[2] The construction of the company's initial facility began in the late 1930s, but was interrupted by World War II when a German U-boat torpedoed the ship carrying essential equipment.

[3] Despite this setback, the facility eventually commenced commercial production in the early to mid-1940s as part of the Alkali Chemical Corporation of India (ACCI), which was headquartered in Calcutta.

[3] During this period, ICI constructed a custom-built office at West Wharf on leased Karachi Port Trust land, which primarily served as a large warehouse for repackaging and labeling imported bulk products into smaller retail packs for nationwide distribution.

[3] Despite its local operations, the company maintained a colonial model of management, with the chairman enjoying high social status and close connections with the President of Pakistan.

[3] Two new entities, ICI Pakistan Manufacturers Ltd (PML) and Paintex Ltd, were created to manage textile auxiliaries and paints business respectively.

[3] During this period, ICI Pakistan also entered negotiations with the Fauji Foundation to establish a Naphtha cracker plant, a critical project for industrialization, but the joint venture was never finalized.

[3] In the late 1960s and throughout the 1970s, ICI Pakistan focused on expanding and modernizing its manufacturing base while maintaining its import trading business.

The Company has two fully equipped facilities for pharmaceutical manufacturing including: ICI Pakistan Limited's Animal Health business offers products encompassing a wide range of therapeutic categories: anthelmintics, antiprotozoals, antibacterials, restoratives, intrauterine, udder health, growth promoters, disinfectants, dairy and poultry nutrition, insemination, and biologicals catering to the industry’s livestock and poultry segments.

The trading segment comprises a portfolio of fourteen product groupings with over 250 products/variants, including trading partners such as National Starch & Chemicals, Huntsman Polyurethanes, Ineos Chlor, Nalco, Huntsman Tioxide, supplemented by imports of complementary product lines from companies in the US, Europe and the Far East.

This Segment markets a product range used for various applications including power, cement, textiles, paints, pharmaceuticals, personal care, food & beverage, solvents, detergents, footwear and household appliances.