JINASENA PVT LTD

Jinasena Limited was founded in 1905 as a bicycle-repair shop but soon moved into machinery repairs. Its founder, C.Jinasena, was a man of vision. He was a chartered engineer by profession and was educated in the UK. Sri Lanka at that time was known as Ceylon and was under colonial rule. Engineering – like many areas of enterprise – was the sole preserve of the British. When Jinasena Limited moved from servicing and repairing machinery used extensively in the tea and rubber industries into manufacturing these very same machines, it was like David going up against Goliath.