Est. 1978 · SWACO Group — on the move since 1933
Namibian Manufactured Cleaning Chemicals — formulated, blended and trusted since 1978
Cernol Chemicals is a 100% Namibian owned and managed, SABS ISO 9001:2015 registered manufacturer of formulated chemicals — most of them biodegradable. Liquid and powder detergents, degreasers, sanitizers, water treatment and speciality chemistry, blended at our own Windhoek factory. 115 products. One manufacturer.
Manufacturer, not reseller
Formulated & blended at our own factory in Windhoek’s Northern Industrial Area.
SABS ISO 9001:2015
Registered quality system with full batch traceability on every product.
Majority biodegradable
Most Cernol formulations are biodegradable — built for Namibian tenders and conditions.
100% Namibian
Namibian owned & managed since 1978 — around 20 Namibians employed.
Product categories
From sanitizers and degreasers to fire-fighting foams and water treatment — the full formulated range, mapped the way customers buy it.
Acids & Descalers
Namibia’s borehole water is hard, and everything that heats or moves it scales up. Cernol’s descaling chemistry — Chloracid 90 with corrosion inhibitor, Limex for daily lime, Dicafas powder, Magnus 88XL and Magnus 614 — is blended in Windhoek for exactly that water.
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Air Care & Odour Control
Air Sanitizer that kills airborne germs rather than masking them, Potent for problem odours, air fresheners for ambience and deo blocks for washrooms — odour control formulated in Windhoek for cabs, kitchens, hostels and factories.
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Dairy, Food & Beverage Hygiene
The three-step food-plant cycle — alkaline clean, acid step, sanitizer — plus butchery, smokehouse and equipment cleaning, all formulated by Cernol in Windhoek for Namibia’s dairies, breweries, butcheries and Meatco plants.
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Degreasers & Heavy-Duty Cleaners
From MPC Degreaser on engine parts to Magnus 755 in a decarbonising bath, Cernol’s Windhoek-blended degreasers cover workshop, mine and factory grease in Namibian conditions — including dip-tank chemistry you can re-use rather than replace.
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Fire-Fighting Foams
Cernol supplies RLF 4 training foam to Namibia’s fire brigades, airport rescue services and industrial fire teams — the concentrate that lets crews drill foam evolutions through their real equipment without consuming expensive certified operational stock.
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Floor Care & Floor Powders
Cernol’s floor powders — Magnus 92 for workshops, pine-fresh Biopine for factories and hostels — plus dressings, strippers and carpet chemistry, formulated for the dust, grease and heavy traffic of Namibian floors.
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Hand & Skin Care
From Penetone heavy-duty hand cleaner in the workshop to Chemkleen bactericidal soap at the food-factory basin and Antisep 100 at the door — Cernol covers the hands of the Namibian workforce, summer and winter, workshop and washroom.
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Horticulture & Agriculture
One remarkable mineral, three Namibian jobs: Vermiculite aerates compost and carries moisture and nutrients evenly through the root zone in the nursery, insulates roofs against desert heat and winter cold, and doubles as a spill absorbent on workshop floors — all from Windhoek stock.
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Industries we serve
The segmentation behind our range: from transport depots and mines to fish factories at Walvis Bay, laundries, schools and fire brigades.
Automotive & Fleet
Dealership valet bays, car washes, government vehicle fleets and service workshops share a chemical list that Cernol has been blending for decades: Nukleen car shampoo, GPL at the wash bay, Magnus chemistry in the service bay, tyre and trim care, and the rust and radiator products that keep older fleets on Namibia’s roads. The automotive list is the transport sheet at passenger-vehicle scale.
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Engineering & Workshops
From jobbing workshops in Prosperita to heavy engineering serving the mines, Namibian workshops run on a familiar chemical stores list: degreasers, solvents, hand cleaners, floor powder, grease and crack-testing kits. Cernol manufactures most of that list in Windhoek and carries the agency lines (Ardrox, Penetone) for the rest — one supplier, one delivery, technical answers from the people who blend the product.
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Fire Brigades & Airports
Namibia’s municipal brigades, airport rescue and fire-fighting services and industrial fire teams buy their working chemistry from Cernol: RLF 4 training foam for the drill calendar, Ardrox NDT kits for the equipment-certification cycle, and the everyday station list — appliance wash, silicones, degreasers, floor powder and quarters housekeeping — that keeps vehicles, equipment and crews serviceable.
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Fishing & Marine
The Erongo coast processes most of Namibia’s fish, and its factories face EU export-hygiene inspection while its boats fight salt, fuel bugs and fouled coolers. Cernol covers both sides from one order: the fish-factory hygiene set (Antisep 100, Sypo, PSP Powder, Greasolv, T2 Blue) and the marine workshop chemistry (Magnus, Solvene, Phoskleen, Vecom B80, Chemicide No 7) — stocked at or routed through our Walvis Bay agent minutes from the harbour.
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Food & Beverage
Namibia’s food producers — dairies, the breweries, town butcheries, Meatco-scale meat plants and poultry farms — run their hygiene on chemistry Cernol formulates in Windhoek: the 3-step alkaline → acid → sanitizer cycle, chlorinated cleaners for floors and equipment, and the smokehouse, pot-wash and hand-hygiene lines that complete a plant.
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Hospitality & Facilities
A Namibian lodge is a hotel, restaurant, laundry, pool operation and water plant on one remote site — and its chemical order should recognise that. Cernol’s hospitality range (its own 2025 catalogue) covers housekeeping, kitchen and laundry in 5 L / 25 L / 5 kg / 25 kg institutional packs, with the pool, boiler and septic chemistry that keeps the back-of-house running, all in one delivery from Windhoek.
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Our own ranges — manufactured in Namibia
Magnus, Biopine, Antisep 100, Laundet, the dairy-hygiene chemistry and more — formulated and blended at the Windhoek factory.
Antisep 100 & Sanitizer Range
Made in NamibiaOwn Cernol formulations — manufactured in Windhoek
Cernol’s sanitizer stable covers every disinfection chemistry a Namibian operation needs: Antisep 100 alcohol hand antiseptic (WHO-compliant), Sypo chlorine sanitizer, Tetramine 2008 QAC, Hydrosan peroxide sanitizer, Steripine washroom disinfectant and Air Sanitizer for airborne control. Having all chemistries under one roof is what makes the recommended 6-month sanitizer rotation practical.
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Biopine
Made in NamibiaOwn Cernol formulation — manufactured in Windhoek
Biopine is Cernol’s pine floor-powder line — the institutional floor standard in Namibian hostels, schools, factories and on fishing vessels. It cleans hard floors with a mild abrasive scrubbing action and leaves the pine-fresh signature that generations of Namibian institutions associate with a properly cleaned floor.
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Cernol Dairy & Food Hygiene
Made in NamibiaOwn Cernol formulations — manufactured in Windhoek
The chemistry behind Namibian milk, beer and meat: PSP Powder and Klenz 12 alkaline cleaners, Acidet acid cleaning for stainless equipment, Hydrosan peroxide sanitizing rinse, Pansolv and Smokehouse Cleaner on the equipment side, and the rotating sanitizers that complete the 3-step cycle. Formulated in Windhoek, run in dairies, breweries, butcheries and Meatco-scale plants.
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Cernol Fire Training Foam (RLF 4)
Made in NamibiaSupplied by Cernol — fire-service training foam
RLF 4 training foam — supplied to Namibian fire brigades, airport rescue services and industrial fire teams from Windhoek so crews can drill real foam evolutions through their own appliances without consuming expensive certified operational stock.
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Cernol Laundry Range (Laundet & Bioblitz)
Made in NamibiaOwn Cernol formulations — manufactured in Windhoek
Cernol’s laundry stable runs from Laundet C high-temperature commercial powder through Bioblitz one-shot economy, Supreme, Syndet cold-wash and T2 Blue hand-wash, to the professional spotting kit — P.O.G, Standout, Purple Magic, Rustaway. Every powder and spotter blended in Windhoek for Namibian water and Namibian laundries.
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Cernol Water Treatment (CCW 5 & Chemicide)
Made in NamibiaOwn Cernol formulations — manufactured in Windhoek
CCW 5 closed-circuit corrosion inhibitor with its built-in indicator, and Chemicide No 7 diesel-tank biocide — Cernol’s treatment chemistry protects the cooling circuits and fuel tanks of Namibian mines, fleets and vessels running on the country’s hard, scarce water and unforgiving heat.
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Agency & partner lines
Specialist international lines we carry alongside our own chemistry — stocked locally with technical back-up.
Ardrox
Agency lineAgency line — Cernol is the Namibian stockist and distributor
Ardrox is the internationally recognised NDT and specialist-maintenance chemistry line that Cernol carries as agent for Namibia: dye-penetrant crack-testing kits (996PB penetrant, 9D1B developer, 9PR5 remover), Ardrox 185 rust remover and Ardrojel hand cleaner — stocked in Windhoek instead of air-freighted per job.
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Penetone
Agency lineAgency line — Cernol is the Namibian stockist
Penetone industrial hand cleaner is the paste that Namibian mechanics reach for at the end of a greasy shift — carried by Cernol as an agency line and listed on nearly every workshop segmentation, traditionally as the “summer” hand cleaner paired with the gentler Elite in winter.
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Vecom
Agency lineAgency line — Cernol is the Namibian channel for Vecom marine chemistry
Vecom is the Dutch marine-chemicals specialist whose products Cernol channels to the Namibian fleet — headlined by Vecom B80 Aircooler Cleaner, the in-service treatment that keeps charge-air coolers on fishing-fleet diesels transferring heat, backed by the wider Vecom marine cleaning portfolio on indent.
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Windhoek factory, agents at the coast
Manufactured in the Northern Industrial Area, delivered countrywide — with our Walvis Bay agent minutes from the fishing factories and the port.
Cernol Chemicals Windhoek — Factory & Sales Office
Cnr Kallie Roodt & Etienne Rosseau Street, Northern Industrial Area, Windhoek
Tel: 061 262 985 · Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00
The factory and sales office share one site in the Northern Industrial Area, so collection orders are usually ready the same day and technical questions can be answered by the people who actually blend the product. Reach us off the Western Bypass via Kallie Roodt Street — we are on the corner of Etienne Rosseau Street.
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Cernol Agent Walvis Bay (Swachem)
4th Street East, Walvis Bay
Tel: 064 204 865 · Mon–Fri 08:00–17:00
Our coastal agent is Swachem, a fellow SWACO Group company on 4th Street East — minutes from the fishing factories and the port. Fish-factory hygiene sets, boat chemicals and water treatment are stocked or brought down on the regular Windhoek run, and vessels in port can be supplied by arrangement.
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Buy directly from the manufacturer
Tell us the job — the soil, the surface, the water — and the people who blend the product will specify it. Same-day quotes where possible.