Chemin

Chemin is a not-for-profit South African chemical technology incubator and business incubator.

It falls under the Small Enterprise Development Agency’s incubation programme, which is dedicated to supporting the growth of very early-stage technology-based businesses in the South African chemical sector.

Chemin provides clients with an exceptional entrepreneurial business environment that promotes collaboration and innovation and encourages ingenuity as well as the creation of wealth.

Chemin's offerings

Incubation services

• Low Technology Incubation Model
• High Technology Incubation Model
• The Cosmetic Enterprise Accelerator

Enterprise development

Laboratory services

• Metals
• Detergents
• Water
• Coal tests
• Petroleum products tests
• Pharmaceutical tests

Technical services

• Product development technology
  • Idea screening – to eliminate unsound concepts prior to devoting resources to them.
  • Concept development and testing – investigation of intellectual property issues and searching patent databases.
  • Business analysis – estimating the selling price, based on competition and customer feedback.
  • Technical implementation – new programme initiation and finalising quality management systems.