About Kramer & Duyvis B.V.

Kramer & Duyvis B.V., which is located in Waalwijk, is a well established and highly successful producer of curved conveyors with an enviable list of customers. Our well earned reputation for quality and reliability is maintained by our team of specialists in engineering and production, delivering curved conveyors globally through a reliable network of system integrators and OEM-ers.

At Kramer & Duyvis B.V. every order is treated with care and personal attention, we will work with you to precisely understand the environment in which the curved conveyors will be used and take the utmost care to ensure your requirements are interpreted correctly. The curved conveyors will then be assembled based on the agreed configuration.

With well-equipped workshops full of the latest machinery and motivated, well-trained staff we are able to offer our customers top-quality curved conveyors that are reliable and technically innovative.

For Kramer & Duyvis B.V. every order is unique!

 

It was 1945. The country had been liberated, but the economy was in ruins and needed to be rebuilt. There was plenty of work, but a terrible shortage of factories and materials. The Germans had removed a lot of this and taken it to Germany.

Piet Kramer and Jan Duyvis were colleagues at the Buhrs machine factory. In the evenings, they started up a supply business using a machine in the cellar of the flat rented by Kramer. Their core activity was producing hat presses and making improvements to boilers, presses and other machines. They had been able to buy many of the machines they needed cheaply from the discarded munitions site on the Hem Bridge. On 18 March 1946 Kramer and Duyvis took the plunge and started up their own company. They hired the coal shed of the ice factory on Oud Saenden for 10 guilders a week.

The established owners of machine factories took up arms against this new competitor and demanded that they be closed down. With a lot of bluff and persistence, the two were able to obtain an exemption and ultimately get a licence. But first, Kramer had to appear before the Ministry of Social Affairs and go to court.

Niet lang na de opening komen de eerste knechten – ook oud-collega’s – in dienst. Dat betekende wel dat er ook een constante stroom aan werk moest zijn. Die kwam met het binnenhalen van Bruynzeel. Met het vaste reparatie en constructiewerk voor dit goed betalende bedrijf – offertes waren niet nodig – groeide K&D naar 9 mensen in 1948 tot maar liefst 19 mensen in 1951. In de daarop volgende 5 jaar volgde nog een verdubbeling van het personeel naar 30 man. K&D was een grote speler geworden. Ook de diversiteit aan werkzaamheden werd alsmaar groter: suikersilo’s, afzuiginstallaties, naaimachines (!), opslagtanks, droogovens, blikinpakmachines, curvenschijven etc. etc. Nog meer grote Zaanse opdrachtgevers dienden zich aan zoals Cacao de Zaan, Verkade, Albert Heijn en LUM (het huidige Forbo).

In 1960 word het jasje alweer te klein en betrok K&D een pand van maar liefst 1500 m² aan de mauritsstraat. In de loop der jaren gaat Kramer & Duyvis zich naast andere specialiteiten zoals het curvendraaien steeds meer toeleggen op transportsystemen. Jaar na jaar worden de diverse producten en procedés uitgebreid en verbetert. Een letterlijk hoogstandje zijn de zogenaamde wenteltransporteurs tot wel 8 meter hoog, die op locatie geassembleerd moeten worden.

At the start of the 1980s, at least 350 circular conveyors were being developed for clients per year. A number that was to grow. Kramer & Duyvis has been located in Waalwijk since 2015 and is today one of the largest specialized manufacturers of curved conveyors in the Netherlands.