
For use in labs for testing of products and experiments.
Pack sizes on request
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay
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.

From the 2024 catalogue — descriptions and pack sizes as published.

For use in labs for testing of products and experiments.
Pack sizes on request
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay

Full range of lab equipment for lab use.
Pack sizes on request
In stock: Windhoek & Walvis Bay
The deeper range from our master product list — stocked or sourced on request. Ask for grades, pack sizes and bulk pricing.


Denatured Absolute Alcohol 210LACE
Denatured absolute ethanol in 210 L drums for industrial and lab use.




Formaldehyde 40% CPACE
CP-grade formaldehyde solution for preservation and laboratory work.











Go Bio Buffer (Pink, Yellow)Biodyne
pH calibration buffer solutions for meters and testers.

Go Bio Conduct Sol (1218, 1413)Biodyne
Conductivity calibration standards for EC meters.


CP — chemically pure — sits between technical grade and analytical (AR) grade: impurities are controlled tightly enough for reliable general laboratory work, titrations, teaching experiments and most QC methods. If your method specifies AR/ACS grade for trace analysis, tell us and we will source it through ACE; but for the great majority of Namibian school, water-lab and industrial QC work, CP is the correct and economical specification. Using industrial grade in the lab is where inconsistent results come from.
Yes — school science rooms are long-standing customers. Reagents come in 500 g and small-pack sizes (potassium permanganate CP 500 g, for example), and we will flag which items on a teacher’s list carry storage or handling requirements a school must meet, such as concentrated acids or chromates. Orders can be consolidated with lab equipment — reagent bottles, silica gel, indicators — into one delivery to the school at the start of term.
Both. The Go Bio range covers pH buffer solutions (pink/yellow), conductivity standards (1413 µS and 12.88 mS), the PC5 pocket tester and a refractometer for brix work — the practical field kit for water plants, pools, agriculture and food QC. Holding standards locally matters: buffers have shelf lives, and a lab that calibrates weekly should not be freighting 500 ml bottles from South Africa. Put buffers on your standing consumables order with your reagents.
Assay labs on the central belt and the uranium province are core customers for this range. Typical lists — permanganate, dichromate, ferric chloride, CP acids and solvents, silica gel, borax flux components — are stocked or sourced through ACE, and delivered on the same freight as your workshop and process chemicals. That consolidation is the practical benefit: one supplier, one account and one hazardous-goods-compliant delivery for lab, plant and workshop.
Quotes the same business day wherever possible — from either branch, delivered across Namibia.