ASSOCIATED CEMENT (ROHRI) SET FOR BIDDING ON AUGUST 28,2003
Islamabad, August 6, 2003

Privatisation Commission has announced the bidding for AC Cement (Rohri) on August 28, 2003. A pre- bid meeting to this effect will take place on August 21, 2003, while the prospective bidders have been asked to submit the required earnest money latest by August 26, 2003.

PC has also invited fresh EOIs in addition to the received earlier and has requested those interested parties who had not submitted EOIs earlier to avail this opportunity. The parties which had submitted EOIs need not to apply fresh. The sale of the assets of Associated Cement (Rohri) Limited having production capacity of 270,000 Metric tones per annum, had earlier attracted 21 domestic parties.

Privatization Commission had invited Expression of Interest from the prospective bidders for the offered Assets during the first week of June 2003. Expression of Interest submitted to Privatisation Commission earlier include 15 parties from Karachi, two parties from Lahore and one each from Dhaharki, Islamabad, Sukkur and Quetta.

The names of the interested parties are 1. A A Enterprses, Karachi, 2. Ahmed Iqbal & others, Karachi, 3. Ali Industrial & Engineering Works, Karachi, 4. Barkati Textile Industries/ Mian Amin Trading Est., Karachi, 5. Bismillah Maritime Breaker, Karachi, 6. Brother's Enterprises, Quetta, 7.Classic Builders, Karachi, 8. D. G. Khan Cement Company, Lahore, 9. Export International, Karachi, 10. Fatima Interprise, Sukkur, 11. First Capital Equities, Islamabad, 12. Happy Trading Co. Karachi, 13. Lasbela Cement Limited, Karachi, 14. National Transport Company, Karachi, 15. Nawaz Khan Trading Company, Lahore, 16. Newage Textile (Pvt) Limited, Karachi, 17. Sadaf Enterprise, Karachi, 18. Star Cotton Corporation (Pvt) Limited, Karachi, 19. Suresh Kumar & Brothers, Daharki, 20. United Bank Limited,
Karachi and 21. Universal Navigation & Trading (Pvt) Ltd. Karachi.

The company owns about 195. 3 acres of purchased land (which includes some portion which are encroached). It also owns 24. 45 acres of agriculture land located in the vicinity. The plant is located on an area of about 36 acres. Of the land under residential colony, 127 acres are well developed. All required infrastructure facilities are also available on the site. The factory is located 7 k.m. from Sukkur in the Sindh Province. The payment of the Golden Handshake to its employees has already been finalized without any burden on the buyer. The factory was closed down in 1999.