vdl steelweld
- Type
- Technology Company
- Location
- Breda, Netherlands
- Industries
- Farm robotics & machinery, Autonomous vehicle, Food processing robotics & machinery, Delivery & fulfilment technology, Carbon sequestration, Livestock farming, Supply chain monitoring & traceability, Smart logistics & operations, Sustainable packaging & plastic alternatives
- Technologies
- Industrial robotics, Process automation, Computer vision, Sensor technology, Digital twin, Robotics & Automation, Smart & digital, Information technology
About vdl steelweld
VDL Steelweld is an international industrial company established in 1965 and part of VDL Groep since 1995. It designs, builds, and commissions automated production systems and provides manufacturing services for OEMs and industrial innovators across sectors such as automotive, energy, logistics, modular construction, defense, and heavy industry.
The company positions itself as a partner for complex manufacturing challenges, combining engineering, prototyping, assembly, and commissioning with a strong focus on fit-for-purpose solutions. Its work ranges from highly automated body-in-white lines and battery assembly systems to contract manufacturing of mechatronic systems, special products, and automated vehicles.
Core Values
- Partnership: The company emphasizes close, long-term relationships with customers and describes itself as a partner in developing new manufacturing concepts.
- Innovation: Continuous improvement, creativity, and the willingness to innovate are presented as central to how VDL Steelweld develops products and production methods.
- Reliability: The company highlights delivering on agreements, high-quality output, and dependable execution across complex projects.
- Sustainability: VDL Steelweld says it aims to reduce environmental impact, integrate sustainability and circularity into its activities, and support customers with greener production and resource efficiency.
- Safety and responsibility: Its strategy and impact statements stress a healthy and safe working environment, ethical handling of information, and responsible business conduct.
Unique Aspects
- Long automotive automation heritage: VDL Steelweld has more than five decades of experience in body-in-white and automated production systems, which it applies beyond automotive into other industrial sectors.
- Part of VDL Groep: Since joining VDL Groep in 1995, the company has been able to diversify into new markets while drawing on the broader group’s industrial network and expertise.
- Global execution footprint: The company operates from multiple countries, including the Netherlands, the UK, Germany, Sweden, Romania, China, the USA, and India, supporting international project delivery.
- Broad technology integration: Its solutions combine handling, assembly, joining, vision, AGV/AMR, process control, and digital simulation capabilities in one project flow.
- Sustainability infrastructure: The Breda site uses 3,800 solar panels and the company states it achieved a 40% CO2 reduction between 2013 and 2022, with a roadmap toward net zero by 2040.
- Validated industrial partnerships and customer base: The company states that major OEMs such as Ford, Volvo, Jaguar Land Rover, BMW, and EV companies are among its customers, reflecting its role in demanding industrial programs.