Muhammad Saleh

Agritech limited (formerly Pak American Fertilizer Limited)

Agritech limited (formerly Pak American Fertilizer limited) is a urea manufacturing company. It is located in Punjab province of Pakistan in district Mianwali. Plant is located very close to mighty river Indus near the famous site of proposed KALABAGH dam. The area is very scenic. It was the first fertilizers plant build by GOP through PIDC way back in 1955/56. The plant was Ammonia/Ammonium sulfate based on the local coal and gypsum. Later on it was transferred to NFC. In 1972 on availability of natural gas in area the coal gasification process was abandoned. NFC planned its expansion and a new state of the art Ammonia/Urea complex was erected in 1999 based on Toyo Japan technology. Plant name pate capacities were 600/1050 MTPD Ammonia/Urea. under the disinvestment policy it was privatized and purchased by a leading textile group of Pakistan Azgard9 in July 2006. Company planned expansion to 1400 MTPD urea which was carried out by Jan 2011. The Urea plant process was changed from Toyo to Stamicarbon. Agritech also owns a Single super Phosphate plant located at Haripur under the name of HAZARA PHOSPHATE Plant