DMCC Tea Centre
DMCC Tea Centre
Strengthening the tea trade in Dubai
A purpose-built infrastructure of processing facilities, market venues, business services and a growing community of producers, trading parties and entrepreneurs. Located within Jebel Ali Free Zone (JAFZA) and with a DMCC licence, our members have the option of 100% business ownership and a lack of personal and corporate tax or restrictions of capital repatriation or currency common to Dubai Free Zones.
Setting up a business
Access a world-class facility located within JAFZA committed to offering complete and convenient solutions to traders from around the world. With tax friendly policies and services that include warehousing, blending and packaging – the DMCC Tea Centre is your ideal platform to easily trade, store goods and meet suppliers, manufacturers and industry peers to help your business grow.
Member benefits
With tea tasting and inhouse expertise our members can avail limited free storage, access to tea blending, tea bag and loose tea packing facilities, along with networking opportunities. Our members include tea producers, exporters, regional importers and international merchants, all attracted by our exclusive range of services, industrial clustering and the broad opportunities of our dynamic trade ecosystem and community.
Re-exporting hub
At the DMCC Tea Centre, we liaise with Dubai Customs to ensure the very latest data is available and provides our end users with an accurate high-level overview of Dubai’s trade flow. The UAE is the world's largest re-exporter of tea with a major share in the global market, enabling the success of the region and our members.
DMCC Tea Centre facilities
Discover what DMCC Tea Centre can offer
Limited free storage
Bulk teas (up to 3 x 40’ containers) can be stored from the day tea arrives into the warehouse. We also offer a further 21 days free storage for packed/blended teas. After the free days, storage charges shall be applicable based on the services utilised.
Automated blending facilities
Applicable for CTC and Orthodox tea.
Tea bag packing
Packing is offered for black, green and specialty teas. These are double chamber naked/service tea bags with/ string, staple / knotted and hard tags, envelop tea bags and pyramid tea bags.
Loose tea packing
Packing is offered for bag-in-box and stand-up pouches.
Flavoured tea blending and packing
**Packing charges to be mutually agreed upon the finalisation of packing specification.
Take a tour of the DMCC Tea Centre
Become a member
DMCC Tea Centre members enjoy the following benefits
Strategic Positioning
Members benefit from the unique industry clustering, purpose-built infrastructure and the strategic location within the Jebel Ali Free Zone and proximity to the Jebel Ali port.
Full control over your business
You will take advantage of 100% business ownership (sole shareholders are permissible), 0% personal and corporate tax and 100% capital repatriation.
Complete package
The DMCC Tea Centre is an all-inclusive facility that enables you to easily trade tea, store your goods in state-of-the-art warehouses as well as meet suppliers, manufacturers and industry peers.
Tea packing
Our temperature-controlled tea bag packaging facility can pack both envelopes and service types. Our loose tea facility packs 50g-1kg of crushed, torn and curled teas, as well as orthodox or leaf tea varieties.
Blending Services
We have a two-tonne drum system for blending both CTC and orthodox or leaf teas. We offer in-house tea tasting and blending expertise, ensuring that our members can develop the best product for their customers.
Commercial space
We have the capacity to store up to 5,000 metric tonnes of bulk teas at any given time. We provide a free allocation of storage to all our members and we also offer companies the option to lease space within purpose-built premises.
Go green
Adhering to LEED gold standards
In line with DMCC’s mandate to facilitate the expansion of the tea trade in accordance with international best practice, the DMCC Tea Centre’s tea tag envelope printing and packaging facility was designed to adhere to LEED Gold standards under the 2009 new construction rating system. Our new tea packaging facility incorporates a range of sustainable building features including 10.5% recyclable content, a 22% reduction in energy consumption, 50% reduction in water use and a 98% diversion rate of waste construction material away from landfill. The LEED rating system is a consensus-based green building rating developed by the US Green Building Council and now mandated in Dubai for public buildings and infrastructure.
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Improving indoor air quality
To ensure both the health of our staff and the tea quality, our consultants and contractors installed MERV 14 filters, removing over 98% of all airborne dust particles, a 10ft mat to prevent dust and contaminants from entering while enabling green cleaning. The entire project also used less hazardous interior paints and coatings, the carpeting was selected to meet the off-gassing requirements of the Carpet and Rug Institute’s Green Label Plus testing criteria.
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Additional sustainable measures
These include roofing material with a high solar reflectance index to reduce solar warming, high performance materials limit thermal convection and conduction from outside of the building and solar hot water systems. Energy and water saving technologies include high efficiency light fixtures and chillers, low water consumption and sensor mixers. Along with bicycle racks and shower facilities, a shuttle bus service to the metro and limited parking facilities encourage use of bikes and buses.
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