KAT Laboratory & Medical, who are we?
KAT Medical is a diagnostic company with a team comprising approximately fifteen staff members. The sales team are all qualified Medical technologists with over 85 years of experience in the Medical diagnostic field.
The company has nationwide coverage with the head-office in Gauteng, situated in Roodepoort, and branches in Kwazulu-Natal; Western Cape and Lesotho. Additional branches are being established in various African countries, namely:Zambia, Kenya, Ghana and Botswana.
The service department has engineers which are factory trained by the individual agents and can therefore
provide educated and advanced back-up service for all the products sold. The service engineers are located in all the branches and two at the head office.
Our Product Range...
We are proud to offer a comprehensive and ever expanding range of diagnostic products for the laboratory, hospitals, emergency rooms and doctors rooms. All our suppliers invest plenty of time, effort and money in the research and development of new and innovative products for the diagnostic market, which therefore makes our association with these suppliers a great partnership and ensures the end-user is continually being introduced and exposed to new technologies and products of the highest quality. More...
A brief History...
KAT Medical was founded in 1996 by Keith Dodkins, who has over 30 years experience in the medical laboratory diagnostic market. His ability to grow market share for his employers was proven at Coulter Electronics and Ilex (Instrumentation Laboratory). At Coulter he gained 100% market shares in many of Southern Africa’s countries, as well as increasing the Market in South Africa from 50% to 75%. With IL he took the average annual sales from only 10% of Blood gas orders to over 90% until his departure to start Kat Medical.