Watericon Chemicals provides a comprehensive range of specialty chemicals for the water treatment industry under our Hydrance brand.

With nearly 100 years of combined experience in the local and global chemical Industries, we have the capacity to produce 400 tonnes of specialty chemicals per day in our 2,000m2 state of the art facility which is ISO 14001 accredited. We run and implement ISO 9001 and 45 001 health and safety systems, and a range of our products hold SABS 1827 certification and NSF certification.  

With nearly 100 years of combined experience in the local and global chemical Industries, we have the capacity to produce 400 tonnes of specialty chemicals per day in our 3,000m2 state of the art facility which is ISO 14001 accredited. We run and implement ISO 9001 and 45 001 health and safety systems, and a range of our products hold SABS 1827 certification and NSF certification.  

  • Products formulated with environmental protection in mind
  • Total water management solutions
  • On-site dosing
  • NSF certifications
  • SABS 1827
  • Tailor-made formulations
  • Our speciality raw materials and manufacturing processes are all ISO:9001 certified

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Specialty Processing Technology

  • Blending/mixing
  • Filtration/extraction
  • Formulation
  • Oxidation reactions
  • Packaging / Repacking
  • Refining/purification
  • Powder Mixing

Products

Specialty dispersants & on-line/off-line CIP Products

  • Polymeric dispersants and organic/inorganic specialty blends as process additives
  • Removal of deposition due to corrosion product and/or precipitated hardness or silica based compounds

Wastewater products

  • Coagulants & Flocculants for liquid-solid separation
  • Specialised products for trace metal and organic removal
  • Disinfection products

Raw / feed water – make-up water

  • Coagulants & Flocculants for liquid-solid separation
  • Specialised products for trace metal and organic removal
  • Disinfection products

Boiler water – internal treatments

  • Oxygen Scavengers
  • Scale & Corrosion Inhibitors – Solubilizing & Non-Solubilizing Programmes
  • Post Boiler/Condensate Line Treatments

Cooling water treatment

  • Scale & Corrosion Inhibitors for lean water, medium water & hard water.
  • Biocides for microbiological proliferation
  • Bio-Dispersants for removal of biofilm and dispersion of organic contaminants

Watericon has supplied water treatment chemicals and Total Water Management solutions to the following companies:

    • Tongaat Hulett – Total Water Management – four mills and the refinery
    • Impala Platinum Total Water Management – base metals
    • AECI Mining – Flocculants and coagulants
    • Hulamin Aluminium – Effluent plant and cooling towers
    • Richards Bay Alloys – Cooling towers and flocculants
    • Clariant – Total Water Management
    • Mamba Cement – Total Water Management
    • ABI-INBEV – Brewery – Total Water Management and disinfection
    • Nissan – Effluent treatment plant – flocculants and coagulants
    • BMW – Total Water Management – seven people on site 24 hours a day.
    • Izizinda Metals – Cooling towers and CLO₂ plant
    • First national Batteries – Process chemicals
    • Columbus Stainless Steel – RO chemicals, flocculants and coagulants
    • Gelvenor Textiles – Effluent plant management
    • Willowton Oils – Total Water Management
    • FFS Refineries – Oil and Gas – cooling towers
    • USA Distillers – Cooling towers, boilers and incoming water
    • Rhodes Foods – Cooling towers and disinfection
    • Nampak Glass – Cooling towers
    • Nuvo Rubber – Cooling towers
    • North Mara (Barrick) – Gold mining – biocides, RO and anti-scalants
    • Zimplats – Cooling, boilers and anti-scalants
    • Kalumbila Coper Mine (FQM) – Cooling towers and wastewater chemicals for sulphate removal
    • Bridgestone Tyres – Boilers, cooling and incoming water

Our chemical brand, Hydrance, represents the latest technological advancements in water treatment chemical solutions. Our unique formulations, which are produced in our 2000m2 facility, surpass industry standards and ensure lower effective costs. Our skilled chemists have successfully tackled some of the most pressing water treatment challenges with their unique blends, from helping an automotive company with sludge removal from their paint process, to changing the chemistry for a leading distillery – effectively eliminating its downtime to clean out scale from evaporators, and solving scale and foaming issues on large mining projects.

We aim to eliminate chemical related equipment maintenance issues and downtime, targeting a 100% scorecard on all agreed upon metrics.

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