AUTOMOTIVE OPERATIONS

The Automotive Operations of YDC comprise of Dewan Farooque Motors, Dewan Mushtaq Motor Company and Dewan Motors. Having produced over a hundred thousand passenger cars, light commercial and sport-utility vehicles, Dewan Farooque Motors emerged as a leading manufacturer of vehicles. Dewan Mushtaq Motor Company and Dewan Motors too have made their presence known with over ten thousand built-up vehicles sold.

SUGAR AND ETHANOL

YDC decided to diversify its activities to other spheres and entered the sugar industry. Dewan Sugar Mills Limited was established in 1987, with a sugar cane crushing capacity of 3,500 metric tons per day that has been expanded to 9,000 metric tons/day. Dewan Distillery is a SBU of Dewan Sugar Mills, which produces 125,000 litres of high quality food grade ethanol per day. Dewan distillery is an export base unit, major destinations are Europe and Far East.                              

CEMENT

YDC entered the cement sector by acquiring Pakland Cement Limited and Saadi Cement Limited in 2004. These companies were merged in September 2007. Dewan Cement Limited or DCL is amongst Pakistan's largest manufacturers of cement with combined installed capacity of 2.9 million tons per annum. The company has two production facilities; one in southern Pakistan near Karachi at Deh Dhando, Dhabeji , Sindh and the other in northern Pakistan near Kamilpur Hattar Industrial Estate, District Hattar Khyber Pakhtoonkhawa. These plants provide a distinct advantage to the selling activity both in the local as well as in the export markets. The northern plant being close to the GT road covers Punjab, KPK, Azad Kashmir in the local market and Afghanistan and India in the export Market. The southern plant covers Sindh and Baluchistan in the local market and proximity to the ports at Karachi facilitate export to markets of Sri Lanka, Africa and the Middle East.

TEXTILE

Dewan Textile Mills Limited, the first industrial unit, was set up in 1970 with a capacity of 25,080 spindles that has since been increased to 62,544 spindles & 3,000 Open End rotors and TFO facility. YDC strengthened its footing in the textile sector by taking over another textile unit in 1975, now known as Dewan Mushtaq Textile Mills Limited with an installed capacity of 25,776 spindles. Thereafter, another spinning unit Dewan Khalid Textile Mills Limited, consisting of 25,536 spindles was added. In year 2006 Dewan Farooque Spinning Mills Limited was established. This unit has a capacity of 28,800 spindles and is equipped with state of the art Rieter Com4® Technology to cater to the requirements of high-end users.

FIBRE

Dewan Salman Fibre Limited is one of the largest Polyester Staple Fibre manufacturing companies in Pakistan and is the flagship company of YDC. The production capacity of Dewan Salman Fibre’s three polyester units is 540 tons per day. DSF has been instrumental in developing textile yarn industry of the country by catering 45% feedstock needs of manmade fibre. The company has the only Acrylic unit of Pakistan to fulfill the Acrylic fiber requirement of the country. Surplus Acrylic fibre has been exported to various export destinations.

TRADE

Dewan Mushtaq Trade Limited is the trading arm of YDC. The company was established in the year 2005 and since then it is rapidly working towards developing a robust and sustainable business portfolio of products and international partners. Achievement in the short span of time is in itself a testament to DMTL’s aggressive growth strategy. DMTL’s operating philosophy is to work through selected international partners of repute, enabling a highly focused and target oriented approach towards marketing & selling of partner products. DMTL currently has five major SBUs in its domain, Paints and Construction, Chemicals, Bulk Commodities, Ethanol Exports and Petrochemicals.