Sunday Times (Sri Lanka)

Apparel factories face temporary closure

- By Sunimalee Dias

As Sri Lanka’s apparel industry faces its toughest times ahead for some of the largest firms, Hirdaraman­i will be closing a few of its factories owing to order cancellati­ons in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

An official from the company told the Business Times on Thursday that “this is a decision we have taken because of the orders that have got cancelled and this is a direction given by the government for a temporary closure.”

The official stated that during this temporary closure of a “few factories” workers are being compensate­d.

The company hopes to resume operations at these factories once they receive orders. “We are confident that orders will come back and things will return back to normal,” the official said. Hirdaraman­i has about 19 factories at present in the country.

Meanwhile, more factories are facing order cancellati­ons and even Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) orders are drying up.

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