Pakistani bakeries running on Czech ovens
27.10.2017 / 10:03 | Aktualizováno: 09.05.2020 / 18:14
Czech company J4 s.r.o. has become an exclusive supplier of tunnel ovens to Dawn Group, one of the largest bakeries in Pakistan. On Sunday, October 22, 2017, a new production line equipped with an oven by J4 company has been officially launched in Capital Foods Pvt. Limited (a part of Dawn Group) in Rawalpindi.
The oven in Rawalpindi is the fifth oven supplied by J4 to Pakistan. Another four ovens have been previously installed in Karachi and in Lahore. Two of them are ovens for production of toast bread, the other two for production of hamburger buns. Dawn Group is the major producer of both toast bread and hamburger buns in Pakistan. With the fifth oven, the supplies by J4 to Pakistan have reached the value of EUR 1.3 million.
Dawn Group is running seven bakeries across Pakistan. In an effort to standardise the process, Dawn Group envisages to equip all its bakeries with the same machinery. At the moment, supply of five more ovens by J4 company is under consideration.
The oven supplied to the bakery in Rawalpindi is specialised for toast bread production. It is a 27 metres long tunnel oven with a production capacity of 4 000 breads per hour. The official launch of the new production line with the Czech oven was attended by owner of Dawn Group, Mr. Ghulam Hussain, director of the bakery in Rawalpindi, Mr. Abdullah Bukhari, sales director of the company J4 s.r.o., Mr. Antonín Dostál, and representatives of the Embassy of the Czech Republic in Pakistan.