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Uniforms maker in Sri Lanka now moving up value chain

04 Oct '12
4 min read

Under Minister Bathiudeen’s guidance, his top officials have also begun work on the Sri Lanka Textile Strategic Plan (SLTS Plan) in which the Lankan manufacturers will be assisted to become the main unfirms suppliers in time to come. “The Domestic Textile Allocation Programme for Uniforms Materials (DTAUM), which was born in 2004 under the Cabinet approval, is being fully implemented, starting this year. The textile revival SLTS Plan is to boost the entire sector capacity under the 2004 Cabinet approved DTAUM” said M.A.Thajudeen, Additional Secretary (Textile) of Ministry of Industry and Commerce.  “We are targeting 75% of school uniform production locally by 2015” he added.

Last September, visiting Indian Secretary (Ministry of Textiles) Ms Kiran Dhingra, leading the biggest ever textile industry delegation to Sri Lanka, at  an official level meeting with Minister Bathiudeen in Colombo announced of India’s intentions to liberalise its textile sector for Sri Lanka as well as much needed technology upgrade support to the sector: “Favourably considering Sri Lanka’s official request made to Minister Anand Sharma during his visit to Colombo recently, Minister Sharma has now decided to increase the current five million piece quota given to Sri Lanka to eight million without any sourcing requirements imposed by India” she announced.
 
The private sector textile producers praised Minister Bathiudeen’s Ministry- specifically Sri Lanka Institute of Textile & Apparel (SLITA) under his Ministry – for the strong support extended to the sector. “We don’t export the output at all. Our entire production is taken up by local demand” said Feroze Anver, Managing Director, Creative Textile Mill (Pvt) Ltd which is one of the leading uniform suppliers to Sri Lanka state institutions.  
 
“We thank the Industry Ministry and Sri Lanka Institute of Textile & Apparel (SLITA) under the Ministry for continuously visiting us and helping to expand. Under the guidance of SLITA, this year, we invested Rs 200 Mn ($ 1.54 Mn) for 120 new machinery units and training for our new factory coming up in Dankotuwa called ‘Dankotuwa Weaving Mills Pvt Ltd’ which will commence in 2013. Once operational, this plant can output 30000 metres of new fabric per day” Feroze added. 
 
Feroze’ $9.2 Mn (Rs 1200 Mn) annual turnover Creative Textile Mill Ltd currently spins out more than 7000 Metres of raw fabrics per day using yarn imported from Vietnam, through its two plants in Wattala and Dankotuwa, thereby meeting approximately 8 Mn Metres of annual national uniforms need.  

Ministry of Industry and Commerce

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