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Chapter 25

INDUSTRIES

The office of the Industries, Prices, Weights & Measures was established in
Muzaffargarh in 2001. It is headed by a District Officer of BPS-16 who is
assisted in his functions by a lab-technician, a junior clerk and 2 naib qasids.
A total of 162 industrial units are functioning in the district; 82 Cotton
Ginning units constitute half of this numbers. The detailed break-up is as
follows:

Nature of Industry Number
1 Agriculture Equipment 18
2 Cold Storage 2
3 Cotton Ginning 82
4 Flour Mills 11
5 Jute Mills 02
6 Polypropylene Bags 02
7 Packages 01
8 Power Generation 06
9 Refinery 01
10 Rice Mills 10
11 Soaps and Detergents 03
12 Sugar Mills 03
13 Sulphuric Acid 01
14 Textile Spinning 20
15 Vegetable Ghee/Cooking Oil 01
Total 162

Muzaffargarh is a sugarcane growing district. Accordingly, 4 sugar mills were
established here: Tandlian Wala Sugar Mills in Tehsil Muzaffargarh, Fatima
Sugar Mills and Sheikho Sugar Mills in Tehsil Kot Addu are currently
operational; whereas Haseeb Waqas Sugar Mills in Tehsil Jatoi had gone out
of production since 2017 after a court verdict against its relocation from
Nankana Sahib to Muzaffargarh.

There are 6 Power Generation Units in the district: Thermal Power Station
and Mahmood Power Station in Tehsil Muzaffargarh, Fatima Energy, Kot
Addu Power Company (KAPCO), and 2 units of Lal Pir Thermal Power Station
in Tehsil Kot Addu.

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