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K.K.S. Cement Factory   KKS cement factory to be revived Source:Dailynews One of Sri Lanka’s well known post-independent manufacturing legends is returning to life as broad consensus was clinched for its revival in Jaffna on Monday. Northern MPs have welcomed the revival of the defunct Kankesanthurai Cement Factory (KCF), at Kankesanthurai. Industry and Commerce Minister Rishad Bathiudeen has received support from area MPs at a meeting at the Jaffna District Secretariat. Lanka Cement factory at Kankasanturai (KKS Factory) was a pioneering northern industrial development project that commenced in 1950 under the Department of Industries and was converted to a Public Corporation in 1956, being named as Kankesan Cement Works.   ...