Located in Alphen aan den Rijn, approximately a 30 minute drive from Amsterdam airport, Cryonorms facilities extend over an area of 8, 000 m2 of which 4, 350 is covered, and houses the design, storage, machine shop fabrication, welding, assembly and test areas. The premises near the waterway enables Cryonorm to ship modules up to 17x5x6 metres (LxWxH) and 100 tons in weight.
A Family Business
Mr Peter Tel, the owner and a director says that Cryonorm is a typical family business with short decision lines and highly motivated employees. This short line gives the company the flexibility required by the increasing demands of customers. Lead times have come down from 2 months to 2 weeks in only a couple of years for the standard ambient vaporizers.
During the last few years, Cryonorm has divided the organization in to a division for the standard products and another division handling the projects. These project products of services include high capacity back up vaporizers, which require multi division management and engineering as well as the production of standard vaporizers.
Cryonorm Projects BV
In the last few years, Cryonorm has received an increase in RFQs for complete systems. As the company is a component supplier, it did not have sufficient in house process knowledge to give a good response to these new market demands. For this reason, a second company called Cryonorm Projects BV was formed in 2003 in which the shares are 50/50 per cent between Mr Peter Tel and Mr Hans Stuker. Hans Stuker has been a project manager for 10 years with Praxair, with this experience and contacts to a group of independent consultants, the process knowledge has been secured.
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