Sel Chemie

Quality products since 1947

SEL Chemie BV was founded in 1947. Over the years we have developed a range of chemical products of which the most well-known is our colourless and coloured lamp oil. This is sold under the name The Old Dutch Farmlight®, with the lamp oil being just one of a complete range of products. We are an important player in the European market in this field.

Reliability from high standards

It is a source of pride to us that both the consumer and the professional show a definite preference for our products. This proves that their composition remains at a constant high level. We have also been developing and using safe PET packaging and a child-proof cap for more than 25 years already. Our well-known EasyFill® cap has recently been much improved and fitted with a tamper-evident ring to make it even safer.  

We are constantly busy with innovations in products and processes, responsible entrepreneurship and safety. This means that you know that you will always be purchasing an extremely reliable and sustainable product. More proof of this is that since 1st January 2013 we have been running fully on sustainable current obtained from water power.

Whole process is under own management

We supply products both under our own makes of SEL and The Old Dutch Farmlight® and for various private labels, but we retain all parts of the production process under our own management - from the production of the preforms, blowing the PET bottles, the injection moulding and fitting the child-proof caps up to and including distribution to our customers all over Europe.

Since 2011 we have had a full ERP package used for processing the flow of orders, planning the production process based on the customer- and product-specific recipes, stock management and administration. The incoming and outgoing flows of goods are bar-coded by this ERP package. This allows us to trace the exact composition of every order sent out and to whom and when the goods were supplied. We attach internationally accepted SSCC labels to all deliveries. The package also allows us to connect seamlessly to retailers who work with EDI (Electronic Data Interchange), a digitalized system for ordering, confirming orders, the administration of packer's labels and invoices.

Safety comes first

Many SEL Chemie products are flammable or are manufactured from flammable substances. It goes without saying that we take safety very seriously. The ISO 8317-2003 certified child-proof cap and the well-thought out packaging of our products are good examples of this, but we also do everything possible during the production process to ensure that we work in a responsible manner. We comply with the strict guidelines for processing and the transport of our products for example.