The industrial picture

Four export clusters, one packing brief

Agra's freight bill writes itself: the world's second-largest footwear cluster, a leather-goods belt shipping to Europe and the GCC, and a marble inlay handicraft trade that moves fragile, high-value stone across continents. Every one of those flows ends the same way — boxed, crated, palletised and lashed inside a container. That is the part of Agra's economy we sit inside. Get the cluster right and the plywood spec almost picks itself.

Footwear belt (Hing ki Mandi, Sikandra, EPIP Shastripuram)

Agra carries an outsized share of India's footwear output and is widely cited as the country's second-largest footwear hub. Production runs from the dense Hing ki Mandi cluster through the Sikandra industrial area to the EPIP (Export Promotion Industrial Park) at Shastripuram, with larger exporters spread across the Agra–Mathura belt. The packing brief is high-volume, low-individual-weight cartons: shoes go out in inner cartons stacked into masters, masters onto pallets, pallets stuffed into 20-ft or 40-ft containers bound for JNPT/Nhava Sheva or, for GCC moves, sometimes Mundra Port.

Leather goods and tanneries (Nunhai, trans-Yamuna Agra)

Adjacent to the footwear belt, leather goods and small-leather manufacturing run their own packing line — wallets, belts, bags. Cartons are smaller and lighter than footwear masters, but volumes per consolidation are large and the buyer is usually the same exporter who needs the bigger footwear pack.

Marble inlay and handicraft (Tajganj, Kinari Bazaar, Fatehabad Road)

The Pietra Dura marble inlay trade is the opposite problem: low units, very high value, very fragile, often awkward shapes. Tabletops, plaques, decorative panels, the occasional architectural piece. This is custom crating — bespoke wooden cases, internal bracing, sometimes corner protection and shock indicators. The plywood spec is unforgiving: the case has to hold the piece through a multi-modal journey without flexing.

Engineering and auto-component spillover

Agra's industrial estates also house engineering and auto-ancillary units, and the wider Agra–Mathura–Aligarh axis pulls in foundry and lock-hardware buyers. For these we see standard heavy-engineering crating: thicker ply, framed sides, and heat-treated pallets for sea export.

What we ship

Four product lines for the Agra buyer base

We are a plywood manufacturer, supplying Agra across four lines from our facilities in Perumbavoor. The product list:

Packing-grade plywood (commercial / rubberwood)

Our packing range covers 6 mm to 18 mm in standard 8x4 ft sheets, with intermediate stops at 8, 10, 12, 14, 15 and 16 mm. For Agra footwear and leather exporters the typical pull is 8 mm and 10 mm — light enough to keep the carton tare down, stiff enough to survive stacking. Marble handicraft crating usually steps up to 12 mm or 18 mm for the side panels and base. We hold MR (moisture resistant) as the default for the packing line; for monsoon-window shipments or sea-export crates we move buyers to our BWR grade. Okoume is available as a clean blonde face veneer on the packing and BWR grades where a buyer's QA wants it.

Made-to-spec wooden crates and cases

Bespoke crating is built from our packing ply plus jackwood or rubberwood runners. Jackwood runs ₹400/cft at quarter-inch-minus tolerance; rubberwood runners price as per size. For the marble inlay trade we build framed cases with internal cleating and corner blocks; for footwear and leather we more often supply flat-pack ply sheets the exporter's in-house carpenters convert to cases on site.

Pallets, including ISPM-15 compliant

Standard four-way entry pallets in 1200x1000, 1200x800 (euro) and custom sizes. ISPM-15 heat-treatment stamping is mandatory for sea-export pallets bound for most jurisdictions; we coordinate it through our packing-line operation in Kerala and ship pre-stamped where the buyer needs it.

Container flooring

Heavy-duty plywood flooring for container repair and reefer rebuilds — typically 18 mm BWR or marine-grade, hardwood-faced, stepping to 28 mm for full container floor replacements. This is a smaller flow into Agra than the packing line but shows up periodically through CHA-linked rebuild yards.

Logistics

The Kochi-to-Agra lane

The road distance from Kochi/Ernakulam to Agra is roughly 2,300 km via NH-44 and the Mumbai–Agra corridor. Typical full-truckload transit is 5 to 7 days door-to-door, depending on driver pairing and checkpoint delays through Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh. Sample lane economics:

For Agra buyers who export through JNPT/Nhava Sheva, we can also route from Kochi directly to Mumbai-area packing-line consolidators and skip the Agra leg entirely — useful when the Agra unit only does production and ships through a Bhiwandi or Panvel consolidator.

Choosing a grade

Which plywood for which Agra load

A practical mapping for buyers comparing grades:

• Footwear master cartons stacked on pallets, dry-warehouse to dry-container: our MR packing grade, 8 mm or 10 mm, is the right answer. An Okoume face is overspec.
• Leather goods cartons going air-freight or premium-export route: the buyer often asks for an Okoume face veneer because the customer's QA wants a clean blonde finish. Quote on request.
• Marble inlay export crates, sea route, GCC or EU destination: BWR-grade packing ply 12–18 mm with jackwood framing and ISPM-15 pallets. The crate is structural, not cosmetic.
• Engineering and auto-component crates for sea export: 18 mm BWR for base and floor, 12 mm sides, hardwood runners, ISPM-15 stamped.
• Shuttering / formwork for an Agra construction project: a different conversation entirely — film-faced shuttering ply, separate spec sheet, separate quote.

For every grade our selling rule is purchase rate plus ₹2.50/sq.ft, ex-factory, GST and transport extra. Indicative MR-grade packing prices today: 8 mm at ₹28, 10 mm at ₹31.50, 12 mm at ₹33.50, 18 mm at ₹42 per sq.ft. Okoume-faced and BWR grades are quoted separately.

FAQ

Agra buyer questions

Do you supply directly to Agra or through a North India distributor?

Direct from Kerala. We dispatch from our Perumbavoor operation on a full-truckload basis to the buyer's Agra address — EPIP Shastripuram, Sikandra, Nunhai, Tajganj or any of the surrounding industrial pockets. No North India distributor layer.

Can you supply ISPM-15 stamped pallets and crates ready for sea export?

Yes. We coordinate heat-treatment and ISPM-15 stamping through our packing-line operation. Lead time adds about 2–3 working days to a standard pallet order.

What's the minimum order for a trial dispatch to Agra?

For a road dispatch the truckload economics improve sharply above 18–20 tons. Below that we can route through part-load networks, but the per-sheet freight roughly doubles. For first-time Agra buyers we usually recommend either a full-truck trial or a co-load with another North India order in the same week.

Get a quote

Get a quote for Agra delivery

If you run a packing line for Agra's footwear, leather, marble handicraft or engineering exporters, send us thickness, monthly quantity and delivery pin code — we will come back with a landed-Agra price and a dispatch window within one working day. Our group has manufactured plywood in Perumbavoor since 1986, and every order ships direct from our facilities with no distributor markup. Request a quote for a Kochi-to-Agra plywood, crate, pallet or container-flooring order, or browse our resource hub for spec sheets, the BWP/BWR explainer, the ISPM-15 crate cost guide and the packing-case plywood reference.

The industrial picture

Four distinct packing briefs inside one city

Varanasi is one of the more interesting industrial buyers we ship to from Kerala. The city is known for spiritual tourism, but underneath that is a dense export economy: Banarasi silk woven in Madanpura and Lallapura, brassware and bell-metal pressed at Kazzakpura, handloom carpets coming up from the Bhadohi-Mirzapur belt 80 km south, and a growing engineering footprint around the UPSIDA estates at Chandpur and Karsara. Every one of those verticals needs the same repeatable input on the outbound side of the warehouse: dimensionally honest plywood, cut into export-ready crates, pallets and container floors. Most outside vendors treat Varanasi as a single market. On the ground it is at least four distinct industrial pockets, each with its own packing brief.

Silk and handloom (Madanpura, Lallapura, Peeli Kothi)

The Banarasi silk and brocade trade is a GI-tagged cluster with thousands of weavers feeding consolidators who export saris, dupattas, fabric rolls and made-ups to the Gulf, the US and the UK. Cargo is light by weight but extremely high-value per cubic metre, so the packing cases need to be moisture-controlled and visually presentable. Buyers in this sector usually ask for 12 mm and 15 mm BWR-grade packing ply with smooth, sound faces, frequently in non-standard sheet sizes to match standard sari-box and fabric-roll dimensions.

Brassware and metal handicraft (Kazzakpura, Thatheri Bazaar, Bhelupur)

Brass pooja items, urlis, bells, statues and decorative metalware ship in volumes that are deceptively heavy for their cubic footprint. A single 40 ft container of brassware can pack 22-24 tonnes of net weight, and the case walls have to take the shock of stacked metal during inland trucking to JNPT or Mundra. Here we see demand pivoting toward 18 mm packing-grade ply with hardwood corner posts and ISPM-15 stamped sawn-timber dunnage.

Handloom carpets (Bhadohi-Mirzapur belt, served via Varanasi)

The Bhadohi-Mirzapur carpet belt south of Varanasi is the largest hand-knotted carpet cluster in India and exports through Varanasi-based consolidators. Carpet rolls are long, awkward and prone to crushing if a pallet deck flexes mid-transit. Pallet decks here want full 12 mm or 15 mm plywood tops rather than slatted softwood, and many exporters now insist on heat-treated, ISPM-15 marked timber for the frame.

UPSIDA engineering belt (Chandpur, Karsara, Ramnagar)

The Uttar Pradesh State Industrial Development Authority estates around Chandpur and Karsara host engineering units, pump assemblers, transformer fabricators and food-grade machinery makers. Their packing problem is the classic heavy-engineering one: irregular cast iron and steel weights, point-loading on the case floor, and the need for sea-grade crates rather than transit crates.

What we ship

The outbound mix to Uttar Pradesh

Our outbound mix to Uttar Pradesh, and specifically to Varanasi-bound buyers, breaks down roughly as follows. Numbers shift each quarter but the proportions are stable.

Container flooring is a smaller but growing line — exporters consolidating their own 20 ft and 40 ft boxes from Varanasi ICDs occasionally need replacement floorboards or one-time-use sea-grade panels to line the container before stuffing. Okoume here is a face-veneer option on our packing and BWR grades, not a separate grade: it buys a lighter, cleaner face at equivalent strength where presentation matters.

Logistics

The Kochi-to-Varanasi lane

The 2,200 km lane from Perumbavoor to Varanasi is one of the longer hauls we run, but it is a well-understood corridor with two practical routes.

1. Road-direct (preferred for plywood and crates): Kochi to Bangalore on NH-544, then NH-44 north through Hyderabad, Nagpur and Jabalpur, joining NH-19 at Allahabad/Prayagraj and into Varanasi. Transit time runs 6-8 days for a full truckload (32 ft single-axle or 22 ft container truck), 9-10 days in monsoon. We typically dispatch 800-1,200 sheets per truck depending on thickness and packing density.
2. Containerised via JNPT/Hazira: Useful when the consignee wants to consolidate plywood with other Kerala-origin cargo, or when monthly volumes justify a 20 ft box. Sea leg Cochin port to JNPT is 4-5 days, plus inland container haul to Varanasi (DPD or via Mughalsarai). Total door-to-door usually beats road only when the buyer is already coordinating other sea-freight.

For most Varanasi packing-case fabricators we have found road-direct is faster and cheaper unless they are taking 25+ tonnes a month. We quote freight separately, ex-Perumbavoor, with GST and transport extra, so the buyer sees the landed cost clearly. On the export side, plywood itself is exempt from ISPM-15 under the standard's processed-wood clause; the sawn-timber components — case frames, skids and dunnage — are heat-treated and stamped when the buyer flags export end-use at the time of order.

Choosing a grade

Which grade for which Varanasi load

Use our packing-grade ply when

• Cargo is domestic-bound or to nearby Gulf markets with a single sea leg
• The case will be opened within 60-90 days of fabrication
• The buyer is cost-sensitive — silk consolidators, mid-range brassware, carpet pallet decks

Use Okoume-faced ply when

• Cargo is premium handicraft going to EU or US end-buyers who inspect packaging condition
• The case itself is part of the presentation (gift packaging, museum-grade brass, archival textiles)
• Climate exposure during transit is high — the Okoume face keeps case weight down at equivalent strength

Use shuttering ply when

• The buyer is a builder or formwork contractor working on Varanasi's expanding hospitality and infra footprint along the Ring Road and Sarnath belt
• Re-use cycles matter more than face finish

For the engineering crates at UPSIDA Chandpur, we usually recommend a hybrid: 18 mm packing-grade ply for the case walls, hardwood sawn timber for the skids and corner posts, and ISPM-15 marked dunnage where the consignment is sea-freight.

FAQ

Common questions from Varanasi buyers

Do you ship in less-than-truckload quantities to Varanasi?

Yes, but the freight economics are noticeably worse on a 2,200 km lane below about 400 sheets. For a single-pallet sample we suggest combining with another buyer in the same belt or accepting the part-load premium. A full truck of 800-1,200 sheets is typically the cleanest order size.

Is the plywood ISPM-15 compliant out of the box?

Plywood itself is exempt from ISPM-15 under the standard's processed-wood clause. Sawn-timber components — case frames, skids, dunnage — need to be heat-treated and stamped, which we arrange when the buyer flags export end-use at the time of order.

What is the minimum sheet thickness for a packing case carrying brassware?

For brassware crates over 200 kg net, we generally recommend 15 mm minimum for the side walls and 18 mm for the case floor, with hardwood corner posts. Below 200 kg net, 12 mm walls with a 15 mm floor is workable and saves on packing weight.

Get a quote

Get a quote for your Varanasi project

If you are fabricating cases for the Banarasi silk trade, packing brassware out of Kazzakpura, building pallet decks for the Bhadohi carpet belt, or crating engineering loads from the UPSIDA estates, we can quote you a delivered Varanasi rate against your sheet schedule. Everything ships from our own facilities in Perumbavoor, where the CWI group has manufactured plywood since 1986. Share thickness, sheet count, monthly run rate and delivery point — we will come back with a proforma and a realistic transit window. Request a quote directly, or read more technical detail in our resource hub on packing-case construction and grade selection.

The industrial picture

Where plywood actually moves in Lucknow

Lucknow sits at an interesting crossroads for anyone who supplies industrial packing material. The city is best known for chikankari handwork and a deep cultural economy, but the industrial belt around it has quietly turned into a meaningful buyer of export-grade plywood, crating timber and pallet stock. Handicraft exporters need shock-absorbing crates for fragile lacquerware, brass and chikankari consignments. The defense-aircraft division on Faizabad Road and its ancillary vendors need heat-treated boxes that stand up to sea freight. IT and electronics assemblers around Sushant Golf City and Chinhat need flat, dimensionally stable plywood for clean packing.

The manufacturing and export activity is spread across a handful of well-defined zones, and knowing the geography helps when you are planning truck deliveries from Kerala. The main belts our consignments reach into are:

• Chinhat Industrial Area — light engineering, food processing and packaging units along NH-28, close to the Faizabad Road corridor.
• Sarojini Nagar Industrial Estate (UPSIDC) — long-established estate with metal fabrication and electrical goods, and a steady appetite for shuttering ply during civil expansions.
• Amausi and Nadarganj — adjacent to the airport; warehousing, third-party logistics and e-commerce fulfillment hubs that buy pallets in volume.
• Sushant Golf City and the Sultanpur Road belt — IT parks, ITeS campuses and newer commercial construction that pulls shuttering plywood.
• The defense-aircraft division on Faizabad Road — accessory and avionics manufacturing for transport aircraft and helicopters; a precision sector that drives demand for export-quality wooden cases with documented heat treatment.
• Chikankari and zardozi clusters around Chowk, Aminabad and Daliganj — small workshops feed consolidators and exporters in Gomti Nagar who do the actual crating and shipping.

Add the Defence Industrial Corridor nodes coming up around Lucknow and Kanpur, and the city's industrial footprint is genuinely growing. None of these sectors buy plywood the same way, which is the whole point.

What we ship

The Lucknow supply mix

Our supply mix into Uttar Pradesh reflects what we have seen actually move on these routes. Three categories cover almost everything Lucknow buyers ask for.

Packing-grade plywood (commercial / rubberwood)

This is the workhorse for handicraft exporters and engineering crate makers. We manufacture standard thicknesses for Lucknow in container loads or part-truck consignments:

All sheets are MR or BWR bonded depending on the destination port and humidity exposure. For sea-bound consignments through Mundra or JNPT we usually push buyers toward BWR.

Export crates and packing cases

We supply both knock-down crate kits (cut-to-size panels, cleats and skids) and fully assembled cases. The defense-ancillary segment and the heavier engineering exporters typically want ISPM-15 heat-treated softwood frames married to plywood skins. Common case sizes for the Lucknow handicraft trade run from 600 x 400 x 400 mm to 1200 x 800 x 800 mm; engineering crates run much larger and are often built around the load's center of gravity rather than to a standard size.

Pallets

The warehousing and 3PL belt around Amausi runs mostly on two pallet footprints — the standard 1200 x 800 mm Euro and the 1200 x 1000 mm "industrial" pallet. We supply both two-way and four-way entry pallets, in commercial hardwood or rubberwood, with ISPM-15 stamping where the pallet is going onward into export.

Container flooring

For project-cargo movers and the occasional containerized shipment that needs reinforced flooring, we supply 18mm or 21mm BWR plywood cut to ISO container floor dimensions. This is a lower-frequency line for Lucknow but worth flagging — it travels in the same truck as the crating ply.

Logistics

The Kochi to Lucknow lane

Lucknow is roughly 2,400 km from Kochi by road. The realistic operating window for a single-truck consignment is 5 to 7 days door-to-door, depending on whether the truck routes via Bangalore-Hyderabad-Nagpur-Jhansi or via Mumbai-Indore-Gwalior. We dispatch ex-factory Perumbavoor; long-haul trucking and unloading are quoted separately so the buyer can compare against their own freight rates if they prefer.

For larger orders — anything above roughly 25 to 30 tonnes — buyers in Lucknow sometimes find it cheaper to take FOB Cochin (port: Cochin / Vallarpadam ICTT) and rail-and-truck the container inland to ICD Kanpur or ICD Loni, then short-haul to their yard. This works well for handicraft consolidators already running container traffic. For smaller orders the road lane wins on simplicity. We are happy to quote either way and let the numbers decide.

Export crates and pallets leave our facility ISPM-15 heat-treated and stamped through an accredited treatment facility, with the treatment certificate travelling with the consignment so it clears phytosanitary inspection at the port.

Choosing a grade

Which grade for which Lucknow load

A practical operator view of when each grade earns its place:

1. Use commercial / rubberwood packing plywood when the consignment is domestic, going by road to another Indian city, or air-freighted internationally in well-controlled conditions. This is the most cost-effective option and covers the bulk of chikankari and light handicraft crates.
2. Step up to BWR-bonded plywood with an Okoume face veneer when the destination is humid, the sea voyage is long (Middle East, West Africa, ASEAN), or the customer values a cleaner-looking export case. Okoume is a face-veneer choice on our packing and BWR grades — it is not a separate plywood grade.
3. Choose shuttering plywood only when the buyer is a civil contractor on the Sushant Golf City or Gomti Nagar Extension projects. It is built for concrete forming, not for crating; using it for packing wastes money on the wrong feature set.

FAQ

Common questions from Lucknow buyers

Do you supply ISPM-15 stamped boxes for defense-ancillary exports?

Yes. We supply heat-treated softwood frames with our plywood skins, stamped to ISPM-15 by an accredited treatment facility. We share the treatment certificate with the consignment so it clears phytosanitary inspection at the port.

What is the minimum order quantity for a Lucknow consignment?

Most of our Lucknow buyers run full-truck loads (roughly 20 to 25 tonnes of plywood, depending on thickness mix) because the per-sheet freight on a part-load over 2,400 km is uncomfortable. We will quote part-loads too — just expect a higher landed cost per square foot.

Can you cut to size for our standard crate?

Yes. Send the cutting list and tolerance — we cut at the factory in Perumbavoor and ship the panels bundled by crate, which speeds up assembly at your yard and reduces sawdust on your shop floor.

Get a quote

Source plywood, crates and pallets for Lucknow

We have manufactured packing-grade plywood, crates and pallets in Perumbavoor since 1986 as a group, and we ship into Uttar Pradesh on a stated lane and transit window. If you are sourcing packing plywood, export crates, pallets or container flooring for a unit in Lucknow, send us the thickness, monthly volume and the delivery point in the city. We will come back with an ex-factory rate, the trucking lane we would use, and a realistic transit window.

Start with our request a quote form, or browse the technical write-ups in our resource hub if you want to compare BWR versus MR grades or work out crate-timber volumes before you ask for a number.

The industrial picture

Three industrial currents that all end in a wooden box

Kanpur runs on three flows that each generate steady demand for packing plywood: finished leather goods bound for European and US buyers, ordnance and defence components moving to military depots across India, and fertiliser and chemical drums travelling inland by rail. Every one of those loads is crated, palletised or floored in plywood before it leaves the city.

Kanpur is the leather capital of India. The Jajmau cluster on the south bank of the Ganga concentrates more than 350 tanneries and finishing units, and the goods that leave it — saddlery, full-grain leather garments, industrial gloves, shoe uppers — are almost all crated in plywood before they hit a 20-ft container at ICD Panki or move overland to Nhava Sheva and Mundra. Beyond leather, the city carries weight in defence, ordnance and engineering:

• Ordnance and small-arms factories — small arms, ammunition and field equipment that ship to depots in ISPM-15-compliant crates.
• Field-gun and ordnance-equipment works — large, heavy castings and assemblies needing custom-built skids and crates.
• Panki Industrial Area — fertiliser plants, engineering and pharma in the surrounding belt.
• Dada Nagar and Fazalganj industrial estates — hosiery, textile machinery, auto components and a long bench of engineering job-shops.
• UPSIDC Site IV and V at Panki and the Jajmau Leather Cluster (CETP zone) — concentrations of MSME exporters who order plywood by the truckload.

Add the Kanpur–Lucknow corridor on NH-27 and the upcoming Defence Industrial Corridor node at Sandila, and you get a city whose packaging demand is denser than its sticker would suggest.

What we ship

Four products that leave our gate for Kanpur

Packing-grade plywood (commercial / rubberwood)

This is the workhorse and most of what moves to Kanpur. We supply 8 ft × 4 ft sheets in the standard packing thicknesses. Leather exporters and engineering crate-makers in Dada Nagar typically buy 8 mm and 10 mm for walls and lids, then step up to 18 mm for the bottom skid where a 250–500 kg load sits over a forklift slot. Rates are EX-FACTORY, GST and freight extra; we quote against your size and monthly draw rather than off a printed list.

ISPM-15 export crates

For Jajmau leather exporters and ordnance shipments leaving the country, ISPM-15 heat-treated, IPPC-stamped crates are mandatory. We build to your packing list — knock-down (KD) for inland freight efficiency, or pre-assembled where the buyer packs in-house. Standard wall is 12 mm packing ply on a 50 × 75 mm rubberwood or hardwood frame; bottoms run 18 mm over 75 × 100 mm bearers for forklift entry. The IPPC mark and treatment certificate travel with each crate.

Wooden pallets

Four-way entry, perimeter-base pallets in the standard 1200 × 1000 mm and 1200 × 800 mm Euro footprint, plus 1100 × 1100 mm for containers heading to GCC and Vietnam buyers via Kanpur consolidators. Deckboards are 18 mm packing ply or 22 mm sawn rubberwood depending on dynamic load. Heat-treated stamping available on order.

Container flooring plywood

28 mm phenolic-bonded film-faced ply in the 2400 × 1200 mm container floor size, for reefers and dry vans being refurbished at workshops around Panki and along the Lucknow–Kanpur highway. Edges are sealed and the surface carries an anti-skid film. We ship in bundle quantities; minimum order is typically a full truck.

Logistics

Kochi to Kanpur, the 2,300 km lane

The lane runs 2,300–2,400 km depending on origin point inside the Perumbavoor cluster. Two practical options:

For most Kanpur MSME orders we quote FOR (freight on road) and put a 32-ft single-axle on the route with a 14–18 tonne payload. Larger draws — 4,000+ sheets a month, typical of mid-size packing-case houses — work better through Cochin Port to ICD Panki. We can also originate from FOB Cochin for buyers nominating their own forwarder. Every export crate and pallet that needs sea-freight clearance ships ISPM-15 heat-treated and IPPC-stamped, with the treatment certificate riding with the consignment.

Choosing a grade

Which grade fits which load

Quick decision rules we use when a Kanpur buyer calls in:

• Domestic dispatch, light-to-medium loads (under 200 kg) — commercial packing-grade plywood, 8–12 mm walls, 15 mm base. Most Jajmau leather-garment exports, Fazalganj hosiery and Dada Nagar auto components fit this bracket.
• Export crates, ISPM-15, sea freight — same grade but heat-treated and IPPC-stamped, with the base stepped up to 18 mm. This is the default for Jajmau finished leather, saddlery and ordnance components moving via Nhava Sheva.
• Heavy castings, defence and ordnance equipment (over 500 kg) — BWR-grade or premium packing ply at 18 mm on a hardwood frame; for the largest pieces we recommend a sawn-timber skid base with a plywood superstructure.
• Okoume face-veneer (on the MR-Packing or BWR grades) — when carton aesthetics matter for branded leather exports or premium gift packing. Okoume is a face-veneer option, not a separate grade, and is quoted on request.
• Concrete formwork on Kanpur Metro extensions and infra projects — film-faced shuttering plywood, 12 or 18 mm, sold separately from the packing range.

FAQ

Common questions on the Kanpur lane

What is the typical lead time from order confirmation to truck arrival in Kanpur?

For a single truck of packing-grade sheets or pallets, count 10–14 days door to door — that is 2–3 days from PI confirmation to material at our loading point, then 6–8 days transit. ISPM-15 crates built to a specific packing list take longer because of the build cycle; budget 15–18 days. Container flooring is typically available within a week if the size is the standard 2400 × 1200 × 28 mm.

Do you offer ISPM-15 heat treatment and IPPC stamping?

Yes, for every export crate and pallet that needs sea-freight clearance. The treatment certificate travels with the consignment and the IPPC mark is burned onto two opposite faces of each unit. We do not ship untreated wood as "export-ready" — that is where DG-shipping rejections start.

Can you handle a recurring monthly draw rather than one-off orders?

Yes, and that is most of what we move on the Kanpur lane. Mid-size packing-case houses and leather exporters typically commit to a monthly sheet count and a fixed price for the quarter, with deliveries staggered as call-offs. That smooths the truck-load economics and protects against rate swings in the rubberwood market.

Get a quote

Set up a Kanpur supply line

If you are a Kanpur-based packing-case maker, leather exporter, ordnance contractor, fertiliser or chemical packer, or you build container flooring and need a long-run plywood partner south of the Vindhyas, we are set up for the route. Our group has manufactured in Perumbavoor since 1986, which is 40+ years of group operations behind the specs you would receive. Send us your thickness, size, monthly quantity and delivery pin code and we will come back with a quote on the appropriate grade and a realistic transit window.

Request a quote with your packing list, or browse our resource hub for crate-construction notes, ISPM-15 references and the full plywood grade card.