Sen­a­tor the Ho­n­ourable Paula Gopee-Scoon, Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try vis­it­ed the Eniath’s Print­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (EP­CL), who has recog­nised the need for eco­nom­ic di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion in the re­gion. De­tails fol­low in this press re­lease.

With over three decades of ex­pe­ri­ence in the lo­cal print­ing in­dus­try, fam­i­ly owned busi­ness, Eniath’s Print­ing Com­pa­ny Lim­it­ed (EP­CL), con­tin­ues to demon­strate ap­ti­tude and agili­ty with its re­cent in­vest­ment to pro­mote the di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of op­er­a­tions. On Wednes­day 15 Sep­tem­ber, 2021, Sen­a­tor the Ho­n­ourable Paula Gopee-Scoon, Min­is­ter of Trade and In­dus­try, vis­it­ed the mod­ern state of the art print­ing and man­u­fac­tur­ing fa­cil­i­ty of EP­CL at eTecK’s Fred­er­ick Set­tle­ment Busi­ness Park and met with Mrs. Shah­naz Mo­hammed, Man­ag­ing Di­rec­tor; Mr. Isa Mo­hammed Di­rec­tor and Sales Man­ag­er and Mr. Naim Khan Gen­er­al Man­ag­er.

Eniath’s  is a ma­jor sup­pli­er for the print­ing and pub­lish­ing sec­tor through­out the Eng­lish speak­ing Caribbean and cur­rent­ly ser­vices pub­lish­ers and part­ners in the Caribbean re­gion from di­verse seg­ments in­clud­ing ed­u­ca­tion, trade and re­li­gion. Over the last 2-3 years, Eniath’s has rec­og­nized the need for ex­pan­sion and di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion of its op­er­a­tions and made sub­stan­tial in­vest­ment in­to the food pack­ag­ing mar­ket which en­tails the print­ing of fold­ing car­tons pri­mar­i­ly for the food and bev­er­age in­dus­try. Dur­ing the tour of the 40,000 square footage of pro­duc­tion space, the Ho­n­ourable Min­is­ter laud­ed the com­pa­ny’s ef­forts say­ing “di­ver­si­fi­ca­tion is not just the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of the Gov­ern­ment but the re­spon­si­bil­i­ty of busi­ness­es to di­ver­si­fy their prod­ucts so they can tran­si­tion and adapt to a chang­ing econ­o­my”. 

She com­mend­ed the com­pa­ny on suc­cess­ful­ly pen­e­trat­ing the re­gion­al mar­ket with its pack­ag­ing prod­ucts and un­der­scored that in­vest­ment in niche sub-sec­tors such as this, will re­sult in in­creased po­ten­tial to build ca­pac­i­ty in the do­mes­tic man­u­fac­tur­ing sec­tor, and al­so en­gen­der sup­ply chain link­ages with var­i­ous in­dus­tries, par­tic­u­lar­ly those in the food and bev­er­age sec­tor. Min­is­ter Gopee-Scoon was par­tic­u­lar­ly pleased with the high stan­dard of the fa­cil­i­ty and com­mend­ed them on at­tain­ing the Brand Rep­u­ta­tion through Com­pli­ance of Glob­al Stan­dards (BR­CGS) for Food Safe­ty which is an in­ter­na­tion­al food safe­ty cer­ti­fi­ca­tion that en­ables man­u­fac­tur­ers to ex­port food pack­ag­ing to any part of the world. She made a call for oth­er man­u­fac­tur­ers to get cer­ti­fied to in­crease their ex­port ca­pa­bil­i­ty by ac­cess­ing the grant fa­cil­i­ty un­der the Ex­port Boost­er Ini­tia­tive which is be­ing ex­e­cut­ed by ex­porTT Lim­it­ed.  She en­cour­aged the com­pa­ny to con­tin­ue col­lab­o­rat­ing with the rel­e­vant Min­istries and agen­cies, in­clud­ing the Cham­bers to ac­cess the fa­cil­i­ties, re­sources and op­por­tu­ni­ties af­ford­ed to them.

Eniath’s ini­tial en­try in­to the pack­ag­ing mar­ket has been quite suc­cess­ful both for lo­cal pro­duc­tion as well as for ex­ports with­in the re­gion and the com­pa­ny in­tends to con­tin­ue to in­vest in cap­i­tal and hu­man re­sources to meet the de­mands of the mar­ket. Mr Isa Mo­hammed, Di­rec­tor and Sales Man­ag­er em­pha­sised that Eniath’s is very en­vi­ron­men­tal­ly con­scious not­ing that all the pa­per waste gen­er­at­ed from their pro­duc­tion process is re­cy­cled and some­times al­so reused in the plant op­er­a­tions.