United Motors Lanka (UML) has invested Rs 100 million in the first phase of the state of the art machinery and service facility in a 1.5 acre land in Peliyagoda.
This is to promote the world famous brand JCB. At the launch UML Group CEO and Executive Director, Chanaka Yatawara said that construction is an exciting and growing industry in Sri Lanka and UML wanted to explore the opportunities and invested there by collaborating with the JCB, heavy equipment brand.
Yatawara said that almost 9 per cent of the GDP had come from the construction sector last year and Rs 200 billion has been added to the GDP by the construction sector in 2017. Some 700,000 persons were employed directly and otherwise in construction related employment which is about 8 percent of the working population in the country, he said.
Yatawara noted that over 1,200 machines used for constriction are imported every year and the market has grown 30 percent from 2016 to 2017. There could be a large market for material handling application and there is a big opportunity to be a player in the excavator space,” he pointed out.
Sale of JCB product range, mechanical repairs, painting, welding, servicing and maintenance will be done at the new facility in Peliyagoda. UML will also use ‘JCB Livelink’, a technology developed by JCB to monitor the performance of all its machinery. The technology will identify and alert JCB users of issues or a decrease in efficiency of the machine and will provide details for servicing and product support.
A highly skilled team of UML technicians to facilitate the JCB Livelink technology has been deployed by UML, he added.
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This is to promote the world famous brand JCB. At the launch UML Group CEO and Executive Director, Chanaka Yatawara said that construction is an exciting and growing industry in Sri Lanka and UML wanted to explore the opportunities and invested there by collaborating with the JCB, heavy equipment brand.
Yatawara said that almost 9 per cent of the GDP had come from the construction sector last year and Rs 200 billion has been added to the GDP by the construction sector in 2017. Some 700,000 persons were employed directly and otherwise in construction related employment which is about 8 percent of the working population in the country, he said.
Yatawara noted that over 1,200 machines used for constriction are imported every year and the market has grown 30 percent from 2016 to 2017. There could be a large market for material handling application and there is a big opportunity to be a player in the excavator space,” he pointed out.
Sale of JCB product range, mechanical repairs, painting, welding, servicing and maintenance will be done at the new facility in Peliyagoda. UML will also use ‘JCB Livelink’, a technology developed by JCB to monitor the performance of all its machinery. The technology will identify and alert JCB users of issues or a decrease in efficiency of the machine and will provide details for servicing and product support.
A highly skilled team of UML technicians to facilitate the JCB Livelink technology has been deployed by UML, he added.
www.dailymirror.lk
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