English - Nooteboom Giants on the Road Magazine English - Nr. 3 - 2016 | Page 5
INTRODUCTION
“If you choose Nooteboom,
you’re choosing full service
support”
As a family business we are, 135 years after it was established, still deeply
rooted in Dutch society. At the same time we are now active in more
than one hundred countries and have grown into the leading manufacturer of vehicles for special transport - in Europe and beyond.
This international dimension always features in our magazine Giants on
the Road. In this issue we focus on France, where in October we where
present at the trade fair JDL in Marseille.
MAINTAINING A
HEALTHY GROWTH RATE
Our international presence means that at Nooteboom we are confronted
every day with the dynamic developments of various markets. These
not only affect Nooteboom, they definitely affect our customers too. Of
course we have no influence over international politics and the economy.
What we can do is to make sure that we offer our customers as much
security as possible – regardless of the circumstances. Anyone who
chooses Nooteboom chooses the best trailers available on the market
and can always rely on our full-service support.
After being awarded the BedrijfsautoRai SV Innovation Award and the
Heavies Innovation Award (UK) for our revolutionary new generation of
MANOOVR trailers, we can now add the ESTA Award of Excellence to
this collection. For us, this is the international recognition of our efforts
to keep on surprising our customers with groundbreaking innovations.
If as a company you invest heavily in R&D, it goes without saying that
you want to protect your intellectual property as best you can. Recently
the patent discussion regarding the pendle axle with excavator trough
ended with a verdict in our favour. For a trend-setting company like
Nooteboom this is important: patents encourage innovation and it is
partly due to this verdict of the judge that we can continue to invest in
innovations to help our customers – and ultimately the entire special
transport branch – to move forward. After all, our claim is: Nooteboom.
Gets you there.
In this issue of Giants on the Road you can read more about the latest
developments within our organisation, such as the expansion of the
MANOOVR production and the service facilities in Zwijndrecht(NL).
Happy reading!
MARINKA NOOTEBOOM,
GENERAL MANAGER
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