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Paper and paperboard in the UAE is the sheet and reel stock that printers, carton makers and packers convert into documents, folding cartons and boxes. This page explains the main grades and how to specify weight and finish, how to verify FSC claims, how humidity affects stock stored at Jebel Ali or Sharjah, which rules to check as of 2026, and what drives price and delivery.
The other industrial and B2B services sector is a mix, and in Sharjah the sharpest part is marine work. The Hamriyah Free Zone Authority lists marine activities including offshore fabrication, ship and boat building, oil rig manufacture and repair, and Hamriyah Port has a 14 metre deepwater berth reported in 2017. Buyers look for shipbuilding and repair, marine equipment, ship chandlers and marine paints and coatings.
The city has a large base of small firms in Sharjah Industrial Area and SAIF Zone, so demand for company formation services, import and export licensing, commercial printing and office furniture is steady. SAIF Zone describes services for sectors such as banking and customs, and a jewelry park. Textiles, uniforms, signage and glass suppliers serve the factories and shops around them.
Marine firms sit at Hamriyah and, to a lesser degree, Khalid Port. Printers, signage, furniture and workwear suppliers sit in Sharjah Industrial Area. Company setup advisers work from Sharjah city and from the free zones themselves, since mainland firms are licensed by the Sharjah Economic Development Department and free zone firms by their own authority.
For marine work, ask for class and flag approvals, yard capacity and the lift or dock size, and confirm that quoted timelines include port and customs steps. For company setup, ask whether the advice covers a free zone or a mainland license, since the costs and rights differ, and check the current rules on official portals. For printing and signage, ask for proofs and local installation, and confirm municipal signage approval where the sign faces a public road. Post a spec at post a requirement to get comparable quotes.
Sharjah's industry sits in three places. The first is the Sharjah Industrial Area inside the city, a run of numbered districts mostly along the Dubai border. Wikipedia lists 18 of them plus Al Sajaa, and describes workshops, warehouses, scrap yards, auto parts dealers, building materials firms, engineering contractors and the head office of a paint maker.
The second is Al Sajaa, further out near the airport and Al Hamriyah Port. A 2018 Gulf News report described the Al Sajaa Industrial Oasis, about 14 million square feet backed by Sharjah Asset Management Holding, as land for firms leaving the inner-city areas. It is not a free zone. Sajaa is also where the Sharjah National Oil Corporation (SNOC) runs a gas and condensate processing complex with a hub for pipelines to the Northern Emirates.
The third is the free zones. Hamriyah Free Zone was set up in 1995, covers about 24 square kilometres according to Wikipedia, has its own deep-water port, and holds an LPG storage terminal with a marine berth. SAIF Zone, beside Sharjah International Airport, lists offices, purpose-built warehouses, plots from 2,500 square metres for custom factories or warehouses, and a jewellery manufacturing park. The Sharjah Research Technology and Innovation Park, a free zone, sits in University City.
Sharjah has ports on two coasts. Gulftainer lists the Sharjah Container Terminal, the Khorfakkan Commercial Terminal on the east coast, the Sharjah Dry Port and the Sajaa Dry Port among the facilities it manages. Hamriyah's port is described as 14 metres deep. By road, the E311 and E611 connect to Dubai, Ajman and Ras Al Khaimah, and the E88 Al Dhaid Road runs across to Fujairah. Many buyers also clear cargo at Jebel Ali in Dubai, so ask your forwarder which gate suits your load.
The Sharjah Economic Development Department (SEDD) licenses businesses and has an industrial-area branch; its page says factories also need approval from Sharjah Municipality and the environmental authorities. Sharjah Municipality handles building permits, product approvals and food control. Sharjah Civil Defence approves plans, issues hazardous materials permits and compliance certificates, and ran a large inspection campaign in the industrial zones in the first half of 2025. The Sharjah Electricity, Water and Gas Authority (SEWA) supplies power, water and piped natural gas. Companies inside a free zone deal with that zone's own authority first.
Building materials, paints, engineering workshops, auto parts and general trading dominate the inner industrial districts. Food processing has a foothold in Hamriyah, where a halal processed meat factory was reported in 2017. Gas, condensate and LPG handling drive oilfield and process-equipment demand at Sajaa and Hamriyah. Farming is small, centred on Al Dhaid. Sharjah is not a mining or heavy-steel city, so those buyers look to Abu Dhabi or the Eastern Province of Saudi Arabia.
