Thirty-five years of engineering water.
A manufacturer, not an importer or a repacker. Seven departments and forty-plus product lines, all made in one facility in Karachi.
Thirty-five years ago this company began with one conviction: water is not a commodity to be traded, but a responsibility to be engineered.
Not an importer. Not a repacker.
We formulate, compound and pack our own chemistry, and we design and engineer our own plants. When something we make goes into your water, we know exactly what is in it, because we made it.
Shaikh Al Tijarat Pakistan (SAT PAK) (SMC-Private) Limited · Registered with SECP, Pakistan.
Thirty-five years, in outline.
- Late 1980s – early 1990s
A conviction becomes a company
Water as a responsibility to engineer, not a commodity to trade.
- 1990s
In-house chemistry begins
Mineral salts and anti-scalant formulation work starts, the foundation of what becomes Chemicals & Minerals.
- 1990s – 2000s
Karachi's first one-lac GPD RO plant
Designed, built and commissioned: the city's first 100,000-gallon-per-day RO plant.
- 2000s – 2010s
Seven departments, forty-plus product lines
The business grows from plants into chemicals, mineral water, wellness and home care, all from one facility.
- Today
500+ clients, still growing on referral alone
Every client arrived through referral, reputation, or another client's recommendation.
100,000
Gallons per day
Karachi's first one-lac RO plant was ours.
We still service plants we installed two decades ago. The same standard, still holding.
In 35 years, we have never spent a rupee on advertising.
Every client arrived through referral, reputation, or another client's recommendation.
Muhammad Ali Bin Zaki
When I began this work, water treatment was not yet an industry in Pakistan. It was a gap. Families were paying for water they could not trust, and factories were losing entire plants to a problem no one had bothered to solve properly. I did not want to import someone else's answer and stamp my name on it. I wanted to understand our own water, the water that actually runs through Pakistani pipes, and build for it.
That conviction became SaT PaK. Thirty five years later, it still guides every formulation we make and every plant we commission. We never chased size for its own sake. We chased trust. We answered the phone when it rang. We stood behind the plants we installed, and we still service some of them twenty years on.
People often ask why we never advertised. The honest answer is that we never needed to. Every client came to us because another client sent them. To me, that is the only endorsement worth having, and it is one you cannot buy.
Water is not a commodity to be traded. It is a responsibility to be engineered. That belief built this company, and it is the promise I leave with every family and every business that trusts us with their water.
Muhammad Ali Bin Zaki, Founder