“Aalberts is an international company specialised in high quality, mission-critical technologies for ground breaking industries and everyday life. With over 16,000 employees, we operate some 70 business locations and 80 service locations with activities in over 50 countries. In 2018 we will move our headquarter to the new World Trade Centre (WTC) in Utrecht. We chose Utrecht due to its central location within the Netherlands and good accessibility by public transport and car. Utrecht is the ideal meeting place, also for our international colleagues. The connection from and to Schiphol is optimal with a travel time of just 30 minutes.
Utrecht is an attractive location for businesses with it being a metropole yet compact in size and with a beautiful historic city centre. As a typical student city it continuously attracts new talent, creating an annual influx of qualified workers that oftentimes stay in the region to live and work. This results in a big pool of accessible, highly education and skilled young talents.
The contact between Aalberts and Utrecht municipality went very smoothly. Sustainability is an important aspect running our daily business. Many of our colleagues come to work in their electric or hybrid cars. At our request, the municipality installed electric charging-stations in the parking garage near the WTC. As a leading company in the tech field, we are aware of our role model function in society. For that reason, Aalberts aims to develop and produce sustainable technologies and services that help to deal and combat the disadvantages of climte change. We deliver solutions for heat and cold storage, solar energy collectors, irrigation systems and water supplies that enable customers to save energy and water and to build in a sustainable manner. Furthermore, we deliver products and services for sustainable transport and aim to prolong the life cycle of materials through heat and surface treatments. In order to use national resources as efficiently as possible, Aalberts includes energy and water efficiency, recycling and repurposing as cornerstones in its company policy.”
-Anne-Lize van Dusseldorp, Sustainability Manager