Manufacturing in Brabant
Brabant is a prominent manufacturing centre, providing a base for the assembling and manufacturing operations of an impressive number of North American, European and Asian companies.
Workforce, Suppliers and Logistics
The considerable advantage of Brabant's location for manufacturing facilities is supported by:
- excellent distribution infrastructure
- proximity to a wide range of markets
- technical sophistication and leadership
- the availability of materials and suppliers
- educated, multilingual, productive and flexible workforce.
This good standard of education and training together with efficient work planning, high levels of automation and production process efficiency, good employee work ethic and flexibility and low levels of days lost to strike result in the high productivity for which Brabant and the Netherlands are well known.
The facts speak for themselves:
- A strong and diverse manufacturing sector is led by the agro-industrial, chemical, electronics and metal industries.
- Five of the world's leading multinationals were founded in the Netherlands: Philips, Unilever, Royal Dutch Shell Group, DSM and Akzo Nobel
One of the Netherlands' greatest assets is its world-renowned entry points: Amsterdam Schiphol Airport and the Port of Rotterdam. Brabant is located right between the Port of Rotterdam and the Port of Antwerp. Added to these are the region's lattice work of river connections that are overlaid with a dense infrastructure of ultramodern and well-maintained roads, railways, inland waterways, pipelines, airports and seaports.
Testimonials
Companies with manufacturing operations in Brabant include: Bosch, FujiFilm, Coca Cola, Merck, Honeywell, SABIC and Hitachi.
To read testimonials and case histories about establishing manufacturing operations in Brabant, see our Testimonials Matrix.
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