NEPSE sector
The companies that actually make things — cement, sugar, textiles, brick.
18 companies, 16 delisted or suspended. As of 27 August 2026.
The sector
A small sector by count and an old one by history: some of the longest-listed names on NEPSE sit here, alongside the recent cement listings.
Unlike the financial sectors, these are ordinary operating businesses. Input costs, capacity and demand explain the results, not a regulator’s circular.
Before you buy: Trading volume in parts of this sector is thin. A market order in a scrip that trades a few hundred shares a day can fill far from the last price you saw.
All 18 are listed: Bottlers Nepal (Balaju) Limited (BNL), Bottlers Nepal (Terai) Limited (BNT), Everest Colour Ltd. (ECL), Ghorahi Cement Industry Limited (GCIL), Himalayan Distillery Limited (HDL), Nepal Lube Oil Limited (NLO), Om Megashree Pharmaceuticals Limited (OMPL), Palpa Cement Industries Limited (PCIL), and 10 more listed below. That is 6.4% of the 280 companies listed on NEPSE.
Listed
Listed first, then anything suspended or delisted. A row links through when that symbol has a page of its own.
Elsewhere
A sector is only worth reading against the others. These are the next four by size.
Common questions
18 manufacturing and processing companies are listed and trading on the Nepal Stock Exchange. That count is from the exchange's registry as of 27 August 2026.
Unlike the financial sectors, these are ordinary operating businesses. Input costs, capacity and demand explain the results, not a regulator’s circular. Trading volume in parts of this sector is thin. A market order in a scrip that trades a few hundred shares a day can fill far from the last price you saw.
16 symbols in this sector are no longer trading, including AVU, BSL, BSM, FHL, GRU, HBT. Most Nepali delistings are mergers rather than failures: the company was absorbed into another listed institution and its shareholders were issued shares in the survivor.
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