Dutch training for Leema Creations

Leema Creations, the leading interior solution provider in Sri Lanka, has reached another mile stone by inviting foreign expertise to train their staff. On the invitation of Channa Wijesekara, Managing Director of Leema Creations, Theo Roling, a high profile specialist management consultant, from the Netherlands, is currently in Sri Lanka to conduct a comprehensive full time technical training and consultancy programme at Leema's manufacturing plant in Dompe.

The programme was made possible by PUM Netherlands Senior Experts, the technical assistance programme by the Government of the Netherlands, coordinated by Agr. Eng. S P C Kumarasinghe, Country Representative of PUM, Sri Lanka. Top of Form

Roling is to discuss the global technological changes and advancements, productivity enhancements, efficiency improvement in labour and machinery and future challenges of the industry, etc., during the training session. The main focus of the programme is to identify the importance of skills and competence of the technical staff of Leema.

Introducing Rolling during the opening ceremony, Channa Wijesekara, re-iterated the importance of establishing new methods practiced in the west. "I have had my initial training in Germany and I was extremely fortunate to gain hands on experience in the European technology. Working with German experts had been always difficult, but the experience acquired was the pillar of my success and the reason that Leema is what it is today," Wijesekara said. Channa Wijesekara is an incorporated civil engineer who passed out from the University of Moratuwa. He has written two books on 'Basic Wood Technology' in Sinhala and English, published by SMED, the umbrella organization of the Federation of Chambers of Commerce and Industry. Wijesekara qualified as a 'Wood technologist 'after successfully completing a two year full time 'Technical Teachers Certificate in Wood Technology 'in Germany. He also had completed the Diploma in Education Administration from Landau University in Germany. Subsequently, he was trained at the Colombo Plan staff College and Dual Tech in Manila, Philipines on 'Industry - Vocational Training Cooperation' and also participated in basic and the Moderators programmes in ' Objective Oriented Project Planning in Thailand.

Leema Interiors, offers custom levels of service and a breadth of products to personalize the design experience for our clients. Based in Colombo, with the manufacturing plant in Dompe, Leema executes projects from concept to completion and all areas in between.