BuildingCareers started from Haarlem and began as a recruitment and selection agency for engineers. Responding to increasing demand, the network grew rapidly. Corus IJmuiden, now Tata Steel, is one of its regular clients.
In 2008, BuildingCareers started posting engineers together with SAB. Primarily in response to demand from Tata Steel, but also for other clients. In addition to this partnership, BuildingCareers also remained active as a recruitment and selection agency.
IJmond has developed over time as an important center for industry and we feel like a fish out of water here. We are particularly at home in the manufacturing industry and industrial maintenance. It is very important to us that technical education in the region is good, and that there will also be enough well-trained technicians available in the future. Retraining, upskilling, innovation and talent development play a major role in this, which is why we would like to support Techport.
Robrecht Bakker
www.buildingcareers.nl
Harsveld Apparatenbouw supplies the chemical, oil, gas and steel industries. Harsveld Apparatenbouw has the capacity to manufacture, assemble and install process installations. Harsveld specializes in: piping, tank and pressure vessels, heat exchangers, plate constructions and processes all stainless and heat-resistant steels, incoloy, inconel, monel and titanium. Harsveld Apparatenbouw does this in a high-quality manner, with an open culture, wants to unburden customers, pays attention to reliability and job satisfaction, as well as safety and health of customers and employees.
Harsveld believes it is important to share knowledge with young people and motivate them for engineering and the manufacturing industry. Cooperation with companies in the region with schools, businesses and governments is important and innovations and stimulations to achieve a circular society. This by sharing knowledge, gaining inspiration and creating opportunities together to ensure continuity for the company and the manufacturing industry in this region.
We recognized early on the impact of digitization on the paper market and as a result have become a market and knowledge leader in paper for high speed inkjet printing. We have also developed products for specific applications in labels and packaging. Our focus is on establishing close partnerships with customers and creating added value. With 240 employees and almost 125 years of experience in quality paper, we look to the future with confidence.
Crown van Gelder, together with other Techport partners, wants to ensure well-trained technical personnel and development of innovative preventive maintenance concepts (smart maintenance, sensoring and big data).
Plastic Rigid Packaging. That has always been our strength. Ever since our founding in 1935. We began as a trading company in the heart of Amsterdam, started making packaging in the late 1960s and have since grown into a European player. We are still not the biggest, but we dare to say that we are a forerunner. Our Research and Development team has a very high level of knowledge of technology, products, the market and the latest developments and innovations. It makes us stay one step ahead every time.
Bilfinger Engineering (formerly Bilfinger Tebodin) is a multidisciplinary consulting and engineering company with many years of experience worldwide. Engineering for greenfield plants or modification and modernization projects for brownfield plants: Bilfinger provides the optimal solution for our customers in terms of efficiency and sustainability for process plants in various industries. The team of 4,000 consultants and engineers in 27 countries is able to offer customers a full range of services, including consultancy, design and engineering, project management, procurement and construction management.
Because they contribute to important transitions around the process industry, a good contact with the innovative manufacturing industry is of great importance. Techport catalyzes this innovative focus and joins forces to clarify and address current challenges. Bilfinger Engineering hopes to gain additional inspiration and knowledge so that they can align services for their customers with the latest practical solutions available.
Wouter van Gerwen
Bilfinger Engineering
We are a mechatronic engineering firm that has specialized in providing customer-specific custom solutions in industry for over 20 years, from concept phase to delivery. We are the party you go to when you want something to work or work better. We specialize in providing solutions for situations where things have to be done right the first time. That's why we do many projects for organizations in aerospace, sub sea tooling, offshore as well as heavy industry, food and pharma. Every company that wants to deploy a machine, a robot or specific tools, to support its primary process or in providing its services to third parties, has come to the right place! We have recently opened a branch in Vianen to be able to help customers elsewhere in the Netherlands as well.
We were actually involved in Techport from its inception, so it is only natural that we are now making it official by becoming members. This region deserves to maintain its manufacturing industry. We have to be careful that we only have services here. Because of such a Covid-19 crisis, you see how dependent we are on foreign manufacturers for products that we can actually produce here as well, and often even better. That is why we would like to help grow the manufacturing industry in this region.
BSE Ymond has become a specialist in the field of aerial work platforms and (special) machine construction. For various applications in greenhouse construction, railroad work and industry, BSE Ymond has developed and built machines for these entirely under its own management. In close cooperation with our customers, new concepts are developed or existing machines are modernized and/or overhauled. Because of this, BSE Ymond has an excellent reputation in the field of innovation and development of new machines.
Our engineering department has the most modern tools, for the design and strength calculation of new and existing machines. With us, the complete engineering (mechanical, hydraulic, electrical, pneumatic) is done in-house, which allows us to quickly respond to the needs of our customers.
Our own workshop is fully equipped for construction and maintenance of many different machines for our customers. By maintaining short lines between engineering and production, we are very flexible.
In order to serve our customers as well and as efficiently as possible, BSE Ymond has a number of very fully equipped mobile workshops. This allows any machine failures on location to be remedied very quickly and preventive maintenance to be carried out.
We became a partner of Techport because in the IJmond region there are many companies that make beautiful products and have an enormous amount of knowledge. If we can combine this knowledge then every company can grow to a higher level. After all, two know more than one. We hope that we can bring the level of knowledge of our company and of the companies within IJmond to a higher level by working together. And that we can enthuse the youth to go into engineering.
Jaap Beentjes
www.bseymond.nl
Through our predictive maintenance, machine learning, artificial intelligence, intelligent fuel reduction systems and cyber security, we are boosting the maritime sector. Artificial Controlled Technology (ACT) is the winner of the 2020 Techport Challenge. The Techport Challenge is part of GO!-NH Accelerator. ACT applies artificial intelligent and self-learning software that keeps track of the status of (wearable) equipment, can make predictions on failure and take action for self-maintenance and preventive maintenance of technical equipment in a wide area. Here the focus is on maritime and wind turbine industry.
Our goal is to share experiences and input together with Techport and to make each other better and help each other work towards a more sustainable world. The Fieldlab Smart Maintenance is one of the intriguing ways for us to see, learn from and optimize practical developments. Together with Techport, we want to make the world a better place and spread the word to others so that they, too, are inspired to think and measure along towards a more sustainable future.
Intures Industry specializes in asset integrity management. Jarno Water himself describes his company as a cross between an inspection and maintenance consultancy: "Our range of services is very broad and therefore unique. We perform maintenance inspections using 3D models and an in-house developed inspection database. We conduct research into the condition and residual life of factories and production installations and support clients in determining immediately necessary maintenance, investment costs and in drawing up long-term maintenance plans.
In addition, our project management team provides support for maintenance tenders and ensures that maintenance activities are carried out by companies within the desired quality, safety and lead time during the implementation phase. This includes maintenance of (heavy) steel and concrete structures, stairs railings landings, conveyor belts, cranes, crane tracks, silos/bunkers, buildings and factory halls."
Intures has been a Techport company since 2020 and a Techport Plus company since January 2024.
We are a growing machine factory and service organization focused on the manufacture of machinery and machine parts. We also specialize in overhaul, repair, maintenance and management of mechanical engineering installations. In addition, we are a supplier to the aerospace industry.
Microtechnology became a partner because, together with Techport and other member companies, it wants to make a strong case for the future of the manufacturing and maintenance industry and a healthy labor market.
Clement Kieftenbelt
www.microtechniek.nl
With our own branches in 84 countries and nearly 21,000 employees, we supply reliable, safe and durable components to machine builders and end users in industry.
SMC Netherlands has headquarters in Amsterdam, which includes an engineering department and its own training center where groups can be hosted. In Eindhoven, the SMC Technology Center is located. With an assembly department, a chiller service and a clean room, important support to industry is provided there.
With 35 sales engineers throughout the country and good availability at technical wholesalers, SMC is always nearby. SMC International Training is globally active in education and training in pneumatics, mechatronics, industrial automation and industry 4.0.
SMC Netherlands-headquartered in Amsterdam-has strong regional ties to North Holland. As the knowledge partner for safe and sustainable technology in industrial automation, SMC is therefore happy to be involved with education and companies in the Techport region.
We work with IBM Maximo and IBM PMQ, with many application possibilities and proven effectiveness and functionality. In addition to EAM solutions, Gemba IoT offers complete solutions for industrial companies in the field of IIoT. We advise, implement and ensure that the employees within your organization can handle the new IoT possibilities. Our people are distinguished by a high level of knowledge and a practical approach. We take a no-nonsense approach with room for customized solutions.
Gemba actively cooperates with customers and partners to ultimately bring the best IoT solutions into production.
Techport's diversity of companies and innovation issues provides an opportunity for Gemba to participate in solutions and meet new partners to professionalize our areas even more broadly .