NCS 901 PA GP Resin
NCSThe general-purpose laminating polyester — canopies, repairs, moulds.
Pack sizes on request
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay
Fibreglass & Resin Products for Boatbuilding & Composites in Namibia
This is the pairing the Walvis Bay depot was practically built for: the boatyard cluster and its materials. NCS polyester by the drum, Sicomin epoxy for the premium and timber-composite work, mat and roving by the roll, gelcoats, catalysts and release systems — stocked at the coast where the hulls are, with the counter knowledge of two decades supplying the same yards.
The local problems this range solves
- Mid-lay-up shortages with a hull open and quota season running
- Coastal temperature swings destabilising catalyst ratios
- Osmosis in the fleet’s ageing GRP hulls
- Tooling and release failures wasting mould hours
Compliance & documentation
Resins, catalysts and solvents ship with dangerous-goods documentation; MEKP travels segregated per transport rules on yard deliveries.
Local tip
Reserve drum stock before quota season opens — when the fleet lands hard, three yards hit the depot in the same week, and standing accounts with reserved allocations laminate while walk-ins wait.
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Sicomin Epoxy Systems
Stocked or sourced on request — ask the counter.
General purpose, for use to create fibreglass products.
Available in50 kg1 kg
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay
Gelcoat 64 / Poolcoat 73
Stocked or sourced on request — ask the counter.
Butanox M50 / MEKP NA 2
Stocked or sourced on request — ask the counter.
PVA Release & Ram Wax
Stocked or sourced on request — ask the counter.
Fibreglass & Resin Products for boatbuilding & composites: asked and answered
What laminate schedule suits a Namibian workboat hull repair?
Staged and honest: grind past all damage to sound laminate, then alternate mat and roving to rebuild original thickness — mat for interlaminar bond, roving for the structure — in resin matched to service (991 iso below the waterline, always). Stagger layer edges, wet out fully, and respect exotherm limits on thick rebuilds in a warm shed.
Polyester or epoxy for a repair over an old hull?
Age and substrate decide: polyester bonds adequately to ground polyester laminate, but over old, tired or previously-epoxied hulls, Sicomin epoxy’s adhesion is the difference between a repair and a future delamination. Timber-composite fleet boats are epoxy territory outright. Price the epoxy against the cost of doing the repair twice.
How do the yards manage gelcoat colour matching on fleet repairs?
Pragmatically: fleet hulls weather, so a “matching” gelcoat from the drum reads as a patch — yards blend from our pigment range against the weathered panel, test on scrap, and record the recipe per vessel. For topside white, Durable White with a whisper of grey pigment usually beats pure white against a sun-chalked hull.
What release-system discipline saves tooling hours?
Layers and freshness: wax (Ram Wax) built up and buffed per schedule on new tools, PVA film over it while the mould beds in, and never trusting yesterday’s prep on today’s pull. Release failures cost mould repairs measured in days. Our counter stocks both systems and the seasonal advice — humid fog mornings change PVA drying behaviour materially.
Serving Boatbuilding & Composites from our Walvis Bay branch
Swachem Walvis Bay · 4th Street East, Walvis Bay · Tel 064 204 865 · Monday – Friday, 08:00 – 17:00
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