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Sri Lanka to run long-distance office trains for essential workers

Employers asked to only the bare minimum workers

May 13, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka Air Force to produce high flow oxygen units for Covid-19 patients

The Air Force was planning to produce 50 machines and was ready to make more

May 13, 2021 1 min read

China looking at Sri Lanka to fill and finish Sinopharm Covid-19 vaccines

World Health Organization has approved the emergency use of Sinopharm vaccine

May 8, 2021 2 min read

Sri Lanka to start trial production of RT-LAMP Coronavirus test kit: SLINTEC

Manufacturing of trial batches will commence soon, which will then be followed by commercial production

May 1, 2021 2 min read
Distilleries Company of Sri Lanka to buy Heineken beer

Heineken brands to be produced by Distilleries

Sri Lanka’s Tess Agro opens tin can plant

Tess Agro said it commenced a tin can manufacturing at its factory premises in Kelaniya.

Sri Lanka's DSI to boost solid tyre sales, footware facing competition: Fitch

Sri Lanka DSI Samson group, a rubber products group is planning to boost solid tyre exports as it faces domestic competi...

February 27, 2018 7 min read

Sri Lanka's Lion Brewery December profits up 29-pct

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Lion Brewery said profits grew 29 percent to 412.5 million rupees in the December 2017 quarter...

February 15, 2018 2 min read

Piramal Glass Sri Lanka unit December profit down 52-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Piramal Glass Ceylon PLC said net profit fell 52% to Rs97 million in the December 2017 quarter from...

February 15, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Hayleys Fibre profits surge on parked cash, margins shrink

ECONOMYNEXT - Interest income on bank deposits boosted profits by 91 percent to 17.2 million rupees at Sri Lanka's Hayle...

February 8, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Lanka Tiles net down 13.6-pct in Dec 2017

ProSri Lanka's protected Lanka Tiles profits fell 13.6 percent in the December 2017 quarter on shrinking margins, interi...

February 8, 2018 2 min read

Sri Lanka's Dipped Products net up 85-pct in Dec 2017

Sri Lanka's Dipped Products Plc, which has interests in glove making and rubber tea plantations, said profits in the Dec...

February 1, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Teejay Lanka group net up 5-pct, helped by GSP+

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Teejay Lanka Plc, a knot fabric maker, said profits rose 5 percent to 496 million rupees in th...

January 27, 2018 1 min read

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January 23, 2018 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Serendib Flour Mills to raise capacity by 50-pct

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka’s Serendib Flour Mills will raise capacity by 50% to 1,500 MT a day by adding a new mill ...

January 16, 2018 1 min read

India – Sri Lanka CEAT Kelani JV in Rs3bn tyre plant expansion

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s CEAT Kelani Holdings will invest Rs3 billion to expand tyre manufacturing capaci...

January 11, 2018 1 min read
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Water shortages delay Sri Lanka investments

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s efforts to attract more investments are being affected by a new threat, shortage...

December 7, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Dipped Products returns to profit helped by plantations

Sri Lanka's Dipped Products Plc, a glove maker which also owns tea and rubber plantations, has reported profits of 83.3 ...

November 6, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka’s Chemanex to shed staff, stop exports, paints business

ECONOMYNEXT – Chemanex said it intends to stop its exports and retail paints business to focus on chemical tradin...

November 1, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka anti-dumping law ready for parliament

ECONOMYNEXT – An anti-dumping law that Sri Lankan businesses have been lobbying for has been approved by the gove...

September 29, 2017 1 min read

CEAT Kelani wins Rs1.1bn Sri Lanka state bus tyre deal

Sri Lanka's loss-making state-run Sri Lanka Transport Board has awarded a 1,115 million rupee deal to CEAT Kelani Intern...

September 17, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lanka mulls relaxing domestic market curbs on BOI firms

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka’s government is considering relaxing restrictions on domestic sales of mainly expo...

August 21, 2017 1 min read

Thailand’s Rojana to set up industrial zone in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT – Rojana Industrial Park is to set up Sri Lanka’s first industrial zone in over a decade, aimi...

August 21, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka’s Dankotuwa Porcelain June net profit up sharply

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lankan tableware manufacturer Dankotuwa Porcelain said net profit shot up 880 percent to 29 million ru...

August 17, 2017 1 min read

Sri Lankan industrialists worry over China trade deal, cess removal

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan industrialists have voiced concern over a proposed free trade agreement with China and g...

August 14, 2017 3 min read

Sri Lanka's Haycarb profits down on high coconut shell prices

Activated carbon maker Haycarb Plc said high coconut shell prices in Sri Lanka, Thailand and Indonesia were shrinking pr...

August 6, 2017 2 min read