Jalandhar · Punjab
Packing-grade and Okoume plywood, crates and pallets for Jalandhar's sports goods, hand-tools and surgical export belts
We manufacture the packing-grade plywood, crates and pallets that Jalandhar's export packers nail and band every day. Our group has manufactured plywood in Perumbavoor since 1986, and the Kochi-to-Doaba lane is one we run on a regular despatch board. One indent covers sheets, runners and crate kits to your drawing.
The industrial picture
Three export verticals, one packing demand
Jalandhar is one of the few Indian cities where a packing-grade plywood truck is almost always met with an export carton or crate waiting to be built. The Doaba belt is unusual in that three serious export verticals share the same carpenters and packing yards: sports goods, hand-tools and surgical instruments. Each ships in different box sizes, but they all need the same things from a plywood supplier 2,400 km away in Kerala — dimensional stability, a reliable transit time, and a sheet the local crate-makers can nail and band without splitting.
Sports goods cluster
Focal Point Phase I to VIII, Basti Nau, Industrial Area-A and the units around Mithapur Road carry most of the sports goods manufacturing. Cricket bats, hockey sticks, footballs, boxing equipment, gym hardware and inflatables move out to the UK, Australia, the Gulf and Africa. The packing job is largely export cartons and lightweight crates — flat sheets cut to size, sometimes a die-cut insert.
Hand-tools
Jalandhar is the single largest export cluster for hand tools sold into Europe and North America. Wrenches, pliers, hammers, garden tools and agricultural implements — the volumes are heavy and the crates need to hold up under stacked sea transit. Focal Point and the Leather Complex Road belt run a lot of this work, plus the smaller yards around Kapurthala Road and Nakodar Road.
Surgical instruments
Forceps, scalpels, orthopaedic tools and dental instruments — small unit weight but high value, often shipped in nested plywood inner boxes with foam, then crated for the outer. This is precision packing work, and the buyers are unforgiving on moisture, splinters and odour.
Adjacent flows
Auto-component and tractor-part suppliers along the Phagwara–Jalandhar corridor, leather goods from the Leather Complex, and a growing line of agri-machinery exports all add to the same packing demand. Anything export-bound that needs heat-treated crating eventually sits on a plywood pallet or inside a plywood box.
What we ship
The four product calls from Punjab
Orders from Punjab tend to cluster around four product calls. Pricing below is the indicative selling band — ex-factory, GST and freight extra, quoted on confirmation.
Packing-grade plywood (commercial / rubberwood)
| Thickness | Typical use | Indicative rate (per sq.ft, ex-factory) |
|---|---|---|
| 6 mm | Light sports goods cartons, dividers | Rs 24 |
| 8 mm | Inner boxes, surgical inner packs | Rs 28 |
| 12 mm | Standard hand-tools export crate sides and tops | Rs 33.5 |
| 15–16 mm | Heavy hand-tools, stacked crate loads | Rs 39 – 39.5 |
| 18 mm | Heavy-duty bases, container flooring repairs | Rs 42 |
Okoume face option
For export crates that get visually inspected on arrival — premium surgical kits, branded sports equipment, anything that goes into a Western retail supply chain — an Okoume face veneer on the packing or BWR grade gives a cleaner external finish and lower weight per crate. We quote the Okoume option separately because it tracks African log markets, not the Indian commercial board.
Pallets and crate kits
Standard despatches into Punjab include 1200 x 1000 mm and 1200 x 800 mm pallets with hardwood runners (jackwood at Rs 400/cft or rubberwood as per size), and pre-cut crate sets where the buyer wants to assemble locally. Container flooring — typically 28 mm marine-pattern board for 20-ft and 40-ft container repairs and one-way export crates — is a recurring line.
Sawn timber
Jackwood and rubberwood runners go up with the plywood when the buyer's own carpentry is building bespoke crates around heavier machinery or auto components.
Logistics
Kochi to Jalandhar, road-direct on the Doaba lane
The lane is roughly 2,400 km by road. Loaded trucks out of Perumbavoor and the Kochi belt typically run via NH 544 to Salem, NH 44 through the Bangalore–Hyderabad–Nagpur corridor, then up via Jhansi–Agra–Delhi–Ambala–Jalandhar. Realistic transit is 6 to 8 days for a single-driver truck, 4 to 5 days with a relay driver, depending on Punjab entry checkpoint timings.
For larger orders we run full-truck despatches direct to the buyer's yard in Focal Point or wherever the packing line sits. For smaller mixed loads we consolidate via established Kochi-to-North-India transporters and offload at the Jalandhar transport nagar. Coastal shipping to JNPT with onward road to Jalandhar is an option for very large container-equivalent volumes, but on most lanes road-direct from Kochi wins on cost and headache.
One operator note: Punjab's entry and weighment formalities are smoother for full-load consignments with clean GST paperwork than for partials, so we usually advise customers to time their indents to fit a full truck rather than three small ones in a month. Export crates built and stuffed in Jalandhar carry the ISPM-15 heat-treatment stamp locally; we supply the IS 710 / IS 303 board and runners that go into them.
Choosing a grade
Decision rules — packing, Okoume face or shuttering
- Standard hand-tools and sports goods export crates: commercial / rubberwood packing grade in 12 mm for sides and 15–16 mm for the base. This is the workhorse for Jalandhar.
- Surgical instruments and premium retail-bound sports goods: an Okoume face on the outer crate when the brand cares about presentation; commercial packing grade for the inner boxes.
- Heavy machinery, auto-component and agri-equipment crates: 18 mm packing grade base with jackwood runners; 15 mm packing grade sides.
- Container flooring repairs / one-way export container builds: 28 mm board on a BWR glue line, often paired with hardwood bearers.
- Shuttering ply: reserved for Jalandhar's construction and infra buyers, not the packing belt. We despatch it on the same lane, but it is a separate conversation.
FAQ
Questions from Jalandhar buyers
What is the minimum order you ship to Punjab?
A single full truck, roughly 8 to 10 tonnes of plywood depending on thickness mix. Smaller orders are possible via consolidated transport, but the per-sheet landed cost goes up noticeably, so most regular buyers indent in full-truck lots.
How firm are delivery dates from Kochi?
For a confirmed indent against a proforma invoice, the truck is loaded within 3 to 5 working days from our dispatch yard, then 6 to 8 days in transit. We share the lorry receipt and driver number on loading; buyers in Focal Point usually plan their packing-line schedule around an 11 to 14 day total window from PI to gate.
Do you supply ISPM-15 heat-treated crates?
We supply the plywood and the runners; the ISPM-15 heat-treatment stamp is applied by accredited fumigation units at the buyer's location, which is the more practical arrangement for export crates being built and stuffed in Jalandhar itself.
Get a quote
Send your Jalandhar indent
If you are running a packing line in Focal Point, Basti Nau, the Leather Complex Road belt or any of the surrounding industrial estates and want a quote against your specific thickness and quantity, share the indent and we will come back with a delivered cost and the next available loading slot. Send the specs through our request a quote form, or browse our resource hub for grade-selection guides, crate-building references and container-loading notes before you specify. Our group has manufactured plywood out of Perumbavoor since 1986, and Jalandhar is one of the lanes we know well.