SMS Holdings awarded SLS product certification
SMS Holdings (Pvt) Ltd, a cement based product manufacturer
celebrated their achievement of Sri Lanka Standard Institute (SLS)
product certification at the Galadari Hotel.
Commencing on 2001 as manufacturers of cement interlocking pavers,
the company which started out with a very small investment and with
locally replicated machines, has gone on to use imported
state-of-the-art machines and has marked significant growth ever since.
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AWARD: Sampath Gunaratne, Chairman/Managing Director SMS
Holdings receiving the award from SLSI and the Chairman Sri
Lanka Standards Institute Dr. A. R. L. Wijesekara. |
Capturing 50 percent of the manufacturing market, SMS Holdings has
proved to be the biggest interlocking pavers' manufacturers in the
country two years since its inception.
The company has grown to exporting at a considerable scale in 2004.
Some of the standardised interlocking pavers which were imported not
longer ago is now being manufactured by SMS to cater to the local
industry demand.
Furthermore in 2005 they received the Best Product Award from the Sri
Lanka Institute of Architects (SLIA) for locally manufactured
interlocking pavers while in 2007 SLIA awarded the Best Product Award
for their innovative Interlocking retaining wall block.
While SMS Realities centre on real estate and targets the middle
income group in the suburbs, they concentrate in building customised
self-styled houses.
SMS Holdings ventured in to manufacturing of Building blocks in 2006
to answer the local demand created by the tsunami. Today they are being
awarded the SLS 855 certificate for cement building block and believe
the standardisation certificate will improve the product quality level. |
