Ittehad Chemicals
Ittehad Chemicals Limited is a publicly listed chemical manufacturing company in Pakistan. The company was commissioned in 1964 as United Chemicals and started production with an initial installed capacity of 60 MT/day of caustic soda and 54 MT/day of chlorine. Rising demand facilitated the first expansion, carried out in 1969, which increased capacity to 90 MT/day of caustic soda and 81 MT/day of chlorine.
At the same time, United Chemicals was nationalized by the Pakistani Government, renamed Ittehad Chemicals and put under the control of the Federal Chemical and Ceramics Corporation Limited (FPCCL). Another company, Insecticide Pakistan Ltd., was nationalized and renamed Ittehad Pesticides Ltd. in 1973. Later, the two companies were merged to form Ittehad Chemicals Limited. In 1983, the production capacity of Ittehad Chemicals was further increased to 150 MT/day of caustic soda and 135 MT/day of chlorine. Later, through another expansion, capacity was enhanced to 250 MT/day. By the year 2006 overall capacity had reached 380 MT/day
After encountering turbulence throughout the years of nationalization, Ittehad Chemicals was ultimately privatized in July 1995, and taken over by the Chemi Group of Companies which later on became Ittehad Group. This transition brought with it a new set of challenges, a bold vision and a transformational proactive behavior that set a new era of economic growth and stability in motion.
The present product line includes industrial caustic soda sodium hydroxide (solid, liquid and flakes), liquid chlorine, hydrochloric acid, sodium hypochlorite (liquid bleach), zinc sulfate mono, bleaching earth (Shaffaf), and sulfuric acid.
Calcium chloride and chlorinated paraffin wax are being added in new product lines.
In last quarter of 2012, Ittehad Agri Division was launched and now company is successfully marketing Crystal Zinc, Humic Acid and Aqua Zinc.
The vision of the directors is taking the company in new horizon and the whole group is under process of revitalization. There is no doubt that if things will go with this pace, Ittehad Group will be a big name in industry of Pakistan.