FHI regularly puts a member – a loyal member for many years or who has just joined – in the spotlight in the new series of FHI Tech Stories. We kick off with CaTeC, a member of the Building Automation and Industrial Automation branches. Johan van Lieverlooy, account manager at CaTeC, gives a brief overview of the company.
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CaTeC focuses mainly on hospitals, cleanrooms, but also laboratories, warehouses and animal shelters, in short, everywhere where air quality and climate is a hot topic. The customers are often the installers and HVAC consultants and validators. |
“We are a supplier of climate sensors for HVAC (heating, ventilation and air conditioning), industry and building management. These sensors measure both indoors and outdoors. Think of weather stations. These sensors form the eyes and ears to manage and control a building and keep the indoor and outdoor climate healthy,” is how Van Lieverlooy outlines CaTeC's activities.
Looking at today's market, the account manager sees a number of developments taking place. “We see that installers buy more based on price. But lower costs can result in lower quality, endangering systems and reliability in the future. Other developments include predictive maintenance, further digitalization of the HVAC market with sensors and integration of I/O interfaces, and the integration of multiple parameters in one sensor/transmitter/probe.”
Continue to innovate
Nothing is more important than being Innovative in the technology sector. According to Van Lieverlooy, CaTeC invests in this in several ways: “We are a technical trading company, so we listen carefully to the customer and have periodic meetings with manufacturers and suppliers. We feed back new developments in the market and market needs to manufacturers.”
“We also focus on fewer maintenance interventions and working more efficiently to save costs, but also to respond to the shortages of technical specialists. We also have most product information available online and a technical department with product knowledge to offer just the extras that customers expect from us.”
CaTec sees the advantage of membership of Building Automation and Industrial Automation that it receives the latest market information from the sectors. The company also participates in FHI events and fairs, such as the biennial World of Technology & Science.
Looking to the future, Van Lieverlooy hopes that the federation of technology sectors will provide even more support: “For example, towards a CO2-neutral future: there may be a possibility for collective purchasing of electricity/gas/energy and, for example, solar panels.”
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