More than just a chemical supplier

Swachem’s own exclusive adhesives brand

Pure Adhesives is Swachem’s own industrial adhesives brand — trade-quality contact adhesives and wood glues packed in 1 L, 5 L and 20 L for Namibian workshops, upholsterers and furniture makers. Where imported retail tubs price every litre for a hardware-store shelf, Pure Adhesives is blended and packed for production use: CA2000 contact adhesive for laminates and boards, GB500 foam-to-foam contact adhesive for upholstery and mattress work, and the GB720 water-resistant and GB730 general-purpose wood glues for joinery lines. It sits alongside the Henkel and Pekay ranges on the deepest adhesive shelf in Namibia, stocked at both branches.

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Swachem’s own exclusive pool-care brand

Pure Pools is Swachem’s own pool-care brand — chlorine and pool chemistry packaged in Namibia, for Namibian pools. Where imported retail brands price a 10 kg chlorine pack for the Johannesburg suburbs, Pure Pools is packed for the realities here: lodge pools running twelve months a year, borehole fill water, and buyers who want trade quality without the retail badge premium. It anchors the swimming-pool range alongside HTH, pool acid, bromine and the Poolcoat renovation products, and is stocked at both branches.

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Namibian distributor for the full Woodoc range

Woodoc is South Africa’s premium penetrating wood sealer — and in Namibia’s brutal UV and dryness, penetration is the whole game. Swachem distributes the full range, far beyond the two lines hardware chains carry: interior sealers (5, 10, 25 and the 2000 floor grade), exterior grades (30, 35, 40), the heavy-duty 50 and 55, the Water-Borne Deck and Marine ranges, Deck Sealer and Dressing, gel stains, the fourteen-shade Universal Colours card, Antique Wax, Wood Reviver for greyed timber, Plus Life Primer, and the Totim colour line. Joineries, lodges and restorers standardise on it because the alternative — film-forming varnish — simply does not survive here.

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Namibian agent & stockist for laboratory and commodity chemicals

Associated Chemical Enterprises (ACE) is a leading South African supplier of laboratory reagents and fine and commodity chemicals, and Swachem is its Namibian agent and stockist. The agency is what puts CP-grade chemistry on a Windhoek shelf: chloroform, methanol and ethyl acetate CP, reagent salts from potassium permanganate to sodium dichromate, indicators, silica gel and the deep ACE catalogue behind them on order. Mine assay labs, water laboratories, UNAM, NUST and school science departments all buy ACE grades through Swachem — with the sourcing desk covering anything not held locally.

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Namibian agent for the Biodyne Environoc microbial range

Biodyne is a US-developed range of beneficial-microbe products — the Environoc series — and Swachem is its Namibian agent. The proposition is treating waste and building soils biologically: Environoc 101 digests petroleum hydrocarbons in contaminated ground; 201 degrades chlorinated compounds from herbicides and pesticides; 301 augments the digestion in wastewater, grease traps and drains while metabolising the hydrogen sulphide that smells; 401 is the soil bio-stimulant irrigation farmers apply through their systems; and 501 accelerates composting and crop-residue breakdown. All cultures are naturally occurring, non-pathogenic and not genetically modified.

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Namibian distributor for Efekto home & garden pest control

Efekto is southern Africa’s leading home-and-garden pest control brand family, and Swachem distributes it in Namibia — the shelf every household recognises and every professional stocks the van from. The names carry the range: Bio Kill in Classic, GT Extra and Pet Care formulations; Karbadust insecticide powder; No Ant bait stations and ready-to-use; Malasol concentrate; Agita fly bait for premises; the No Insect Indoors series; and the rodenticide line from Everdeath to bait stations. Around it Swachem adds professional concentrates, Supa-Kill and Ultrakill rodenticides, snake repellent and sprayers — household to trade in one range.

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Namibian distributor for the Henkel adhesive stable

Henkel is the world’s adhesive leader, and Swachem distributes its full stable in Namibia: Loctite engineering adhesives and super glue used throughout the motor industry, Pattex construction and epoxy adhesives (No More Nails, Power Epoxy Liquid Steel and Clear), Pritt for office and school, Ponal wood glues in five sizes, Teroson automotive sealers, polishes and headlight restorer, and the industrial lines — Technomelt hotmelts and Aquence water-based adhesives — that run Namibian packaging plants. From a 5-gram super glue to production-line hotmelt, it is one brand family from one local distributor.

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Namibian agent & stockist for NCS polyester resins and fibreglass

NCS Resins of Durban is South Africa’s major polyester resin producer, and Swachem stocks its range as Namibian agent — the resin behind most of the fibreglass work in this country. NCS 901 PA is the general-purpose laminating workhorse; 991 PA isophthalic serves hulls, pools and chemical service; 215 PA casts clear; and the Gelcoat 64 and Poolcoat 73 ranges finish the surface in the full colour card. Around the resins sit the consumables: chopped strand mat, woven roving, Butanox catalyst and Waxsol. Drum stock is held at both branches, with Walvis Bay serving the boatyard cluster directly.

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Namibian agent & stockist for Pekay adhesives, sealers and coatings

The Pekay Group is a South African manufacturer of industrial adhesives, sealers, bitumen products and coatings — and through Swachem’s agency its trade lines are Namibian shelf stock. The catalogue carries the working set: GB89 hybrid sealer for dust-free seals, GB690 waterproof deck-flooring adhesive, Jayco Bond fast-setting epoxy and the M77 silicone sealer, Super Brake Pad Adhesive in the 5-litre industrial pack, GB209A+206A dashboard repair system, and the Bostik industrial lines (1777 GP brake pad adhesive, 142 vulcanizing cement) alongside bitumen solutions and Damseal waterproofing.

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Namibian agent & stockist for Sicomin epoxy systems

Sicomin is a French formulator of high-performance epoxy resin systems — marine-grade laminating epoxies, clear-casting systems and hardener ranges used by boatbuilders and composites houses worldwide. Through Swachem’s agency, Namibian users buy it locally in kits from 1.4 kg to 35.5 kg: the epoxy for timber-composite boat work and structural repairs, the clear systems behind river tables and casting art, and the SD7160 slow hardener with UV Greencast for thick, water-clear pours. A twelve-colour epoxy pigment card — including pearlescents — completes the system.

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