Namibia Chemicals – Windohek – Namibia

Namibia Chemicals is a chemical producing company based in Walvis Bay founded in 2015 by Immanuel Hango, a Civil Engineer by profession who also holds an MBA in entrepreneurship from Steinbeis University, Berlin. Through this company, he innovated and patented a solution to produce chlorine for water purification (to fight cholera) by electrolyzing salt using solar. His idea was selected Semi-finalists in the Technology Idea GIST (Tech-I) 2015 competition by the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and the US Department of State. Immanuel has since given a Ted talk about his innovation solution and in 2016, he met President Barack Obama in Washington as part of the Mandela Washington Fellowship for Young African Leaders program. In May 2017 he was invited to Pitch at Oxford Africa Conference’s Innovation Fair and in 2018, his startup was selected as the finalist for Dubai Expo Live Innovation Impact Grant. Namibia chemicals was also selected as one of the 50 top innovators who exhibited their solutions at the African Innovation Fair 2018, held in Kigali.