External validation
2017
UNIDO GCIP Pakistan finalist, light straw clay panel core
SEED Labs
Where technologies become products.
SEED Labs is the group's engineering bench. Panels, materials, and structural systems that Pakistan imports are re-engineered in-house, proven against the duty they carry, and industrialised into products SEED manufactures and stands behind.
How it works
Identify. Engineer. Industrialise.
01
Identify
A material or system the market imports, with demand SEED's clients already carry.
02
Engineer
Design authority in-house: the product is engineered, prototyped, and proven against the duty it will carry.
03
Industrialise
A production line is stood up and the product enters the group's delivery system, the same path the CLC plant took.
Proven, not promised
What the bench has to show for itself.
CLC, qualified
<600
kg/m³ screed grade, tested to ASTM C495 / C567
Industrialised
2022
Pakistan's first semi-automated CLC plant, built in-house
The engine room
The brain, and the bench.
SEED Labs is not a side project. It is run by SEED Design Division, the group's in-house engineering and design practice, the brain that decides what is worth building and engineers it to carry its duty.
Behind the design sits an in-house testing laboratory: a floor where materials and formulations are batched, cured, and proven against the standards engineers test to, before any of it reaches a site. SEED Design Division →
Design Division engineers the product. The testing floor decides whether it is ready.
ASTM C495 / C39
Compressive strength
What the cured material carries. Cubes and cylinders are crushed at 7 and 28 days, three specimens to a set, with no single result allowed below the floor.
SELECT A TEST METHOD
On the bench
What the lab has engineered.
01
Structural Concrete Insulated PanelsLoad-bearing insulated wall & roof system
FOUNDATION TECH
02
Light Straw Clay Panel CoreProprietary bio-based core, shown above
UNIDO GCIP · 2017
03
CLC Mix FormulationsIn-house foam-concrete mix design
IN PRODUCTION
04
Construction-Chemical FormulationsGrouts, dry mixes, waterproofing
IN PRODUCTION
Formulation, on a dial
One recipe, a range of concrete.
Cellular Lightweight Concrete is concrete with engineered air: a stable foam folded into a cement and sand slurry, cured into a matrix far lighter than ordinary concrete. SEED developed its CLC mix designs in-house at the plant it designed, built, and commissioned.
Move the dial. The same family of mixes covers everything from the lightest void fill to load-bearing grades, with density set by recipe. The insulating screed grade is qualified to the standards engineers actually test against.
580kg/m³
Insulating screed
SEED-QUALIFIED · <600
300–550Void fill
550–800Insulating screed
800–1200Blocks & masonry
1200–1600Load-bearing
SCREED GRADE TESTED TO ACI 523.1R · ASTM C495 / C567 / C796
Certified hardened structures
Doors built to take a blast.
SEED Defence and SEED Design Division design and fabricate blast-resistant doors in-house, from the engineering model to the fabricated assembly set into the opening. Hardened openings for facilities that have to keep working when something goes wrong.
From the drawing board to the opening, engineered and fabricated under one roof.
DESIGNED IN-HOUSEFABRICATED IN-HOUSEBLAST-RESISTANT
A SEED Defence and SEED Design Division capability.
Graduated from the lab
Products that became businesses.
SEED Chemicals, construction-chemicals factory
In-house formulation work, cementitious grouts, dry mixes, and waterproofing systems, is now a manufacturing business with its own factory, the Crystal Putty range, and application teams across three cities. SEED Chemicals →
Semi-automated CLC plant, Pakistan's first
The mix designs the lab developed run on Cellular Lightweight Concrete production that was engineered, built, and commissioned in-house in 2022 rather than imported, and now anchors SEED Materials. The CLC plant →
Pipeline
Further product programmes are under evaluation across construction materials and prefabricated structures.SEED Labs pipeline
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