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Nature of

Business

Cherat Cement Company Limited is a Ghulam Faruque
Group (GFG) Company. Its main business activity is
manufacturing, marketing and sale of Ordinary Portland
Cement. The Company is amongst the pioneers of
cement industry in Pakistan and is the number 1 cement
in its region. Quality is our business; therefore, there are
no compromises on Quality Management. The plant is
located at Village Lakrai, District Nowshera, Khyber
Pakhtunkhwa (KPK) Province.

Due to plant’s geographical position, it is ideally located
to export cement to Afghanistan as well as to cater the
local market needs in the KPK, FATA, Punjab and Azad
Kashmir. The Company is registered on Pakistan Stock
Exchange and is also ISO 9001 and 14001 certified. The
Company’s 2nd production line of cement has already
become operational in January 2017. The Company’s
annual installed capacity has now reached around 2.4
million tons of cement. The Company is in the process of
installing cement line III at the same location with an
installed annual cement capacity of more than 2.1
million tons, which is expected to be commissioned by
June 2019.

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