South East Asia’s Largest, Fully Integrated, Ultra-modern Tire Plant
industrial zone rolling out a blue print for the nation’s future, with a 75 million US $ investment, is tipped to be the biggest fully integrated tyre manufacturing plant in the whole of South East Asia’s. Its primary aim is to leverage on the global reputation that the country enjoys of the quality natural rubber produced here and take it to a higher level of value addition.
This Project will mastermind the whole venture in creating over 3000 job opportunities, both direct and indirect, while focusing on the professionals, who would stand to gain the exposure to ultramodern technology in this very place of their birth; which expertise would then translate to them being the sort after professionals the world over! High pay! Higher recognition!!
The up and coming tyre plant at Horana is all about creating that future for all of us to prosper. First among the beneficiaries are the very communities that live in the proximity of the facility: for such a complex of such magnitude in itself will be the catalyst to spawn a host of livelihood development; amongst them the localities real-estate would spike; housing, proliferate and infrastructure, particularly highway accessibility and container logistics at Hambanthota revitalized.
For the plant is emphatic on meeting the demands of a broad spectrum of tyre products of the European market as well as the local feed. High performing radials to load bearing OTRs, from car tyres to three wheelers and two wheeler tyres to trucks, lorries and forklifts. The plant would also manufacture retreads as well as state-of-the-art rims as well.
In a market where cutting edge technology and technical knowhow is key, mere installation of the latest facility alone would not do. That is why the present government looked deeper to getting a global marque along with its reputation and clientele to offer that invaluable advantage to make a head start of significance.
What is even more significant a factor of the market place of today, and this is not limited to tyres, but to any and every manufacture, the carbon foot print of the plant. Here, too, with the soon to commission plant at Horana, Sri Lanka stands to gain hugely.
For starters, the machinery deployed would meet the stringiest tests for optimal energy efficiency, be clinical about, pollutants, emissions and waste disposal. And when the tyres roll out from the sprawling complex of 100 acres, idyllic in setting, iconic in architecture and an embodiment of ‘a green industry’, it will be rolling out a blueprint of the nation’s future: Value adding all our resources – local entrepreneurship, Nation’s professionals, labor infused with new skills and all the while expanding on our natural resource, rubber, to gain lucrative returns to fill the nation’s coffers. In doing so we can stretch out to the world and say, what munificent opportunities this land has on offer for the investor.
No wonder, they say, rubber stretches!