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  • Provides US $ 5.5mn loan to Midas Safety Sri Lanka
  • Grants US $ 3.6mn loan to Dipped Products and US $ 1.5mn to Haycarb
  • Says so far provided over US $ 45mn in lending and working capital to Lankan firms under bank’s global US $ 1bn not-for-profit financing programme

Standard Chartered Sri Lanka yesterday announced the facilitation of financing for Industrial Clothing Limited (Midas Safety Sri Lanka) as well as Hayleys PLC’s subsidiaries Dipped Products PLC and Haycarb PLC, to enhance their manufacturing capacity of essential personal protective equipment (PPE) for the global fight against COVID-19. 

 These companies were the latest Sri Lanka-based clients of Standard Chartered to complete a drawdown from the bank’s global US $ 1 billion not-for-profit financing.


In the face of the global pandemic, many companies, including the members of the apparel industry in South Asia, switched to manufacturing and distributing high demand products such as face masks, ventilators, sanitisers and other PPE products.  Standard Chartered launched the not-for-profit global financing initiative in March 2020 to support such efforts.  To date, the bank has provided more than US 45 million in lending and working capital to companies in Sri Lanka under this programme.  Commenting on the bank’s ongoing efforts to support local businesses in combating COVID-19, Standard Chartered Sri Lanka CEO Bingumal Thewarathanthri said, “Access to funds is a key factor in business recovery, following a crisis of this magnitude. At Standard Chartered, our focus has been on supporting our long-standing and new partners to recover fully and to contribute to the fight against the pandemic. Sri Lanka was the first South Asian market, where we extended a facility from the US $ 1 billion financing commitment and we are pleased to continue supporting more local businesses to drive the country’s economic recovery,” Standard Chartered Sri Lanka CEO Bingumal Thewarathanthri said. The bank extended a US $ 5.5 million loan to Midas Safety Sri Lanka, which enabled them to increase the production of medical gloves and meet the growing demand globally. 


A US $ 3.6 million loan to Dipped Products PLC helped them add new production lines for personal protective gloves destined for the US and EU.  Haycarb PLC, a manufacturer of charcoal-based activated carbon for purification, stepped up its face mask manufacturing operations with the upgrade and expansion of its in-house manufacturing and warehousing facility and increased its mask production for both domestic and export markets, all with the help of a US $ 1.5 million loan facility from Standard Chartered. 


The Sri Lankan apparel industry, the country’s largest contributor to its export revenue, came to a standstill as a result of the global pandemic and a nationwide lockdown earlier this year. Through the Standard Chartered not-for-profit financing commitment, the bank facilitated the financial requirements of leading garment manufacturers MAS Intimates and Brandix in June and July 2020, respectively, to produce and export PPE to markets including the US.

 


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