Tag: Industry

Schneider Electric announces secure power systems for industry

Schneider Electric, a global specialist in energy management, recently announced the creation of the Schneider Secure Power Systems for Industry and Infrastructure Business, a...

Gas shortage in industry

Sui Northern Gas Pipelines Limited (SNGPL) former Managing Director Abdul Rasheed Lone has said that natural gas demand has been increasing at a rapid...

Textile industry sets $20b export target

All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz has congratulated the textile industry, government policymakers and President Asif Ali Zardari upon the record...

Industry demands power for survival

The increasing gap between the demand and supply of electricity and prolonged unannounced power cuts show that government is least worried about economic degradation...

Chemical industry hooked on TV show ‘Breaking Bad’

Watching the success of the television show "Breaking Bad" has been a guilty pleasure for the chemical industry. It is a show that wows...

Karachi violence costs trade, industry Rs37b

Traders and industrialists in the violence-hit economic hub of the country have claimed to have incurred billions of rupees in financial losses during the...

Industry caught between global recession, energy crisis

Marine Group of Companies Managing Director Aasim A. Siddiqui said that we are hoping for a subsidy in tariff concessions from the European Union...

IPDF investor forum to promote trucking industry

The Infrastructure Project Development Facility (IPDF) and the Ministry of Finance will hold an investor forum on July 13 (Wednesday) for opportunities in automobile...

Textile industry demands five days a week gas supply

All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Chairman Gohar Ejaz has said that the textile industry in Punjab desperately needs gas supply five days a...

APCMA highlights cement industry problems

The fiscal year 2010-11 proved to be a nightmare for the cement sector as 80 per cent of the cement manufacturers suffered huge losses...

Ufone sweeps industry with its Uth SMS Champion Offer

Ufone, one of the leading telecom companies in the country has recently launched the most economical SMS offer ever. Ufone has always been the...

Shaping the fitness industry

Our initiative to reach out to (preferably) young entrepreneurs carving out and building on interesting niches in a struggling market takes us to Avari...

Visual imaging a breakthrough in health industry

From robots performing invasive surgery to 3D images of a baby inside a womb, this new medical imaging software is enabling experts to have...

Budget to have ‘limited impact’ on cement industry

The year has proved to be a problematic one for local cement manufacturers. In addition to the catastrophe brought by the floods, the government’s...

FIFA steps up fight against $90b match-fixing industry

Soccer match-fixing yields $90 billion annually, a figure equivalent to legal betting, FIFA's security chief Chris Eaton said on Wednesday, emphasising the need to...

Medicine prices, inflation restrict pharma industry profits

Asif Misbah, while underlining issues faced by the pharmaceutical industry, said that price regulation has given rise to the false belief that pharmaceutical companies...

Gas outages bring fertiliser industry on the verge of collapse

ISLAMABAD - Persistent gas shortages and unilateral decision of gas utility companies to curtail feedstock gas supplies to urea plants, for a fortnight per month, have brought fertiliser industry on the verge of collapse.
The perturbed chief executives of fertiliser industry presented this horrific scenario at a meeting chaired by the Minister for Industries Mir Hazar Khan Bijarani.
They said that the shutdown of gas supplies for 15 days every month would completely damage