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
VDL Weweler 100 Years

VDL Weweler 100 Years

This year, 2024 will be a very special year for Weweler – as we will be celebrating our 100th anniversary! This is such a remarkable and memorable mil...
5 March 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 January 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
IAA Innovation Awards

IAA Innovation Awards

We are proud to announce that the IAA Innovation Award jury rewarded both VDL Weweler Innovation Award entries with a top three ranking! In the "Comp...
12 September 2022
IAA Transportation Exhibition 2022

IAA Transportation Exhibition 2022

From 20 to 25 September 2022, the 67th IAA Transportation Exhibition will take place in Hannover, Germany. We will be present again with our own stan...
5 September 2022
Scholt Energy and VDL Groep deploy industrial salt bath for sustainable demand management in the electricity market

Scholt Energy and VDL Groep deploy industrial salt bath for sustainable demand management in the electricity market

Article from Scholt Energy from January 13. 2021https://www.scholt.nl/en/ A large industrial salt bath that uses a lot of electricity for industrial ...
27 January 2021
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 January 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
The Dominator effect

The Dominator effect

Story via our Australian distributor, Fuwa K-Hitch.Article placed in the March 2020 edition of Trailer Magazine. The manufacture of robust and stylis...
5 March 2020
Inventive Axle Lift Devices (Global Trailer 49)

Inventive Axle Lift Devices (Global Trailer 49)

From the November 2019 Global Trailer issue. Inventive Axle Lift Devices For nearly 100 years, VDL Weweler has been a suspension supplier, manufactu...
14 January 2020
VDL AEC Maritime secures order for scrubber systems in Greece

VDL AEC Maritime secures order for scrubber systems in Greece

VDL AEC Maritime in Eindhoven has received a significant order for the delivery of seven scrubber systems from Greece based ship management company, T...
18 November 2019
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 October 2019