APTMA concern: low gas pressure, power outages.

LAHORE -- All Pakistan Textile Mills Association (APTMA) Punjab Chairman Adil Bashir said on Monday that frequent power outages and low gas pressure were causing production losses to textile mills.

He said APTMA member mills were facing power fluctuations and "unannounced load-shedding" over the last few weeks, besides supply interruptions of furnace oil which was of paramount importance for the textile industry dependent on HFO for Captive Power Plants (CPPs) operations and various manufacturing processes such as dyeing, drying, and heating, etc.

He sought authorities attention to the matter,saying in the crucial times when economy was hit by coronavirus pandemic the exports of the country had just...