Lucky Kottawa Factory snags honour of National Quality Award

Lucky Kottawa Factory, dedicated to manufacture high quality tea, was recognised with the Quality Award under Manufacturing – Small Category at the National Quality Award ceremony organised by the Ministry of Science and Technology. 

Lucky Kottawa Tea Factory, which is a subsidiary of the Lucky Tea Ltd., was the only tea producer to win the National Award at the award ceremony organised to honour the manufacturers of high quality products in 2016. According to the head of the company, Lakshman Gamage, Lucky Kottawa Factory could meet the criteria of being the service provider to a maximum number of customers and the production of quality, sublime tea within just two years since its inception. 

Lucky Kottawa Tea factory grinds about 160,000 kilograms of tea leaves to produce about 32,000 kg of tea. They collaborate with around 1,000 small scale tea manufacturers. They purchase tea leaves from these traders without intermediaries by using their own transport so that they benefit the very traders with the saved profit, which is a speciality as Gamage says. 

The factory operates a welfare union representing all the estate owners and is engineered to issue educational scholars for their children and emergency and funeral donations. Lucky Hiniduma, Lucky Meegahathanna, Lucky Pinnaduwa, Lucky Weerapana are the other branches which cover around 3,600 of small-scale estate owners.