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NEWSMAKERS

Bart Otten

President, United Technologies Corp.

Fire & Security EMEA

Maritime Reporter talks with Bart Otten, President,

United Technologies Cor- poration Fire & Security

EMEA, at this year’s biggest maritime trade show, the

Nor-Shipping Exhibition, regarding the company’s

Joint Maritime Approach.

By Henrik Segercrantz

Otten heads the Fire received much media coverage through tion stand at Nor-Shipping. “I have been ever, to S.S. Normandie. Today Carrier and Security Busi- the sales of the Sikorsky Aircraft busi- working in the ? re and security industry Marine & Offshore operates globally.

Bart ness Unit of UTC in ness to Lockheed Martin Corp. for 27 years. Our Fire and Security busi- Autronica Fire & Security has sup-

Europe, Middle-East and Africa both for UTC Building & Industrial Systems ness goes from a simple extinguisher plied ? re and gas safety systems since the land and marine business sides. He business is the world’s largest provider to the entire ? re suppression system of 1957 and has, as Marioff, references on- is also in charge of United Technologies’ of building technologies with some Marioff and detection systems by Au- board thousands of vessels. Marioff, the entire Marine business initiative. Based 118,000 people, 77 factories, 48 R&D tronica but includes also video cameras originally Finnish company that invent- in the Europe head of? ce in Brussels, Ot- centers, and some 2,500 branch of? ces and access control.” ed the HI-FOG high pressure water mist ten, a Dutch citizen himself, has worked around the world, and representing ap- We talk about the history of Otis, ? re suppression system, was acquired by within the UTC Group since 2007. proximately 45% of consolidated sales. which has been in business for more UTC in 2007. Other well known brands

United Technologies Corporation pro- Otten heads the global marine business- than 160 years, and which delivered its and companies owned by UTC include, vides a broad range of high-technology es development initiative of UTC which ? rst marine elevator to the U.S. Navy among others – Automated Logic, products and services to the global aero- includes the marine business of the well in 1915. “With Otis elevators we are re- Chubb, Kidde, Lenel, and Onity. space and building system industries. known Otis elevators, Carrier air condi- entering into the marine space.” UTC Maritime Reporter learned that UTC

Listed on The New York Stock Ex- tioning and heating systems, Autronica acquired the Spanish Enor marine el- is today focusing more on a joint ap- change net sales of UTC in 2014 were Fire & Security and Marioff, two other evator company in 2012, to re-enforce proach in its sales to the maritime indus- $65.1 billion. UTC employs more than companies well known to the maritime its marine elevator applications. “Here try. “The companies have an individual 212,000 people. In 2013 Thomson Re- industry. “UTC is a 65 billion dollar we are not in a leadership position from approach towards the customer, but if uters listed UTC among the world’s 100 business globally. If you look into the the market segment point of view, but I we are negotiating some big projects most innovative companies, and UTC individual brands I would say Autronica, would say we are more and more in a with the large shipyards or ship own- ranks number 45 on Fortune Magazine’s Marioff and Carrier are leading brands leadership position from the technology ers, we will see more and more a joint list of 500 largest U.S. companies. UTC within the marine segment. In quite a point.” Also the other companies have a large-scale UTC approach towards these is well known for its aerospace and de- number of cases we have a very strong long history. customers. We say – Hey, we do not only fense products, among them Pratt & position in the marine segment,” Otten Carrier was established in 1902. It sup- offer Autronica or Marioff but we also

Whitney propulsion systems. It recently tells Maritime Reporter at UTC’s exhibi- plied the ? rst ocean liner HVAC system offer Otis elevators and Carrier and what 12 Maritime Reporter & Engineering News • SEPTEMBER 2015

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