Saudi Chemical Company, a Saudi Joint Stock Company, can trace its beginning to 1972 as the first and sole civil explosive manufacturing company in Saudi Arabia.

From the outset, Saudi Chemical Company has maintained a strong commitment to Quality, Market globalization, and our involvement in our customers support have all brought a profound evolution in our Quality Policy, which has lead to the success of Saudi Chemical Company in the local and the global markets.

Saudi Chemical Company's Quality System is based on ISO 9001:2000, which was granted by BSI in 2002 and implemented in all Saudi Chemical processes and departments. Saudi Chemical Company also has a well-equipped Quality Assurance Laboratory to test both input raw material and finished products.

Saudi Chemical's line of production includes the latest generation, safest, and world wide commonly used civil explosives and non-electrical detonators, which are KEMULEX, PRILLEX, and SANEL respectively.

KEMULEX is an emulsion type explosive characterized by its high detonation velocity and good waterproof properties and packaged in special plastic cartridges with different sizes that meet the clients' needs. PRILLEX is a dry blasting agent which is composed of Ammonium Nitrates and Fuel Oil (ANFO).

Saudi Chemical Company also manufactures non-electric detonators “SANEL” that provide the precious control and accuracy that reduces blasting vibration and improves fragmentation for all kind of blasting.

SANEL is produced in wide range of delay times, lengths, and models for different types of use.

Progress continues and Saudi Chemical proceeds along the path of ongoing improvement, advancing in all aspects that go beyond expectation to provide domestic and global supplies of most modern explosives. This resulted in new production line for ENVIROSEIS, the latest in seismic explosives specially designed for seismic exploration. Proudly, ENVIROSEIS is now used for oil and gas exploration in Saudi Arabia.

In addition, the company offers wide variety of Electrical Detonators, Detonating Cords in addition to all accessories for rock blasting and oil exploration shooting.

It is worth mentioning that the company's activity is not limited to production of civil explosives only, but also will be extended to include military explosives in manufacturing and demilitarization processes.

Safety is an important part of Saudi Chemical's culture. Our safety cultures foster attitudes and practices that extend outside the workplace. In fact, by cultivating safe work attitudes, we are also insuring the safety of the general public while we go about our business. This includes not only safe manufacturing practices, but also planning and consideration of transportation safety to and from our storage facilities to the client's and / or blasting sites. Our Allies and technical consultants in the civil explosives, YARA, Austin International, and Swiss Explosives Co, each performs annual safety audits in all our production facilities that ensure a safe and secure environment at all production and storage sites. Saudi Chemical's long and excellent record in Safety and accident prevention , Saudi Chemical Company is a member of SAFEX. SAFEX INTERNATIONAL is a global organization with the prime objective of improving the Safety, Health, and Environment (SHE) associated with design, development, manufacture, storage, transport and distribution, use, disposal and recycling of explosives products.

The company emphasizes training and education of Saudi nationals who relate directly or indirectly with civil explosives in all aspects focusing in new blasting techniques, safety and handling of explosives.

The recognition and appreciation of our customers worldwide are an inherent part of our processes and decisively contribute to the development of our business.