Vanderlande

Vanderlande Industries B.V.
Private limited company
Industry Material handling
Logistics automation
Predecessors Machinefabriek Van der Lande N.V.
Rapistan-Van der Lande N.V.
Founded 1949 (1949) in Veghel, Netherlands
Founder Eddie van der Lande
Headquarters Veghel, North Brabant, Netherlands
Area served
 Worldwide
Key people
 Govert Hamers (CEO)
Products Warehouse automation
Baggage handling systems
Parcel & postal sorting systems
Revenue $1.051 billion (2014)[1]
Owner NPM Capital (91%)[2]
Number of employees
 3,800 (2015)[3]
Parent Vanderlande Industries Holding BV
Website www.vanderlande.com

Vanderlande is a material handling and logistics automation company based in Veghel, Netherlands. In 2014, the company reported revenue of $1.051 billion making it the world's fifth-largest materials handling systems supplier.[4]

More specifically, Vanderlande is a global market leader in baggage handling systems for airports. Currently more than 600 airports in the world are using Vanderlande's baggage handling systems, including 17 of the 25 largest airports in the world.[5]

Apart from its headquarters and innovation centre in Veghel, Vanderlande has additional production and service locations in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, India, South Africa, and the United States. Vanderlande employs more than 3,800 people worldwide.[6]

Prime Minister of the Netherlands Mark Rutte visited Vanderlande in 2014, during one of his business trips to the province of North Brabant


References

  1. ↑ "Top 20 systems suppliers, 2015". ModernMaterialsHandling. 1 April 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015.
  2. ↑ NPM Capital – Vanderlande Industries BV, 2015
  3. ↑ "Vanderlande forms strategic IT partnership with Stansted Airport". Bloomberg. 21 April 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015. Established in 1949, Vanderlande has more than 3,300 employees, all committed to moving its customers' businesses forward at diverse locations on every continent.
  4. ↑ Josh Bond (1 April 2015). "Top 20 systems suppliers, 2015". MMH. Retrieved 9 May 2015. With $1.05 billion, Vanderlande Industries is fifth on the list. CEO Govert Hamers says Vanderlande saw growth in e-commerce, postal and parcel markets along with a substantial uptick in the number of service contracts, which now constitutes 20% of revenue. In addition, Vanderlande closed two acquisitions in 2014: These included Ferdar Automation Technology, a robotics system integrator with experience in the logistics sector, and Smatec GmbH, a provider of sortation technologies, including a pocket sorter and modular bomb bay sorter that can also serve as a tilt-tray sorter.
  5. ↑ "Vanderlande Acquires Dinamic". MHI. 29 April 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015. Vanderlande’s baggage handling systems move 3.2 billion pieces of luggage around the world per year, in other words 8.8 million per day. Its systems are active in 600 airports including 17 of the world’s top 25. More than 20 million parcels (300 packages per second) are sorted by its systems every day. These have been installed for a variety of customers including the four largest parcel and postal companies in the world.
  6. ↑ "Company Overview of Vanderlande Industries B.V.". Bloomberg. 9 May 2015. Retrieved 9 May 2015. The company was founded in 1949 and is headquartered in Veghel, the Netherlands with additional offices in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France, Spain, the United Kingdom, Canada, China, India, South Africa, Australia and the United States. It also has customer centers worldwide.
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