One of the world’s leading formwork specialists Paschal Werk G Maier continues to expand its presence in the Gulf with its versatile formwork solutions, after having successfully proven its capabilities on some of the challenging projects in the region.

Paschal has close to 45 years of experience in the formwork industry and its products have helped in ensuring the timely completion of a number of civil projects and other developments in Bahrain, UAE, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Oman, Qatar and Iran.
Through its Middle East office in Bahrain, Paschal Concrete Forms Company, the company is targeting the various markets in the region, which has grown tremendously over the past few years.
The UAE market in particular has been booming and the company set up Paschal Emirates in Dubai in 2004. This branch office continues to provide excellent services to the emirates and is currently supplying formwork to more than 25 developments in Dubai, including the Citadel Tower at Business Bay and the Golden Mile Project at Palm Jumeirah.
“The Citadel Tower is a 41-storey building, where the core wall and single side wall in the three basements and lower floors are 4.25 m high and have been successfully concreted without any formwork back support. The Golden Mile Project at Palm Jumeirah is also rapidly progressing with work under way on the concreting of its basements,” says Amir Delghandi, general manager of Paschal Concrete Forms.
Some of Paschal’s other projects in the UAE are Jewel Tower and other developments at Dubai Media City, Al Khali Tower in the Tecom area, the 51-storey Acico Twin Tower on Sheikh Zayed Road and towers in Jumeirah Lakes.
Paschal first entered the region in the early 70s with the supply of formwork for a dam project in Saudi Arabia and later expanded its portfolio to include other civil projects in Kuwait and Bahrain, supported with products delivered directly from the main office in Germany. Due to the surge in construction activities and demand for modern formwork in the region, Paschal Germany established a regional office in Bahrain in 1998, where the company has a high-capacity plant and huge warehouse, which enables timely delivery of formwork as per requirements to a large number of prestigious projects in the Middle East.
Paschal is currently providing its formwork solutions for some major ongoing projects in Qatar and Bahrain. These include the Scada water system at NWCC building near Doha Airport and a 52-storey tower building in the Diplomatic Area of Doha, Qatar. Its Bahrain, order book includes the Seef Mall extension, Al Ezzel power plant at Hidd, Western Area Commercial Centre, Trust Insurance Building in the Diplomatic Area, Royal University for Women, Amwaj Islands Floating City and residential complexes in Tala island, Alba (Aluminium Bahrain), storage shelter, sports clubs and several residential and commercial buildings at Juffair, Manama, Seef and Busaiteen.
Some of the several landmark projects that its products have helped shape are the Citibank headquarters, Sail Tower, Taib Bank, Arab Bank, Dana Mall, VIP tower of the Bahrain Racing Circuit and the airport control tower in Bahrain; Oman LNG and power plant in Sohar, Oman; the Public Authority for Industry headquarters in Kuwait; and Wadi Hanifa Project and Riyadh power plant tunnel in Saudi Arabia, among others.
Delghandi continues: “Due to the stiff competition in the regional construction markets, especially in the recent years, many contractors are keenly eyeing ways to cut costs by reducing construction time and manpower as well as avoiding material wastage, Modern formwork systems such as those from Paschal help them to do so.”
“Paschal panels are strong and durable being manufactured using 6-mm-thick frames of very special steel which do not corrode. The surface of the panels is covered by high-quality birch plywood (density 780 kg/ cu m) with a phenolic coating of 220 gm/sq m. The edges of the plywood are protected by steel frame and the gap between them is filled with a special sealant. Hence, the panel’s plywood can be re-used up to 250 times and the steel frame will remain sound for more than 20 years.”
“Due to easy erection and dismantling, with or without the use of a crane, contractors can save up to 30 per cent of their superstructure cost through savings on labour, material and time. Being modular, the formwork system offers contractors versatility, flexibility and durability, among other benefits,” he concludes.