Kunal Shah, Ph.D., President, LiloTree

As we are a custom cable harness manufacturer, Covid has affected our business as it has many other companies. We have had to adapt to the changes in the work environment with many of our office staff working remotely, adopted additional preventive protocols such as hygiene policies, disinfecting of work spaces and limiting close contact of employees in manufacturing.

In the beginning of the pandemic, there was uncertainty as we saw many of our clients pull back a little and other clients that were quite busy. Early on, we did see some supply chain issues but those issues improved as the year went on.

In 2021, we are hoping for a better year than 2020 with the rollout of the vaccine and we have focused our business model that way based on the trends that we have seen in the 4th quarter of 2020. We still have plans to release new products such as a new Low Smoke Zero Halogen Shielded-Jacketed cable to stay ahead of the industry.