To say 2020 was a little different from previous years would be just about the biggest understatement you could make. People’s lives were turned upside down and the entire world was brought to its knees because of the COVID-19 pandemic. With that said, at Computrols, we did our best to adapt to the situation at hand and came out stronger than ever before.
October is Manufacturing Month, and to celebrate, our CEO, Drew Mire made a short video explaining why we choose to make our products here in the USA.
This year for Halloween, we received a surprise visitor at our Headquarters in Gretna, LA. Despite his best intentions, our uninvited guest was determined to cause mischief. With Q4 around the corner, we couldn’t allow this so we had to find a way to defeat him… Or so we thought…?
Although we typically love hosting our Distribution Partners at our New Orleans-based headquarters and manufacturing facility, the circumstances around us dictated that we move our Annual Distribution Partner Summit to a virtual environment this year. Since we didn’t get the opportunity to take our partners out to dinner and on an excursion this year, we sent them some customized snack baskets for them to chew on while we kept them entertained on their screens.
Triple G Enterprise has become Computrols tenth new distribution partner of 2020. The general contractor, after recently expanding its operations to include mechanical services, has now added a controls division to this arm of the business. Heading up the mechanical division is Roland Garcia, who has a long history of delivering Computrols solutions to his customers.
Building Automation System Integrators, also known as BASi, has recently joined the Computrols ranks as an authorized distribution partner. BASi is based out of Baltimore, MD but services a much wider region including Virginia, Southern Pennsylvania, Georgia, and North Carolina. The two companies align on a number of levels but perhaps none greater than their shared focus on building automation system integration.
partnering with Air-Tec out of Carson, CA, Computrols has inked a deal with it’s 8th new distribution partner of 2020. Despite the ongoing pandemic, the building automation manufacturer has continued to find new partners that match its ethos of putting the customer first, and Air-Tec is no different.
Working with designers, Oldach was starting to get requests from solar panel customers that wanted to take more control of their building automation system. This, coupled with a desire to expand their revenue streams, prompted Carlos Santiago, VP of Sales & Engineering to start looking for their own line of controls…
Tell us a little about yourself… I’ve been a Chief Engineer for fourteen years. I worked at Greenway Plaza from 2001-2019 where I began working with Computrols, and now I am at 600 Congress with Endeavor Real Estate.
Simply put, Computrols provides the most economical-to-own building automation solution on the market today. We empower our users by providing robust yet simple solutions that allow our customers to largely manage their building automation systems in-house.
