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We're thrilled to announce that Bestway Cement Limited is partnering with the School of Chemical and Materials Engineering (SCME), NUST, Islamabad, for the 6th Conference on Emerging Materials and Processes (CEMP-23). This conference aims to unite scientists and engineers from academia and industry to exchange ideas, tackle challenges, and discover solutions.

Bestway Cement, Pakistan’s largest cement producer employs over 3,000 individuals who are all aligned with the company’s vision “to produce high quality cement at the lowest cost”. It supplies cement to the local market and also exports.

Bestway cement has five production facilities located in Chakwal, Kallar Kahar, Hattar, Farooqia and Mianwali. The Company has setup it’s brownfield plant of 7,200 tonnes of clinker per day along with 9 MWs Waste Heat Recovery Power Plant at Hattar and the greenfield plant of identical capacity at Mianwali site which commenced cement production on 17 February 2023 and 29 March 2023 respectively.


Bestway Cement reputes itself as a responsible corporate citizen and gives highest priority to protecting and creating a healthier environment for not only its own employees, but also for our communities where the Company has established its five plants. The wellbeing of the social environment in which Bestway operates is considered an integral part of the Company’s success. Our plants are ISO 14001:2004 Environmental Management System (EMS) certified.

As part of its strategy to reduce its reliance on the national grid, Bestway has set up Waste Heat Recovery Power Plant (WHRPP) at all five sites Chakwal, Hattar, Farooqia, Kallar Kahar and Mianwali. Bestway’s WHRPP at Chakwal was the first in the cement industry of Pakistan prompting others to follow suit.

Bestway is now the leader in water conservation after installation of Air Cooled Condenser Systems, the first and only one in the Cement industry, instead of the conventional water-cooled system which has enabled reduction of about 80% of industrial water requirements. Rainwater harvesting has been a key area of focus and your Company has made huge strides in not only improving the existing rainwater harvesting ponds significantly but also setting up new ones. 100% of industrial water requirement at Chakwal, Kallar Kahar and Mianwali plants are being fulfilled through rainwater harvesting.

Bestway has set up solar power plants at all five locations. The current solar capacity of 89.60 MW is the largest distributed captive power generation capacity to date, not only in Pakistan but in the entire region. The Company is currently working to enhance its solar power generation capacity further at Hattar and Mianwali plants.

The solar power generation has not only reduced the Company’s reliance on the National Grid further but has also enabled it to reduce its carbon foot print by more than 5.5 million Tonnes of CO2 emissions over the life of the project, which is equal to plantation of approximately 8.7 million trees.

Bestway invests in its operations for long term and appreciates that it has a special responsibility towards the local communities. The Company takes pride in its proactive development and welfare of the under-privileged through activities such as improving access to health services, education, vocational trainings, environmental conservation programmes, and helping create jobs and local employment. The Company conducts its corporate social responsibility activities mainly through its charitable trust, Bestway Foundation and is one of largest corporates in the country in terms of CSR spend.

In line with it’s commitment to provide quality education to the underprivileged, Bestway has been actively involved in operating schools that cater to the needs of these communities.

Bestway Foundation has set up a college to impart free college education exclusively to girls in Gujar Khan and a spacious and well-equipped primary to secondary school in the village of Tatral, District Chakwal.

However, keeping in view the growing demand for education, a boys’ wing adjacent to the existing school building in Tatral was constructed and has already commenced. Bestway has also been successfully operating a primary school in the vicinity of its Farooqia plant, located on the Taxila-Haripur Road. Owing to the ever increasing need for higher education in the area, the company initiated the construction of additional schools to accommodate more students. A new school, offering education up to the 10th grade, is currently being built in Farooqia.

During the current year construction work of a primary school in Kallar Kahar has been completed and is operational since April 2023. Similarly, during the year, another school has been set up at Hattar in a rented building to cater for the children of the nearby villages. The School has initially started with classes prep to year 2 with its first academic session on 10 April 2023. The school is planning to raise its level each year by adding one more class.

As at reporting date, there are 1,178 students (including 626 girls), who are being provided superior education by experienced teachers at its locations at a token fee.

In addition to its own established educational institutions, Bestway also supports numerous government schools in deprived rural areas in and around its local communities.

In keeping with its resolve to support the deserving students, Bestway Foundation signed an agreement with NAMAL University to establish a Scholarship Endowment Fund for the benefit of financially challenged students enrolled at the University’s undergraduate programs. The Company has already established similar endowment funds with Lahore University of Management Sciences (LUMS) and with National University of Sciences & Technology (NUST) for the benefit of financially challenged students enrolled at the University’s undergraduate Programs. These scholarships are given to 36 Student Beneficiaries, primarily covering their fee expenses every year in either of the disciplines of Environmental Engineering, Metallurgy & Materials Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Computer Engineering, Mechatronics Engineering, Electrical Engineering, Computer Sciences, Accounting & Finance, Economics, Law and Political Science.

Apart from the above, numerous other national and international scholarships, including 16 fully funded scholarships in the Oxford University, University of Bradford and University of Kent in the UK, are provided by Bestway to a large number of financially constrained talented students.

In the areas of basic health, free medical facilities are provided to thousands of patients in the local community through all five medical centres located at Bestway’s factory premises. Nearly 43,000 patients benefitted from those medical centres. Bestway also provides regular financial assistance to nearly 450 widows and indigents in its local communities in the form of monthly stipends.