Ground broken on new marine products HQ

The HQ is being built in Schiedam in the Rotterdam area of the Netherlands, where company co-founder Willhelm den Ouden was born.

Vetus makes complete boat systems for leisure and small commercial vessels, from diesel engines and electric propulsion systems to exhausts, thrusters, and much in between.

The new waterfront facility, due to open next year in the company’s 60th anniversary year, will have the means to showcase and trial products in the water.

There will also be dedicated mooring spaces for demo boats.

The new modern building will have a rooftop solar panel array, which means a lot of its own energy will be self generated, and the facility will not use natural gas, the company says. Instead, it will use heat pumps.

“The new warehouse will be equipped with the latest developments in automated storage and retrieval systems and have a significantly greater pallet capacity than in the current Vetus warehouse, helping the company to store, process, and ship its products in a much more efficient way,” the company says.

Vetus is part of Yanmar Marine International.