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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

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
Sri Lanka to make intervention soon to solve debt problems of industries: Minister

Many businesses and industries are now at the point of collapse

Sri Lanka President opens SKD vehicle assembly plant

The plant has a capacity to assemble 50,000 vehicles a year

Sri Lanka manufacturing, services grow in March

Sri Lanka's manufacturing and services sectors grew in March 2019 from a month earlier ahead of the seasonal demand for ...

April 17, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka industrial activity up 0.6-pct in Feb

Sri Lanka's industrial sector activity grew 0.6 percent in February 2019 from a year earlier, with a recovery in coke an...

April 12, 2019 1 min read

Mahindra Sri Lanka JV plant to produce mini-SUVs from June

A joint venture plant between Sri Lanka's Ideal Motors and Mahindra and Mahindra of India will begin assembling 100 mini...

March 27, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka plans 6,000 acre investment zone in Monaragala: PM

Sri Lanka is planning a 6,000 acre industrial zone in Monaragala as well as a total of 6,000 acres of industrial areas i...

March 25, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka manufacturing, services sector growth slows in Feb

Sri Lanka's manufacturing and services sector growth slowed down in February from January amid a shorter month and uncer...

March 19, 2019 3 min read

Sri Lanka’s Bogala Graphite gains on high value products, rupee weakness

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan graphite miner Bogala Graphite said its return to profit in 2018 was helped by more sale...

March 18, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka industrial activity flat in January, food output down

Manufacturing activity in Sri Lanka grew marginally by 0.1 percent in January 2019 compared to a year earlier, the Censu...

March 14, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka to set up drugs manufacturing zone near Hambantota port

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka is to set up a pharmaceutical manufacturing zone close to the southern in Hambantota port...

March 4, 2019 1 min read

Prima to increase investments in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT- Prima Ceylon (Pvt.) Ltd, Sri Lanka's largest flour mill, is hoping to increase its investments after 40 yea...

February 27, 2019 2 min read

Regulatory trap thwarts Sri Lanka clay tile makers from clearing silted tanks

A web of regulations and processes is blocking Sri Lanka's clay tile makers from clearing silt from tanks which can expa...

February 15, 2019 3 min read
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Sri Lanka industrial activity grows in December with higher food production

Sri Lanka's industrial activity grew 1.6 percent in December 2018 compared to November with higher food production in th...

February 13, 2019 2 min read

UK’s Flexicare to make medical devices in Sri Lanka

Flexicare (Group) Limited, a United Kingdom-headquarted manufacturer and supplier of medical devices, will set up a disp...

February 8, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka soft drink maker sees volumes plunge 23-pct

Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings group, which makes Elephant House branded soft drinks said sales of soft drinks plunge ...

February 1, 2019 2 min read

Sri Lanka’s Dipped Products December profits double amid capital gain

Sri Lankan glove maker Dipped Products said net profit shot up 266 percent to 766 million rupees in the December 2018 qu...

January 31, 2019 1 min read

Sri Lanka SOE sells Zircon, mineral sands

State-run Lanka Mineral Sands will sell 40,000 metric tonnes of non-magnetic heavy mineral concentrate to Alchemy Heavy ...

January 26, 2019 1 min read

Political crisis seen delaying Iluka mining investment in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT - Australian mineral sands miner Iluka Resources Ltd. has said Sri Lanka’s recent political crisis co...

January 25, 2019 2 min read

Industrial production in Sri Lanka slows amid political crisis in Nov

Industrial activity in Sri Lanka has slowed in November with lower food production and despite growth in apparel manufac...

January 14, 2019 2 min read

Eco Spindles says recycling 20-pct of PET bottles in Sri Lanka

Eco Spindles (Pvt) Ltd, a unit of Sri Lanka based BPPL Group, says it is recycling 20 percent of Sri Lanka's used plasti...

January 9, 2019 2 min read

IV fluids plant to be set up in Sri Lanka industrial park

ECONOMYNEXT – An intravenous (IV) fluids manufacturing plant is to be set up in an industrial park in central Sri...

December 21, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka industrial activity up 2.8-pct in October

ECONOMYNEXT- Industrial activity in Sri Lanka grew 2.8 percent from a year earlier in October 2018 with growth across mo...

December 17, 2018 1 min read