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BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA and KEITH NUTHALL
CERAMIC manufacturers in Sri Lanka are seeking changes in national laws restricting the quarrying of paddy lands, because they contain premium deposits of kaolin. The country’s Ceramics Industry Task Force has asked its national government to revoke certain provisions of the Agrarian Development Act, which ban the mining of paddy lands, even if they are not being used for agriculture or have ceased to be viable for food production.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
CERAMIC manufacturers in Sri Lanka are seeking changes in national laws restricting the quarrying of paddy lands, because they contain premium deposits of kaolin. The Ceramics Industry Task Force has asked Columbo to certain provisions of the Agrarian Development Act, which ban the mining of paddy lands.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lanka’s Kentucky Fried Chicken franchise holder Cargills Food Services (Pvt) Ltd. has invested SLRupees four million on converting an old Ceylon Transport Board bus to offer a mobile KFC service, which is being run as an experiment.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lankan glove manufacturer Dipped Products Ltd has acquired a controlling interest in its European distributor ICO Guanti Spa, of Genoa, Italy. The payment of shares valued at US$855,000 (SL Rupees 81 million) is being funded from the company’s export earnings, Dipped Products told the Columbo stock exchange.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Columbo
THE INDIAN and Sri Lankan governments are to launch a drive to promote the export of tea to untapped markets. New Delhi and Columbo will promote the sale of ‘tea futures’ on financial markets and their respective Tea Boards will study future market openings.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA, in Colombo
THE SRI Lankan footwear industry is ailing because of its inability to regularly update its designs and styles, Ranjith Hettiarachchy, Deputy Chairman of the Ceylon National

Chamber of Industries and Chairman of its Footwear and Leather Sector has said.…

BY KEITH NUTHALL
THE SRI Lankan government has adopted a five-year plan to boost annual national income from exports of spice and allied products from SL Rupees 6.5 billion (US$67million) in 2001 to SL Rupees 30 billion (US$311million) in 2006.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
THE EXPORT Development Board of Sri Lanka has been publicising good practice from research projects designed to reduce energy consumption by the island’s ceramics industry, to cut its costs and improve competitiveness on global markets. The board estimates that energy bills account for 20 to 30 per cent of Sri Lankan ceramic company production costs.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
COATINGS giant Asian Paints says that sales success has made it consider opening more of its Colour World units in Sri Lanka, eighteen months after it opened the retail chain on the island to coincide with its launch of its Apcolite emulsion.…

BY SWINEETHA DIAS WICKRAMANAYAKA
SRI Lanka’s Silicon Coatings (Pvt) Ltd., the manufacture and marketer of Nippolac Paints, has manufactured a waterproofing product called Nippoflex, a cement-based roof water-proofer which is supposed to provide long- term protection from any type of roof, including asbestos, concrete, tiled, metal or aluminium.…