Plastic sheeting and relief tents from Karachi, ready for Dubai Logistics Hub stockpile rotation.
Babson & Noller Corporation has supplied IFRC, Kızılay (Turkish Red Crescent), Pakistan Red Crescent and partner national societies across multiple emergency cycles. Plastic sheeting to the IFRC standard, double-fly relief tents, and tarpaulin retrofit kits, all manufactured in Karachi, fifteen kilometres from Jinnah International, with onward freight optimized for the Dubai Logistics Hub.
Past supply · Türkiye-Syria 2023 (Kızılay + IFRC) · Pakistan floods 2010 and 2022 · Yemen / Syria stockpile rotation
The Global Framework Agreement RFT for emergency goods is open this cycle.
IFRC GHS&SCM is running an open international tender for the Global Framework Agreement(s) for emergency goods (two-year term with extension option) — the renewal cycle BNC needs to be on. Stack that against the budget regime — US humanitarian contributions cut >50%, agencies forced to consolidate to lowest-landed-cost suppliers — and the case for a Karachi manufacturer that can ship to Aqaba in days is structural. BNC has been an FRT-spec relief-tent and IFRC-plastic-sheeting manufacturer for 30 years; ISO 9001; per-batch test reports on request.
Source: IFRC Business Opportunities · UNHCR funding contraction reports
Three campaigns where BNC tents went into the field through IFRC channels.
Türkiye-Syria earthquake · February 2023
Canvas tents and IFRC-spec tarpaulins consolidated through Kızılay (Turkish Red Crescent) and IFRC, airlifted on Saudia Cargo and Turkish Cargo into Adana and onward into Hatay province. Order placed within forty-eight hours of the first quake; first containers wheels-up inside seventy-two.
Pakistan super-flood · 2022
Tent and IFRC-standard plastic sheeting combination through Pakistan Red Crescent and partner INGOs across Sindh and southern Punjab. Some of those tarpaulins are still in field service in the more remote union councils. That is the proof that matters more than any spec sheet.
Yemen, Syria, Iraq stockpile rotation · multi-year
Multi-year ICRC and IFRC stockpile rotation. The same factory manages re-stock cycles even when active conflict pauses. That is how a humanitarian supplier earns the right to be called when the next emergency lands.
IFRC plastic sheeting and double-fly relief tents
Direct manufacturer, single legal entity from cutting floor to country-of-origin certificate. No trader mark-up, no second factory we subcontract to in China. The product on the container is the product the supplier-qualification team can come and inspect at the same address.
Plastic sheeting to IFRC technical specification, 4m × 5m and 4m × 6m standard formats, reinforced eyelets Double-fly relief tents, cotton canvas 350 g/m² roof, treated walls, mosquito mesh Tarpaulin retrofit kits for damaged housing in flood and earthquake responses Per-container manifest, country-of-origin certificate, ISO 9001 supplier documentation
"When there is an emergency, the agencies that buy tents go to whoever has stock and can deliver. Whether you are on a registry or not is secondary. We have supplied IFRC and many other UN bodies directly across thirty years, because we keep canvas in stock and ship the day the order lands." Syed Rayhan Ahmad · Managing Director · BNC, Karachi
Capability statement, ready to share with the qualification team.
If your team at the Dubai Logistics Hub or in Geneva is preparing the next stockpile rotation, or has an active appeal that needs canvas and sheeting in the air this week, we can quote on the same business day in Karachi (which is six hours ahead of Geneva, four ahead of Dubai). Capability statement PDF below; ISO 9001 and recent supplier documentation shared on qualification request.
Download the BNC IFRC Readiness Kit
Spec compliance, production capacity, QA flow, shipping lanes — sized for your category team to read in 10 minutes. Email-gated. Reply within one Karachi business day.
I'm with IFRC, a national society, or an IFRC-affiliated logistics partner and would like to discuss procurement.
Tell us volume, destination, INCOTERMS, and which spec you are working to. We come back the same business day in Karachi (overnight for Geneva, same-day for Copenhagen and Dubai) with a quote and the relevant certifications attached.