It’s difficult to imagine a time before digitized turbomachinery control systems, yet a little more than 50 years ago, these essential algorithms were pneumatic and limited. Productivity was simply defined as designing efficient, reliable machines. That all changed with the pioneering work of CCC’s co-founder, Naum Staroselsky. His six patents paved the path to a thriving new industry around computerized turbomachinery controls — and a first adopter that he and his co-founders aptly named Compressor Controls Corporation. Fifty years and two billion hours of operational experience later, CCC is continuing to lead the way in an operational landscape where productivity is becoming synonymous with autonomy.
As CCC celebrates a half-century of innovation and leadership, we’re looking back to the milestones that define our company, the compressor controls space and the customers we serve. But we’re also looking ahead to all that we’ll accomplish as part of the Honeywell family. Whether you’re a CCC customer, team member or partner, an OEM or operator, an industry veteran or just embarking upon your career, we invite you to join us on a journey into turbomachinery controls innovation — one that will shape our industry’s secure future well beyond the next 50 years.
Five Decades of Compressor Controls Progress
Like the industries we serve, the CCC story is dynamic and ever-evolving. Discover the milestones that shaped our company and today’s turbomachinery controls landscape.
Driving Optimizations Across the Industrial Value Chain
Since our founding in 1974, CCC has steadily expanded its global footprint and impact across the industrial landscape. With each passing decade, we have grown our install base across LNG, petrochemicals, floating production storage and offloading (FPSO) and refineries — and we’re continuing to reach new milestones. The breadth and depth of our experience, which spans industries and processes, allows us to tailor solutions to even the most complex applications.
At CCC, innovation is in our DNA. Over the last five decades, we’ve helped our customers stay ahead of an ever-changing industrial landscape through proven innovation and unmatched domain expertise. As organizations navigate an exceedingly complex landscape, we’re committed to evolving our solutions accordingly — empowering our customers to not only succeed today, but to be prepared for what’s next.
- Investing in Next-Generation Technologies: We’re leveraging the latest technologies to help our customers embrace digitization, reduce cybersecurity risks and achieve a turbomachinery HMI that unlocks connectivity and collaboration.
- Maximizing Value Through Product Life Extension: To maximize customer value, CCC is investing in streamlined migration solutions for each product family. This initiative extends across all CCC products.
- Delivering Groundbreaking Integrations: We will continue to prioritize vendor-agnostic solutions that allow end users to utilize our technologies across numerous assets. One example of this commitment in action is CCC Inside, which integrates with leading DCS systems from Honeywell and Yokogawa.
- Supporting Sustainability: With a proven track record for unlocking energy savings and process optimization, CCC will continue supporting our customers’ energy transitions and sustainability initiatives. Our controls solutions for CCUS, hydrogen, alternative fuels and bridge fuels such as LNG are already delivering value across the new energy ecosystem.
- Tapping Into Honeywell Synergies: Our synergies with Honeywell will accelerate our innovation and technology deployment, to the benefit of our customers and partners worldwide.
Testimonials
As we celebrate our company’s remarkable 50th anniversary, I am filled with immense pride and gratitude for being part of this incredible journey for the past 20 years. My adventure began in the US in 2005, where I had the privilege of working with some of the most talented and dedicated professionals in the industry. The experience was only the beginning of a global odyssey that took me to Milan, Italy in 2006, and finally to Abu Dhabi in 2007.
In Abu Dhabi, I witnessed firsthand the phenomenal growth of our Middle East team, expanding from a small group of just 7 people to a robust team of 60 highly skilled professionals. This growth is a testament to our collective dedication and the strong foundation of excellence laid down over the years.
Taking on a new position in 2019 to cover both the Middle East and Asia Pacific regions, I have seen our teams not only grow in numbers but also in expertise and capability. It has been exhilarating to celebrate the opening of new offices in China and India, which marked significant milestones in our expansion. Our team’s ability to continually enhance their skills and knowledge, adding immense value to our customers, is truly inspiring.
One of the most rewarding aspects of my journey has been meeting our customers and hearing their positive feedback. Their appreciation for the exceptional service we provide is a powerful reminder of why we do what we do. It’s a testament to the hard work and dedication of every team member across the globe.
The recent acquisition by Honeywell is another exciting chapter in our story. Hearing the positive market feedback about the CCC brand underlines the strong reputation we have built and continue to uphold.
Celebrating our company’s 50 years is not just about looking back at our past achievements, but also about looking forward to the future with optimism and confidence. I am incredibly proud of what we have accomplished together and eagerly anticipate the continued growth and success that lies ahead.
Here's to many more years of innovation, excellence, and shared success. Happy 50th anniversary!
Harald Stappers General Manager CCC EURA
I started on January 1st, 2015, as Sales Group Director for the regions Europe and Africa plus supporting Trinity business. Besides a warm welcome, CCC directly got me involved in all aspects of their business and gave full trust in me to develop and roll out one of the new initiatives. Just new in the company meeting with my colleagues in the region I went in the second week of my employment to our headquarters in Des Moines this to take part in a Strategic planning exercise. One of the outcomes was for me to develop, own and roll out Account Management tools and skills development of the Global sales team. For me this was a clear indicator that CCC can make decisions fast, give ownership and always look for challenges to keep on par or better with market demands.
Personally, this Account Management initiative was a good exercise because I was able to meet the Global team and learned, fast track, all about the Global organization. It also directly showed me the trust a company has in their (newly hired) employees. Overtime the organization changed to a more regional focused business and gave me a new challenge as General Manager and becoming part of the Leadership team with one of the first tasks to steer through Covid and remotely manage the organization. Besides having some close friendships developed within the organization it became very clear to me this is a real family, taking care of each other in good and bad times! Whenever you need a form of support there is always help available at any time and without any hesitation a friendly call during the weekend about other stuff can happen also. This is the real foundation of the CCC organization. Everyone in CCC feels this support, we trust and support each other and that’s why customers rely on us because we will solve their problems and we will take care of them at any time and by us all.
My hope and trust is that we will remain this family feel, being agile, fast responder and seen as the TMC specialist, this is who we are and created the base for the trust we have from our customers over the last 50 years, if we maintain this while benefitting from a bigger organization to grow and develop more solutions for our end-users I think we have a bright future in front of us.
Congratulations to my CCC colleagues for these 50 years, being a proud team member!
Omar Sabry Account Manager, Saudi Arabia
Celebrating 50 years of CCC feels like commemorating a family milestone! Since I became part of the team in 2016, CCC has transcended being merely a workplace; it’s been my second home. I remember when I first came on board, leaving my previous job and relocating to a new country to join CCC as a Project Engineer. Despite the magnitude of the change, it resonated with me immediately. As I reflect on my time at CCC, I'm reminded of the remarkable strides we've made. It's a source of immense pride to be part of an organization that leads the way in such a critical aspect of our industry and to see the respect they have for CCC in the eyes of our customers.
It's remarkable how swiftly the years have passed, propelled by the wealth of learning and exposure provided within the organization. Over the span of 8 years, I've had the opportunity to undertake three distinct roles and work in two entirely diverse regions. Through ups and downs, it's the relationships that have made it all worthwhile. The people at CCC aren't just colleagues; they are companions, guides, and at times, even like family. I've relied on them for support, celebrated successes together, and grown alongside them.
As we look ahead to the future, there's a new chapter waiting to be written. Regardless of the changes that may unfold, one aspect endures: our connection as members of the CCC family. As long as we stick together and stay true to who we are, I have no doubt that CCC will continue to be a place we're proud to call home. Here's to commemorating 50 years of cherished memories, valued friendships, and collective experiences. And here's to many more years of building something we can all be proud of, together.
I started working with the CCC control systems on the first of July 1991 within the Honeywell service department Special Products. It was expected to work 50% on Honeywell products and 50% on CCC equipment (start-up and commissioning). At that time, we still had a 2 months’ probation period but after one month I was already flying to Des Moines for training at CCC headquarters. This started with a turbo machinery seminar presented by Naum Staroselsky, founder of Compressor Controls Corporation. His deep knowledge together with the energy and enthusiasms he showed during the seminar really impressed me. That, together with the other great colleagues (some still with the company) was a warm welcome within the family atmosphere and that is what has stuck with me first couple years working with CCC.
After 6 years working as a field engineer, being from home a large part of the year, personal reasons forced me to move to a different role in the company. In 1997 I became a Honeywell Sales Engineer dedicated for CCC products until 2000 when Honeywell and CCC decided to part ways. Being part of the CCC Team in The Netherlands, we left Honeywell, and I moved to the CCC systems engineering department where we delivered some great projects in the EurA region. After 5 years I left CCC for a couple years but remain working in the turbo machinery control business. In this period, I learned that the grass is not always greener at the neighbor and returned in 2012 back at CCC, mainly because CCC is truly dedicated to turbo machinery controls without any other distractions from other business.
Nowadays I am working within the field service department as field coordination manager and thankful for being part of this great team with coordinators and field service engineers performing start-up and commissioning of CCC equipment worldwide. Still there is this family atmosphere I remember from the early days and if someone needs support, we can be assured that the necessary support will be provided, even if we are called in the middle of the night.
Over the years I have seen CCC growing business and employees in all places of the world which is based on the hard work and dedication of the people. Our clients do appreciate our knowledge in understanding the challenges and our capabilities to control the most difficult turbomachinery applications.
Prasad Adavi, Advanced Systems Engineer
It has been 8 wonderful years at Compressor Controls Corporation - CCC [by Honeywell]. My earlier experience was all about control system engineering, but here at CCC its not only controls but got to know the final control elements, critical measurement devices validation & multiple controls characterizer calculations – a full circle exposure & continuous learning for a controls system engineer.
To be honest, I understood the importance of “Mass Flow” compared to “Volumetric Flow aka Rate Flow” after joining this organization only. Life here revolves around hand calculations involving gas compressibility factor, isentropic factor, temperature, pressure, and density etc., which really satisfies the soul of an “Engineer”.
The “aroma” of knowledgeable engineers around to validate any questions any time! The CTO – Staroselsky Serge, The O&G Encyclopedia – Zaghloul Medhat, The CCC Flag bearer - Negley Paul, The Wizard of CCC Hardware Johnson Ben [to name few] always there to answer any questions.
CCC being a small team [~ 310 globally] – the collaboration happens naturally between sales, engineering, field services, development teams & it reflects in quick turn-around in providing resolutions to customer issues. I recollect an experience where the tuning of speed control loop of a steam turbine [prime mover] was completed in few hours with the synchronized effort between Field Engineer+Project Engineer+Services Lead and the gas compressor was loaded satisfactorily.
This organization has helped in enriching my knowledge on control strategies, field devices, process – I am sure this is the place to build the career of any “Engineer” - to gain the knowledge & become confident to meet future challenges!
Santina Martino, CCC Europe Controller
I’ve been working for CCC for 13 years. I remember the day a started my journey, when I opened the door and one on my colleagues welcomed me: it was the beginning of an amazing personal and professional growth. Since the first day, I felt part of the CCC family.
When I joined the Italian Finance Team, my responsibilities were initially restricted to a limited role. I was totally engaged and committed to do more and better. Few years later my manager left, I had the opportunity to become the new Italian Finance Manager, than the Controller and now I’m the European Controller. In ten years, I had a tremendous growth. I must thank the Company and my Managers who believed and gave me the possibility to go over my known limits and do what I can do best, every day.
CCC culture drove me during my journey: integrity, career opportunity, broad communication top-down and vice versa, respect at any level of the organization.
I have the privilege to work and interact with international teams where cooperation, flexibility and listening are key elements. The secret of our success is the strong engagement and the willingness to help each other, we face challenges together as a group.
Several good memories come to my mind about the past decade, it’s quite impossible to list all of them but the one I like most is related to the Innovation week organized in 2019: I took part of the event organized in Des Moines and, because I didn’t want to miss the one organized in the Milan office scheduled for the same day, I joined via Skype. It was really funny as at that time video calls were not popular as of today: among the others, there was a cooking challenge and the only regret I have is that I didn’t have the possibility to taste the dish that won the competition!
I wish CCC to share and retain its strong culture, continuing to be such a great place to work.
Sia Joo Chia Field Engineer Asia Pacific area
Working at CCC has been an incredible experience for me. CCC offers excellent working experience with the opportunity to get involved in diverse projects. The supportive culture from my manager and other function departments are truly amazing. I am proud to be a part of such of this company!
I joined CCC in year 2015
I’m Field Engineer based in Singapore.
I participated to Many great projects during past 9 year. Especially new refinery plant in Vietnam. This project allows me to learn the entire refinery process with all kinds of compressors applications. Most importantly the collaboration of every involved CCC departments from project to final commissioning was fantastic!
