COMPACTING SUCCESS Geesinknorba is Europe’s largest provider of refuse collection vehicles and waste compactors. Philip Yorke spoke to Zeki Bolat, the company’s marketing director about its pioneering ‘plug-in’ electric vehicles and the ground-breaking products set to be launched at the IFAT trade show in Munich this year.
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rior to their merger a few years ago, Geesink and Norba had more than 300 years of experience in waste management expertise between them. Today they form a formidable team that combines unrivalled engineering know-how with the ability to develop the world’s most innovative waste management solutions. Geesinknorba is headquartered in the Netherlands and recently became part of the multinational, Mutares AG industrial group. In 2011, Geesinknorba 146 Industry Europe
recorded sales of more than €100 million and currently employs around 500 people with over half of them located at its Netherlands headquarters in Emmeloord. Geesinknorba offers a diverse range of refuse collection vehicles and advanced waste compactors for country-specific markets. Its flexible RCV bodies come in different sizes to fit any manufacturer’s chassis and can operate with different bin-lifts, including third-party systems. Geesinknorba’s Euro-
pean network of factories enables it to offer an exceptionally fast turnround of orders. All Geesinknorba’s vehicle bodies are designed to be fully compatible with each other as well as with the chassis, bin-lifts and related products from other suppliers. The company provides the widest range of bodies in the waste management industry today and its highly skilled engineering teams are able to tailor them to meet the individual needs of its customers. In keep-
