This year, Vroom will have been in existence for 60 years. We will reveal our rich history here regularly, using images from back then illustrated with, not least, facts, figures and anecdotes from our past.
In 1995 Peter, Cajo, Randy, Jeroen and René Vroom formally became owners of the family business. Meindert and Sjors were not allowed to get under their feet. After all, it was expected that the successors would continue expanding the business. After the takeover, the board of directors was made up of Sjors and Meindert, plus Peter Vroom in the guise of Commercial Manager. How the succession was otherwise shaped could progress without any stress, and the date on which Sjors and Meindert officially had in mind for retiring could be set.
During this transition period, Peter Vroom focused on the commercial side of things and contact with the ‘outside world’, following in the footsteps of his father, Klaas.
At this time, Kees van Santen and Jaap Bol were the real designated specialists in relation to vibrated piles in the centre of Amsterdam. These men had experience of successfully rounding off many different jobs in confined building pits.
The Nordstar was the precursor of the current Woltman rigs and, in its time, was the first large remote-controlled piling rig. For loading and unloading, the cab had to be removed; then the rig could be operated with the remote-control unit. This rig was generally used to produce DPA displacement piles. As noise
and vibrations were being viewed as a critical aspect, at the start of the 21st century the market for drilled pile systems began to grow.
Vroom has been active in the field of steel tube piles since as far back as 1977. And this advanced technology came to the fore around 2002, in highly-manoeuvrable mini piling rigs, equipped to the latest specification standards. With this sort of plant, Handelsmaatschappij Vroom was able to produce cast in-situ, soil displacement or non-displacement concrete piles in the most difficult working conditions. This was done with the minimum of vibrations (or completely vibration-free) using a steel-tube segmented jacket.
