Oman
Industrial cooling and ventilation in Sohar
Sohar is Oman heavy industry in one place. The port and freezone at Majis carry an aluminium smelter and its downstream extruders and cable makers, a steel complex rolling rebar and billet, a refinery and petrochemical cluster, methanol and fertiliser plants and the bulk terminals that feed them. The older Sohar Industrial Estate inland from the port holds engineering workshops, pipe coating, building materials and food units, and Falaj Al Qabail and Liwa carry contractor yards and labour accommodation. The heat load inside these buildings comes from process equipment as much as from the sun, which shifts the priority towards moving very large volumes of air out of the roof and keeping a steady sweep across the floor where crews work.
Sohar climate — the honest version
Sohar on the Batinah coast reaches 42–45 °C with humidity above 75 percent in the late summer, so evaporative gain is limited then and the working answer is high volume extraction combined with large diameter air movement.
Sohar Port is the closest Gulf discharge point to India at roughly 5 to 8 days from Nhava Sheva or Mundra, and the freezone and industrial estate are both within 15 km of the berths.
6families
Complete range supplied here
34models
Every model available to order
10–20days
Production lead time
24hrs
Sizing and quotation
The complete range
All six Ayzair families, supplied in Sohar.
Every product we make is available in Sohar. They are ordered by how well each one suits the local climate and the industries here, but nothing is off the list.
Where we supply
Industrial areas of Sohar.
Who buys here
Industries in Sohar.
- Aluminium smelting and downstream products
- Steel rolling and billet production
- Refining and petrochemicals
- Methanol and fertiliser manufacture
- Port and bulk logistics
- Engineering workshops and pipe coating
Worth knowing locally
- Sohar Freezone offers duty exemption and full foreign ownership, and equipment landed there for a project inside the zone clears without the 5 percent duty applied on the Omani mainland.
- Electrical supply is 415 V three phase 50 Hz, matching Ayzair motors directly, although smelter and steel plant contractors often ask for higher insulation class motors given ambient temperatures inside the halls.
- The short sailing makes Sohar a practical entry point for buyers elsewhere in Oman and even for onward road movement into the UAE through the Wajajah and Khatmat Malaha crossings.
Sohar enquiry
Get a proforma invoice for Sohar.
Tell us the building — area, roof height and what happens inside — or name the models and quantities you already know you need. You will get USD pricing, your Incoterm, a container loading plan and a confirmed lead time within one working day.
Export desk
Answers
Supplying Sohar — common questions
Cannot find what you need? Call +91 80871 10156 or WhatsApp us — an engineer, not a call centre, picks up.
Ask on WhatsAppWhat handles the heat inside an aluminium downstream unit in Sohar?
Process heat has to leave the building before anything else helps. Hammer exhaust fans from 900 mm to 1750 mm, moving up to 68,000 CMH each, are set high on the gable to pull the hot layer out, and 24 ft HVLS fans below keep air moving across the extrusion and handling lines without disturbing the billet heaters.
How quickly can equipment reach Sohar from an Indian factory?
Sohar is the shortest crossing of any Gulf port from western India, typically five to eight days at sea. With production of 10 to 20 working days before that, a straightforward order is on site in about four to six weeks including clearance, which is two to three weeks faster than the same order routed to Kuwait.
Do the exhaust fans come large enough for a full industrial hall?
The Hammer range runs from 200 mm up to 1750 mm, with the largest sizes rated at 68,000 CMH, so a hall needing several hundred thousand cubic metres an hour is covered by a bank of units rather than by ductwork. Ayzair calculates the count from your building volume and the target air change rate.
Nearby
Also supplied across Oman.
Next step
Shipping to Sohar?
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