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Dumaco acquires another metal company: Blokland from Hardinxveld-Giessendam

The Dutch Manufacturing Company (Dumaco) takes over a metal company for the fourth time in a short time. This time it concerns Blokland Metaalbewerking in Hardinxveld-Giessendam, a company with just under a hundred employees. Dumaco claims to be the largest specialist in sheet metal working in the Benelux. With the latest purchase, it hopes to […]

SafeSize raises €10 million for its 3D tech

Amsterdam-based ‘footwear recommendation technology’ (I too had to do a double take) startup SafeSize has raised €10 million in a Series B round of funding. The fresh cash comes from prior backers 3TS Capital Partners and Convent Capital, as well as additional but unnamed ‘strategic investors’. What SafeSize does is essentially help online and offline […]

Convent sells CIREX: Twente foundry with dozens of robots comes into foreign hands

Cirex, a company from Twente that supplies steel components to car manufacturers such as BMW and Mercedes, has been taken over by a foreign strategic party. The American Form Technologies bought all shares in the Dutch manufacturing company on Friday. Cirex was once part of Philips Physics Laboratory. It is one of the largest steel […]