Bestway
Cement Limited, Pakistan’s 2nd largest cement manufacturer achieved
another milestone. The Company commenced production and despatches of cement at
its brownfield Hattar Plant on 17th February.
A simple ceremony was held at the plant premises to celebrate
the occasion which was attended by the Chairman, Bestway Group, Sir Mohammed
Anwar Pervez OBE HPk, the Group’s CEO, Lord Zameer M. Choudrey CBE SI Pk,
Bestway’s senior officials and delegates from the plant suppliers, Sinoma
Sir
Mohammad Anwar Pervez OBE HPk unveiled the commemorative plaque to mark the commencement
of cement production at Line II of Hattar plant.
Speaking
on the occasion, Bestway Group’s CEO, Lord Choudrey, said “Hattar plant is
Bestway’s home. This is where our incredible journey in cement business started
28 years ago. I’m absolutely delighted that we have put our second state-of-the-art
and most environmentally friendly brownfield production line at Hattar into
production in a record time of 15 months despite various hurdles and supply
chain disruptions caused by Covid and the overall economic challenges being
faced by the country. The plant also has its own Waste Heat Recovery Power
Plant of 9 MWs. Bestway’s production capacity has grown from 1 million tonnes
per annum in 1998 to more than 15 million tonnes, which speaks volumes of its
progress. I congratulate the entire Bestway team as this remarkable success
would not have been possible without their hardwork and commitment to
excellence, especially our senior team most of whom have been with the Company
since our journey began”.
He
went on to reiterate Bestway Group’s unrelenting commitment towards economic and
social development of Pakistan and highlighted that Bestway Cement was one of
the largest taxpayers in the country having contributed more than Rs. 245
billion to the exchequer in direct and indirect taxes since its inception. He noted
that Company was providing direct employment to nearly 5,000 families and
generated indirect employment for another almost 50,000 families.
Shedding
light on Bestway’s CSR activities, he informed the audience that Bestway was
one of the top ten CSR spenders in Pakistan. The Group’s charitable arm,
Bestway Foundation, had spent more than Rs. 1 billion in just last 3 years on
various social causes, particularly education. In addition to providing substantial
financial assistance to some of the best educational and health care
institutions around the country, the Foundation is running two schools in
Chakwal and Farooqia and a girls’ college where free and quality education is
provided free of cost; work on two more schools has already started and very
soon another two schools will be constructed in Hattar and Mianwali. The
Bestway also runs free medical centres at all of its production facilities
which provide free basic healthcare facilities to more than 20,000 patients
annually.
