Out of the seven newly installed industrial units at Mohmand Economic Zone (MEZ), four have become operational while construction work on the remaining three has begun.
The economic zone is situated in district Moh-mand of the newly merged districts.
The new industrial units were inaugurated by the Special Assistant to KP CM on Industries and Focal Person for Investment, Abdul Karim Khan.
Besides, the Special Secretary Industries & Com-merce, the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Khyber Pakhtunkhwa Economic Zones Development and Management (KP-EZDMC), Javed Iqbal Khattak and the Director General (DG) PCSIR Laboratories also accompanied the special assistant.
Talking to APP, CEO KP-EDMC, Javed Iqbal Khattak said that these units included Markhor Ghee & Oil that will be installed with the investment of Rs.
100 million and generate 100 employment.Con-struction work on the unit has begun.
The second unit is Metcore Copper & Alumi-num for re-melting and copper and aluminium fab-rication.
The unit will be installed with investment of Rs.100 million and generate 100 employment opportunities.
The third unit, the Calcium Carbonate Grinding Mill with the name of Pak Grinding Mills has been installed with the investment of Rs.50 million.
` The mill has started production and generated employ-ment for 40 people.The production capacity of the mills is 50 ton /hour.
The fourth inaugurated unit is of Mineral Line Company and the business of Calcium Carbonate Grinding and Marble cutting unit with total invest-ment of Rs,50 million has started production.
