A quarter of a century in the flow

Armed with a telephone, a desk, a dream and a vision, the young Karsten Frahn, with his tousled hair, decided that the office under the stairs in his house in Coventry was too small, and moved to a slightly less cramped office in Leamington Spa in the English Midlands, determined to build up his business in clamp-on flowmeters.

Andrew Sutton, now Managing Director of Katronic in the UK, was the first employee at the outset, after Karsten had saved him from a life in the bureaucratic world of banking. As such, he is now the point of contact for everything from application details and the wide-ranging possibilities of device configuration to the mundane aspects of everyday office life. Instead of filling in forms and turning down mortgage applications, Andrew has spent his working life in boreholes, been deployed on oil rigs and inspected water pipes all over the world.

Twenty-five years later, Katronic is a global manufacturer of measuring instruments with far more office space, its own production facilities, a significant increase in staff numbers and further branches in France and the USA. Karsten himself has set up a production site in his home town of Wernigerode and established the research and development department in Germany, where new products are designed and technically developed. Katronic flowmeters are sold through a network of distribution partners all over the world, from the mining industry in South America to the petrochemical sector in Kazakhstan and the plastics industry in South Africa, right through to wastewater treatment in South London.

As we continue to grow and develop, we are very grateful to the fantastic team of people we work with – our staff, our global partners, our customers and suppliers. We are excited to see where we go next.

Keep calm – and clamp on