Templeburg Industrialists’ Association holds AGM

Director, General Manager Sierra Readymix (Pvt.) Ltd, Lal Werasinghe was unanimously elected the Homagama Templeburge Industrialists’ Association President succeeding S Senarathna at the annual general meeting of the Templeburg Industrialists’ Association held at Waters Edge Battaramulla recently.

A charted Mechanical Engineer by profession, Lal Werasinghe, in his inaugural speech said that he now has a new challenge to take the industrial zone forward and hoped to beautify the Templeburge Industrial Estate under the green concept and requested all industrialists to join with him to achieve these goals. Ajith Rohana (Alaka Group) was re-elected as the Secretary and Asoka Siriwardena from Bitumix (Pvt) Ltd as the Treasurer.

Industries and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen was the chief guest of this event. Additional Secretary Development, Asitha Seneviratne also participated.

Weerasinghe said the Templeburge Industrialists’ Association which was set up about 12 years back by late Minister C.V. Gunarathne had only 14 companies in all categories providing around 2500 employment opportunities as well as valuable production to the country at its’ inception. Later, it was extended with an additional 20 industries with BOI approval.

This is the very first industrial estate set up in the Western Province and the total investment now stands between Rs. 30 to 40 billion. It has state of the art machinery and equipment too.

Minister Bathiudeen appreciated the work done by all industries to provide such a large number of employment opportunities. He said that the government has allocated Rs. 30 million to renovate the internal roads in the zone.