Puritas is part of Sri Lanka's Hayley's group's Haycarb division which makes activated carbon products. It claims the world's top stop for coconut shell based activated carbon and has plants in Sri Lanka, Indonesia and Thailand.
Puritas said the 185 million rupee plant was on a 20 year built-operate-transfer deal with Sri Lanka's tourism development authority which allocated the new tourism zone in Pasikudah, a former war torn area, to 13 leisure firms.
A 30-year war ended in Sri Lanka north and east in 2009. The east coast is sunny and dry towards mid-year when the traditional tourist hotspots in the West coast are hit by monsoon rains.
"This ground-breaking project reflects not only the Hayleys Group’s and our partner Veolia Water’s, competencies in large-scale environmental solutions, but also our commitment to support economic resurgence in post-conflict Sri L