...Looking back a 100 years

Established in the early 1900’s, the Natal Chemical Syndicate was formed to manufacture methylated and rectified spirit for the South African tanning industry. In 1959 the world experienced a decline in the demand for vegetable tanning materials and in 1960, under license from Scott Bader Company Ltd (UK), the production of unsaturated Crystic polyester resins, gelcoats and pigment pastes commenced. 1961 saw the cessation of the production of rectified spirits and the name NCS Plastics came into being.

In 1988 NCS Plastics was purchased by the Sentrachem Group, a large diverse South African chemical company, already producing polyester resins, with a strong technology base and several license agreements, including Reichhold. The name was changed to NCS Resins.

The 1990’s saw NCS Resins establish a new manufacturing facility in Isipingo, to compliment the existing Pinetown complex, as well as the purchase of BIP (SA). In turn, the Dow Chemical Company purchased Sentrachem in 1997.

In 2001 NCS Resins returned to private ownership through a simultaneous merger with Vereguard (Pty) Ltd, an importer of UPE resins and a management buy-out from Dow-Sentrachem assisted by an equity partner, Brait SA.

Currently

The company retained its identity as NCS Resins (Pty) Ltd and operates under a technology license agreement with Reichhold to manufacture the Norpol, Polylite, Hydrex and Dion brands, as well as continuing with their own technology. A complete package of ancillary products, accessories and processing equipment is also distributed. These include a wide range of peroxide catalysts, glassfibre reinforcements (NCS manufactures Owens Corning products and is their representative in SA), release agents etc.

NCS Resins has modern manufacturing and laboratory facilities in Isipingo and Pinetown, both in the Durban area, and sales branches in Durban, Port Elizabeth, Cape Town and Johannesburg. NCS Resins is one of the largest UPE and gelcoat manufacturing facilities in the southern hemisphere and exports product throughout Africa, the Middle East and Indian Ocean Islands.

NCS Resins manufacturers to the ISO 9001:2000 quality management system with the aim of supplying the highest quality products at competitive prices, with excellent technical backup, after sales service and deliveries.

Many market sectors are supplied, from sanitary ware, transport and construction to marine, leisure and chemical process plant.

Into the Future...

With 100 years behind us, NCS Resins now looks forward with optimism to the next 100 years! The company will use the products and technologies our partners have to offer to grow and diversify our business. We will harness the skills of our business in Australia to establish ourselves as a player of note while expanding our footprint in Africa.

An exciting and challenging 100 years ahead as we face up to the huge changes we confront – but always based on our core values of respect for our people and absolute integrity in our conduct – these are the only constants in our lives and not subject to change.