PAKISTAN LAUNCHES COUNTRY LARGEST MEAT PROCESSING, EXPORTING UNIT NEAR KARACHI’S PORT QASIM
May 1st, 2016
Pakistan's largest multi-industry conglomerate, the Fauji Group, has launched the country’s biggest and state-of-the-art halal abattoir and meat processing and exporting unit near Port Qasim, Karachi. The Fauji Meat Ltd (FML) subsidiary-run facility, which has been fully operational since April (2016), has a daily production capacity of 100 tonnes of meat (85 tonnes of beef and 15 tonnes of mutton, according to a company note) in both frozen and chilled categories per day for worldwide export, and cost an estimated USD75 million to build.
Rehan Munawar, the ...
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