VDL acquires order for 77 automated guided vehicles for Port of Rotterdam

VDL acquires order for 77 automated guided vehicles for Port of Rotterdam

VDL Groep continues to strengthen its ‘smart’ mobility position. Between the end of this year and mid-2023, VDL Automated Vehicles will be supplying a...
1 April 2021
Corona crisis causing significant drop in revenue and profit

Corona crisis causing significant drop in revenue and profit

The revenue and result of VDL Groep fell sharply during the corona year 2020. The fact that the industrial family business with its head office in Ein...
19 March 2021
Customer notification (COVID-19)

Customer notification (COVID-19)

Following the recent measures, taking by the Dutch government to contain the spread of the virus and protect the people as much as possible, VDL Wewel...
15 October 2020
VDL and DSM form joint venture to manufacture and commercialize medical facemasks and PPE filter materials

VDL and DSM form joint venture to manufacture and commercialize medical facemasks and PPE filter materials

VDL Groep and Royal DSM today announce the start of a 50/50 joint venture (JV) that will establish production of medical facemasks and the first perma...
4 September 2020
VDL remains profitable, despite coronavirus impact

VDL remains profitable, despite coronavirus impact

The impact of the coronavirus crisis has not passed VDL Groep by over the past six months. In the first half of 2020, both revenue and profit of this ...
4 September 2020
Improving transportation through technology (Global Trailer 53)

Improving transportation through technology (Global Trailer 53)

From the July 2020 Global Trailer issue. FOR THE PAST 40 YEARS, VDL WEWELER IN THE NETHERLANDS HAS BUILT A SOLID REPUTATION FOR CREATING CUSTOMER-SPE...
20 July 2020
Family Focus

Family Focus

Article placed in the April 2020 edition of Trailer Magazine. When Robert and Sarah Hawthorn of Southern Refrigerated Transport purchased their first...
15 June 2020
Annual financial report VDL Groep

Annual financial report VDL Groep

For VDL Groep, 2019 was a challenging year in which we saw our turnover and profit fall for the first time since the crisis year 2009. Nevertheless, i...
4 June 2020
Medibus from VDL Bus & Coach serves as mobile laboratory in fight against COVID-19

Medibus from VDL Bus & Coach serves as mobile laboratory in fight against COVID-19

The Deutsche Bahn (DB) Medibuses, built by VDL Bus & Coach, are currently being used in a large-scale study by the Robert Koch Institute (RKI) into th...
29 May 2020
IAA 2020 Hannover

IAA 2020 Hannover

Last week the VDA decided to cancel the IAA Commercial Vehicles 2020 that was to be held in Hannover from September 24 to 30 and announced that the ne...
12 May 2020
Customer notification (COVID-19)

Customer notification (COVID-19)

Following the recent additional measures, taking by the Dutch government to contain the spread of the virus and protect the people as much as possible...
16 March 2020
Progress in charging infrastructure opens up new avenues for DAF CF Electric VDL E-Power

Progress in charging infrastructure opens up new avenues for DAF CF Electric VDL E-Power

Improvements in the charging infrastructure have allowed the DAF CF Electric VDL E-Power, which DAF Trucks and VDL Groep developed together, to make h...
6 January 2020
When you’re on a good thing...

When you’re on a good thing...

Story from our Australian distributor, Fuwa K-Hitch. Having been in business for more than 30 years, Australian trailer builder TopStart Trailers has...
31 March 2019
VDL is developing electric vehicles for waste collection

VDL is developing electric vehicles for waste collection

VDL Translift in Dronten is developing four electric vehicles, based on the electric drive units designed in collaboration with DAF Trucks, for the co...
23 January 2019