SRI LANKA: Govt. plans initiatives to integrate garment industry
BharatTextile.com (subscription), India
COLOMBO: The government is planning various initiatives to expand textile production at the defunct units and facilitate vertical integration of the garment industry, spokesman of the ministry of Enterprise Development and Investment Promotions said here on November 17.
The spokesman also informed that as part of the plan, the defunct Kabool lace facility in Pannala, in the north-western province is to be converted into textile manufacturing soon.
Earlier, two textile zones, one in Thulhiriya in the north-western province and the other in Horana in the western-province were initiated in 2014.
The textile facility at Thulhiriya is out of operation since late 2003 and was handed over to MAS Holdings to turn it to an industrial zone; whereas another memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed with Brandix Lanka recently to set up the textile facility in Horana.
