NCS Resins in Namibia

Continuity and suitability. NCS is the southern African standard — formulated, tested and supported for this region’s conditions, with technical data sheets our counter staff actually know from years of use. Because Swachem holds agency stock in-country, a boatyard or pool builder gets the same resin batch-consistent, month after month, without shipping-schedule roulette. Cheap import drums appear occasionally in this market; what they lack is the batch consistency and local backup that a hull or pool shell warranty quietly depends on.

The catalogue range: 5 litre and 25 litre cans for repair shops and small fabricators, and 210-litre drums for yards and production users, with matching Butanox/MEKP catalyst packs and Waxsol. Gelcoat 64 and Poolcoat 73 follow in trade sizes across their colour ranges. A small operator can genuinely start with 5 L and a repair kit and scale to drum accounts on the same product — which is exactly how much of Walvis Bay’s composites trade grew up.

The pool stack is 991 PA isophthalic for the laminate — its water and chemical resistance is what keeps a shell from osmosing under permanent immersion and pool chemistry — finished with Poolcoat 73 in Pool Blue, White, Cape Grey, Mid Grey, Black or Natural. For repairs, grind to sound laminate, rebuild with 991 and chopped strand mat, fair with talc filler, and recoat. Using GP resin in a pool to save a few hundred dollars is the false economy our counter talks people out of weekly.

Support is the agency’s job. Catalyst ratios for Namibian temperature swings, laminate schedules for a given panel, gelcoat application troubleshooting (alligatoring, porosity, colour drift), resin choice between GP, iso and casting — these are daily counter conversations, backed by NCS technical data sheets and, for genuinely tricky applications, the manufacturer’s technical service through our agency line. Bring the problem, not just the order; it is the same price either way.