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The Island of Ceylon (now called Sri Lanka) is world renowned for its high quality teas. Today, Sri Lanka is the world’s second biggest tea exporter. More than 25% of the value of all Sri Lanka’s exports are accounted for by tea. Tea cultivation is scientifically managed and skillfully produces the world’s finest, fragrant blends. This ensures consistency in the flavor, aroma and color of Ceylon teas that are marketed.

Tea cultivation was established, in Sri Lanka, over a century ago and is now produced year round in the central highlands and southern regions of this beautiful tropical island. Based on the altitude at which it is grown tea is classified as high, medium or low grown teas.

The unique climatic conditions that prevail in the central highlands of Sri Lanka produces the exquisite high grown Nuwara Eliya and Uva blends, which are renowned for their taste and aroma. The medium grown teas provide a bold color that is in demand by the consumers in North America. Lower grown tea plantations produce the leafy grades of tea from the tip of the unopened tea shoot.

Until recently the tea produced in Sri Lanka was shipped in bulk and repacked in the major tea consuming countries. Our company now has modern machinery and technology for tea bagging and packing to expeditiously meet the needs of wholesale or retail customers and food service companies in any part of the world.

Some of the advantages of packing tea in Sri Lanka are:

The freshness of quality Ceylon blends is retained when purchased by the consumer.

The authorized government lion symbol of the Sri Lanka Tea Board guarantees that only quality Ceylon tea of specified blends are contained in the package.

The product could be obtained at competitive prices by the consumers in North America but it would be a lower grade of tea grown in plantations  that produce the leafy grades of tea from the tip of the unopened tea shoot.

 

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Contact Information:

Telephone  800-431-9090
FAX  760-736-4504
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            P.O. Box 2105, San Marcos, CA 92079
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Revised: 12/21/04.