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2023: year of extremes for VDL Groep

2023: year of extremes for VDL Groep

The year 2023 showed us two sides, with highs and lows. Low points were the passing of Wim van der Leegte in November, the reduction in the number of ...
5 april 2024
Announcement of intent: VDL Castings Heerlen to phase out casting operations

Announcement of intent: VDL Castings Heerlen to phase out casting operations

VDL Castings Heerlen plans to phase out operations and cease business activities over the course of 2024. To this effect, a request for advice has bee...
5 januari 2024
VDL Groep strengthens position in electronics with Rena acquisition

VDL Groep strengthens position in electronics with Rena acquisition

VDL Groep has strengthened its position in the high-quality electronics market. The industrial family business with its head office in Eindhoven has a...
1 december 2023
Wim van der Leegte (76) passed away

Wim van der Leegte (76) passed away

On the night from Saturday to Sunday, Wim van der Leegte died at home in his hometown of Duizel. Wim, owner of industrial family business VDL Groep, d...
20 november 2023
VDL Nedcar to reduce number of employees by 2,000 by 1 March 2024

VDL Nedcar to reduce number of employees by 2,000 by 1 March 2024

As previously announced, due to the planned production stop for BMW Group and the inability to find direct connection with other automotive projects, ...
2 november 2023
102 electric buses to Oslo: VDL’s largest electric bus fleet to date

102 electric buses to Oslo: VDL’s largest electric bus fleet to date

VDL’s largest fleet of electric buses to date will be operational in Oslo from January 2022. With 102 Citeas, VDL is contributing to an important obje...
11 januari 2021
VDL Groep helps to make Demcon artificial respiration systems

VDL Groep helps to make Demcon artificial respiration systems

Three VDL companies are working hard on making hundreds of artificial respiration systems for our partner Demcon. Within three weeks, Demcon, with the...
23 april 2020
VDL expands Charging Test Centre with new charging technology

VDL expands Charging Test Centre with new charging technology

In cooperation with Siemens, VDL will investigate how vehicle technologies, energy storage and charging systems work together. The VDL Charging Test C...
15 oktober 2019
VDL sees turnover drop and profits rise during the first half of 2019

VDL sees turnover drop and profits rise during the first half of 2019

VDL Groep's turnover in the first half of 2019 was, in line with expectations, slightly lower than in the same period of last year. The result was hig...
23 augustus 2019
Green Truck Award for DAF CF Electric VDL E-Power

Green Truck Award for DAF CF Electric VDL E-Power

The DAF CF Electric VDL E-Power has been voted Green Truck Logistics Solution 2019. On the eve of the Transport Logistic trade fair in Munich, leading...
5 juni 2019
PSV announce unique partnership

PSV announce unique partnership

PSV will join forces with some big Dutch companies next summer to start an innovative co-operation. ASML, Philips, High Tech Campus Eindhoven, VDL Gro...
23 maart 2019
VDL Groep: satisfied with 2018

VDL Groep: satisfied with 2018

For VDL Groep, the key theme of 2018 was organising the planned growth. Last year, the turnover and result, and the number of employees of the industr...
22 februari 2019
Elekta chooses VDL Groep as supplier of the year

Elekta chooses VDL Groep as supplier of the year

This year, VDL has won a number of prestigious supply awards from leading customers. Recently, Elekta also expressed its appreciation of VDL’s quality...
21 september 2018
VDL Groep records continued growth in the first six months of 2018

VDL Groep records continued growth in the first six months of 2018

VDL Groep in Eindhoven has succeeded in achieving the growth forecast for the first six months of 2018. This industrial family business recorded a com...
17 augustus 2018