VDL Group will start work in the United States as soon as January 2017.\u00a0This month marks the start of work based on contracts with BMW, Volvo Cars and new clients which are yet to be named. VDL Steelweld, the production automation-company of VDL will supply an automation process which will house over 800 robots. The deals surrounding this new step for the Brabants family-built company will earn them over 100 million euro.\u00a0<\/p>\n
VDL <\/a>will supply the automated production-lines for new BMW and Volvo-factories, built in South Carolina. To be able to compete for the deals,\u00a0VDL has opened three new production sites in the US in 2016, in Fremont (California), Detroit (Michigan) and\u00a0Spartanburg (South Carolina). VDL expects their VDL Steelworld branche will grow rapidly in the US.<\/p>\n In Europe, VDL has been working with manufacturers like Ford, Volvo, BMW and Jaguar Landrover.\u00a0According to VDL Steelweld director Peter de Vos, that experience has led to a building of mutual trust between the car-companies and their supplier. From that standpoint, VDL has dared to take this step which hes led to the company ‘breaking through’ into a new market.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" VDL Group will start work in the United States as soon as January 2017.\u00a0This month marks the start of work based on contracts with BMW, Volvo Cars and new clients which are yet to be named. VDL Steelweld, the production automation-company of VDL will supply an automation process which will house over 800 robots. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1586,"featured_media":80113,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"advgb_blocks_editor_width":"","advgb_blocks_columns_visual_guide":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[42],"tags":[482,486,9254],"location":[],"article_type":[],"serie":[],"archives":[],"internal_archives":[],"reboot-archive":[],"class_list":["post-80117","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-sustainability-nl","tag-economy","tag-geen-categorie-en","tag-jaguar"],"blocksy_meta":[],"acf":{"subtitle":"","text_display_homepage":false},"author_meta":{"display_name":"Bob Munten","author_link":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/author\/bob-munten\/"},"featured_img":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/vdl-1-300x200.jpg","coauthors":[],"tax_additional":{"categories":{"linked":["Sustainability<\/a>"],"unlinked":["Sustainability<\/span>"]},"tags":{"linked":["economy<\/a>","Geen categorie<\/a>","Jaguar<\/a>"],"unlinked":["economy<\/span>","Geen categorie<\/span>","Jaguar<\/span>"]}},"comment_count":"0","relative_dates":{"created":"Posted 9 years ago","modified":"Updated 9 years ago"},"absolute_dates":{"created":"Posted on January 10, 2017","modified":"Updated on January 10, 2017"},"absolute_dates_time":{"created":"Posted on January 10, 2017 12:00 pm","modified":"Updated on January 10, 2017 12:00 pm"},"featured_img_caption":"\u00a9 VDL","series_order":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80117","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1586"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80113"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80117"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/location?post=80117"},{"taxonomy":"article_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article_type?post=80117"},{"taxonomy":"serie","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/serie?post=80117"},{"taxonomy":"archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/archives?post=80117"},{"taxonomy":"internal_archives","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/internal_archives?post=80117"},{"taxonomy":"reboot-archive","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ioplus.nl\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/reboot-archive?post=80117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}