The project
At the Ruwais petrochemical site in the United Arab Emirates, Mathis designed a 500-meter-long timber structure dedicated to the storage of solid sulfur. Built using glue-laminated timber, the 70-meter-span arch was entirely prefabricated and assembled on site.
Here, the choice of wood is not an aesthetic one but a technical solution as it is resistant to sulfur corrosion, stable under extreme temperature variations, and exceptionally durable over time.
The project stands as a testament to the intelligence of wood applied to industry, elevated by Mathis’s structural expertise.
