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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...

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

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
Sri Lanka mineral sands SOE pays Rs1.5bn dividends

Lanka Mineral Sands Limited mines beach sands and exports

Sri Lanka Ceylon Cold Stores Sept net up 49-pct

ECONOMYNEXT – Ceylon Cold Stores, a unit of Sri Lanka's John Keells Holdings, which owns the Elephant House bever...

October 26, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka shifts tyre plant location after land owner protests

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lanka has shifted the location of a proposed tyre plant by Ceylon Steel Corporation, for which ...

October 25, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Elephant House to bottle fizzy drinks in the UK

Sri Lanka's Elephant House plans to sell its fizzy drinks in the UK and European countries through a bottling deal struc...

October 6, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka glove maker Dipped Products in the red

Sri Lanka's Dipped Products Plc, a rubber glove maker which also owns tea and rubber plantations lost 48.75 million rupe...

September 30, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka deposit counter-cyclical investment for Iluka

ECONOMYNEXT - Australian mineral sands miner Iluka Resources Ltd. has listed its Sri Lankan ilmenite deposit as one of i...

September 12, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka to ban asbestos imports in 2018, production from 2024

Sri Lanka will prohibit the import of asbestos from 2018 and the manufacture of roofing sheets from 2024, following a pr...

September 8, 2016 1 min read

IFC offers Sri Lankan firms ‘development oriented’ project loans

ECONOMYNEXT – The International Finance Corporation (IFC) has said it is ready to give loans to Sri Lankan privat...

September 1, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lanka cement plant asked to cut dust emissions at Galle Port

A cement grinding plant at Galle, in Southern Sri Lanka, has been asked to cut emissions by a nearby port or shift opera...

August 30, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka cracks down on sub-standard water bottling

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Ministry of Industry and Commerce said it would introduce standards for bottled water from nex...

August 22, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka tyre plant by Ceylon Steel, Marangoni to sell old machines: report

Marangoni, an Italy-based tyre maker, will not build a new factory in Sri Lanka as claimed in some reports, but is plann...

August 22, 2016 2 min read
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Sri Lanka's Dankotuwa Porcelain boosts India sales

Dankotuwa Porcelain, a Sri Lanka based tableware maker said it boosted sales to India 19 percent in 2016, and is facing ...

August 14, 2016 1 min read

Piramal Glass Sri Lanka unit in Rs3bn expansion

Piramal Glass Ceylon said June 2016 quarter net profit fell 25% to Rs110 million from a year ago as it built inventory a...

August 9, 2016 1 min read

Gold slump slows demand for activated carbon at Sri Lanka's Haycarb

Sri Lanka's Haycarb Plc, which also has factories in Thailand and Indonesia, said the group operated below-capacity amid...

August 6, 2016 1 min read

Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi to bankroll Siam City Cement Sri Lanka aquisition

Siam City Cement Pcl (SCCC) , Thailand's second-largest cement maker, said on Monday it has signed a deal to buy a Sri L...

July 25, 2016 2 min read

Carlsberg to keep Sri Lanka's Lion supplied after floods

ECONOMYNEXT - Sri Lanka's Ceylon Beverage Holdings Plc said its partner Carlsberg will brew and supply is brand with the...

June 27, 2016 2 min read

Sri Lankan company R&D tax breaks go a-begging

ECONOMYNEXT – Sri Lankan companies have been given generous tax breaks to encourage research and development but ...

June 17, 2016 1 min read

Marangoni to set up Sri Lanka tire plant for export

ECONOMYNEXT – Marangoni, an Italy-based tyre manufacturer, is to set up a radial and industrial tire manufacturin...

Rohan Gunasekera
June 16, 2016 1 min read

Iluka to start test drilling at Sri Lanka ilmenite deposit

ECONOMYNEXT - Australian mineral sands miner Iluka Resources Ltd. has said it is preparing to drill for mineral samples ...

June 7, 2016 1 min read

LafargeHolcim to exit $150 mn a year cement business in Sri Lanka

ECONOMYNEXT - Switzerland-based LafargeHolcim, a materials group, is exiting Sri Lanka's cement business where it operat...

June 2, 2016 1 min read

Sri Lanka's Tokyo Cement net up 24-pct in March

ECONOMYNEXT - Profits at Tokyo Cement Plc, which operates grinding plants in Sri Lanka, grew 24 percent to Rs691 million...

June 1, 2016 1 min read