Embilipitiya functioning smoothly:

Environment-friendly paper factory

Raja Waidyasekera Tissamaharama special corr.

The Embilipitiya Paper Factory is functioning smoothly after it was reopened sometime back.

It was President Mahinda Rajapaksa and the Senior Consultant to President, Parliamentarian Basil Rajapaksa who intervened to reopen the Embilipitiya Paper factory that was left abandoned.

Ever since the Embilipitiya paper factory opened in 2008 it produced 205 metric tons of paper last month alone.

The National Paper Factory Chairman S. Amarasinha told the Daily News that the private sector paper dealers have been requested to purchase the consignment of paper at the Embilipitiya Paper factory.

He said that a substantial sum of money could be saved in foreign exchange as a result of producing paper locally.

He said that the paper industry here is totally environment friendly because waste paper is used in the production of paper.