A Quarter-Century in the Flow

Armed with a phone, 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, so he moved to a slightly less cramped office in Leamington Spa in the English Midlands, determined to build his business selling clamp-on flow meters.

Andrew Sutton, now the managing director of Katronic in the UK, was the first employee back then, after Karsten saved him from a life in the bureaucratic world of banking. As a result, he is now the go-to person for everything from application details and the wide-ranging possibilities of device configuration to the mundane aspects of everyday office life. Instead of filling out forms and denying mortgages, 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, and additional branches in France and the U.S. Karsten himself has established a production facility in his hometown of Wernigerode and based the research and development department in Germany, where new products are designed and engineered. Katronic flow meters are sold through a network of distribution partners around the world, from the mining industry in South America to the petrochemical industry in Kazakhstan, the plastics industry in South Africa, and wastewater treatment in South London.

As we continue to grow and evolve, we are deeply grateful to the wonderful team of people we work with—our employees, our global partners, our customers, and our suppliers. We’re excited to see where we’ll go next.

Keep calm—and clamp on