Low gas pressure has began hitting the value-added textile manufacturing units of the city, bringing about delays in productions in the early winter days, industry sources said on Wednesday. "Last Friday on December 7 and Saturday December 8 from 10 pm to 7 am many industrial units in Karachi suffered low pressure of gas supply which was 1PSI to 2PSI leading to shutdown of their production," Chairman Pakistan Hosiery Manufacturers and Exporters Associations, Javed Bilwani told Business Recorder.

He said dim gas supply to key dying units of value-added textile sector was inflicting huge financial loss on the exporters in the first days of winter, adding it was an unjust move of the gas provider company to scale down the pressure for manufacturing units.

"I have also sent a text message to the provider company to take a serious notice of the gas low pressure particularly to the industrial units of Karachi, which constitute 50 percent of the total units in the country," he said.

He said the gas was smoothly being supplied to the manufacturing units of Nooriabad, Hyderabad, Kotri and Balochistan except Karachi industries as a result many reduced their output. Bilwani feared if the gas pressure continued to remain low for industries in the city the export shipments for the next seasons would also face a serious delay.

Copyright Business Recorder, 2012