Saudi Chemical Company, a Saudi Joint Stock Company with a paid capital of 632,400,000 SAR, was founded in 1972 as the first civil explosive manufacturing company in the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia and immediately served as a domestic and an international provider of civil explosives for applications such as rock blasting for road cuts, foundations, trench blasting for oil and water pipe lines, tunneling for roads, mining and oil exploration. The company owns three factories located on Central, Eastern, and Western regions, in addition to a distribution store in Southern region. During the last four decades, the company was able to provide the local market with all necessary and supporting material for all civil explosives uses for infrastructure development and construction projects. It is worth mentioning that the company's activity is not limited to production of civil explosives, but also will be extended to include military explosives and demilitarization processes.