Kelani Cables PLC. (KCL) was founded in 1969. Kelani is the pioneer in Sri Lanka’s wire drawing industry. In 1973, KCL was incorporated as a quoted public limited liability company for the manufacture of power cables, telecommunications cables, and enamelled winding wires in Sri Lanka.

The company was a subsidiary of the Pacific Dunlop Cables Group of Australia until 1996 and it thereafter became a fully owned Sri Lankan Company. The ACL Cables group of companies acquired majority shares of Kelani in 1999. Since then Kelani has been recognized as a fast developing cable-manufacturing company in Sri Lanka.