COMPANY PROFILE
Engro Chemical Pakistan Limited is the second largest producer of Urea fertilizer in Pakistan. The company was incorporated in 1965 and was formerly Exxon Chemical Pakistan Limited until 1991, when Exxon decided to divest their fertilizer business on a global basis and sold off its equity of 75% shares in company. The Employees of Engro, in partnership with leading international and local financial institutions bought out Exxon’s equity and the company was renamed as Engro Chemical Pakistan Limited. Engro is a public limited company listed on the Stock Exchanges of Karachi, Lahore and Islamabad.
Engro accomplished significant progress not only in its base urea fertilizer business but also in diversification projects. Urea production was increased from an annual capacity of 270,000 tons in 1991 to 850,000 tons in 2001. Further expansion plans are being developed to increase plant capacity to 1.2 million tons in stages. In addition, Engro has over thirty years of experience of fertilizer marketing in Pakistan with an elaborate dealer network.
As part of growth and diversification plans, Engro have established a $60 million 50:50 Joint Venture company named “Engro Vopak Terminal Limited” in 1995, between Engro and Royal Vopak (formerly Royal Pakhoed), a Netherlands based company and one of the foremost terminal operators in the world. This joint venture company has built a modern Jetty & Terminal at Port Qasim, Karachi for handling and storage of bulk liquid chemicals, which was completed in 1997. This is a key infrastructure for the development of capital intensive chemical industry in the heavy industrial zone of Port Qasim, Karachi.
Engro has also formed another Joint Venture company with Mitsubishi and Asahi Glass of Japan named “Engro Asahi Polymer & Chemicals Ltd.” to develop a Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) resin project at Port Qasim, Karachi, with an initial capacity of 100,000 tons per year based on