Major companies

Stork Veco

Founded: 1934
Area (m2): 19,400
No. of employees: 150

Activities: 

• R&D 
• production:  electroforming & photo-etching
  
• sales & marketing  
• service

Technologies: 

• electroforming 
• etching 
  

Markets served: 

• Chemical, food, semiconductor-, electronics-, consumable and motion industry worldwide

Profile

Stork Veco B.V., located in Eerbeek, the Netherlands, is a leading supplier of metal precision products and filters. Stork Veco started in 1934 as a manufacturer of sieves made by the electroforming process and has been part of the Stork Group since 1975. Stork Veco employs over 150 people at its plant in the Netherlands and its international sales offices.

Through the years the capability to fulfill the customer´s requirements and the ability to follow market developments in a continuously challenging environment have been the basis for success, which has made Stork Veco what it is now.

Mission

Stork Veco aims to:
produce products, in a continuous improvement process and doing so, surpass the requirements and expectations of customer, employee and society.

Markets

Almost 90 percent of the products manufactured at Stork Veco B.V. are exported to over 50 countries. Serving a broad range of industries such as sugar, chemicals and electronics Stork Veco fulfils the requirements of customers around the globe.

Translating market demands

Market demands from specific industries are not only commercially but also technically analyzed and evaluated before they are translated into production terms. Email can be used to have the customer’s drawing data read straight into a CAD-system, so that film masters of the highest possible resolution can be produced quickly. 

Core activities 

• Production of precision metal products by means of electroforming and photo-etching 
• Synergy of the product development is based on leveraging the electroforming and photo etching technologies.

Core technologies 

• Process:
  – Electroforming
  – Metal coating/plating
  – Seamless cylinder production
  – Precision metal engineering
  – Etching
• Application:
  – Filtration media
  – Precision metal products
  – Stencils

Market position 

• Metal precision products: world market leader

SOLUTIONS – some examples

Encoders 

• Complex shapes possible 
• Very high precision 
• Economical tooling and parts 
• Excellent reproducibility 
• Variety of industrial applications
  – motor drives
  – machine tools
  – automatic storage and retrieval systems
  – robotics
  – copy machines
  – elevators

Ink jet orifices 

• Very high precision 
• Excellent reproducibility 
• Variety of industrial applications
  – text and bar codes shipping cartons and mail pieces
  – food packaging labels
  – pharmaceutical labels
  – cartridges

Leadframes 

• Smallest 
• Most complex 
• Highest pinn count 
• Cost-effective

Filters/sugar centrifuge sieves

• Maximum crystal separation efficiency 
• Mirror-smooth surface 
• Conical hole shape reduces blinding and clogging
  – VecoStandard for normal applications
  – VecoFlux for higher throughput and/or finer sugar crystal retention
  – VecoLife for longer life

Shaving (head) foils 

• Thin perforated metal foils as used in shavers. 
• Smooth (skin) surface and sharp cutting edges