Type Public Company Number of employees 501-1000 Founded 1991 | Area served Worldwide Website www.ecopack.com.pk | |
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Industry Packaging and Containers Key people Hussain Jamil (CEO)
Ayesha Khan (Chairperson) Founders Hussain Jamil, Ahsan Jamil | ||
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Ecopack Ltd is a PET bottles blowing company in Pakistan. It has a production capacity of over 300 million bottles and 450 million preforms per year.
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Background
Ecopack Limited (EPL) is the largest manufacturer of PET bottles in Pakistan supplying mainly to the carbonated soft drink and mineral water industries. EPL was incorporated as a private limited company in August 1991. The first factory was located at Hattar Industrial Estate, North-West Frontier Province, to benefit both from various tax incentives and the area's strategic proximity to the Punjab and to the emerging Central Asian markets.
Although the main project investment was for the manufacture of PET preforms and bottles targeting the growing carbonated soft drink industry in Pakistan, a small part of the investment envisaged a plastic bag making unit to meet the needs of the industries in the North. Subsequently in 1992 EPL was converted into a public limited company and was successfully listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange in March 1994.
In 1999 Ecopack set up its second factory for blowing PET bottles in SITE Town, Karachi to meet the growing demand. Through additional investment in new plant and equipment, EPL has more than doubled its production capacity in 2001.
EPL was set up with the active support and guidance of Pepsi International in Pakistan as a vendor of international standards for the supply of PET bottles to the carbonated soft drink industry. This valuable assistance ensured the achievement of high quality, consistent and reliable production of PET bottles capable of successfully performing in the harsh heat, transport and retail conditions of Pakistan. EPL procured highly sophisticated and modern plant and equipment from the best machinery manufacturers of Germany, UK and USA. In order to obtain high quality and output in the most cost–efficient manner, EPL with the help of international consultants and experts on PET bottles and preforms, Inter-Tech Ltd, USA and the technical advice of Pepsi-Cola International, USA, procured the 2-stage technology for separate manufacture of bottles and preforms rather than the single-stage technology for producing both preforms and bottles in the same injection and blow-molding cycle on one machine. The latter is a slow process in comparison to the 2-stage process and is not technically and commercially feasible for high output low-cost manufacture of bottles required to meet the high-volume demand of the CSD and mineral water markets worldwide.