Edumar Metaalbewerking of Someren in the Netherlands is a young company, with only ten years behind it. Brothers Eduard and Marius Wijlaars began producing built-in kitchens as a sideline, in a disused henhouse! It wasn’t long before they switched to precision engineering. This was quite natural, since their sound professional experience was in that area.
In the late 1990s, ‘outsourcing’ became a buzzword in the European manufacturing industry. Not least at ‘The Big Company’ in Eindhoven. Work was farmed out and whole departments were made redundant. At a stroke, the brothers’ operation was transformed from being a fun sideline to serious component production as a subcontractor. And the old henhouse has been replaced by a modern 400 m2 workshop which will be extended to 1000 m2 later this year.
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