Expertise
For fifty years, the ITI has been helping Sri Lanka’s industrial and scientific communities equip themselves to face an ever expanding global market. Our scientific expertise, coupled with our interdisciplinary approach has helped us provide solutions for clients from the government, the commercial sector and even non profit foundations. In doing so, we have also been a catalyst of development and change for the public, and our work has helped increase the standard of living islandwide.
Laboratories
The ITI conducts client-sponsored research and development for government agencies, commercial businesses, foundations and other organizations. In order to serve you better we have organized ourselves into a few core laboratories, each with an interdisciplinary approach. These sections are as follows,
- Environment Technology (ET)
- Food Technology (FT)
- Herbal Technology (HTD)
- Materials Technology (MT)
- Food Technology
- ITI’s largest research group, the FT division conducts Research and Development work on new functional food products, new post-harvest technologies and provides consultancies to modernize, upgrade and trouble-shoot issues in the food processing industry. The unit’s research groups also conduct specialized training programmes for food industry personnel on food safety, regulations and new standard requirements.
- Herbal Technology
- The HT division offers services related to the development of new herbal health care and pharmaceutical products and conducts basic research on functional and active ingredients in herbs and spices.
- Materials Technology
- This unit offers a multidisciplinary approach to facing technical challenges through laboratory and pilot scale testing. The group works on projects such as the development of new bio-degradable polymers, as well as research regarding oil and gas absorbing materials and self cleaning coatings for ceramic products.
- Environmental Technology
- This section undertakes turn-key type development work on waste water treatment, ventilation systems for industries, and environment impact studies.
