
Good quality. Used for spray painting.
Available in210 L
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay
Windhoek’s paint shops, printers, plastics plants and engineering works all run on solvents — and all of them have felt the three-week SA lead time when a drum ran dry. Swachem stocks the manufacturing solvent basket locally: thinners by the grade, acetone, MEK, toluene and xylene for process work, IPA for electronics and founts, and the recycled blend that halves a print shop’s wash-up bill.
Flammable-goods deliveries carry dangerous-goods documentation; SDS packs support fire-permit and insurance audits on solvent stores.
Summer afternoons in a Windhoek spray shop run 10 °C hotter than the data sheet assumed — schedule fine finishing for mornings and adjust thinner grade seasonally rather than fighting blush and dry-spray at 35 °C.
The lines manufacturing & industrial buyers draw from this category most.

Good quality. Used for spray painting.
Available in210 L
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay

Used as a solvent to manufacture plastics and other industrial products. Works great as a cleaning product for resin/fibreglass products.
Available in210 L
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay

Solvent used in surface coating, adhesives, printing inks, chemical intermediates, magnetic tapes and lube oil de-waxing agents.
Available in210 L
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay

99% IPA for cleaning, disinfection and formulation.
Available in210 L
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay
Stocked or sourced on request — ask the counter.
Stocked or sourced on request — ask the counter.
Yes — manufacturing accounts run on exactly that basis: agreed monthly volumes, buffer drums held at Walter Street, delivery on schedule or call-off. Your line never waits on a shipping window, and drum pricing is quoted on annual volume rather than counter rates. Most Windhoek plants converted to this model after their first missed-shipment stoppage.
Wash-up is volume work — plates, rollers, blankets, daily — and recycled blend does that duty at a fraction of virgin solvent cost, exactly as the catalogue intends. Keep virgin grades for the jobs that touch print quality (founts, specific inks) and route the cleaning volume through recycled. Shops typically cut their solvent line by a third.
Shade first — a drum against a sun-facing wall builds real pressure in our summer — then bunding, earthing points for decanting, quantities inside your fire-permit class, and flammable-store signage. We split orders across pack sizes so opened stock stays small, and every drum arrives with the SDS your fire-safety file needs.
Grade discipline is the difference between a solvent supplier and a solvent shop: our thinners lines (D300, High Gloss, MEK thinners) are consistent specifications, not blended-to-price batches, so your viscosity cups and flash-off behaviour stay predictable. If your line was validated on a specific grade, we supply against that grade every reorder.
Swachem Windhoek · 2-8 Walter Street, Southern Industrial Area, Windhoek · Tel 061 235 051 · Monday – Friday, 08:00 – 17:00
Served primarily from Swachem Windhoek — 061 235 051. SDS, grades and delivery scheduling included in the quote.