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Delmege ventures into aluminum wall cladding

Delmege Construction Products (Pvt) Ltd, a member of the Delmege Group of companies announced an association with Willstrong Building Material Company Ltd, as their sole agent for aluminium composite panels in Sri Lanka.

Delmege is Sri Lanka’s largest importer and supplier of carpets, carpet tiles, contract & healthcare flooring, laminate flooring, office chairs, polybutylene pipes etc.

Guangzhou Willstrong Building Material Co. Ltd, established in 1999, has become one of the leading companies specializing in Aluminium Composite Material and Panel production and development in China.

With a 2,750 million dollars investment, Willstrong has built an industrial centre that occupies 60,000 m2 at the Guangzhou Economic and Technological Development District.

This centre contains the administration building as well as the manufacturing workshops with eight production lines of German Technology, making it one of the largest manufacturing centres of Aluminium Composite Material/Panel in the whole of Asia.

Willstrong aluminium composite panels are now available ex-stock in a range of colours with a manufacturer’s warranty for 20 years.

The company has already supplied Willstrong composite panels, for the cladding of commercial buildings and in fact has completed over 50 sites in Sri Lanka already.

According to the Jt. Deputy Chairman/Managing Director Delmege Construction, Anil Wijesinghe, “Delmege construction has the ability to provide a complete turnkey solution while the range available includes solid and metallic colour PVDF panels for exterior walls, solid and metallic colour PE Panels for internal and short term exterior walls, bill boards and name boards, stone/ granite look PVDF/PE Panels, wood look PVDF/PE panels as well as fireproof ACPs”.

Wijesinghe added that Willstrong’s most recent project in Europe was the Charles De Gaulle Airport, also known as the Roissy Airport.

Managing Director, Delmege Interior D‚cor (Pvt) Ltd and Director, Delmege Construction Products (Pvt) Ltd., Nilantha Fernando, added that the trade can now conveniently obtain many of its quality interior product and building product requirements from under one roof, rather than dealing with a number of different suppliers.

NSB, NDB join Lanka Bell payment network

Two more banking groups have joined Lanka Bell’s extensive bill settlement network, giving subscribers of the Sri Lankan telecommunications giant another 170 outlets at which they may pay their monthly bills.

The addition of the National Savings Bank’s 131 branches and NDB Bank’s 40 branches to the network takes the number of locations at which Lanka Bell bills may be settled to more than 1,866, the company said this week.

Eleven banking groups with a combined network of nearly 1800 branches and service points now offer Lanka Bell bill settlement options, in addition to the company’s own network of 60 branches and a dedicated counter at Apollo Hospital.

“The importance of enhancing customer convenience is ever increasing as transport costs escalate and time for errands diminishes,” said Lanka Bell Managing Director, Prasad Samarasinghe. ‘In this context, the addition of NSB and NDB Bank to the network is most welcome, and would be greatly appreciated by our subscribers.”

He said many of these banks offered holiday and Saturday banking as well as supermarket banking, making bill settlement possible even on public and bank holidays.

Lanka Bell bills may be settled by cheque, cash and credit cards or via the internet banking options offered by these banks. The network comprises Commercial Bank, Sampath Bank, Bank of Ceylon, Hatton National Bank, People’s Bank, HSBC, Nations Trust Bank, Standard Chartered Bank, Seylan Bank, National Savings Bank and NDB Bank.

Pathum Vimana positioned largest deposit draw:

‘HNB Super Weekend Draw’

HNB has introduced “HNB Super Weekend” for the benefit of the large number of Pathum Vimana Customers. HNB Pathum Vimana positioned as the largest deposit draw in Sri Lanka offers all existing Pathum Vimana account holders to be further rewarded through the HNB Super Weekend draw.

Through this draw the bank will be awarding 100 winners with gift vouchers worth Rs. 10,000 to shop at Super Markets. Through this draw every weekend, four winners will be selected every hour and a total number of 100 winners during the weekend HNB customers can win these gift/shopping vouchers to shop at Arpico, Keels and Cargills Super markets.

Through Pathum Vimana 2008 customers also can win a luxury apartment in the heart of Colombo from the year end premium draw. The year end grand draw will offer a luxury Mitsubishi Montero jeep and in addition to this a Toyota Avanza car can be won from the September Toyota Avanza car draw. By saving with HNB Pathum Vimana a large number of customers get the opportunity to participate in the HNB Pathum Vimana TV game show and win prizes ranging from Rs. 5000 to 100,000 every week. The TV game show is telecast on Rupavahini every Friday at 7.30 p.m.

To qualify for the Pathum Vimana 2008 Year End Grand Draw, Toyota Avanza Car Draws and the TV game show, all you have to do is to maintain a minimum balance of Rs. 10,000 in a Savings Account, Singithi Savings Account or Current Account for a period of one calendar month prior to the draw.

Kent exports to Dubai

Kent Display (Pvt) Ltd, recently exported a full container load of value added wooden presentation boxes to Dubai. These boxes are for presentation and sale of tea.

The driving force behind Kent Display is its Chairman Gamini Saparamadu winner of the entrepreneur of the year 2003 award.

Constant innovation in product design and consistent quality is our forte said, Executive Director Aruna Kumarasinghe.

Kent Display’s products are exported to the USA, UK, Canada, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Channel Islands, Japan, Serbia and Montenegro. They also supply over 70% of the Sri Lankan tea exporters and were the recipient of the NCE export award since 2004. The winner of a Lanka Star award in 2007, they also bagged an award at the recently concluded Industrial Excellence Awards ceremony conducted by the CNCI.