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Founder & Chairman • Dushantha Engineering

# Viraj Thambugala

A distinguished machine manufacturer and business leader designing, fabricating, and producing high-performance machinery and complete engineering solutions for the poultry feed, animal feed, and fertilizer industries.

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Poultry feed plants Animal feed machinery Fertilizer systems Custom engineering Energy-efficient equipment

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Personal profile

## A craftsman’s path into industrial machinery.

I am a qualified machine tool manufacturer with more than twenty-five years in the field of machine tools. After completing theoretical, practical, and industrial training to a professional standard, I established Dushantha Engineering (Private) Limited to design and produce machines — and to introduce new products — for Sri Lanka’s industrial sector.

My foundation was laid at the Sri Lanka–German Railway Technical Training Centre, Ratmalana, under the National Apprenticeship Scheme. Over three and a half years I trained as a Machinist (General), with workshop experience in the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s workshops of Sri Lanka Railway. That discipline — drawing, measurement, metal, and the machine itself — still governs how every piece of equipment leaves our floor.

Dushantha Engineering is committed to innovative, durable, energy-efficient, and high-performance machinery engineered to international standards and to each customer’s operational requirements. From compact machines to complete industrial production systems, we develop custom equipment around the plant, the product, and the people who will run it.

### Identity

Full name
  Thambugala Atukoralalage Dushantha Viraj Thambugala
Office
  Founder & Chairman
Company
  Dushantha Engineering (Private) Limited
Also leads
  DNR Supply — animal feed and raw materials
Trade
  Skilled Craftsman · Machinist (General)
Based in
  Yakkala, Gampaha, Sri Lanka

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The company

## Machinery built for feed, fertilizer, and food production.

Dushantha Engineering (Private) Limited is a Sri Lankan engineering and machinery manufacturing company. We specialise in the design, fabrication, and production of high-performance machinery and complete engineering solutions for the poultry feed, animal feed, and fertilizer industries — with additional capability in food processing and coconut machinery.

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### Poultry & animal feed plants

Hammer mills, mixers, pellet mills, crumblers, coolers, conveyors, and complete mash or pellet lines, sized from small operations to industrial production.

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### Fertilizer manufacturing

Custom fabrication for fertilizer production systems, engineered for durability, throughput, and the conditions of Sri Lankan plants.

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### Custom engineering

New product planning and purpose-built equipment where a catalogue machine will not do — from concept through installation and after-sales service.

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### Energy-efficient operation

Machines designed for performance with lower running cost, including VFD-based control and practical power-saving arrangements on request.

### DNR Supply

As Founder and Chairman of DNR Supply, Viraj Thambugala also leads a company focused on animal feed related to the food manufacturing sector — supporting the supply of animal feed and raw materials in Sri Lanka.

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Professional experience

## From the railway workshop to the founder’s floor.

1. 1998 — 2002

   ### Machinist (General) · National Apprenticeship

   Sri Lanka–German Railway Technical Training Centre, Ratmalana

   Three-and-a-half-year full-time course: three months of theory (technology, industrial mathematics and science, industrial drawing), nine months of practical training in workshops and laboratories, and thirty months of industrial training at the Chief Mechanical Engineer’s workshops of Sri Lanka Railway and other institutions. Final trade test: 20 April 2002.

2. 2002 — 2004

   ### Latheman

   Ameeniya Engineering Group, Gelioya

   Employed as a latheman with a manufacturer of bakery equipment and fruit and vegetable processing machinery. The engagement confirmed workshop discipline, precision turning, and food-industry fabrication — the same family of skills that later shaped feed and fertilizer plant equipment.

3. Present

   ### Founder & Chairman

   Dushantha Engineering (Private) Limited

   Established and leads a company focused on machinery and equipment for food production and related industries. The work spans new product planning, leadership of the manufacturing operation, and delivering industrial solutions for customers across Sri Lanka.

4. Present

   ### Founder & Chairman

   DNR Supply

   Leads a company focused on animal feed related to the food manufacturing sector, providing solutions for the supply of animal feed and raw materials in Sri Lanka.

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Qualifications

## Formal trade credentials, held in the record.

### NAITA · Certificate of Proficiency

Skilled Craftsman — Machinist (General), theory and practice. Duration: three years and six months. Completed 20 April 2002. Issued 8 October 2002. Certificate 73185/7319/2002.

### SLGRTTC · Training Certificate

Sri Lanka–German Railway Technical Training Centre, Ratmalana. Recruited under NAITA. Training 21 October 1998 to 20 April 2002. Certificate no. 0056, issued 6 July 2006.

### Key workshop competencies

Technology, industrial mathematics and science, industrial drawing, workshop and laboratory practice, railway workshop training, new product planning, and working knowledge of iron and machine tools.

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Contact

## Speak directly with the founder.

- Mobile +94 77 660 8028
- Head office +94 33 221 4158
- Email dushantha@dushanthaengineering.com
- Works email dushshanthaeng@gmail.com

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