Company Formation and Values Base 

CATER grew from a strong desire to improve the services and products available to the rail infrastructure industry worldwide.

Formed
Fairclough Corporation Pty Ltd was formed to improve rail flaw detection (RFD) accuracy, repeatability and ease of use. This led to the development of the ULTRAWave RFD and RIPWave analysis systems.

With our continued expansion, we opened the Centre for Advanced Transport Engineering and Research (CATER)  to meet the growing demand for technical research and product development.

Our company was formed in 1996 and was fully operational by January 1997. Initially, we concentrated on improving service and maintenance support for rail instrumentation systems. This has expanded into a successful product range offering electronic computer track measurement and advanced user-orientated software systems.

Core Values
 We regard most highly the moral and ethical values of openness and honesty towards our customers, suppliers and employees in all dealings with them as partners to deliver the best services and solutions.

Our guiding principles of

• ease of use

• high reliability
  
• ease of maintenance
• cost effectiveness
• industry standards
• a regard to core culture issues 

are considered for the best possible solutions for our customers. 

Our Staff
CATER employs a core staff of technical experts and draws on a wide pool of consultants from University and specialist areas.

We are located in Perth, Western Australia and have extensive experience in working overseas - especially in Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Switzerland.