LINDEL Industrial Estate is Sri Lanka’s first private sector owned and operated industrial estate. Lanka Industrial Estates Ltd., is affectionately referred to as LINDEL, a subsidiary company of DFCC Bank PLC. It incorporated in 1992 to set up, operate and manage industrial estates in Sri Lanka. Setting up the LINDEL Industrial Estate at Sapugaskanda, upgrading and making use of the remaining infrastructure facilities of the defunct State Fertilizer Manufacturing Corporation was the pioneering project the company undertook.
LINDEL takes pride providing a superior set of infrastructure and allied services to all its clients. It aims for the continuous improvement of all its services to exceed the highest industry standards available anywhere in Sri Lanka. The company is a joint venture arrangement between the DFCC Bank PLC and the Government of Sri Lanka. It is an example of a successful public-private partnership. LINDEL Industrial Estate, which is 125 acres in extent, is fully developed and tenanted by several leading enterprises. This includes a number of Fortune 500 companies.
Additional Details
- Total area: 125 acres
- Plot sizes: Industrial plots in one to four acre lots
- Electricity supply: A 10 MW primary substation located within the Industrial Estate and maintained by the Ceylon Electricity Board. It supplies three-phase electricity through a 11 KV grid system
- Wastewater treatment: Waste water pre-treated by industrialists which conforms to the pre-treatment standard prescribed by LINDEL. Collected into a common effluent pond through a network of pipe lines. Then further treated by LINDEL before discharging into the Kelani river.
- Water supply: Capable of supplying up to 9,000 cubic metres of treated water per day.
- Drainage / flood protection: A network of built up drains and culverts drain storm water up to an hourly intensity of 50 mm of rainfall making it adequate to cover the maximum rain intensity in Sri Lanka.
- Security: Located in a high security zone which is under close scrutiny by the Police and the Army. The Ceylon Petroleum Corporation’s Refinery, diesel power plants, and other important installations are close.
- Internal road system