The panel Israeli buyers ask us for
The core of our Israel business is the calibrated Okoume-face panel: a board made to the E1 emission class (test report on request for the lot quoted), with an Okoume face on a eucalyptus core, sanded and calibrated to a consistent thickness across the sheet. A 16 mm panel weighs about 32 kg, light enough to keep handling and freight sensible, stiff enough for furniture and joinery work. We supply it bare or HPL-laminated.
Okoume is a face veneer, not a grade. The same face goes onto our MR packing plywood (IS 303) and onto BWR boards where the job needs better moisture resistance. If your customers know Okoume from other origins, our species profile covers what the timber is and how it behaves. Full specifications sit on the Okoume plywood page.
Our Israel terms: FOB Cochin, in USD
Every quote we issue for Israel is FOB Cochin. We do not quote CIF Ashdod or CIF Haifa. You, or your forwarder, book the ocean freight and marine insurance; we manufacture, pack, complete Indian export clearance and deliver the goods on board your nominated vessel at Cochin Port. Prices are in US dollars.
The reasoning is practical. Israeli importers almost always hold their own freight arrangements on the India lane and read its current conditions better than a manufacturer in Kerala can. FOB keeps our number a clean panel price you can compare line by line against any other origin.
Payment terms are 50% advance with the balance before dispatch for standard products, and 100% advance for made-to-order and custom-fabricated goods. Payment is by bank transfer (T/T).
What we quote for Israel
| Product | Build | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Calibrated Okoume-face panel | Okoume face, eucalyptus core, made to E1 | 16 mm at about 32 kg per sheet; bare or HPL-laminated; furniture and joinery |
| Okoume-face MR packing plywood | IS 303, MR bond | 6, 8, 12, 15 and 18 mm typical; cases and industrial packing |
| Okoume-face BWR plywood | BWR bond | For work that sees moisture; interiors and shopfitting |
Adjacent lines out of the same port: IS 710 marine plywood, film-faced shuttering plywood and container flooring ply. The export hub lists everything we ship from Cochin.
ISPM-15, packing and container loading
Plywood panels are exempt from ISPM-15. As engineered wood they need no heat-treatment stamp and no fumigation certificate, which removes one document, one cost and one common hold-up at the port of discharge. Where a shipment does include pallets or crating, their solid wood is treated and IPPC-marked by a DPPQS-registered treatment provider where the destination requires it; the treatment method follows the destination's rules, and a treatment certificate is supplied where the quotation states it. If your customs broker raises it, our note on heat treatment versus methyl bromide explains the distinction.
Panels are palletised and strapped for sea transit. Dense plywood can reach a container's weight limit or its usable space first, so we plan each 40 ft against the road weight limit at your end and the sheet layout, not just the container's own rating, and confirm the exact sheet count with the quote.
Samples and the first order
Samples are available and chargeable. Most first-time buyers take a sample before a trial container: check the Okoume face, the calibration and the core, then commit.
The sequence is short. Send your specification (thickness, size, bare or laminated, quantity, and Ashdod or Haifa as discharge port) to sales@cochinwood.in or WhatsApp +91 95674 10175. A FOB Cochin quote in USD comes back within one business day. On confirmation we issue a proforma invoice; production starts against the advance and goods move to the port once the balance clears. We warrant that the goods conform to the grade and standard on the proforma invoice at the time risk passes.