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Renewal of industrial collaboration with the DSI Samsons Group

The 9-year long product and process development research partnership between the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ, the Uni-Consultancy Services (UNIC) of the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ, and the DSI group of companies was renewed on the 27th of July 2020. Through this renewal, D. Samson Industries (Pvt.) Ltd. also joined this industrial collaboration.

The key feature in this partnership is the UOM-SIL Rubber Products and Process Development Incubator which is located in the Department of Chemical and Process Engineering of the ³ÉÈËÍ·Ìõ (DCPE-UOM). Present at this occasion were Prof. Kapila Perera (Vice-Chancellor) and the administrative staff, Prof. Anuruddha Puswewala (Chairman - UNIC) and UNIC staff, Dr. Kulatunga Rajapaksa (Managing Director – Samson International PLC), Mr. Kasun Rajapaksa (Managing Director – Samson Compounds (Pvt.) Ltd. and D. Samson Industries (Pvt.) Ltd.), Mr. Dilshan Rajapaksa (Director – DSI group of companies), Prof. Shantha Walpalage (Head of DCPE-UOM) and the DCPE-UOM academic staff, Prof. Jagath Premachandra (Director/ UOM-SIL incubator), Mr. W. A. Cyril (Director - Projects/ UOM-SIL incubator) and other incubator staff members.

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