Jubail · Saudi Arabia
Packing-grade plywood, crates and pallets for Jubail's petrochemical and heavy-engineering exporters
We manufacture the packing-grade plywood, crates, pallets and container flooring that move heavy process equipment out of Jubail Industrial City. Our group has built export packing in Perumbavoor since 1986, and Jubail's reactor, exchanger and skid loads sit squarely inside what our cutting lists were designed for.
The industrial picture
Why Jubail moves the needle for a Kochi plywood manufacturer
Jubail Industrial City is the largest greenfield petrochemical and primary-industry estate in the world. A cluster of major petrochemical producers and a refining-and-petrochemical complex sit inside its perimeter, alongside an extended belt of EPC contractors building reactors, columns, valves, skids, heat exchangers and pre-assembled modules for the next phase of Vision 2030 expansion. Every one of those units leaves a factory floor packed in wood. That is the volume we exist to serve.
Industrial investment in Jubail crossed SAR 525 billion in 2022, and the Royal Commission for Jubail and Yanbu has earmarked another SAR 67.5 billion to double the city's footprint by 2030. For a packing-materials manufacturer that translates into four predictable demand pools.
Petrochemical and refining EPC
The petrochemical producers and the refining complex across the estate run continuous turnaround, debottlenecking and brownfield expansion cycles. Reactors, distillation internals, catalyst drums, spare exchanger bundles, instrumentation skids and process valves move in and out of these sites in heavy timber-sided crates and on engineered pallets every week.
Industrial Support Area and secondary industries
The Industrial Support Area inside Jubail-1 and the planned Jubail-3 expansion host fabricators making finished plastics, rubber goods, automotive components, home appliances and industrial machinery. These shippers send finished goods out through King Fahd Industrial Port and Jubail Commercial Port in standard crates and on four-way pallets.
Specialty chemicals, pharma and renewables
Specialty-chemicals plots, the planned pharmaceutical cluster and renewables-equipment fabricators all need export-grade packing that survives Gulf heat, sea-salt humidity and transhipment handling without warping or splitting.
Port logistics zone
The bonded logistics zone wired into both Jubail ports and the rail network is a steady consumer of one-way pallets and container flooring boards for fit-outs, container repair and stuffing operations.
What we ship
What we manufacture for Jubail consignments
Packing-grade plywood
Our packing-grade hardwood plywood is the workhorse for Jubail-bound crates. It is built for nailing, screwing and stapling without splitting at the edge, and it tolerates the humidity swings between Indian monsoon transit, sea voyage and Eastern Province summer storage. Standard offer below — ex-factory Perumbavoor, GST and freight extra.
| Thickness | Typical use in Jubail-bound packs | Sheet size |
|---|---|---|
| 6 mm and 8 mm | Top covers, internal partitions, dunnage panels | 8 x 4 ft |
| 10 mm and 12 mm | Crate sides for valves, instrumentation, light skids | 8 x 4 ft |
| 15 mm and 16 mm | Crate sides and tops for process equipment, exchangers | 8 x 4 ft |
| 18 mm | Heavy-base bottoms, container flooring patches, reactor-spare crates | 8 x 4 ft |
Okoume-faced plywood
Okoume is a face-veneer option on our MR-Packing and BWR boards, not a separate grade. We recommend it when the consignee specifies a clean white-cream face for show-and-tell crates, brand-visible export packs, or pharma and specialty-chemical shipments where appearance and a tight, uniform face matter. Quoted on request because veneer availability moves with the market.
Crates and ISPM-15 boxes
We build crates to drawing — closed-box, open-crate, skid-mounted and collapsible. All export crates are ISPM-15 heat-treated and stamped, which is the only treatment Saudi Customs and the Jubail port authorities accept. Crate weights are calculated against the consignee's lift plan so the rigger inside the plant does not get a surprise at the laydown yard.
Pallets
Two-way and four-way pallets in standard 1200 x 1000 mm and 1200 x 800 mm, plus custom footprints for skid-mounted process equipment. Heat-treated and stencilled. We also build heavy-duty bearer-deck pallets for reactor internals and catalyst drums where the unit load can exceed 2 tonnes.
Container flooring
18 mm BWP plywood floorboards for container repair and re-flooring jobs inside the Jubail logistics zone. Cut to the standard 2400 x 1160 mm container plank, edge-sealed.
Logistics
Kochi-to-Jubail logistics
The sea distance from Kochi to Jubail's King Fahd Industrial Port is roughly 1,900 nautical miles. The practical route is Cochin Port (Vallarpadam ICTT) to either King Fahd Industrial Port for direct petrochem-plot deliveries, or Jubail Commercial Port for general containerised cargo with onward trucking into the industrial estates. Both ports are wired into the Saudi rail spine and the logistics zone behind them.
Typical transit window on direct services is 9 to 12 days, stretched to 14 to 18 days on transhipment legs via Jebel Ali or Khalifa Port. We palletise and band loads at our packing yard so that even after a transhipment the consignment opens cleanly at the Jubail laydown. King Fahd Industrial Port runs 34 berths with about 70 million tonnes per year of capacity, so berth congestion is rarely the constraint — documentation and ISPM-15 stamping discipline are.
Choosing a grade
Which board for which Jubail load
- Packing-grade plywood (commercial / rubberwood): default for the vast majority of Jubail-bound crates. Petrochem valves, instrumentation, exchanger bundles, machinery spares — anything where the crate is consumed at destination.
- Okoume face on MR-Packing or BWR core: when the consignee specifies a clean white face, when the shipment is brand-visible, or when humidity exposure on the laydown yard will run long.
- BWR / BWP-grade plywood: for container flooring, marine-side dunnage, and any crate that will sit uncovered in monsoon transit or Gulf coastal storage.
- Shuttering ply: not for export crates. Shuttering ply is for the civil-works side — Jubail-2 and Jubail-3 expansion concrete pours, RCJY infrastructure contracts, residential build-out. Quoted separately on civil tender.
FAQ
Jubail shipping questions
Do you handle ISPM-15 certification and stencilling in-house?
Yes. All export crates and pallets shipped to Jubail are heat-treated and ISPM-15 stencilled at our packing yard. The treatment certificate accompanies the shipping documents so the consignment clears Dammam and Jubail customs without a hold.
What is the minimum order size for a Jubail shipment?
One full 20-ft or 40-ft container is the comfortable minimum. We also consolidate smaller crate kits into mixed containers when a Jubail contractor needs a partial load, but the per-unit economics work better at one-container-and-up.
Can you ship straight to a plant plot, or only to the port?
We ship to the port. Onward trucking from King Fahd or Jubail Commercial Port into a specific petrochemical or refining plot is handled by the consignee's nominated clearing agent and inland transporter. We coordinate paperwork, packing list and treatment certificates so the handover is clean.
Get a quote
Talk to us about a Jubail consignment
If you are crating petrochem spares, building export pallets for a Jubail-bound shipment, or sourcing container flooring for a logistics-zone fit-out, send us the spec — thickness, sheet count or crate drawing, monthly tonnage and destination berth. We will come back with a packing-list quote, ISPM-15 treatment scope and a realistic Cochin Port sailing window. Our group has manufactured packing-grade plywood and crates in Perumbavoor since 1986, so the cutting lists and treatment discipline behind your consignment are built on forty years of group operations.
Request a quote with your packing list, or browse the resource hub for ISPM-15 guidance, crate-construction notes and grade-selection tables before you write the RFQ.