Trade Chronicle May June 2017

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F e c t o C e m e n t L i m i t e d
(FECTC)
Fecto Cement Limited (FECTC)
is part of the Fecto group that
started its operations
in 1952.
F e c t o C e m e n t
c o m m e n c e d
production in 1990 at
Sangjani, a location
close to the capital
and the northern markets for
cement. The company’s plant was
built by Fuller International Inc.,
USA with a total project cost of over
Rs2 billion. The company has the
current capacity of 780,000 tons of
clinker and 819,000 tons of cement
in production annually and holds
about 2 percent of market share
capacity wise making it one of the
smaller cement players in the
industry.
(Source: Company website/media)
Dewan Cement Limited (DCL)
Dewan Cement Limited (DCL) was
established after Pakland Cement
Limited and Saadi Cement Limited
were acquired by Yousuf Dewan
Group in 2004, and merged in 2007.
DCL boosts a capacity of 2.89
million tons of cement and 2.76
million tons of clinker with a market
share of 6 percent.
Tracing back the history,
Pakland Cement Ltd. was
established in 1981 with
an initial capacity of
300,000 tons and was fully
operational by 1985, producing
superior Ordinary Portland Cement.
Sulphate Resisting Pakland was
introduced in 1987.
The company has two production
facilities; one in southern Pakistan
near Karachi at Deh Dhando,
Dhabeji, Sindh and the other in
northern Pakistan near Kamilpur
Hattar Industrial Estate, District
Hattar Khyber Pakhtunkhwa.
(Source: Company website/media)
Thatta Cement Company
Limited (TCCL)
Thatta Cement Company Limited, a
subsidiary of the State Cement
Corporation of Pakistan (Pvt.)
Limited was incorporated in 1980,
setting up its manufacturing facility
in 1982. The plant was supplied by a
Japanese company and had an
installed capacity of 1,000 tons per
day. The facility was privatized
under the second privatization wave
of 2000s, acquired by a consortium
of Arif Habib group and Al-Abbas
group.
Subsequent to privatisation, the
capacity was enhanced from 1000
tons per day to 1,500 tons per day,
and later converted its plant from
furnace oil to multi fuel firing system
Cherat Cement Company
Limited (CHCC)
Cherat Cement Company Limited
(CHCC) was established in 1981
with its plant located near the district
of Nowshera. The company started
with production of 1,100 tons per day
in 1985 which was increased to 3,300
tons per day in 2005 after subsequent
up gradations earlier.
The company today has an installed
cement production capacity of 1
million tons of clinker, and 1.1
million tons of cement making it one
of the smaller cement players in the
industry with 2 percent market share.
However, the company plans on
installing another cement line at the
same location with an annual clinker
capacity of more than 1.3 million
tons (4,200 tons per day), which
would bring market share for Cherat
up.
(coal, gas and furnace oil).
The company’s current production
capacity is 450,000 tons annually
which accounts for one percent of the
market share.
It exports markets primarily include
Sri Lanka, India, Middle East and
some African countries including
Sudan.
(Source: Company website/media)
The company commissioned its first
Waste Heat Recovery (WHR) for
power generation in 2010, a Tyre
Derived Fuel Processing Plant in
2012 and a Refuse Derived Fuel
Processing Plant in 2013 to boost
energy efficiency by using
alternative fuel, generating one-third
of its electricity free of cost.
Cherat Cement is a Ghulam Faruque
Group (GFG) Company that held 20
percent of its shares as at June 2015.
Work on the expansion of second
production capacity is in progress
and the new line was expected to be
commissioned by early 2017. The
Company has also placed an order
for a WHR plant
(worth Rs1 billion)
t h a t w o u l d b e
functional for the
second line.
(Source: Company
website/media)
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