Pakistan is the World's Fastest Growing Steel Producer

RiazHaq

Senator (1k+ posts)
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Steel production in Pakistan jumped 39.3% to 5 million tons last year, according to World Steel Association. Earlier, Pakistan steel industry ramped up its output from 2.9 million tons in 2015 to 3.6 million tons in 2016.

While Pakistan's steel production growth is the world's fastest, its relatively small steel production volume of 5 million tons ranks it 28th in the world. Other nations seeing strong growth in steel production are Iran (up 21.4%), Vietnam ( 31.9%) and Egypt (35%). Iran ranks 13th with 21.7 million tons; Vietnam ranks 19th with 10.3 million tons; Egypt ranks 23rd with 6.8 million tons produced in 2017.

Some of the key names ramping up production capacity in Pakistan are Aisha Steel Mill (ASM), Amreli Steels and Agha Steel Industries.

ASM, an Arif Habib Group company, is planning to expand capacity to a total of 700,000 tons a year from its current capacity of 220,000 tons.

Amreli Steels Limited, country’s leading steelmaker has announced plans to increase its annual production capacity of reinforcement bars to 750,000 tons a year within the next two years.

The biggest drivers of sparing steel demand in Pakistan are rapidly growing large scale manufacturing and construction sectors.

Car sales shot up 23% while motorcycle sales soared by 20% in January 2018, according to industry data.

The cement sales, a good proxy for construction sector, rose 14.3% in the first 7 months of fiscal 2017-18.

Pakistan is the third fastest growing economy among the top 25 economies in terms of purchasing power parity. Pakistan's economic growth is continuing to accelerate amid rising rising investments led by China-Pakistan Economic Corridor related infrastructure and energy related projects. The IMF sees Pakistan economy growing at 5.6% while the World Bank forecasts it to grow by 5.5% in current fiscal year 2017-18 ending in June 2018, a full percentage point faster than the 4.5% average GDP growth for Emerging and Developing Economies (EMDEs) that include Argentina, Brazil, China, India, Nigeria and Russia among others. However, Pakistan economic growth continues to lag growth forecast for regional economies of India and Bangladesh. The report also calls attention to the expanding current account gap as a matter of concern that must be taken seriously by the government to avoid yet another return to the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

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BrotherKantu

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
بھائی کہیں ان نمبروں کے چکر میں پھدو نا بن جانا
اک چمچہ بنانے والا اگر دو چمجے بنا لے تو اس کی پروڈکشن میں تو سو فی صد اضافہ ہو ہی جاۓ گا پر بناۓ تو اس نے صرف دو چمجے ہی ہیں نا.
 

intekhab

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
I don't trust this source just like notanki paindooooo brothers.....this increase in production must be happening in ittefaq foundry not in pakistan steels , that is not functional at the moment.
 

Pakistani1947

Chief Minister (5k+ posts)
Amazing ......

Khaqan Abbasi's Air Blue is Profitable but PIA is almost Bankrupt...

Disqualified Prime Minister's and others Steel Mills are Profitable whereas Pakistan Steel Mills is almost bankruot...

Fruits of Democracy.......
 

Will_Bite

Prime Minister (20k+ posts)
Not sure why CPEC specific flash figures are floated as real growth. But then I realzie the marketing is being done by the Sharif brothers.....who till last month were talking baout elimination of loadshedding by March, and now are talking of massive impending loadshedding this summer
 

Ehsan Rana

Politcal Worker (100+ posts)
Es RiazHaq U*u k pathay ka dimagh mein kuch khalal nazar aata hay mujhe.

Pakistan ka sub se largest steel manufacturing unit pichlay kai saal se billion of rupees k khasaray mein chal raha hay aur ye yahan apni baji Ferrari k Qatri Naqsh e Qadam par chaltay huay logon ko Ch*tia bananay aa gaya hay.

Nikal P**** Y** D**
 

RiazHaq

Senator (1k+ posts)
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RiazHaq

Senator (1k+ posts)
Investors and businesses do not care for nationalism and bragging rights.

They look at cold, hard numbers.

Steel demand in Pakistan is currently about 10 million tons a year and growing at 25-30% a year.

Half of it was met by local production while the rest was imported in 2017.

Pakistani production is growing at 40%, faster than 25-30% growth in demand.

And the current capacity expansion plans of Pakistan's local industry are geared to grow fast enough to do import substitution, not exports.

Why not exports? It's because there's a worldwide steel glut right now and prices are plummeting.

China and others are trying to dump their steel in other countries and triggering anti-dumping duties.

There's no appetite for investing in new steel capacity for exports in a tough international environment.
 

RiazHaq

Senator (1k+ posts)
Egyptian Billionaire Eyes Further #Pakistan #RealEstate Projects - Bloomberg #Islamabad #housing


https://www.bloomberg.com/news/arti...re-eyes-further-pakistan-real-estate-projects

Naquib Sawiris is developing a $2b estate in Islamabad
Pakistan faces a housing shortage as its population expands

Egyptian billionaire Naguib Sawiris’s Ora Developers will next month start building a luxurious $2 billion housing estate on the outskirts of Islamabad and is eyeing further projects as it taps demand from overseas Pakistanis.

The ‘Eighteen Islamabad’ development will feature more than 1,000 homes, a golf course and a mall on 2.25 million square meters of land. It will take six years to complete, said Tarek Hamdy, chief executive officer of the development. Sawiris holds 60 percent in a joint venture with local firms Kohistan Builders and Developers and Saif Group, owned by Pakistan’s prominent Saifullah family.

Pakistan’s real estate sector has seen a boom in recent years as militant violence has receded. Economic growth in the nation of more than 200 million people has risen to around 5 percent as China finances more than $50 billion on infrastructure projects across the country. House prices have more than doubled since 2011, according to property website Zameen.com, and housing projects are mushrooming in cities such as Karachi, Lahore, Islamabad and Peshawar,

“The market isn’t saturated,” Hamdy said in an interview at his office next to Islamabad’s Margalla hills, adding that Sawiris’s firm is eyeing potential other projects that may be announced by the end of this year.

Prices for a three bedroom home on the estate start at 30.5 million rupees ($275,395) and about $400 million will be invested in the development in the first two years, Hamdy said.

‘Highest Quality’
“You can develop a project at very reasonable margins” between 10 to 40 percent, he said. “The highest quality still makes money.”

Sawiris is not new to Pakistan. He previously set up one of Pakistan’s first mobile phone companies, Mobilink, now the nation’s largest cellular firm by subscriber numbers.

Apart from private businessmen such as Malik Riaz Hussain who is building Pakistan’s largest development outside Karachi, the military’s housing business has sped up efforts to grab market share. Hamdy sees overseas Pakistanis particularly in the U.S., U.K. and Middle East as major buyers and is considering launching another housing project by the end of 2018.

A shortage of housing units will boost construction activity in Pakistan as the urban population grows by nearly 30 million by 2027, BMI Research said in a December report. Construction has been one of the largest recipients of foreign direct investment and in the first seven months of this fiscal year $380 million was invested in the sector, according to central bank data.
 

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