Dawood Hercules Chemicals Limited was incorporated as a public limited company on 17th April 1968, as a joint venture between Dawood Group of Industries and Hercules Inc. USA. It was the first private sector venture in Pakistan to receive a loan from the World Bank and was the largest ammonia/urea plant in country at that time.

Initially the plant's capacity was 345,000 metric tons of urea per annum. The plant was revamped in 1989 / 1991 to enhance the capacity to 445,500 metric tons of urea per annum. Also, it made the manufacturing facilities more energy efficient and environment friendly.

In recent years, Dawood Hercules has made a colossal investment to incorporate the latest technology, the most significant are the construction of new Prilling tower in a record time; the tallest industrial structure in Pakistan, replacement of Primary Waste Heat Exchanger. Primary Reformer Harps Assemblies and conventional instrumentation (with Distributed Control System).

Dawood Hercules has the privilege of becoming the first fertilizer manufacturing company to obtain ISO-9000:2000 certification. Dawood Hercules also won numerous safety and excellence awards.