Ravi Industries Limited has been awarded the Presidential Export Award for Outstanding Export Performance in year 2006, in the category of Non-Traditional Products and Services – Coconut & Coconut based Products. This most prestigious gold award is the highest recognition for excellent export performance at National level.

From it’s modest beginning in 1962, Ravi Industries Limited, which pioneered the brush industry in Sri Lanka, to cater to needs of the local market, has come a long way and today it is a top global supplier of quality, innovative and eco-friendly brushware, well known for it’s fast delivery and high level of service. The company has grown steadily, since it’s acquisition by the Hayleys Group of companies, one of Sri Lanka’s most respected and highly diversified public quoted conglomerates. Hayleys, as one of the most outstanding socially responsible cooperate citizens, supports the global compact initiative. Borstelfabriek VERO, a reputed brush manufacturer in Holland, acquired a share of Ravi Industries Ltd. in 1976. The marketing and technical expertise, brought in by VERO, contributed to rapid growth of Ravi Industries Ltd. Even today Vermunt’s family (VERO’s original owners) owns a share of Ravi.

Ravi’s Hi-TECH state-of-the art production plant, with modern CNC controlled brush making machines from G.B. Boucherie N.V., Schlesinger Maschinenbau and Zahoransky, on a 200,000 sq.ft. factory floor space provides employment both directly and indirectly to more than one thousand people. The company has technical capability to manufacture and supply household, builders range and industrial brushware to suit customers specific needs. In addition to brushware, the company supplies brush blocks to other brush manufacturers. Coco fibre, palmyrah fibre, PVC, PPN, Arenga Fibre, Tampico fibre, mixtures of fibres, etc. are used as brush filling materials depending on customer needs. The company also has a plastic range of Brushware, developed to suit specific customer needs.
Today Ravi Industries Ltd. accounts for almost 50% of the turnover of Brushware, exported from Sri Lanka. The company has an extensive buyer network in U.K., Belgium, Germany, France, Netherlands, Austria, Poland, USA, Japan, Middle East, Korea, Australia, Singapore, Taiwan, etc. Ravi has marketing offices in U.K. and Japan to serve customer needs better. The company’s annual turnover is 2007/2008 financial year was around seven million US Dollars and hope to achieve out turnover target of eight and half million US Dollars this year.

In 1998 Ravi Industries Ltd. became one of Asia’s first brush manufacturer to obtain ISO 9001 quality certification from DNV, the globally renowned Dutch certification agency. Ravi also obtained ISO 14001 environmental management systems certificate in 2004, a proof of its commitment to environmental protection.
An eco-friendly manufacturer, Ravi Industries Ltd. became the first brush manufacturer in Sri Lanka to obtain Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certification. The rubber timber used on brushware comes from plantations which strictly confirms to environmental friendly standards in areas such as soil erosion, pollution control, preservation of flora and fauna, etc.

The company which has recorded an impressive 15 to 20 percent growth rate in the past, looks into the future with optimism and hopes to maintain this growth rate by introducing new products and expanding customer base.