Astra Industrial Group Company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the pharmaceuticals, specialty chemicals, power, steel, and mining businesses worldwide. The company develops, manufactures, markets, and distributes branded generic and under-licensed pharmaceuticals products in various therapeutic areas, including CNS, cardiovascular, anti-infective, respiratory, and muscular skeletal system; and produces masterbatches, dust-free additives, and custom-made thermoplastic compounds, and liquid and paste colorants for polymer manufacturing and polymer converting, and plastic processing industries. It also manufactures, imports, and distributes a range of agrochemicals, fertilizers, public health and veterinary pesticides, seeds, and other agricultural inputs; and produces pre-engineered steel buildings and steel structures, as well as steel billets and rebars. In addition, the company explores for ores and minerals. Further, it builds, operates, manages, and invests in industrial plants. Additionally, it is involved in the metal based construction of buildings and building frames. The company was incorporated in 1988 and is headquartered in Riyadh, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.