Stahl launches operation in Pakistan
14/01/2009
Huub van Beijeren, Stahl Holdings’ CEO, formally inaugurated Stahl Pakistan Private Limited at a ceremony held towards the end of 2008 with 250 customers in attendance.
Industry leaders including Gulzar Feroz, president of PTA South Zone (ES), Fawad Ejaz Khan, chairman of the Pakistan Leather Garments Manufacturers and Exporters Association, and S Mohibullah Shah, CEO of the Trade Development Authority of Pakistan were also present.
Stahl has said the group's new company in Pakistan represents an important step forward in sales and technical support for its products in the Asian country and will ensure a strong presence in the marketplace for future growth.
Headed by director Anwar Iqbal, the company will market the full range of Stahl products for wet-end leather processing and dyeing, leather finishes and shoe finishes. Future developments for the business in Pakistan are already being planned.
Stahl Pakistan is located in the central tannery zone in Karachi and also in the eastern city of Lahore. A 375 square-metre applications laboratory, and a similar sized office block and warehouse have been constructed on the 4,000 square-metre site. The remaining area has been given over to a car park and landscaping to make the area as attractive as possible.
The fully equipped applications laboratory has been fitted out with modern leather finishing machinery including a roller coating machine, a hydraulic press, a roto press, a glazing machine, a dry drum, water wash and filtered spray booths, and a drying chamber with toggling frame. A specialist spray booth and a polishing and mopping machine have also been installed for working on shoes.
Wet-end trials can be carried out and facilities for this include two experimental and two 40-kilo wet-end drums imported from India. The range of equipment also includes a Veslic rub-fastness testing machine, a Balley flexometer and an adhesion testing machine, which have been installed to allow detailed and accurate physical testing of finishes for both leather and shoes. Recently a clicking press for cutting leather samples for use in presentations has also been installed.
The warehouse has been designed to have a storage capacity for 50 tonnes of wet-end, dyeing and finishing products with a separate area for storing solvent-based products.
Stahl says a highly knowledgeable and experienced technical team is in place to serve the market in Pakistan.
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