Fecto Group
| Founded | 1952[1] |
|---|---|
| Founder | Ghulam Mohammad A. Fecto[1] |
| Headquarters | Lahore, Punjab, Pakistan |
| Products | Cement (Portland brand) particle board manufacturing units |
| Website | fecto |
The Fecto Group is a Pakistani company which was founded in 1952 by Ghulam Mohammad A. Fecto.[1]
It is currently engaged in manufacture of cement[2] and particleboard.
History
[edit]The group was founded by Ghulam Mohammad A. Fecto.[1] He was born in 1922 in Jetpur in the British Indian state of Gujarat, into a Memon family. Fecto sold shoes out of a store he owned in Mumbai called Coronation Footwear.[3] After the partition of India he migrated to Dhaka and started a trading business dealing in electrical goods and home appliances, radios and TVs, wire and cable.[3]
It then moved to western Pakistan where it transitioned into manufacturing, securing the agency of tractors in 1975. The company continued to transition and at different points manufactured with two sugar mills, a tractor assembly plant, a cement plant, two paper-sack and a particleboard units.[1]
In 1981 Fecto Cement Ltd. was established and production commenced in 1990.[4][5] [6]
Supply of products
[edit]Fecto Cement plant in Sangjani supplies cement to Punjab, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and Azad Kashmir areas in Pakistan.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e Profile of Fecto Group of Industries on Business Recorder (newspaper) Published 28 July 2016, Retrieved 21 November 2019
- ^ Cement Plants located in Pakistan on CemNet.com website (The home of International Cement Review database) Retrieved 21 November 2019
- ^ a b >https://www.fectogroup.com/
- ^ Research, B. R. (28 September 2021). "Fecto Cement Limited". Brecorder. Retrieved 28 September 2021.
- ^ Template:Cite web page url=https://www.cemnet.com/News/story/172485/a-review-of-listed-cement-companies-in-pakistan.html
- ^ "Small cement becomes smaller". 2 March 2020.