peoples Republic of China, the only country with  two nationally  recognized packaging organizations been given the opportunity to receive full membership of the federation considering the total population of the country.

Twenty national packaging organizations from 19 countries from the Asia Pacific Region have received full membership of the APF during  the last five decades. There is currently 16 member organization in the membership register of the APF at present.

  Rohan Victoria , the Managing Director of Iris Trading Ltd , who became a member of the Council of Management  of the Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging representing Aitken Spence Printing & Packaging (pvt) ltd, in 1995 , was appointed President of the Institute of Packaging in November 2016, prior to which he held the positions of Assistant Secretary , General Secretary , Vice president and the Deputy President covering a period of two and half decades.

 Besides Rohan Victoria being the President of the APF and President of the Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging he is also a Director of the Packaging Development Centre Ltd, Director of the Ingrin Institute of Printing and Graphics and also a Director of the Sri Lanka Institute of Printing.

 RohanVictoria , the current President of the Sri Lanka Institute of Packaging led the Sri Lanka delegation in December for the meeting of the Board of Administration and General Assembly of the APF which was attended by more than 30 delegates representing nine member organization from nine countries where he was appointed the President of the APF for a two year period commencing January 2018.

 The Asian Packaging Federation will be celebrating its 50th anniversary in Tokyo, Japan and  Rohan Victoria is expected to participate at these celebrations.