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New leather industrial estate in Pakistan

18/02/2010

Development company Punjab Industrial Estate (PIE) is setting up a new leather industrial estate with the help of the Pakistan Tanners’ Association (PTA).

The new estate will cover 150 acres of land and will be built near Raiwand, Lahore.
PIE chairman, Mr S Tanveer, said he and several PTA representatives had visited the site and that he would unveil further details in the near future. Mr Tanveer hopes the new zone will produce leather exports worth $5 billion within five years compared with the $943 million that are currently being produced.

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