Our Mission and Approach
IWT Chem was founded to provide better, more personalized customer service by an industry professional who has seen customers needs become secondary to the goals of the vendor providing them services. We work to help customers improve energy management, improve utilization of water resources, and reduce risk in their processing facilities by utilizing best available technologies to their fullest.
Our Story
Years of working with Chlorine Dioxide has led us to create an extremely safe and effective system for treating Fruit and Vegetable Flume waters. Realizing the importance of Chlorine Dioxide in the Michigan marketplace as a best available technology for cooling tower biocide treatment and fruit & vegetable washes led us to create IWT Chem.
Over years of servicing food industry customers, we realized our service was critical to the success of our chemical programs. The need for excellent service drove us down the path of creating modern systems to help our customers fully realize the best results of their chemical programs. This is important for safety, efficiency, and to help reduce labor for maintaining chemical programs in your facility.
Our Founder and CEO
Mike Harney
Mike pursued his dream of playing Division I Soccer by attending Michigan State University after graduating from Gull Lake High School. During his time at MSU he studied Chemical Engineering, graduating with a Bachelor of Science degree in 1991.
Mike began his Chemical career in the nineties working for the largest company in the industrial water treatment chemical business. Being hired into a newly formed group focusing on the biology and chemistry of wastewater treatment he became one of the most valued experts in the State of Michigan.
Working for a midwestern regional water treatment chemical company Mike worked closely on improving a Chlorine Dioxide generating system for safer and more efficient method of bringing Chlorine Dioxide to the middle market food processor.
His experience with chemically treating fruit and vegetables in Michigan has helped many customers rest easy at night knowing their products will be pathogen free.