The Amreli family has been in the business of steel manufacturing for over 50 years. The founders of Amreli Steels came to Karachi in 1946 from a small town called Amreli in India, and established themselves in Karachi dealing with nails, screws, files, wires and other hardware items. They then started manufacturing nails, rivets, screws and wires drawn from wire-rod. During the 70’s, the sponsors established a number of hot rolling mills to produce steel bars, angles, T-iron and also started ship-breaking operations in 1973 for using ship plates to roll into bars under the umbrella of Amreliwala Hardware Industries. From 1973 onwards the younger generation started entering the business after acquiring higher education and experience from world class universities & steel companies in various fields of engineering and management. By the early 80’s and with the advent of strong increase in the demand for quality steels, the sponsors scrapped all its manual re-rolling mills and imported a semi-automatic mill from the United Kingdom, manufactured by Danieli - Italy, one of the world’s top manufacturers of steel equipment. In 1984 the sponsors converted Amreliwala Hardware Industries into a Private Limited Company.