Industrial Water Cooling (IWC) is a manufacturer of
cooling towers in
South Africa
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. The company’s headquarters are in Isando,
Johannesburg
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.
The company primarily supplies cooling towers to the following industrial sectors: power generation; mining; petrochemical industries; sugar; steel; food & beverage; air-conditioning and
refrigeration.
The company has undertaken projects for companies such as
Sasol
Sasol Limited is an integrated energy and chemical company based in Sandton, South Africa. The company was formed in 1950 in Sasolburg, South Africa and built on processes that were first developed by German chemists and engineers in the early ...
,
ArcelorMittal
ArcelorMittal S.A. is a Luxembourgian multinational steel manufacturing corporation headquartered in Luxembourg City. It was formed in 2006 from the takeover and merger of Arcelor by Indian-owned Mittal Steel. ArcelorMittal is the second larg ...
, Foskor, and
Eskom.
History
IWC was founded in 1986. In September 2011, the South Africa-based private equity investment management company, Medu Capital, acquired a 62% equity interest in the company.
In 2013, IWC entered into an agreement with Danish
plate heat exchanger manufacturer Sondex to supply its replacement plates and gaskets in sub-Saharan Africa.
In the same year IWC opened a
glass-reinforced plastic
Fiberglass (American English) or fibreglass (Commonwealth English) is a common type of fiber-reinforced plastic using glass fiber. The fibers may be randomly arranged, flattened into a sheet called a chopped strand mat, or woven into glass cloth ...
manufacturing facility in Isando, Ekuhleni, one of only two GRP plants of this kind in South Africa.
Acquisitions
In August 2014, IWC announced the acquisition of Tektower, formerly known as Sulzer Cooling, a South African-based cooling tower manufacturer, to expand its African operations. Tektower now operates as a subsidiary of IWC.
In September 2014, the company acquired the Vectus Pipe system from Fiberpipe;
a pipe system manufactured from glass fibre reinforced polyester and vinylester and widely used in the oil and gas, shipbuilding and offshore industries.
References
{{Witwatersrand companies
Construction and civil engineering companies of South Africa
Manufacturing companies based in Johannesburg