Heritage Cases

Richbay have various chemical manufacturing plants situated across Southern Africa and produce a variety of commercial and industrial chemical products for the South Africa and international market. Due to the Port of Durban becoming progressively unstable and unreliable, as well as international shipping schedules being hampered by various geopolitical matters, the receiving of imported chemicals required by the various processing plants have become erratic and therefore place a bottleneck on delivering the final product to the South African market. In addition, exporting to international markets has become backlogged and Richbay no longer has sufficient capacity to store the raw products or manufactures product. As such the warehouse is required to cater for additional storage in order for backlogs in shipping not hamper the ongoing operation of the Richbay facilities or supply to markets. The proposed warehouse will therefore act as a buffer to receive the imported chemicals, ensure packaging is adequate, quality checks conducted, and a small volume of stock will be available at the warehouse. The products will therefore be readily available for their chemical manufacturing facilities. Richbay has also grown in volume throughput (has been in existence since 1978) and it has now become necessary to construct a warehouse that can store and distribute their products between the branches. This need combined with the export/import product buffering as a direct result of the global shipping constraints are elevating the necessity of such a warehouse.