What the Vrielmann employees from Nordhorn prefer to produce is heavy . And it is big . A speciality of the company from the town in Lower Saxony , not far from the border with the Netherlands , is transformer stations and switching stations .
Kevin ten Winkel is Project Manager , Energy Automation . We can consider him to be a building manager operating in digital spheres . Because measured values , control impulses , and change requests flow across his desk relating to the new office and production building , where our steps take us .
new building was not taken by the manufacturing company with around 100 employees until 2017 . ten Winkel explains : “ The Vrielmann company has been around now for 44 years , starting out in a garage . It was initially quite classical in the field of control cabinet manufacturing . But we have quickly developed and specialized . Electrical systems , whether ultra-low , low , or high voltage up to 36,000 volts are our core business . At some point it became clear – it was time for a new start in terms of location .”
Fittingly , one of the two General Managers , Heiko Ensink , joins the interview . He explains , à
A stroke of luck for a greenfield site The result of the cooperation between Vrielmann and Phoenix Contact is now freshly covered in the middle of a green field . The decision to build a
Kevin ten Winkel is Project Manager Energy Automation at Vrielmann
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