In Al-Rashed Building Materials’ long history of 50-plus years, it has had the satisfaction of being a preferred supplier to many important projects in Saudi Arabia and overseas.

Its materials have gone into the construction of bridges, malls, houses and factories and the preparation of all manner of furniture. The company has been successful in winning many repeat orders. A secret of its ability to retain customer ties and build new ones lies in its reputation as a provider of quality supply solutions.
The company’s gamut of products spans steel, wood and miscellaneous items.
Here is a peek into what makes Al-Rashed Building Materials tick.
 
Commercial steel
The company offers a wide range of high quality steel beams and merchant bars such as IPEAA, IPE, HEA, HEB, beams, angle bars, square bars, flat bars, plain bars etc. They are mainly imported from countries including Japan, Korea, Taiwan, Poland, Belgium, Hungary, France, the Czekh Republic, South Africa, Turkey, Russia and Ukraine.
The steel conforms to international standards such as ASTM, JIS, DIN and BS and provides good service even as they meet the increasingly diversified demands of the domestic and international markets. The I and H beams, channels and angle bars come in lengths of 6 m and 12 m. The square bars and flat bars come in 6 m lengths.

Steel sheets and coils
The company provides a broad range of coils and sheets as cold and hot rolled, hot-dipped galvanised and electro-galvanised; chequered steel sheets, GI pre-painted corrugated sheets, aluminium sheets, stainless steel sheets, galvanised grating panels and special steels.
It caters to a wide range of industries including construction, household appliances and steel fabrication.
It is one of the main distributors in Saudi Arabia for Hadeed flat products and imports materials from Japan, Korea Taiwan, Indonesia, South Africa, Italy, Hungary, Spain, Romania, Russia, Ukraine, Egypt, and India.
Black steel sheets cold rolled are offered in 0.3-3 mm thickness and hot rolled in 1.2-65 mm thickness.
The hot dipped galvanised sheets have a thickness of 0.3-40 mm and electro-galvanised sheets 0.5-2 mm.

Pipes and tubes
Al-Rashed Building Materials provides high-quality pipes and tubes certified to international standards. It offers both mild steel black and galvanised pipes and distributes pipes and tubes produced by major mills in Saudi Arabia and other GCC countries.
Galvanised pipes are offered in diameters of 5-6 inches, lengths of 3-6 m and wall thickness of 2-10 mm.
Square tubes are offered in a diameter range of 16-150 mm, length 6 m and thickness 0.7 - 5 mm and rectangular tubes in a diameter range of 10 x 25 - 90 x 150 mm, length 6 m thickness 0.7 – 5 mm.

Reinforcing steel bars
The company is one of the major distributors in the kingdom for Hadeed’s prime quality deformed bars conforming to international standards. It also caters to the demand for epoxy-coated deformed bars.
The deformed reinforced bars have a range of 8-40 mm and length of 12,000 mm. Specifications are ASTM, A 615, Gr 60-Hadeed.

Hardwood
Al-Rashed Building Materials can offer the full range of hardwood species in most dimensions, particularly woods in red oak, white ash, cherry, walnut, maple, beech, Burmese and African teak, mahogany, wawa, meranti and Swedish red wood.
It says it guarantees consistent quality and the highest level of service and is committed to developing new sources as well as widening and deepening its customer base.
The company’s products are mainly used in the furniture industry, joinery products, and architectural interiors where a high degree of dimensional stability, durability, strength and elegance are required. The company imports hardwood from the US, Canada, Romania, Russia, Sweden, Finland, Ghana, the Ivory Coast, Cameroon, Burma, Malaysia and Indonesia.

Softwood and whitewood
BMD imports various kinds of whitewood. The main species it deals with are spruce, pine and fir. The products are sourced in Romania, Austria, Chile, Sweden, Canada, Russia and New Zealand.
They are mainly used in the construction and industrial sectors. Al-Rashed Building Materials is heavily involved in marketing whitewood of various origins to match customer requirements precisely.

Wood-based panels
Al-Rashed Building Materials supplies a premium range of wood-based panel products, which it says are made to the highest quality standards. Imported from major mills all over the world, they are widely accepted throughout Saudi Arabia.
The premium products it deals with are ordinary plywood, blockboard and secondary processed products such as film-faced plywood and fancy plywood/blockboard with veneer/melamine/ polyester/paper overlay etc.
The thickness offered in film-faced plywood for concrete framework is 12 mm, 15 mm and 18 mm (7, 9, 11 and 13 ply).
All dimensions are available for ordinary blockboard. For decorative blockboard, the veneer is one-face or two-face. The species are oak, teak, mahogany, walnut, cherry, maple and beech.
The company also caters to top-quality plain and decorative MDF/chipboard and hardboards.
All dimensions are available for medium-density fibreboard. The veneers are in one-face or two-face and the material could be polyester, melamine and paper overlaid. The wood is mahogany, walnut, cherry ash, maple and beech.
The chipboard supplied by the company originates in Indonesia, Malaysia and Europe. The company offers all dimensions for plain chipboard. Also available are melamine-coated chipboards.
The wood-based panels are used in the highclass furniture and joinery industry, construction industry, exterior and interior applications, industrial applications and concrete formworks.

Miscellaneous
Al-Rashed Building Materials provides miscellaneous items such as fences, T&B wires, expanded sheets, pipe support, scaffolding, welding electrodes, nails, plastic sheets, fibre glass insulation, bitumen boards and polystyrene sheets.