History

Mehran has a long, rich heritage with Haji Hasham and his son Usman’s vision to set up one of Pakistan’s first sugar factories. Haji Hasham started his business career by trading in commodities in the 1930’s in the Indo Subcontinent.

Mehran sugar has grown to become a leading and diversified company today.

Key dates in our history

1965

The Company is incorporated as a public limited company.

1968

Shares of the Company are listed on the Karachi Stock Exchange.
Plant commences trial production with a crushing capacity of 1,500 TCD. Complete plant is procured from M/s. Mitsubishi Japan.

1978

Steady re-engineering increased the crushing capacity to 3,500 TCD.

1983

Recognized by the Karachi Stock Exchange as one of the Top 25 Company Award for the year.

1986

Again selected by the Karachi Stock Exchange for its Top 25 Company Award for the year.

1994

Company starts commercial production of second parallel milling unit, thus increasing crushing capacity to 7,000 TCD.

1998

The Company is awarded ISO-9002 – QMS Certification.

2001

Sales cross Rs. 1.0 Billion.

2006

The Company crosses the Rs. 2.0 Billion sales milestone.

2007

The joint venture distillery, Unicol Limited commences commercial production.

2010

The Company crosses the Rs. 4.0 Billion sales milestone.

2013

Company first time ever crossed sucrose recovery of 11 percent. The Company crossed the 100,000 M. Tons milestone production for the first time

2014

Record highest sugar production of 123,210 M. tons. Sales crossed Rs. 6.0 Billion.
Associated Company Unicol Limited doubled its ethanol production to 200,000 LPD.

2015

Record highest sucrose recovery of 11.42 percent, which was the highest achieved in the country.
Company crossed half a billion profit before tax
Started supply of co-generated electricity to the National Grid

2016

Record highest Sales milestone of more than Rs. 7 billion in the history of the company.
Company crossed Rs. 650 million profit before tax.
Company paid its highest dividend of Rs. 184 million.

2017

Sucrose Recovery of 11.06% was amongst highest in the country.
Bagasse Savings reached level of 35,000 Tons this year.
The state of the art Effluent Treatment Plant commenced its operations.
Upfront Tariff & Generation License have been awarded to 26.5 MW Hp-Cogen Power Plant.

2018

Sucrose Recovery of 11.52% was amongst highest in the history of the Company as well as of the country.
Sugar exports of more than 74,000 tons achieved which is highest in the history of the company.
Bagasse Savings reached level of 50,000 Tons this year.
Profit of our joint venture project Unicol Ltd. crossed Rs. 1 billion mark for the first time.

2019

Sucrose Recovery again surpassed the benchmark of 11% consecutively in third year and remained at 11.44%, which is again one of the highest in the country.
Our retail brand “Sugarie” achieved Rs. 133 million turnover, surpassed Rs. 100 million mark for the first time.
Our joint venture Unicol Ltd. again crossed Rs. 1 billion mark profit