Douw Gangel

Douw Gangel is an experienced environmental and engineering professional currently serving as the Environmental Manager at Columbus Stainless (Pty) Ltd, where responsibilities include ensuring legal compliance with various environmental authorizations. Gangel's career at Columbus Stainless began in 2004, progressing through roles such as Area Manager for Raw Materials, overseeing safety, quality, and production performance for a department of 29 employees, and Quality and Control Engineer, managing the raw materials sampling program. Prior experience includes serving as a Process Engineer at PPC Cement SA, focusing on process sampling for a high-output cement plant. Douw Gangel holds Bachelor of Technology degrees in Quality from the University of South Africa and Chemical Engineering from Tshwane University of Technology.