Makeean Polymers CC are taking off fast as local manufacturers catch on to the advantages of dealing with a truly South African company.
Everything is manufactered in Pretoria and transported to their branches in Durban and Cape Town. They export to Mozambique, Zimbabwe and Namibia and are looking at the Seychelles as a potential new market.
With offices in Pretoria, Cape Town and Durban we are well positioned to serve clients throughout the country.
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Makeean Polymers CC might be the smallest of the four polymer producers in South Africa but they are taking off fast as local manufacturers catch on to the advantages of dealing with a truly South African company. Makeean Polymers are as South African as boerewors and braaivleis with the high flying Macfarlanes, who also have their feet firmly on the ground, at the helm. A passion for flying runs deep in the veins of the owner of the company, Wayne Macfarlane who holds his pilot's licence. Wayne has a commercial helicopter pilot's licence and flies a Bell Jetranger III for a helicopter charter company which they own. Wayne's father, Ian Macfarlane started Makeean Polymers about 22 years ago when they where making paint from a small premises in Schoeman Street, Pretoria. The closed corporation was registered in September 1977. As a young entrepeneur and a new kid on the block Ian Macfarlane tried to stay out of the clutches of the cartels run by major suppliers. He stopped buying polymers from two suppliers who were in the cartel and installed a 2500 litre jacketed vessel which unfortunately kept on wanting to collapse inwardly and went into the polymer business himself. This was not without trial and error and Ian tells of how he scooped up half baked emulsion which boiled over until het discovered that this would not happen if he held back one of the chemicals. He bought a chiller and it went quite well, despite the temperamental kettle, until one of the big manufacteres reported him to the health inspectors. Ian could not produce an operational licence for the health inspectors who were kind enough to tell him who had filed the complaint.
From their tiny office/laboratory in downtown Pretoria they moved to Waltloo where the company was based for 16 years before moving to premises which Ian specially designed in Samcor Park, Pretoria and which the company owns and occupies today. "We've had our fair share of boil overs," Ian, who started out in making surf boards in Cape Town, used to say.
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