Sri Lanka, March 10 -- After winning SAARC Awards and Commonwealth Business Excellence Awards last August in Johannesburg, Sri Lanka's pioneering inventor Rohan De Lanerolle, Chairman of Abacus Tea and C2S.LK, has now been shortlisted for multiple Asia Awards-further solidifying his groundbreaking contribution to the global tea industry.

At a time when India's Food Safety and Standards Authority of India (FSSAI) has mandated the ban on staple-pin tea bags, causing major disruption to the industry, De Lanerolle has already provided the solution that India and the world have been searching for.

For decades, engineers worldwide have attempted but failed to convert older tea bag machines to staple-free technology. Since year 2000, global ma...