MATCO was established by Mr. Syed Sarfaraz Ali Ghori in 1964. (The name "MATCO" has been abridged from its mother company M.A. Trading Company to retain the old name as a good omen.)

MATCO started with a humble beginning and initially dealt in the sale and servicing of plant and machinery especially used for rice processing. Today, under the able stewardship of three generations, the MATCO group of companies comprises of;

  • MATCO Engineering Pvt. Ltd
  • MATCO Rice Processing Pvt. Ltd (MRP)
  • MATCO Marketing

In the 1960s, MATCO was mainly involved in the supply of plants, machinery and equipment. MATCO supplied rice husking and polishing plants, grain dryers, grain handling, seed cleaning and grading plants to various companies in those early years.

In 1972, utilizing the experience gained over the years, MATCO installed a six MT/hour capacity rice husking and milling plant under the name of JAWED RICE MILLS in Larkana. This plant was designed to process Sindh’s IRRI-6 rice. Side by side, MATCO continued supplying rice husking and processing units to government organizations like the Rice Export Corporation of Pakistan (RECP) and private companies in the Punjab and Sindh.

After the government allowed the export of rice in the private sector in 1990, MATCO decided to set up a state of the art processing plant in the port city of Karachi.

MATCO Rice Processing is spread over 250,000 sq. ft in F.B. Industrial Area Karachi, Pakistan. The entire area comprises four rice processing units, two packing facilities, six warehouses and an office block.

Today, MATCO holds not only the credentials of working on the world’s most modern rice processing plant but also of producing well-cleaned, graded and textured Basmati & IRRI rice for its valued customers in any quantity.

The MATCO Rice Processing plant is highly automatic and the rice grain is not touched by human hands from the time of its feeding into the plant till the final stage of automatic packing. MATCO has the facility to pack rice from 1kg to 100 kg packing in any quantity.