Geesink Norba shows why it takes more than a refuse collection truck to take away rubbish and how it has developed it into the best possible machine for its purpose.
Written by John O’Hanlon & produced by Kiron Chavda
Geesink Norba, based at Emmeloord in the Netherlands, is a member of the American Oshkosh Truck Corporation. Oshkosh is the world’s largest supplier of refuse trucks which, apart from Geesink Norba, owns the McNeilus, Kiggen, Oshkosh, Pierce and Medtec brands. Altogether it has a global market share of about 25 percent, says Managing Director Dion Stuifmeel. Stuifmeel is an enthusiast for his firm: “I could talk for three days about the company and the market without notes and without repeating myself!” he avers.
The company has four manufacturing sites – the main one at Emmeloord, which manufactures bodies and tailgates, one in the south of Holland making compactors (large static units that compress the refuse for containerisation), the Norba facility in Sweden, which makes refuse collectors as well, and a site in Romania where and refuse collectors and compactors are manufactured.
The group’s customers are mainly local authorities and municipalities or the contractors to whom these entities outsource their waste disposal activities, such as Veolia in France or ECT in the UK. The completed units are placed on the truck chassis, which can be from DAF, Iveco, MAN, Mercedes, Renault, Volvo, Scania or almost any other truck manufacturer, either at the factory, or increasingly at Geesink Norba’s regional office.
Local assembly
The UK office is at Pontyclun in Wales, and because of the particular requirements of the UK market many vehicles are assembled here using bodies from either Holland or Sweden, though the Emmeloord plant is able to produce…
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