Product categories

Everything in the 2024 Swachem catalogue plus the full long-tail range behind it — 477 products stocked or sourced from Windhoek and Walvis Bay. Browse by category or search the whole list.

Acids

Swachem imports and stocks the working acids of Namibian industry — hydrochloric, sulphuric, nitric, phosphoric, acetic, citric, formic and oxalic — in grades from CP laboratory quality to industrial drum stock. This is the section taxidermists, battery shops, mines, builders and food producers all draw from: HCl for concrete cleaning and trophy work, sulphuric at 71% and 98% for battery maintenance, citric and acetic for food production, and packaged consumer strengths like Scale Remover and Spirits of Salts for everyday descaling.

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Adhesives

The deepest adhesive shelf in Namibia now leads with Pure Adhesives — Swachem’s own newly launched trade range, exclusively available at Swachem: CA2000 contact adhesive, GB500 foam-to-foam contact adhesive and the GB720 water-resistant and GB730 general-purpose wood glues, packed in 1 L, 5 L and 20 L for workshops and production lines. Behind it stands the full Henkel stable — Loctite, Pattex, Pritt, Ponal and Teroson — alongside Pekay industrial adhesives. The range runs from 5-gram Loctite Super Glue to 20-litre buckets: contact adhesive for laminates, Ponal wood glue in five sizes, Pattex epoxies for metal and non-metal repair, brake-pad and vulcanizing cements for the transport industry, and industrial hotmelts and cold glues for packaging lines.

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Biodyne

Swachem is the Namibian agent for Biodyne — the Environoc range of beneficial-microbe products that treat waste and boost soils biologically instead of chemically. Biodyne 101 degrades petroleum hydrocarbons in contaminated soil; 201 breaks down chlorinated compounds from herbicides and pesticides; 301 augments digestion in wastewater, grease traps and drains; 401 is the soil bio-stimulant for crops; and 501 accelerates composting and crop-residue breakdown. None are genetically modified — all are naturally occurring, non-pathogenic organisms.

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Cleaning Chemicals

Swachem blends and stocks the cleaning range Namibian business actually runs on: Indet floor cleaner and degreaser, Santo sanitary fluid, pine disinfectant, Teepol detergents, hand sanitizer by the 25-litre, sanitisers like Actisan and Bactiwash for food plants, fleet wash and engine cleaners for transport yards, and the detergent raw materials — SLES, sulphonic acid, CDE, perfumes and dyes — for blenders making their own. One counter covers the contract cleaner, the fish factory, the lodge and the workshop.

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Commodity Chemicals

The bulk staples every factory, farm and municipality in Namibia runs on: caustic soda, soda ash, aluminium sulphate, copper sulphate, borax, urea and the wider raw-material range behind them. Swachem imports these directly and holds them at both branches, which is the difference between a 25 kg bag over the counter today and a three-week wait on a South African order. The section also carries the industrial raw materials — glycols, glycerine, silicates, surfactant feedstocks and fertiliser salts — that local blenders and manufacturers build their own products from.

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Fibreglass & Resin Products

The composites shop of Namibia: NCS polyester resins by the 210-litre drum, Sicomin epoxy systems from France, gelcoats and poolcoats in the full colour card, chopped strand mat, woven roving, surfacing tissue, MEKP catalysts, release agents and every pigment paste in between. Walvis Bay’s boatbuilders, pool repairers countrywide, mine workshops lining tanks and chutes, sign makers and artists all buy from this range — backed by rollers, brushes and the consumables to lay it all up.

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Insecticides & Pest Control

As Efekto’s Namibian distributor, Swachem stocks the pest-control shelf the whole country recognises: Bio Kill in its Classic, GT Extra and Pet Care formulations, Karbadust, No Ant bait stations and ready-to-use, Malasol, Agita fly bait for premises, plus professional lines (Fendona, Promethrin), rodenticides (Supa-Kill, Everdeath, Ultrakill wax blocks), snake repellent, Roundup weedkiller and the sprayers to apply it all. Households, farms, lodges, food factories and professional pest controllers buy at the same counter.

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Laboratory Chemicals

Through its agency for Associated Chemical Enterprises (ACE), Swachem supplies CP-grade laboratory reagents and equipment to Namibia’s labs, schools and mines: CP solvents (chloroform, methanol, ethyl acetate, propan-2-ol), reagent salts and oxidisers (potassium permanganate, chromates, ferric chloride), indicators, buffers and conductivity solutions, silica gel, reagent bottles and testing instruments. Mine assay labs, water-quality labs, UNAM and NUST teaching labs, and school science rooms all order from the same locally stocked shelf.

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Miscellaneous & Workshop

The catalogue’s famous last section — the products every Namibian workshop, home and business ends up needing: WD-40 in three sizes, Tectyl underbody protection, Teroson polishes and headlight restorer, Loctite silicone spray and belt dressing, de-ionised water, paraffin from 330 ml to 210-litre drums, furniture oil, silica gel, cotton waste, polyurethane foam, manhole covers, and the rollers, brushes and sprayers that apply everything else we sell. If you did not find what you were looking for, this is also where our sourcing service lives — we will find it for you.

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Solvents

From acetone and lacquer thinners to methylated spirits by the thousand litres, Swachem is Namibia’s solvent stockist. The 2024 catalogue lists the full working range — cleaning benzine, mineral turpentine, MEK, toluene, xylene, perchloroethylene, trichloroethylene, butyl oxitol and more — in pack sizes that run from 330 ml bottles to 210-litre drums and 1000-litre supply. Spray painters, printers, fibreglass shops, dry cleaners, engineering works and households all buy from this shelf, and the recycled-solvent line gives printers a cost-effective wash-up option.

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Swimming Pool Chemicals

Pool care built for Namibian conditions — intense UV that burns off chlorine, hard borehole fill water, and pools that run twelve months a year. Swachem stocks its own Pure Pools chlorine alongside HTH dry chlorine and pills, swimming pool acid for pH correction, bromine tabs, pool-grade hydrogen peroxide, scale remover and the Poolcoat range for renovating the shell itself. Lodges, municipal pools, schools and homeowners buy the same professional products the pool-service trade uses.

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Water Treatment Chemicals

Namibia treats some of the hardest, scarcest water in southern Africa, and this section is built for it: coagulants and flocculants (aluminium sulphate, ferric chloride, polyelectrolyte), disinfection (sodium hypochlorite, liquid chlorine, SDIC, hydrogen peroxide), activated carbon in granular and powder form, pH chemistry (caustic soda lye, lime, potassium permanganate) and softening salts. Municipal plants, mines running process and potable circuits, lodges on borehole water and factories with boilers and cooling towers all buy from this range at both branches.

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Waterproofing

Waterproofing and construction repair for a climate of extremes — baking UV for ten months, then cloudbursts that find every crack. The range covers torch-on membranes (Y904/Y914), rubberised bitumen coatings (Rubber Seal, Damseal T570), the two-part Elast-O-Crete cementitious system for crack-bridging and tanking, Cream D for rising damp, repair mortars (Abe Dura Rep HS, Rockbreak expanding mortar), crack fillers, silicone sealants and bitumen solutions for priming and sealing.

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Woodoc Wood Treatment

Swachem distributes the full Woodoc range in Namibia — the penetrating sealers that actually survive this climate. Interior sealers (Woodoc 5, 10, 25), exterior and marine grades (30, 35, 50, 55, Water-Borne Marine), deck products (Deck Sealer, Deck Dressing, Water-Borne Deck), gel stains and the fourteen-colour Universal Colours card, waxes, Wood Reviver and penetrating primers. Namibian sun, dryness and UV destroy film-forming varnishes in a season or two; Woodoc feeds and seals the timber from inside, which is why joineries, lodges and homeowners here standardise on it.

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