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Pakistan
Building Technologies Sector Review
Definition and scale of sector
- Commodity materials (cement, timber, etc),
- Commodity manufactured products (tiles, bricks, sanitary ceramics),
- Sub assemblies (fire alarms, other safety, mechanical lifting and handling equipment, electronic sensors),
- Equipment/tooling manufacture/hire,
- Design/professional services,
- Construction services
Why the sector was chosen in the West Midlands
- Significant concentrations of activity especially in north of the region associated with commodity materials and low value added metal goods and ceramics.
- Need for modernisation.
- Shift from low value added commodities to higher value added systems, with scope to build on developments in materials such as polymers and recycling.
- Significant force for change in relation to urban regeneration and the transformation of the image of this region.
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Cement Industry in Pakistan - November 2009
The profit of cement sector, for the first quarter of the year ended September 2009, dropped 9 percent. After tax aggregate profit of all the units stood at Rs1,030 million for 1QFY10, as against to Rs1,131 million in the 3 months of the previous year.
Cement units located in the north region have shown bigger loss, Rs71 million, compared to Rs39 million last year. Units in the south earned but were sharply reduced by 87 percent to Rs28 million.
The sector faced numerous problems most important was the reduction in price in the domestic market. The 17 cement companies represent 95 percent of the total sector market capitalization.
The zonal analysis excluded Lucky and Dewan from the sample since both had plants in both the zones shows that the gross profit of the cement sector declined by 19.5 percent to Rs6,917 million from Rs8,591 million in the quarter as against the same period of 2009. Gross profit margin shrank by 5.24 percent to 24.18 percent from 29.42 percent.
The analysis shows that the top line was down by 2 percent to Rs28.6 billion for the quarter, from Rs29.2 billion in the same period last year. Retail prices in the local markets averaged Rs318 per bag, representing 1.5 percent decrease. Net export prices also slumped by 14 to 15 percent in US dollar terms. The fall was due to the depreciation of the rupee by 12 percent during the period. The gross margins had contracted by 5.2 percent, in spite of 56 percent drop in international coal prices to $71 per ton in 1QFY10.
Source: IAR (Industrial Advisory Reports)
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Marble Industry - I - December 2008
The marble sector of the country is likely to miss the current fiscal export target of $60 million by at least 25 percent, owing to disruption of electricity, long hours of load shedding and deteriorating law and order situation in the country. These factors are negatively impacting its exports and hindering growth.
All Pakistan Marble Mining Processing Industry and Exporters Association (PMMPIEA) said that the Karachi Electric Supply Corporation (KESC) is carrying out 10 to 12 hours load shedding daily, causing immense financial losses to the sector, which is already suffering due to limited financial resources.
Source: IAR (Industrial Advisory Reports)
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Marble Industry - II - December 2008
God has bestowed Pakistan with enormous mineral resources including Marble and Onyx, generously available in NWFP and Balochistan provinces. Marble is used for both construction purposes and handicrafts manufacturing, whereas, Onyx which is a transparent type of marble, transparent in the sensse that light can pass through it, and generally used by handicrafts manufacturing industry. High quality Marble and Onyx reserves are found in Pakistan in great quantities and the demand of its products in the export markets is also available, i.e., European Union countries, Central Asian countries etc. make this sector highly attractive for investment.
International tourists are the main customer of products made of Marble and Onyx that has reached an all-time record of $763 million, in 2004. In relative terms, growth over 2003 corresponds to almost 11 percent, the highest and the only double digit percentage recorded since 1980. Growth is common to all regions, but was particularly strong almost in 28 percent in Asia and the Pacific and 18 percent Middle East. Double-digit growth was also registered in the Americas, 11 percent. Africa 8 percent and Europe 5 percent, performed below the world average, but better results in the previous year.
Source: IAR (Industrial Advisory Reports)
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Engineering Industry in Pakistan I - March 2008
Today , Pakistan is capable of producing basic metals from iron ore (a raw material for many industries), complete plants on turn-key basis, construction machinery, material handling equipment, machine tools, electric motors, switchgears, transport equipment, cargo ships, fishing trawlers etc.
Engineering sector accounts for 63 percent share in world trade. Achieving any significant share of the world trade in engineering goods and services will require concerted efforts by Pakistan in gearing up our universities, polytechiniques and factories for the kind of manufacturing process and design capabilities required by the world market. In this context an important step has been taken by the restructuring of the Engineering Development Board (EDB).
Source: IAR (Industrial Advisory Reports)
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Engineering Industry in Pakistan II - March 2008
Machine tools are a wide range of machinery employed for cutting, removing or forming the metal to produce components for assembly into a single machine. Termed as strategic sector for any country,it is essential for reproducing the technologies and adoptions of advanced state-of-the-art manufacturing processes. The industry serves as precursor to the process of industrialisation and self-reliance. Machine tools are widely used in capital goods, automotive, consumer-durables, railways, aviation and aerospace, ship-building, defence, electronics, atomic energy and IT-related manufacturing sectors.
Pakistan Machine Tool Factory (PMTF) is a company of State Engineering Corporation, operating under the ministry of industries, production and special initiatives, is the only industrial unit of its kind. It was established by the Pakistan Industrial Development Corporation (PIDC) in 1968, a regional programme for development of machine tools was launched, under the aegis of the Regional Cooperation for Development (RCD), now known as the Economic Cooperation Organisation (ECO).
Source: IAR (Industrial Advisory Reports)
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Cement Sector - BOI - December 2007
There are 29 cement production units in the country. Upto May 2007, the total installed cement production capacity is 36.841 million tones. By the end of June 2011, the installed cement production capacity will touch to the level of 49.579 million tonnes.
Due to political instability and lack of allocation of funds for public sector development program, cement industry of Pakistan was in the recession phase had registered an average growth rate of 2.96% for the period from 1990 to 2002. For the period from 2003 to 2007 cement industry of Pakistan had registered an average growth rate of 20%. The boost in cement sector is because of the rising construction activity in the country, reconstruction activity in Afghanistan and increasing development expenditure by the government.
Source: Pakistan Board of Investment
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