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The Department of Trade and Industry’s Black Industrialists Scheme aims to unlock the industrial potential that exists within black-owned and managed businesses through deliberate, targeted and well-defined financial and non-financial interventions. Launched in 2016, the transformation policy has produced many success stories. This is one of them.
Keeping things clean and green is the name of the game for Kevali Chemicals. The proudly South African industrial chemical manufacturing company was founded in 2014. It is the first black manufacturing company within the chemicals, pharmaceutical and plastics sector, focusing on hygiene and sanitation, water treatment and adhesives.
Kevali – another success story to come out of the trade and industry department’s Black Industrialists Scheme – is proud that it offers solutions, not commodities.
It is a black-owned enterprise that holds a Level 1 broad-based BEE certification.
Kevali means “supreme knowledge” and that is the nexus of its business model – to provide solutions to customers’ everyday challenges and opportunities.
As Kevali puts it: “Using supreme knowledge to design and offer solutions that offer supreme value.”
The company provides its customers with solutions to ensure safe food and beverage products for the end users. The cleaning and sanitising solutions consist of formulated products for bottle washing, chemicals for manual cleaning and sanitising, conveyor lubrication solutions, processing and environmental sanitising.
Food and beverage processing comes with a great deal of risk related to food-borne pathogens and the resultant illnesses. Kevali offers quality products to ensure food safety through the maintenance of high hygiene and sanitation standards.
Kevali provides water treatment solutions to the following industries: power generation; petrochemical and refining; steel; mining; pulp and paper; automotive; and food and beverage manufacturing.
Kevali also supplies its customers with a range of environmentally friendly adhesives for their labelling and packaging – the range consists of water-based adhesives.
So far, the company has made a total investment of R34.5 million. The trade and industry department approved funding of about R8 million and Kevali obtained debt funding of R35 million from the Independent Development Corporation.
The modern technology was installed through the Black Industrialists Scheme, and the plant in Harrismith in the Free State has been fully commissioned. The company employs 57 permanent people – an important issue in the area, which has an unemployment rate of about 42%.
Kevali exports its products to Swaziland, Namibia, Zimbabwe, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Tanzania, Kenya, Uganda, Madagascar and Rwanda. It will soon start exporting to Botswana, Malawi and Ethiopia.
Kevali has well-established relationships with critical international technology partners, enabling it to offer its customers’ operations quality, cost-effective and sustainable solutions.
The company cares for its consumers. In the hospitality industry, it offers hygiene products and solutions to ensure a clean and safe environment. Staff training and audits ensure not only protection of people, but also create an environment for optimum guest satisfaction.
In the healthcare sector, it provides solutions to ensure sanitation and disinfection to eradicate infections and maintain clean, sterile environments so that high-quality patient care can be given.
In the textile industry, Kevali provides commercial laundry chemicals that are supereffective, and offers high-quality cleaning and low-energy solutions.
For buildings and facilities, Kevali offers dispensing solutions that compliment facility aesthetics and ensure minimum product wastage.
In the food services industry, it supplies a range of products for surface and wash ware care. Staff are trained to ensure food safety and adherence to standards. Hazard analysis and critical control points is a systematic preventive approach to food safety from biological, chemical and physical hazards in production processes that, if not applied, can cause the finished product to be unsafe. Kevali designs measures to reduce these risks.
It also provides green solutions for the reduction of electricity and water usage. So, if you need clean and green solutions, Kevali is the way to go.
