Plant to manufacture cement pillars, blocks at KKS [August 18 2011]

by Mohammed Naalir

The Sri Lanka Cement Corporation has set up a plant to manufacture cement pillars and cement blocks at the Kankesanthurai cement factory premises, Cement Corporation Chairman Sisira Paranagama said.

Telephone posts, electrical posts and piling blocks are manufactured at this plant, according to Paranagama.

Plans are afoot to provide employment at the plant to 200 unemployed youth in Jaffna. Hundred youth have already been employed here, he said.

The plant will satisfy the demand for electrical posts, telephone posts, and other construction materials in the North. The cost of transporting these items to North can also be cut down to a considerable level, Paranagama said.