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Sri Lanka to import 200mn coconuts worth kernels

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February 5, 2025 1 min read

Sri Lanka to provide 50,000 acres of land for industry, expand tiny allocation

By 2030 Sri Lanka wanted to increase land allocated for industry up to 1 percent,

February 3, 2025 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Teejay sees higher fabric demand from China, Bangladesh shift

Goblal cotton prices were stable, the firm sai

January 31, 2025 2 min read

Sri Lanka price controlled canned fish amid excess capacity: Minister

There is an import tax of Rs200 a kilo (about 680 dollars a tonne)

January 14, 2025 2 min read
Sri Lanka can attract Indian firms looking to expand abroad: ITC chief

Indian companies have, particularly coming to Sri Lanka because there are a lot of cultural bonds, historical ties

EU-backed initiative fuels energy efficiency in Sri Lanka’s industrial sector

To make many energy intensive industries energy efficient and decarbonize themselves

Sri Lanka cement supplies to be boosted by INSEE with two ships

Operating at full capacity

November 3, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka LPG supplies wait for dollars to unload amid money printing

Gas supplies are stuck in the port

Mahadiya Hamza
November 2, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka plastic recycler BPPL profits down amid rising costs

High freight costs continued to curtail profit growth amid a drop in container availability

November 2, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Lanwa cement sets up covered conveyor at China-run Hambantota Port

The conveyor could carry 1,200 tonnes per hour

November 1, 2021 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's CMPorts industrial park canvasses FDI in China's Yangtze and Pearl River deltas

HIPG has stationed an investment promotion team in China

October 25, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka manufacturing, some services recover in Sept 2021: PMI

Retail and leisure still hit amid lockdowns

October 18, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Lion Brewery 'AAA(lka) rating confirmed by Fitch, tax hike expected

Lion has significant rating headroom to weather even more prolonged disruptions to its operations

October 2, 2021 8 min read

South Asia immigration barriers hindering industrial hub potential

It is not that the region is lacking in natural and human resources, both skilled and unskilled

September 30, 2021 6 min read

Sri Lanka money printing hits cable maker raw materials

Will result in a short supply of materials very soon

September 20, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Tess Agro eyes funds from Swiss firm to make tin cans

Food storing cans to be exported

September 15, 2021 1 min read
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Sri Lanka to give 66 acres of state land for export aloe vera products

Says will invest US$783mn

August 31, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Kelani Tyres profits up 114-pct amid import controls

Tyre volumes double

August 28, 2021 1 min read

Sri Lanka nautical tourism to sail beyond the beach with boat show

Pleasure boating, leisure fishing and marine engineering on view

August 10, 2021 4 min read

Sri Lanka manufacturing, service start to recover in June 2021

Third wave led to a dip in May

July 16, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's CEAT Kelani radial tyre capacity raised amid money printing, import controls

Radial capacity up over 30-pct in 2021

July 12, 2021 3 min read

Sri Lanka retailers seek utility relief, re-opening of closed outlets

The SLRA has also requested permission to re-open some of the sectors that are currently closed.

July 7, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka's China backed Xinji 'plug-and-play' electronic park built at high speed

The first factory ready to produce in an year

July 7, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka grants tax relief to fabric makers in Eravur zone

Tax relief up to 10 years for larger investments

July 7, 2021 3 min read

Sri Lanka's JAT Holdings seeks Rs1.5bn in IPO, Rs731 sale by investor

Plans to develop export markets

July 6, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka fabric park for 'greener' apparel with transparent supply chain

BOI upgrading older industrial to higher eco-standards

Mahadiya Hamza
June 30, 2021 5 min read
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