Profile of Mr. L R Katrat

Laxman Katrat MD & CEO

Mr.Katrat is Chartered Engineer (IETE) and having more than 36 years experience as practicing Engineer and has traveled from as Trainee in Tata Group Company to present post of MD & CEO of Katlax.

Mr.Katrat after completing Engineering (Electronics & Communication) in 1973 , started career with Tata Group's NELCO in 1974 and worked in Product Development. Then he joined Central Govt. Services (Min of I&B) in 1975 and left Govt. Services in March, 1976 after realizing limitations of pursuing passion for independent creative work as he was never comfortable with routine work.

He then joined Aplab Ltd. and worked till 1979 in different positions in Sales & Servicing (Marketing) before he took up entrepreneurship. During his association with Aplab, initially he was in charge for Company's Sales & Service network in Gujarat, MP & Rajasthan Region and finally he was heading North Region operation operating from New Delhi. It was the rich experience in Technical & commercial Field in Aplab and association with Gujarati community pushed him into world of entrepreneur.

During end 1979 till 1985 he was CEO of Partnership Firm IMEC engaged in Power Line Equipments and in 1985 he started B+K Engineers which is holding Company of Katlax. B+K Engineers was associated with number of Japanese, Taiwanese & US Companies as their Indian partner and actively promoted business partnership between these companies and number of IT and Equipment manufacturing start up companies from India.

Established Katlax in 1993 as manufacturers of Sensors & Automation products, with moderate beginning in small rented residential Apartment. It focused on development of import substitution products for Capital Equipments manufactures such as Textile, Plastic Processing machine, Printing, Packaging etc.

During these years it expanded in Terms of product portfolio, customer base and market reach. Today it operates from State of Art manufacturing facilities located at Santej near Ahmedabad in Gandhinagar District.

To get into Global Bench marking and manufacturing practices, the Company has realized in its early stage importance of various Systems and invested considerably in building various Quality Systems & Accreditations.

The Company is ISO 9001 certified since 1997 and meets stringent Quality Certification/Recognization such as IP-67/68 weather proof conditions, Intrinsic Safety Certification Ex for hazardous Area Application, IEC etc and Registered with statutory bodies like BIS, PESO (Petroleum Energy & Safety Organization), DGFASLI (Min of Labour) and complying to international standards such as RoHS, CE, UL, cUL.

The Company under leadership of Mr.L.R.Katrat who is Founder Director & MD-CEO of Katlax has achieved excellent growth and respectable Brand acceptance by Indian and number of customers spread across more than 25 countries of 5 continents. Mr. Katrat has created ambitious growth plan for Company and is confident to pursue through Qualified & Experienced professionals and make Katlax as one of the most respectable and dependable Sensors & Automation Company. By setting 3 SBUs, the Company is defining its growth trajectory and creating independent profit and growth centers at the same time build core competency in each product group and remain market centric.

Mr.Katrat has widely traveled in many Asian & European Countries as Business Visitor, Member of Trade Delegations, and Participant in Technical/Marketing Courses and is active Member of Trade Associations such as CII, FICCI, GCCI, AIA, EU Chamber of Commerce, Indo German Chamber of Commerce.

Mr.Katrat strongly feels that by 2020, efforts made by present generation entrepreneurs of Indian Origin will pay good dividends as products and service with "Made in India" label will carry mark of respect and assurance. Hence the present generation cannot ignore basic fact that the journey which started with Globalization will bring more opportunities but be bold to face challenges and do not deviate from path of ethics and values.