About Catana
CATANA was founded in 2005 and designs and manufactures tooling for aircraft maintenance. Driven by the need of customers to create new capabilities, and with an solid background in component maintenance and tool design the company aims to provide the customers with a complete tooling solution. The development risk is for CATANA and the customers receives a no-risk approach. Obviously there is no need to develop tooling when it can be bought from the market. Therefore we will always start a project by investigating the market for original tooling through OEM's, authorized manufacturers and through our network of other tooling manufactures. We will investigate any request that we receive regardless of the nature of the tooling and will try to provide the customer with an answer.
Engineering
CATANA works with engineers that have over 20 years of experience in designing tools for aerospace. Using latest 3D technology and design software, we build models of the tool in the application such that we can simulate the tool usage before manufacturing. Using the Arinc 668 as a guideline we thoroughly evaluate each tool for its intended usage and its critical design aspects. Each tool is carefully tested, evaluated and validated in the application before it is released to the customer. Whenever applicable we also provide CE-marking with our products. Each tool that we design comes with appropriate documentation to show compliance with the intended usage, which can be downloaded by our customers from this website.
Customers who are using our tools are encouraged to send us their comments about their experience. We strongly believe that the mechanic who has day-to-day experience has the best knowledge about what works best for him. Your feedback is essential in improving our current and future designs.
We are very interested to look into any tooling requirement that you may have and when needed we will come to your location and spend the time needed to make a new or better design (send contact form)
Manufacturing
The tooling that we design is manufactured by CATANA and it's subcontractors. We work with first class companies that have a great expertise in tool manufacturing. With state-of-the-art equipment our suppliers produce tooling and parts for aerospace and automotive industry, but also for manufacturers of semi-conductor and medical equipment in Europe. Using the specific capabilities of our suppliers helps us to build high quality tooling and smart designs.
Tools that are produced by CATANA are clearly marked with the CATANA toolnumber and the OEM reference. Aluminium tooling parts are typically finished with a blue anodized finish, while steel parts get a black oxide finish or nickle plating. We make sure that we use the best suppliers for such finish, to give the tooling the professional presentation.