According to ING's Economic Bureau, the high-tech industry in the northern Netherlands is one of the growth sectors. The bank even calls our cluster ,”one of the gems" of industry in the North. According to chairman Kor Visscher, the growth of our cluster is a logical consequence of the speed of technical developments. ,,Many companies are developing all kinds of new products and services with the latest technology. The speed at which this happens regularly presents us with challenges with unknown solutions. By bringing together knowledge from different industries, we are developing as a group faster than our competitors. This is how we give direction to the smart industry in the Northern Netherlands.’’
Turbine blades
Stork Turbo Blade now has 55 years of experience in making complex turbine blades for power plant steam and gas turbines, among other things. Reinsma: ,,Our company has a modern machine park with 4 and 5 axis CNC milling machines and fully automated production cells. In addition, our engineers have many years of experience with Siemens NX CAD/CAM software and we use 3D scanners for reversed engineering of existing products. We would like to share this knowledge and experience with the partners of the cluster’’. Stork also works continuously to improve the performance of their customers' assets through multidisciplinary maintenance, turnarounds and projects.
Share knowledge
Stork has a global employee program focusing on health, safety, security, environment and quality, Reach Beyond Zero. ’’With this, we activate and motivate our employees to challenge themselves in order to improve our safety culture and performance,‘’ Reinsma explains. In doing so, Stork goes beyond simply reducing incidents. ’’With our program we stimulate individual initiatives for positive and sustainable changes at Stork. For example, sharing information and knowledge and by exchanging 'lessons learned', best practices and alerts.''