Indian wall boards to enter Omani market

An Indian company launched a cost-effective building material in Oman.

FACT-RCF Building Products, a government of India enterprise, presented their glass fibre-reinforced gypsum panels in Oman, reports Times of Oman. 

The low-cost building material is also environment-friendly, using industrial trash forged into gypsum. ÔÇ£The concern is whether we can actually construct buildings faster and at a cheaper rate yet, managing to fulfil the technical requirements and safety? This is what interested me...We hope we will be adding value to Oman and are hopeful to even extend it to the neighbouring countries of [the] GCC,ÔÇØ said Sayyid Faisal bin Turki Al Said, director general of Investment Promotion at Ithraa.

Jaiveer Srivastava, chairman of the Indian enterprise added that ÔÇ£It is going to become a household name in India and abroad because of its characteristics required for such type of climate. It reduces the cost, a tremendous amount of time, is user friendly, light weight, green and is also good for such warm climate where insulation is required.ÔÇØ

The distribution, however, needs the nod of several agencies, including civic bodies, the ministries of housing and environment.