20 long-form profiles of PSX companies beyond the KSE-100 — general insurers, Pak Suzuki, tractor and battery makers, cement plants and chemical producers. Educational content only, not financial advice. Continue with the previous page, the first market guides or the 44 Learn guides.
Ghandhara Tyre, founded as General Tyre in 1963 at Landhi, still makes the tyres Pakistan's cars, trucks, tractors and motorcycles roll on across the country today.
Exide Pakistan, incorporated in 1953, is the battery name generations of drivers used as the word for the thing itself — now also selling solar systems.
Atlas Battery, founded in 1966 inside Shirazi's Atlas Group, sells AGS batteries made with Japanese technology from its plant in Karachi's S.I.T.E. industrial estate.
Loads Limited, in auto parts since Pak Suzuki arrived in 1983 and listed in 2016, makes the exhausts, radiators and sheet metal inside Pakistan's cars.
Incorporated in 1981 and listed in 1984, Agriauto makes the shock absorbers, struts and camshafts hidden inside Pakistan's cars, tractors and motorcycles.
Established in 1981 at Hub in Balochistan and producing since 1988, Attock Cement sells its Falcon brand across southern Pakistan and into export markets.
Incorporated in 1960, privatised in the 1990s and rebuilt around a modern Chakwal-district plant, Gharibwal Cement is a pure play on northern construction.
Incorporated in 1992 as Zaman Cement and now Flying Cement, this single-kiln Khushab producer is one of the smaller, simpler names in Pakistan cement.
Born as a 1997 Engro joint venture with Japanese partners, EPCL runs Pakistan's only PVC resin plant at Port Qasim and sells resin under the SABZ name.
Formed in 1982 inside the Wah Nobel venture, WAHN makes commercial explosives, formaldehyde resins and acetates for Pakistan's mines, quarries and factories.
Commissioned in 1964 as United Chemicals, nationalised, renamed Ittehad and privatised in 1995, ICL makes caustic soda and allied chemicals near Lahore.
Incorporated in 1981 and listed in 1987, Sitara Chemical runs a large Faisalabad chlor-alkali complex, plus captive power, soap noodles and a textile unit.
Berger began importing paint into Pakistan in 1950, built factories in Karachi and Lahore, and became a listed name generations of homeowners trust nationwide.
Born as Ghani Gases in 2007 and listed in 2010, Ghani Global Holdings now sits above listed gases, chemicals and pharmaceutical-glass businesses in Lahore.
Trading since 1935 and long known as Linde Pakistan, Pakistan Oxygen supplies the gases behind hospitals, steelworks, refineries and laboratories nationwide.
A Karachi family business since the 1970s, Amreli turned steel rebar into a branded product and listed in 2015 after building big at Dhabeji, in Sindh.
Set up in 2005 by the Arif Habib Group with Japanese partners, Aisha Steel built Pakistan a modern cold-rolling complex at Port Qasim and listed in 2012.
Incorporated in 2013 at Port Qasim, Agha Steel raised Pakistan's largest steel IPO of its time in 2020 to fund the expansion completing its melt shop.
From Mughal Traders in 1950 to a listed Lahore steelmaker in 2015, Mughal built its name on bars, beams and sections rolled on Sheikhupura Road, Punjab.
Trading cloth since the early 1900s and milling since 1953, Gul Ahmed spans spinning to stitching — and the Ideas stores in almost every big mall in Pakistan.
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