Heavy Mechanical Complex,Taxila

Group Members
Muhammad

Junaid (2008-Mech-2721)
Uzair Mehmood (2008-Mech-2737)
Asad Ali (2008-Mech-2728)
Altaf Khan (2008-Mech-2729)
Faisal Khattak (2008-Mech-2744)

HMC, Taxila

Introduction
History
Mechanical Complex
Defence Facilities
The Al-Khalid Tank
Conclusion

Introduction

Heavy Mechanical Complex is a leading engineering goods

manufacturing enterprise in Pakistan
Located at Taxila about 30 kilometers from the capital Islamabad
It is a professionally managed progressive organization with over
160,000 sq. meters covered facilities and 1,100 employees
It consists of six(6) production units and their support units
The Organization provides facilities for the overhaul, rebuild and
progressive manufacturing of Main Battle Tanks, Armoured Recovery
Vehicles and Armoured Personnel Carriers
In addition it has the capability to rebuild, upgrade and modernize
Armoured Vehicles of both Eastern and Western origin.

History

With the growing fleet of T-59 tanks manufactured by China

Pakistan's Army realized the need of a facility to maintain and
rebuild tanks. As a result the Heavy Rebuild Foundry Project (P711) was conceived with Chinese assistance and technology
In the late seventies the Heavy Rebuild Factory (HRF) was
established in Taxila to undertake rebuild and modernization of tanks
The HRF then turned into a multifactory kind of a complex & in
September 1992 was renamed into Heavy Mechanical Complex
(HMC)
Today the main activities include the cost effective manufacture of
armored fighting vehicles, armored personnel carriers and tank guns

Mechanical Complex

This complex is manufacturing sugar plants, cement plants in

addition to other goods like Boilers, Cranes, Road
construction machinery, brick making machinery and the
goods cater the needs of Pakistan Railways.
All its processing facilities are in-house including Designing,
Fabrication, Machining, Iron and Steel Castings, Forgings,
Heat Treatment, Assembly, Sand Blasting, Painting and
Galvanizing etc.
Being the largest and most extensive fabrication and
machining facility equipped with state of the art technology
HMC is ISO 9001 certified and its manufacturing is backed
by excellent quality control and testing facilities to meet the
product and customer quality requirements.

Defence Facilities(1)

Heavy Rebuild Factory T-Series to rebuild and modernize

Tanks/Armored Recovery Vehicles of Chinese and Eastern
European origin
Heavy Rebuild Factory M-Series (M-Series) has the
expertise of carrying out quality rebuild of tracked vehicles
of US origin
Gun Factory has the capability of machining barrels
ranging from 105 mm to 203 mm caliber (T-59 & T-69)
Tank Factory A modern outfit with latest tank
manufacturing facilities which includes seven axis CNC
machines for heavy duty flexible machining operations and
a complete infrastructure for hull and turret manufacture.

Defence Facilities(2)

Evaluation, Training And Research Organization

(ETRO) This is a supporting organization which undertakes
Quality Assurance of finished product of HIT ably assisted
with modern quality assurance laboratories
Research And Development (R&D) HMC has undertaken
R&D projects on required basis wherein it has carried out
successful R&D in the following areas :
1) Tank Designing
2) Tank Modernization
3) Infantry Fighting Vehicle
4) Improved Fire Control System

The Al-Khalid Tank

The production of Al-Khalid and Al-Zarar Tanks is

considered as the biggest achievement of HMC
The Al-Khalid Tanks were produced in the mid 2002 with
the aid of China, who also helped Pakistan in the building
of HMC
The Al-Khalid is also called MBT-2000 (Multi Barrel
Tank)
Al-Khalid Tanks are the best tanks in the region having
many extra features which give Pakistan an edge over its
rivals in the field of modern technology

Conclusion

Heavy Mechanical Complex is the backbone of Pakistan's

Engineering Industry for the Pakistan Armed Forces
It is a sign of the deep friendship between Pakistan and
China
The Heavy Mechanical Complex has given birth to a lot
of other such organizations such as Project Management
Organization (PMO), which is responsible for designing
and production of Ghaznvi missiles.
It is also one of the possible places for most Mechanical
Engineers to polish their engineering abilities and have a
bright and wonderful career.

Bibliography

www.wikipedia.com
www.hmc.com.pk
www.dic.academic.ru
www.google.com.pk
www.defence.pk