VDL Nedcar, the only car factory in the Netherlands to offer serial production for third parties, has today produced the millionth car for client BMW Group. Today, this milestone was commemorated together with the more than 4,000 employees of the car factory in Born in Limburg.

VDL Groep takes a major step forward in digitalising production and business processes for placing on-demand orders for metal products. The launch of the new OrderOn.com platform puts laser cutting and trimming within reach of the entire manufacturing industry at a single click. Flexible, well-organised and custom-made. As many as you require, when and where.

2021 was a hectic year for VDL Groep. External factors caused substantial turbulence. Nevertheless, the industrial family business in the high-end manufacturing industry with its head office in Eindhoven showed resilience: despite the fact that it did not achieve the results realised before the coronavirus pandemic, 2021 brought recovery. The year 2022 has once again been marked by turbulence due to external factors. However, VDL Groep continues to invest and innovate.

Marjan van Loon will join the Supervisory Board of VDL Groep on 1 February 2022. Immediately after graduating in Chemical Engineering at Eindhoven University of Technology, Van Loon (1965) started working for Shell in 1989. Since 1 January 2016, she has held the position of CEO of Shell Netherlands at this multinational.

After VDL Groep itself announced on Thursday, 7 October that it was the target of a cyber attack, the industrial family business with head office in Eindhoven announced today that its 105 operating companies are almost completely in business. By restoring ‘clean’ data from the timely secured backup environment, locally digitally safe environments have been created and all VDL companies have been able to continue to recover their production activities. Thanks to adequate action by our employees, the damage was limited to a maximum of one day’s worth of data loss.

Dutch companies, knowledge institutes and industry associations join forces in a new innovation program called Battery Competence Center. In this way, the collaborating parties want to build up knowledge and competences in the field of battery technology and strengthen the competitive position of the Dutch manufacturing industry. 

You may be aware VDL Groep has been hit by a cyber-attack. For security reasons, immediately after the attack, we disconnected and isolated all our systems from the outside world, to contain the attack and to protect customers, suppliers, other partners and employees.
In the interest of the investigation of this cyber-attack we are unable to make any further announcements at this time. We ask for your understanding. All the supportive responses and assistance from home and abroad are heartwarming, thank you very much.

VDL Groep and the University of Twente (UT) will intensify their partnership to further high-tech development and production. The two parties have signed a contract to invest in joint research, supported by Holland High Tech (the executive office of the Top Sector High Tech Systems & Materials (HTSM)). The contract involves millions of dollars.

VDL Nedcar has taken an important first step towards securing its long-term future. Based in Born (Netherlands) as part of VDL Groep, the vehicle manufacturer will produce cars for Canoo. This startup from the United States intends to have cars produced at VDL Nedcar until at least 2028. Both parties signed a contract yesterday.

VDL Groep continues to strengthen its ‘smart’ mobility position. Between the end of this year and mid-2023, VDL Automated Vehicles will be supplying as many as 77 automated guided vehicles (AGVs) to Hutchison Ports ECT Rotterdam (ECT), one of the leading and most advanced container terminal operators in Europe. The contract is valued at tens of millions of euros.

For VDL Groep, 2019 was a challenging year in which we saw our turnover and profit fall for the first time since the crisis year 2009. Nevertheless, in view of the market conditions, we look back on 2019 with satisfaction. Below is a summary of some of the important events of 2019:

VDL Groep consolidates its market position for automated guided vehicles (AGVs). Until 2023, VDL Automated Vehicles will supply no fewer than 80 electric and autonomous vehicles to port operator PSA. From 2021, these vehicles will be used for container terminal logistics at PSA Singapore’s Port. The order involves tens of millions of euros.

VDL Groep in Eindhoven has succeeded in achieving the growth forecast for the first six months of 2018. This industrial family business recorded a combined turnover of 3.1 billion euros for the first six months of the year, which is an increase of 29% compared with the first six months of 2017 (2.4 billion euros). In the first six months of 2018, the operating profit increased by 3 million euros in comparison with the same period last year. The financial result after taxes for the first six months was lower than the same period a year before, being 69 million euros in comparison with 75 million euros. This difference is primarily due to the possibility to profit from several sources of extraordinary income. The total order portfolio (excluding the Car Assembly division) has grown across the board, from 769 million euros at the end of 2017, to 957 million euros in mid 2018, which is an increase of approximately one-quarter. In the space of just one year, the number of individuals employed by VDL Group increased by 11 percent to 17,238 employees in mid 2018.

VDL Automated Vehicles was present at Terminal Operations Conference (TOC Europe) leading exhibit for port & terminal technology from 12 to 14 June.

VDL Groep has founded a new production firm in the US state of Georgia. VDL Industries Gainesville is based in Hall County. This district is close to Atlanta, the major industrial, trade and financial hub of the Southeastern United States. VDL Industries Gainesville will become operational in September 2018, eventually providing jobs to around 100 employees.