SUCCESS STORY

M.A.M.Abdul Cader & Co, (Pte) Ltd., is a family concern in the business of processing bovine and ovine, hides and skins in a fully developed Tannery with mixture of modern technology and traditional tanning methods which are still demanded by European buyers. The story of this Company dates back to 1913, when Mr. M.A.M.Abdul Cader a pioneer in the processing of bovine and ovine hides and skins established a tannery for this purpose under his name as a proprietorship in Buthgamuwa Road, Welikada, Rajagiriya. His son Al Haj M.S.A.Razack who converted the business into a partnership with his wife continued the business after his death. Mr. Razack later acquired ownership of the land under the management of his second son Ashroff Razack. After his death Mr. Ashroff Razack who was active in the business at that time took over the day-to-day running of the business. The business was then converted into a Limited Liability Company in 1988, and was responsible for the liberalisation of the Leather Industry The factory and office is situated on 234 perches of land in Buthgamuwa approximately five and half miles from Colombo and within the official capital of Sri Lanka Sri Jayawardenapura Kotte. The office comprises an area of 1,360 Square feet and a factory processing area of over 12,000 square feet. Other infrastructure facilities available are adequate supply of electricity, abundance of spring water, a chrome recovery plant (for environmental protection) recently commissioned under UNDP sponsorship and guidance. A facility for the beam house operations the traditional tanning process is also located approximately one km away from the above property for the purpose of bark tanning done in pits by manual labour, as demanded by our foreign buyers. The total staff consists of approximately 65 in number and has been with the Company for many years. The labour staff is mostly semi skilled and the recipes processing into different types of leather are still guarded secrets known only to trusted factory managers and the Managing Director. Two factory Managers run the day-to-day operations of the factory and have been with the Company for over twenty years. The Directors continue to be hand on with the process and along with the managers have been trained through experience and also abroad and in house training in the art of tanning and leather manufacture by foreign expertise. Mr. Ashroff Razack has been abreast with the times and brought in modern and current technology and methods to meet the pressing demands of the fast moving leather industry in the clothing and fashion world. Gearing 70% of its finished leather to the international markets the Company is conscious of the high quality standards it has to maintain. MAM exports 90% of their vegetable tan leather. 60% of the Finished Chrome Leather, Leather Garments and Products are exported to St. Michael’s, Mark & Spencer of U.K. through BOI Companies who have sub contracted from them. The balance 40% is sold in the local market and 60% of this is supplied to reputed local shoe manufacturer also specialise in many Leather Products and the latest Leather Hats, Jean Belts that have a very good demand in U.S.A. & Europe.