diff --git a/src/array_interface.jl b/src/array_interface.jl
index 8359b5fa..3b7c0342 100644
--- a/src/array_interface.jl
+++ b/src/array_interface.jl
@@ -20,7 +20,7 @@ function Base.cat(inputs::ComponentArray...; dims::Int)
     combined_data = cat(getdata.(inputs)...; dims=dims)
     axes_to_merge = [(getaxes(i)..., FlatAxis())[dims] for i in inputs]
     rest_axes = [getaxes(i)[1:end .!= dims] for i in inputs]
-    no_duplicate_keys = (length(inputs) == 1 || isempty(intersect(keys.(axes_to_merge)...)))
+    no_duplicate_keys = (length(inputs) == 1 || allunique(vcat(collect.(keys.(axes_to_merge))...)))
     if no_duplicate_keys && length(Set(rest_axes)) == 1
         offsets = (0, cumsum(size.(inputs, dims))[1:(end - 1)]...)
         merged_axis = Axis(merge(indexmap.(reindex.(axes_to_merge, offsets))...))
diff --git a/test/runtests.jl b/test/runtests.jl
index 8560eae3..729fdc57 100644
--- a/test/runtests.jl
+++ b/test/runtests.jl
@@ -482,6 +482,7 @@ end
     @test ldiv!(tempmat, lu(cmat + I), cmat) isa ComponentMatrix
     @test ldiv!(getdata(tempmat), lu(cmat + I), cmat) isa AbstractMatrix
 
+    @test !(vcat(ca, ca2, ca) isa ComponentVector)
     for n in 1:3  # Issue 168 cats (on more than one) ComponentArrays
         vca2 = vcat(repeat([ca2'], n)...)
         hca2 = hcat(repeat([ca2], n)...)