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Clash of Lawn Bowl Warriors

The 2 Interloop Lawn Bowl Tournament for Women and The Differently Abled Persons were classified in Category
nd
Differently Abled employees was organized on 5 April, A; comprising standing employees and Category B;
2018 at Sports Ground, Plant 1. comprising sitting persons. The spirit and passion of
players was worth seeing and highly appreciable during
Females from all Plants participated enthusiastically. After the pool matches. The final was played between Ahrar
intense pool matches, Neeha Nawaz, Hufsa Subhani, Iqra Hussain, Finishing Plant 2 and Muhammad Ali, Finishing
Saif and Sehrish Mehmood qualified for the semifinals, Plant 4, and won by Muhammad Ali.
following which Iqra and Neeha played the final. With eyes
on the trophy, the finalists battled hard with each bowl At the closing ceremony, Executive Director, Brig. (Retd)
thrown strategically. Peers and friends cheered both Ahmad Riza Siddiqi presented trophies to the winners and
players for each move but Iqra’s final throw made her win appreciated the organizers for encouraging women and
the title in the Women Category. differently abled individuals to participate in such healthy
activities.

Iqra playing a tough shot during the final Ahrar calculating his next shot

Plant Planning Workshop 2018

Keeping in perspective impressive outcomes of the annual all Interloop Plants & shared the concept behind the
Business Planning Workshop (BPW), the management workshop. Azhar Sadiq, Executive Director Operations
this year decided to replicate the best practices of BPW at spoke about the importance of this activity and how it
the Plants’ Level. The entire Plant Planning Workshop would add value to planning for all Plants.
lasted for over a week, where initially, preplanning
workshops were arranged and later, the key planning Focus groups were formed comprising members from
activities were carried out. The Plant Planning Workshop Operations, Quality & Lean and were given targets derived
was organized on the R3 Strategy in which different from the company goals. The groups discussed various
initiatives are planned to reduce the ever increasing strategies for achieving these targets, made action plans
manufacturing cost, by redesigning the process & having and presented those to Director Operations, Head of LEAN
better coordination with the customers. and Plant Heads 1 & 2, who approved the feasible ones.
First quarter feedback sessions have already been
The workshop was arranged by Interloop - way Lean team conducted & the groups have shown remarkable progress.
at the Executive Club, Interloop Industrial Park. Latif Zaib, Collectively, this initiative is turning out to be quite valuable
Head of Interloop - Way Lean greeted the participants from & supportive in achieving company’s Vision 2020.

Participants of Plant Planning Workshop with Azhar Sadiq, Executive Director Operations

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