A new trend in the packaging-industry is multi-compartment PVOH applied in the detergents industry. The possibility to combine fluids with powder or gel, creates new marketing and product development opportunities. It is no longer necessary to choose between liquid of powder pods. Our machine platform even makes…
Kampen, The Netherlands, January 27th 2020. Jeroen Slobbe has informed the Board of Directors that he will leave as board member and director of Tembo and several daughter companies. Jeroen will say goodbye to us by the end of January 2020, after a career of 24 years at our family company. Arend van der Sluis, c…
The PRISMA project, a collaboration of 5 industrial partners and 2 research institutes in Overijssel, has been granted with 875.000 euro subsidy from the EFRO OP-Oost program. Within PRISMA the industrial companies IMS, AWL, SCM and Tolsma join forces with innovation hub Perron038 and research institutes Windeshe…
Perron038: an industrial hall in Zwolle is transforming into an inspiring open innovation place for entrepreneurs, education and government. City Developer-S bought the former factory hall and under the guidance of entrepreneur Marius Woldberg they succeeded in bringing four companies together with a comment inte…
Three of our interns have made an automated bee monitor for their minor project (Industrial Automation and Robotics). The intention of the bee monitor is that the bees can be monitored without always having to go up on the roof and to check them manually. To be able to monitor the bees, different sensors were nee…
On the 20th June 2019 at the New York football stadium in Rotherham, Tom Roe was announced as the winner of the Rotherham Apprentice of the year – Advanced Category. Tom, Lead engineer at SPI Developments Ltd, outshone in the short list of 6 nominations, to claim his well-deserved prize and title. SPI’s Busines…
Tembo is the new name for the international group of companies which TDC is part of. Tembo once started as a cigar factory in 1912, founded by Hendrikus van der Sluis. One of his sons started to automate the factory and trade in second-hand machinery. From there, the company started growing to a company that deve…
The Dutch group of companies Tembo, is setting up factories for the production of biodegradable paper straws. Goal is to eliminate plastic straws from the market as soon as possible. Under the company flag of Tembo Paper B.V., the family-owned business will open its first production location in Kampen (The Nether…
The employees of RNT Machinery in Dominican Republic organized a party at Ángeles de Conani, a home for disabled children. The company and each employee contributed money for the party, held on March 14th. The party was a great success. The RNT staff brought sweets, cake, pizzas and sodas for the children. They…
ITM is opening a new service centre in Romania. From this location, mainly customers in Romania will be serviced. In Romania several ITM customers are located. To provide excellent service and support to these customers, As ITM Romania, ITM has formed a team of mechanical and software engineers of Romanian techni…
With the creation of Tembo, a new name has been set on the horizon. From now on, fourteen different companies will be proud to claim they are a Tembo company. A total of eleven hundred employees are currently working for a Tembo company, worldwide. They work, for example, for the machine design companies ITM, Ima…
By designing and developing an automated cap-closing machine, TDC (part of ITMGroup) is supporting the profitability of social company IMpact, in Kampen (The Netherlands). On December 13, the machine is officially taken to use by the employees of IMpact. Employees of IMpact are mostly people who have a hard time…
