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General Industry

Fonterra to exit or sell down Sri Lanka unit

To keep ingredient and food service supply divisions

May 16, 2024 2 min read

Sri Lanka owned UAE firm claims first Hummer EV conversion to right hard drive

The firm has shifted operations to Ras Al-Khaimah in the UAE

March 18, 2024 1 min read

Macubator to support Sri Lanka and regional start-ups

A start-up accelerator backed by MAC Holdings hopes to support aspiring entrepreneurs, uni students commercialize ideas

December 15, 2023 2 min read

Sri Lanka wants university research to lead to commercially viable products

Ministry of Industries pushes universities, business to work together to produce exportable, commercially-ready products

December 11, 2023 2 min read
Indian mining delegation in Sri Lanka to explore opportunities

India has been eyeing Trincomalee, the mineral resource rich district, for decades.

NEXT apparel factory in Sri Lanka to close amid high costs

'At the heart of this decision is the increasingly high operating cost of the Katunayake factory'

Sunshine, Akbar form Sri Lanka pharma business stretching from R&D to retail

Sri Lanka's Sunshine Holdings and Akbar Brothers have combined their pharmaceutical units to create a combined entity th...

December 17, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Lanwa Sanstha Cement Corporation to start production in June 2021

Sri Lanka's Lanwa Sanstha Cement Corporation (Pvt) Ltd, affiliate of Ceylon Steel Corporation Limited said it is aiming ...

December 10, 2020 2 min read
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Sri Lanka approves tax breaks for China tyre factory

Sri Lanka has approved tax breaks for a 300 million dollar tyre factory to be built by Shandong Haohua Tire Co. Limited ...

December 8, 2020 1 min read
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Standard Chartered Sri Lanka finances PPE export production

Standard Chartered Sri Lanka said it had financed personal protective equipment manufacture for export at Sri Lanka's Di...

December 3, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Rigid Tyre Corporation to start production from Jan 2021

Sri Lanka's Rigid Tyre Corporation (Pvt) Ltd said it will start producing passenger car radials with a 100 million dolla...

November 23, 2020 3 min read
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Sri Lanka tyre plant in Hambantota port by China's Haohua

China will build a 300 million US dollar tyre plant in Sri Lanka's Hambantota port that will export nine million tyres i...

November 19, 2020 1 min read
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Govt to pay compensation to families of deceased migrant workers

Sri Lanka will pay LKR 500,000 as compensation to the families of each migrant workers who died due to COVID-19 overseas...

Imesh Ranasinghe
November 19, 2020 2 min read

Scrap metal from government to be given at concessionary rates to local industry

Government has decided to sell scrap metal produced by the state sector to local industries outside the formal procureme...

November 3, 2020 1 min read

Shaky table possible cause of Sri Lanka PCR machine breakdown: China

An unstable work bench may have caused the malfunction of a PCR testing machine in the forefront of containing the sprea...

October 31, 2020 1 min read
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China techies in Sri Lanka to fix Coronavirus PCR machines as Covid-19 spreads

Technicians from a company in China that has manufactured a high capacity Coronavirus PCR machine that is currently out ...

October 31, 2020 5 min read
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Sri Lanka export firms to run during curfew, helpdesk set up

Export firms will continue to operate during curfews and a help desk has been set up to support companies, Sri Lanka's E...

October 29, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka Hirdramani group says 250 Coronavirus test at Kahathuduwa factory negative

Sri Lanka's Hirdramani group said 250 Coronavirus tests conducted on colleagues of a confirmed staff member at a factory...

October 21, 2020 1 min read

Sri Lanka conducts 15,000 Coroanvirus tests in BOI factories, 200 Covid-19 cases confirmed

Sri Lanka has conducted around 10,000 tests in industrial zones under the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka and 5,000 in ...

October 19, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka export factories conduct over 7000 Coronavirus tests, follow health rules to control Covid...

Companies in export under the Board of Investment of Sri Lanka are following Covid-19 health guidelines, running random ...

October 16, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka exporters testing staff for Covid-19, EDB curfew support for non-BoI firms

Sri Lanka's Export Development Board said it has set up hotlines to help non-Board of Investment companies move staff th...

October 15, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Katunayake Coronavirus curfew to contain Covid-19 infections from factories

Sri Lanka has imposed a Coronavirus curfew in Katunayake police area to reduce the chances of Covid-19 spreading from fa...

October 15, 2020 2 min read

Sri Lanka factory attendance drops as Covid-19 found in more firms

Sri Lanka's export firms are seeing attendance drop to the current Coronavirus wave which raising concerns over producti...

October 14, 2020 4 min read

Second Sri Lanka factory under coronavirus cloud - Updated

A factory in the Katunayake Export Processing Zone is being sanitized and associates of a suspected coronavirus patient ...

Chanka Jayasinghe
October 9, 2020 2 min read

Hemas Holdings start Sri Lanka pharma plant to make five billion pills

Morison Plc, a unit of Colombo-based Hemas Holdings Plc, has opened an 18.5 million dollar pharmaceuticals plant which c...

Chanka Jayasinghe
October 3, 2020 3 min read

Sri Lanka's CEAT ups tyre output amid import controls, holds prices

Sri Lanka's CEAT KELANI Holdings Plc, a joint venture with India's CEAT group has boosted output 35 percent and is addin...

October 2, 2020 5 min read