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Four Nooteboom Manoovr’s for Ter Linden Transport
May 2019
Ter Linden Transport has specialised in the transport of windmills throughout Europe. Every year the company transports more than 200 wind turbines. To transport the wings, tower sections and nacelles Ter Linden has an extensive and modern fleet, including MWT Mega Windmill Transporters. Ter Linden has now also opted for the Manoovr semi low-loader. Their latest investment concerns four MPL-114-07(V) trailers that just has been delivered in the last weeks. These 7-axle extendible semitrailers, due to the low load floor, will be mainly used for the transport of nacelles and tower sections. In order to accommodate future developments these semi low-loaders are ready to be used with a Multidolly.
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Sobanscy Transport – Megatrailers Light and Low
May 2019
In 1989 Ryszard Sobanski started a small transport company in Glowczyce, near the Baltic Sea coast. The company was extremely well organised and grew fast. In 2014 their 50th commercial vehicle hit the road and in 2016 the 100th employee was taken on. 2017 brought another milestone because in that year a separate department for abnormal transport was established. During the past year Nooteboom delivered as many as eleven new trailers for this new activity of Sobanscy.
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Affolter Transporte AG – Like a Swiss
May 2019
Affolter Transporte from the Swiss village Schüpfen has an ultra-modern fleet for abnormal transports. However, the heavy combinations of Affolter are rarely seen on the European motorways and they only visit the ports of Rotterdam, Antwerp or Hamburg sporadically. Switzerland has a special place in Europe. It is not a member of the EU, but it is positioned as a sort of island in between the member states of the EU. The area Affolter Transporte operates in is the ‘Mittelland’. This is the undulating, partly flat plateau between Lake Constance and Lake Geneva. an interview with Rudolph and Ernst Affolter.
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TAHOGRAF started as Nooteboom Service Center for Croatia
May 2019
TAHOGRAF d.o.o. from the Croatian Sveta Nedeljais started in March this year as a Nooteboom Service Center. Our new service partner is a privately owned company, established more than 60 years ago and is strategically located near Zagreb, just 5 minutes from the important main route A3 / E70. TAHOGRAF has a very modern equipped workshop and specialized engineers with extensive knowledge and experience in hydraulic systems. As an authorized dealer for various brands of trailers, they have many years of experience in the maintenance, service and repair of trailers.
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Nooteboom Components – Quick Response Manufacturing
May 2019
Nooteboom Components is the name for the fully automated department at Nooteboom Trailers where components for trailers are produced. One of the existing production halls has been completely renewed inside. Ultramodern machinery for manufacturing vehicle components were installed In this hall, including a laser cutting machine, two new press brakes, a milling machine and a welding robot. Nooteboom Components works according to the ‘Quick Response Manufacturing’ method. This QMR-method is primarily aimed at reducing lead times in the production. But it also has a positive influence on the efficiency of the components’ production.
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Nooteboom introduces NOVAB 3.0 Axle load calculation
December 2018
Meanwhile Nooteboom has developed the latest generation NoVAB: Nooteboom 3.0 Cloud version. This latest NoVAB offers important improvements and advantages. Selecting the right tractor-trailer and calculating how the weight of the load is distributed over the various axles is now even quicker and easier. You can also specify whether one or several axles are to be lifted. With the push of a button the optimal load position, to prevent exceeding the maximum axle load, will be calculated. This will tell you in advance whether the complete combination with its load complies with the maximum axle loads that are permitted within a specific country.
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Visit Nooteboom at IAA (Hannover-DE) from 20-27 September
September 2018
We would like to invite you to visit us at the IAA exhibition in Hannover from 20 - 27 September. At...
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Nooteboom receives Heavies Award for ‘Innovation of the Year’
September 2018
In the category Trailer Medium Weight (3-5 axles) Nooteboom has been elected by the judging panel as the winner of the Innovation of the Year Award for the Manoovr semi-lowloader with excavator trough and 80 tonne heavy duty ramps. Again, there was one stand-out entry in this category. It was developed in response to the need for a more efficient way to transport big construction machinery In the words of one of the Judges: ‘The next stage in the Manoovr range. A super strong trailer that’s ideal for heavy plant.’
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Marinka Nooteboom awarded a place in the top 100 most successful businesswomen
May 2018
At the annual selection of the most successful and influential female entrepreneurs in the Netherlands, Marinka Nooteboom has been awarded a place in the top 100 businesswomen of the Netherlands. This was announced on Monday 28 May at the seventh edition of TheNextWomen100 in Amsterdam.
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Quick and safe loading/unloading with the new sliding canopy system for Nooteboom Teletrailer
May 2018
In cooperation with Netcap International and Van Rijssel Carrosserie, Nooteboom has developed a special extendible trailer with a canopy for steel supplier Geurts-Janssen from Venlo. Canopy constructions for extendible trailers were already available, but it meant the driver had to fit separate parts to guide the canopy. Those days are over, because the Nooteboom 3-axle extendible Teletrailer of Geurts-Janssen is equipped with a specially designed double rail system.
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