Lucky Kottawa Factory wins National Quality Award
Lucky Kottawa Factory, dedicated to manufacture highquality tea, was recognized with the Quality Award under the Manufacturing - Small category at the National Quality Award ceremony organised by the Science and Technology Ministry.
Lucky Kottawa tea factory, which is a subsidiary of Lucky Tea (Pvt.) Ltd, was the only tea producer to win the National Award at the award ceremony organised to honour the manufacturers of high-quality products in the year 2016.
According to the head of the company, Lakshman Gamage, Lucky Kottawa Factory could meet the criteria of being the service provider to a maximum number of customers and the production of quality, sublime tea within just two years since its inception.
Lucky Kottwa tea factory grinds about 160,000 kilogrammes of tea leaves to produce about 32000 kilogrammes of tea. It collaborates with around one thousand small-scale tea manufacturers. It purchases tea leaves from these traders without intermediaries by using its own transport so that it benefits the very traders with the saved profit, which is a speciality as Gamage says.
The factory operates a welfare union representing all the estate owners and is engineered to issue educational scholarships for their children and emergency and funeral donations. Lucky Hiniduma, Lucky Meegahathanna, Lucky Pinnaduwa, Lucky Weerapana are the other branches that cover around 3600 of small-scale estate owners.