About Us
About KrielTech
KrielTech is a South African technology company dedicated to helping businesses improve profitability, efficiency and sustainability through innovative AgriTech, FoodTech and MedTech solutions.
Founded by Gerhard Kriel, KrielTech combines practical industry experience with technology-driven innovation to solve real-world challenges across agriculture, food production, healthcare and community development. Our mission is to create solutions that deliver measurable value while strengthening industries and improving quality of life.
With over 30 years of industry experience, we offer practical, impactful solutions for agriculture and food technology.
Direct access to CEO Gerhard Kriel
Only proven, internationally validated technologies
Full importer and distributor support
National footprint
20+ years in Agri/Food/MedTech leadership
Patent holder: CoolMilk Rapid Chilling Centre
Our Advisory board
BIOGRAPHY OF Prof. Celia Hugo
Professor Celia Hugo is a food microbiologist and academic at the University of the Free State, South Africa, with more than three decades of experience in teaching, research, and postgraduate supervision in food science and food microbiology. She holds a B.Sc., B.Sc. Honours, and M.Sc. in Microbiology, and a Ph.D. in Food Science from the University of the Free State, where her research has focused on food microbiology, microbial taxonomy, food safety, dairy microbiology, meat science, and food preservation.
Professor Hugo has established an internationally recognised research profile, particularly in the taxonomy and ecology of psychrotolerant Chryseobacterium species, foodborne microorganisms, and microbial food safety. Her research also encompasses meat and dairy microbiology, natural preservatives, sodium-reduction strategies, shelf-life studies, and the development of safer, more sustainable food products. She has authored and co-authored more than 100 peer-reviewed scientific publications, book chapters, and conference contributions, with her work receiving widespread international recognition and citation.
As an educator, Professor Hugo teaches undergraduate and postgraduate courses in food science and food microbiology and has supervised more than 100 postgraduate students. Her commitment to academic excellence is reflected in her sustained research productivity, active participation in national and international scientific collaborations, and contributions to national and international professional societies, including being a professional member of the South African Association for Food Science and Technology (SAAFoST), professional natural scientist of the South African Council for Natural Scientific Professions (SACNASP), professional member of the South African Society of Dairy Science and Technology (SASDT), professional member of the South African Society of Microbiology (SASM) and Secretary of the International Subcommittee on the Taxonomy of Aerobic Bacteroidota.
BIOGRAPHY OF Prof. Ryk Lues
Ryk Lues is Professor in Food Safety, Director of the Centre for Applied Food Sustainability and Biotechnology and holds the Research Leadership Chair in Food Safety Culture and Sustainability at the Central University of Technology, South Africa.
He specialises in Food Safety Culture and has lectured, supervised, published, advised and presented extensively on food safety-related topics in scientific and social media. He has lectured and moderated widely, both locally and at Michigan State University in the US.
He serves on national and international specialist, regulatory and legal advisory teams and has held a number of leadership positions in faculty and academia, including Vice-President of the South African Association of Food Science and –Technology. He has been NRF-rated since 2001.