KARACHI, July 4: The Associated Group is setting up country’s largest mid-country LPG bulk storage and bottling plant near Lahore.

AG Director Fasih Ahmed, in a press release, said the Plant will create employment opportunities in the area and will ensure the year-round availability of affordable LPG in the Punjab.

The plant, having a storage capacity of 3,000 tons, is nearly twice the total daily production of Pakistan and will have a discharge capacity of 200 metric tons per day, he said.

The total Project cost is about six million dollars, which covers tankage, land, fire-fighting system costs. AG provides product to over 500 LPG distributors through a nationwide network of 30 LPG Filling Plants licensed by the OGRA.

This facility will feed the planned chain of LPG Autogas Stations that the company is setting up throughout the Punjab,” Ahmed said adding that the first five of such stations would be operational within 12 months.