A supplier built for the requirements others turn down
Senon Lanka imports laboratory and industrial equipment for Sri Lankan laboratories, universities and manufacturers, with the technical knowledge to read a specification and the network to fill it.
Who we are
Chemistry expertise on the supply side of the bench
The company was formed in 2012 to close a gap that working laboratories knew well: niche items that no local supplier would take on, and importers who could not read the specification well enough to get them right.
Today Senon Lanka supplies glassware, analytical instruments, reagents and industrial machinery across the island, and holds direct relationships with manufacturers abroad so that a difficult requirement can be quoted quickly and delivered correctly.
Our story
How the company grew
- 1998
Years on the bench inside a multinational reveal how hard niche items are to source locally.
- 2012
Senon Lanka is founded, sourcing specific instruments and chemicals on request.
- Growth
Recognition inside the industry turns one-off requests into repeat institutional supply.
- Today
A direct foreign-brand network covering four supply lines and full import handling.
Founder
From chemist to importer
Indika Dissanayake trained in chemistry and joined a multinational company in 1998. Working alongside industry experts, he kept meeting the same bottleneck: laboratories needing specific items that the market here simply did not carry.
Finding those items began as a side pursuit. A family business distributing publications across Asia had already built connections outside Sri Lanka, and those relationships became the first supply routes.
In 2012 that work became Senon Lanka, with a simple model that still holds: understand the customer's requirement properly, then find it and import it.
Indika Dissanayake
What we stand for
Cater to any niche requirement, and deliver it
Quick decisions
No layered approvals. Enquiries are answered and priced without the usual procurement hassle.
Technical understanding
Specifications are read by people who have worked with the equipment, not just quoted on.
Responsibility to the end
Shipping, clearing and delivery are handled by us, with support after the equipment lands.