Cement industry in pakistan

During the pre-partition era most of the industrial base was located at the areas that were to become the part of India. Pakistan, unfortunately inherited a weak industrial base. However, in case of cement, Pakistan was fortunate enough to inherit four cement manufacturing units with an aggregate installed capacity of 487,000 tons per annum. These units were located at Karachi, Rohri, Dandot and Wah.
Besides the weak industrial base, the Pakistan did not have entrepreneurs, therefore the private sector in the post independent era were shying away in making investment in the industrial development. In order to facilitate investment of private sectors towards the industry, PIDC was established in 1956. Its objective was to establish manufacturing units and transfer it to the private sector. As per the mandate envisaged to the PIDC, it established two cement plants one at Daudkhel and the other at Hyderabad. Subsequently, more cement plants were commissioned and by the year 1971, there w...