BIDDING OF LASBELLA TEXTILE MILLS MACHINERY ON JULY 20

Islamabad, July 19, 2006

The Privatisation Commission is holding bidding in the presence of the representatives of the print and electronic media on Thursday (July 20, 2006) at 10 a.m. at Best Western Hotel, Islamabad. The sale is on ‘as is where is’ basis of the assets including plant, machinery and equipment of Lasbella Textile Mills (LTM), project of Iran Pakistan Industries (Pvt) Limited (IPI) situated at Uthal, District Lasbella, Balouchistan.

The machinery is part of fully integrated units of 50,000 spindles and 1100 looms with complete dyeing and finishing facilities. The plant was set up in 1976 and it started production in January 1980 but was closed down in 1983.