ABOUT AURELIA
Two disciplines. One company.
Aurelia Maintenance was formed when Founder & CEO Gert Rossouw and Managing Director Louis Rossouw merged their two companies — Packaging Maintenance and Ekhethelo Maintenance — into a single mother company built to cover both sides of plant reliability: mechanical and electrical.
LEADERSHIP
Meet the management team
Two engineers, two very different routes into the same trade — and the successes that brought them together.
Gert Rossouw
Founder & CEO
- DisciplineMechanical engineering
- BackgroundLeadership roles across the Food & Beverage industry
- FocusHigh-end projects, KPI-driven improvement
Gert built his name on mechanical systems that couldn't afford to fail — the kind of packaging and processing lines where an hour of downtime shows up directly on the plant's bottom line. That track record, running high-end mechanical projects for major Food & Beverage operations, is what grew Packaging Maintenance into a business worth merging, and it's the same standard he holds Aurelia's mechanical work to today: measurable, KPI-driven, and built to last on the plant floor, not just on paper.
Louis Rossouw
Managing Director
- DisciplineMillwright — mechanical, electrical & instrumentation
- BackgroundLeadership roles across the Food & Beverage industry
- FocusHigh-end projects, KPI-driven improvement
Trained as a millwright, Louis earned his reputation the way the trade demands it — by being equally competent in the electrical panel, the mechanical drivetrain, and the instrumentation that ties them together. That full-spectrum grounding, sharpened over years leading high-end Food & Beverage projects at Ekhethelo Maintenance, means a fault gets diagnosed once instead of being passed between specialists. It's a big part of why Aurelia can take on a plant's mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation problems as one job, not three.
WHERE THE MERGER LEADS
Four disciplines, one contractor
What each service line actually covers — and where it fits on a plant floor.
01
Specialised Equipment Maintenance
Mechanical and electrical coverage for the equipment other contractors are reluctant to touch — process equipment, pumps, drives, and control systems that sit outside a general maintenance contract's scope, serviced by the same millwright-trained range of trades the company was founded on.
- Preventive programs built around OEM specifications and real duty cycles, not a generic calendar.
- Predictive & condition monitoring — vibration analysis, infrared thermography, oil analysis, and ultrasonic testing to catch degradation before it becomes a failure.
- Reliability-centred maintenance (RCM) — matching a maintenance strategy to actual failure modes and criticality, asset by asset, not one policy plant-wide.
- Emergency & breakdown response for the failures that happen anyway, with parts logistics built to minimise time to restart.
- Full mechanical, electrical & instrumentation coverage on the same asset — one team, one diagnosis, instead of two contractors and two invoices.
Where this appliesRotating equipment, pumps and drives, process control systems, and packaging and processing lines across Food & Beverage and related manufacturing sites.
02
Conveyor Maintenance
Keeping product moving, line by line, shift by shift. Conveyor systems are one of the most common sources of unplanned downtime on a plant floor — and, with routine inspection, one of the most preventable.
- Routine inspection for the most common failure modes: mistracking, slippage, tears, splice separation, material carryback, and seized rollers.
- Belt tensioning, tracking & splice repair to keep a line running true rather than drifting toward a stoppage.
- Roller, idler & bearing replacement, scheduled ahead of failure rather than reacted to after it.
- Drive system maintenance — motors, gearboxes, and the drive components that keep a conveyor moving at the right speed and load.
- Thermal & vibration inspection to catch a seized roller or a failing bearing while it's still a five-minute adjustment, not a replaced belt.
Where this appliesBelt conveyors, roller conveyors, and other material-handling systems across packaging, processing, and distribution lines.
03
Project Management
High-end projects run by directors who have delivered them before, not handed off to a junior once the contract is signed.
- Scoping, planning & scheduling for capital and maintenance projects, built around the plant's actual production calendar.
- On-site supervision from Aurelia's own directors and senior artisans, not third-party site agents.
- KPI-driven delivery — measurable targets for uptime, output, and plant efficiency set at kickoff and tracked to completion.
- Multi-discipline coordination across mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation trades and subcontractors.
- Documentation & handover — as-built records, commissioning reports, and a maintenance plan for what's installed.
Where this appliesEquipment installations and upgrades, line relocations, shutdown and turnaround projects, and multi-discipline capital works.
04
Site Services & Supplies
The parts and people a plant needs on site, when it needs them — the practical support work that keeps a maintenance program running without gaps.
- Skilled artisan placement — millwrights, electricians, and mechanical fitters supplied to site on scheduled or ad hoc terms.
- Spares & consumables management, shortening the gap between a failure and a repair.
- Inspection records & compliance documentation — calibration certificates and audit-ready maintenance logs, always current.
- Site housekeeping standards that support safe, efficient maintenance work rather than working around clutter.
- Flexible coverage — scheduled shifts, weekend cover, or standby arrangements matched to a plant's risk profile.
Where this appliesAny site that needs consistent access to skilled trades and maintenance materials without carrying the full overhead of an in-house team.
LEADERSHIP FOCUS
What Gert and Louis are building next
For Aurelia's directors, growth means more capability and more trained hands — not just a bigger head count.
01
Growing Local Talent
Employing local, talented artisans and developing them through the same skills and development structure our directors and current team of 30+ staff already provide.
02
Full-Spectrum Coverage
Extending Louis's millwright-trained range across mechanical, electrical, and instrumentation work, alongside Gert's mechanical depth, into every project Aurelia takes on.
03
KPI-Driven Delivery
Holding every project to the same measurable standard both directors built their careers on running high-end Food & Beverage projects.
04
Scaling Without Losing the Craft
Growing from a medium-to-high enterprise toward a large one, with Gert and Louis still personally involved in how the work actually gets done.
It's a directors-led plan: Gert and Louis are personally building the training pipeline that takes Aurelia from where it stands today to a large enterprise, without diluting the hands-on standard the company was built on.
Best possible product output. Best possible efficiencies.
That's what contracting Aurelia Maintenance for your plant is built to deliver — backed by directors who've run KPI-driven projects across the Food and Beverage industry, and a growing team of skilled artisans behind them.
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Tell us what's running, and where it keeps failing. Our management team will start with an asset criticality review before recommending a single work order.
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