Metal manufacturers welcome ban on scrap metal exports

The All Ceylon Metal Foundry Industrialist Association (SLMFIA) in a media release yesterday hailed the banning of export of scrap metal and thanked Industries Minister Wimal Weerawansa for the decision.

“It is a fact that when steel is shaped, it emits sparks fire. As a practice, where scrap metal, an essential raw material for the manufacture of metal, was sold to the countries, the Industries Ministry had to make a strong decision to turn things around.

By halting the export of this much-needed raw material, it was made available to our own metal manufacturers, thereby boosting the industry in our own country,” the brief press release said.

It also said that as a result of the decision, the capacity of the local metal industry has increased tremendously. 

“New avenues of metal-related manufacture are being explored. Job opportunities have opened up for our youth.
For this, we thank Minister Weerawansa. Sri Lanka’s metal manufacturers appreciate you, applaud you and salute you,” the press release said.