Raghadan has cited an impressive list of projects it completed in recent months to bolster its claim that it is one of the leading paints manufacturers and importers in the Arab world.

The company supplied its products for 40 villas and palaces in a project for the family of Ahmad Banaem in Riyadh.
According to Raghadan, the paint area was spread across more than 100,000 sq m. The company supplied its emulsions and enamels as well as San Marco’s Reflessi pearl-effect and Grasello marble-effect paints for the interior.
It also successfully supplied its products for a European-style palatial residence in the Saudi capital of Abdul Al Aziz Saleh, the owner and director of a Saudi interior design company. Raghadan’s acrylic paints and San Marco’s Marmorino marble-effect finishes for exteriors were used over an area of 20,000 sq m.
For the Al Twaijri Mosque, it supplied Raghadan emulsions for the interiors, Raghadan Graviato Tex for exteriors and Levis wood varnishes for the doors and cornices. The area covered was 30,000 sq m.  The mosque accomodates 2,000 worshippers and is located in a newly developed residential area of Riyadh.
At the InterContinental Hotel in the city, the paints used were Raghadan emulsions and enamels for the interiors. Other products from the company that were used there were San Marco’s Aquasil special effect  and Marmorino marble effect finishes plus Levis gold and wood varnishes. The coverage area was 250,000 sq m.
At Mobily’s showrooms across Saudi Arabia, Raghadan supplied and applied its acrylic paints and San Marco’s Stucco Veneziano.
Elsewhere in the Gulf, Raghadan paints were used in Bahrain on a palatial residence for singer Michael Jackson and a 15-storey four-tower residential project.
Raghadan was also involved in a 50-tower residential project at Jumeirah Beach Resort in Dubai. There, Raghadan’s emulsions and enamels and San Marco’s Stucco Veneziano marble-effect paints were applied.
The company also supplied its paints for the Olympic Stadium project in Doha.
Riyadh-based Raghadan was established in Riyadh in 1974 and has developed to encompass three paint factories in Saudi Arabia and Egypt and six paint companies located in Saudi Arabia, the UAE, Jordan, Egypt and Britain. The company has 15 branches, 20 agents and more than 500 distributors in the Arab world.
Its products comprise emulsion and enamel paints, primers and textures, industrial paints, sealants, NC and epoxy paints, wood coatings and varnishes, emulsions and the latest creative decorative paints such as pearl and velvet finishes.
Earlier this year, the company expanded its factory in Riyadh to make the following products: adhesives and grouts for tiles and ceramics, cracks and joint fillers, roof and floor coatings, ready-coloured cement finishes, weather and roof protection systems and other building material finishes.
It imports paints from well-known companies such as Akzo Nobel (Levis) of Europe, Kansai Paint Company of Japan, San Marco of Italy, which is prominent for special- and marble-effect paints, and Vernici Milesi, also of Italy, which specialises in quality polyurethane wood varnishes.
Raghadan’s sales and marketing director Hisham Ali says it is looking at meeting demand in new markets in the Middle East. Towards that end, it plans to set up a number of showrooms in Saudi Arabia, other Arab states and Africa.