With the intention of implementing its highly successful skills development programme for technical officers (TOs) and engineers across the Nation, INSEE Cement Sri Lanka signed two Memorandum of Understandings (MoUs) with the Southern Provincial Council.
MoUs were exchanged between R.C De Soyza, Chief Secretary of the Southern Province and Nandana Ekanayake, Chairman/CEO of INSEE Cement. Provincial Deputy Chief Secretaries, Directors, Chief Engineers, Engineers and Technical Officers were also present during the landmark event.
This is the 1st province to sign the 2nd phase of the Technical Officer (TO) programme and conduct Continuous Professional Development (CPD) for provincial engineers. In partnership with the Southern Province Chief Secretarial Office, INSEE aims to facilitate training sessions for 350 TOs and 55 Provincial Engineers for a year.
“INSEE Cement is excited to extend the Skills Development Programme to the Technical Officers working in the Southern Province. The region shows enormous potential for infrastructure and urban development,” stated Nandana Ekenayake, Chairman, CEO at INSEE Cement. “As we move forward, it is imperative that we strengthen the foundation of the local industry. Our responsibility, as industry leaders, is to ensure all our stakeholders move together in the same direction and contribute towards this accelerated progress and evolution of the local construction industry.”
The skills development programme is designed to enhance local construction industry standards through up-skilling and increasing the knowledge base of the engineers and officers in the fields of government procurement, quality control of construction material, types of testing, construction management, safety, cement and concrete usage, along with green building codes.
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About the Company – INSEE Cement, Sri Lanka
INSEE Cement, Sri Lanka also known as Siam City Cement (Lanka) is a member of the Siam City Cement Public Company Limited, Thailand. INSEE Cement Sri Lanka is the only fully integrated cement manufacturer in the country. The company produces Sri Lanka’s most preferred brands: INSEE Sanstha Blended Cement and Mahaweli Marine Cement. Sanstha Cement, the flagship brand is the first Blended Cement launched in Sri Lanka and the first ‘Green cement product’ to receive green labeling certification from the Green Building Council, Sri Lanka. Recently, the company has begun producing Customised Concrete based Solutions (Ready-Mixed Concrete) at its state-of-the-art INSEE Concrete manufacturing facility in Peliyagoda, which is an eco-friendly, zero-discharge plant equipped with a reclaimer that reuses aggregates and water.
The INSEE i2i (innovation to industry) Collaboration Space in Peliyagoda, assures high-quality consistency of all concrete and cement produced by the plants delivered to the market and will continue to drive development of new products and solutions for the industry.
Furthermore, INSEE Cement Sri Lanka currently imports and sells ‘Conwood’, a popular product in Thailand and Indonesia as a concrete-based replacement for wood. The company’s subsidiaries are Mahaweli Marine Cement (Private) Limited and INSEE Ecocycle Lanka (Private) Limited.
Demonstrating its leadership in the industry and contribution to environmental sustainability, INSEE is the recipient of Gold Twin Awards at the Presidential Environment Awards 2019. INSEE Cement was awarded Gold under the category Chemical Industries Plants, while INSEE Ecocycle received Gold for Solid Waste Recovery / Recycling / Disposal or Processing Plants. Additionally, INSEE Cement, made history being crowned People’s Housing and Construction Brand of the Year for the nineth consecutive year at the SLIM-Nielsen People’s Awards 2021.
