About Industrial
Water Cooling

Roger Rusch has been in the business of designing and building cooling towers for IWC for more than 25 years. As IWC’s Managing Director, he relies on his experience which ranges from project engineering and management, to development of proposals for cooling towers and complete cooling systems to commissioning, performance testing and troubleshooting of existing equipment.

Gordon Beckett has been with IWC for 21 years and has been extensively involved in numerous projects including both package, new field erected cooling towers, as well as project managing large refurbishment projects on natural draft and mechanical draft cooling towers. Gordon has an excellent quality and safety record and currently holds the position of Projects Manager for IWC.

Carlien Burger has more than 18 years working experience of which, the last 13 years have been at a Financial Manager/ Director level. She has a demonstrated history of working in the auditing, municipal, agricultural and construction industries. Carlien holds the positioning of General Manager at IWC and is responsible for Finance, HR, Compliance and Risk management. Carlien has a Bachelor of Commerce Honours degree in Accounting (CTA).

Louw Nagel recently joined IWC as a thermal applications engineer. Louw is a chemical engineer who graduated Cum Laude from the University of Pretoria. He has a Honours Degree in Technology Management and a Master’s Degree in Engineering. Louw is also registered as a professional engineer at the Engineering Council of South Africa. He started his career at a coal fired power station as a process engineer where he was responsible for the condensers, feed heaters and natural draft cooling towers. Louw has over 7 years’ of experience in the engineering, operating and maintenance of different types of heat exchangers. Louw is perfectly positioned to assist in any thermal engineering application and related queries.

Christine Storey is the Marketing and Communications Manager at IWC. Her expertise lies in brand and digital development, from strategy through to brand design and digital management and rollout. Having spent most of her working years in the design and branding industry, she is perfect for the role of managing and growing the IWC brand. Having been instrumental in the initial brand refresh of IWC in 2012, she has overseen the brand from afar, and now since joining in March 2020, refreshing and realigning the brand once more.

Khumbu joined IWC in 2020 as a SHE Coordinator looking after the Health and Safety Compliance at the Sasol Synfuels Unit 245 cooling tower refurbishment project.

Khumbu was recently promoted to SHEQ Manager, and she is responsible for the Occupational health and safety, environment and quality assurance of the organisation. She supervises and coordinates ISO systems within the organisation to ensure IWC meets the highest quality standards and that working conditions on our various projects are favourable and safe.

Throughout her 10 year career, Khumbu has worked on various petrochemical and construction projects including the construction of 3 renewable energy plants in the Northern Cape (Bokpoort Solar Plant, Xina Solar Plant & Kathu Solar plant).

With her vast construction and petrochemical experience and exception work ethic, Khumbu is the perfect candidate to watch over the team at IWC.