After achieving 50 per cent market share in the float glass industry recently, Ghani Glass Limited (GHGL) has decided to enter the tableware segment.
GHGL currently manufactures and sells glass containers and float glass. The company has five container glass furnaces, two in Hattar, Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa and three in Karachi. It also has two float glass furnaces in Sheikhupura with a total segment capacity of 1,000 tonnes/day.
The company utilises gas to operate all its furnaces; where the float glass segment is charged at expensive regasified liquefied natural gas (RLNG) rates.
GHGL has a noteworthy market share of 95 per cent in the pharmaceutical industry, 96 per cent in the food and beverage industry. Post-commencement of its second line in September 2021, the company’s market share in the float glass has doubled from 25 per cent to 50 per cent.
GHGL also exports to various countries, including Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Greece. Some of the company’s major customers include Coca-Cola, Unilever, Pepsi and Nestle.
Ghani Glass Limited is a company of Ghani Group; a reputed business house of South Asia; based in Pakistan with interests in containers glass and float glass, automobiles manufacturing/marketing and mining for silica sand, coal and rock salt.
The group carries over 50 years of business experience in the local and international markets, especially in the glass sector. The company features seven modern glass plants in Pakistan, producing container glass, float glass and the value-added glass with annual capacity of over 1,570 TPD.
Over the last many years, Ghani Glass has earned its repute and has registered its brand as the leader in the container glass industry in the region. Enjoying the largest market share, extensive glass containers range in pharmaceutical, food and beverage categories and incessant research and development, innovation and provision of the value-added glass manufacturing, fulfilling customised demands of the local and international customers, Ghani Glass has emerged as a glass supermarket in the region.
The containers glass packaging’s strict adherence to the quality control procedures, strong in-house R&D and continuous innovation has enabled it to produce all types of light weight bottles; being the demand of the modern times.
The pharmaceutical glass containers manufacturing plants of Ghani were the first to implement GMP standards (good manufacturing practices), which is the basic requirement of all the pharmaceutical companies of the region.
All the glass containers being manufactured are in strict adherence to the internationally renowned manufacturing standards and procedures for quality management, food safety management, good manufacturing practices, supplier guiding principles and environment control.
Nonetheless, Ghani is the pioneer to implement the first ever Class 100,000 clean room facility and automatic shrink wrap packaging for pharmaceutical glass containers.
The float glass manufacturing facility is among the pioneer facility of Pakistan. Complete engineering, procurement and construction of the project is done by Ghani and the facility was set up and commissioned in just 14 months, while the commercial production from the draw was achieved only in four days.
GGL’s float plant is producing high quality glass in thickness from 2mm to 19mm as per the ASTM standards.
Along with the production of clear float glass; green, brown, blue, ocean blue, grey float glasses and reflective coated variants are also being currently developed and produced.
With Ghani’s quality, the import of float glass into Pakistan has almost ceased now; thus, generating a lot of opportunities locally and is a source of earning foreign exchange for the country.
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