Interview with Richard Verhoeff, Sales Director, ALE

Author: Supro Trailer   Date: 2019.05.16
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Since 1983, ALE has carried heavy trucks. Originally a large shipping company with more than 40 branches worldwide, the company is ranked in the top three in the large transportation and crane industry. HeavyLiftNews.com (HLN) and its sales director Richard Verhoeff conducted the first HLN interview on HLNs new website format at AREs Breda office.

Company growth is an integral part of trying to be the best. Being one of the largest companies in the large crane industry is not the most important goal of ALE, but better is important. In 2002, the acquisition of the Dutch company Lastra / Brambles Heavy Contract laid the foundation for R & D and vertical heavy cranes, which enabled the company to innovate and solve engineering problems. Lifting with hydraulic jacks and cranes now you can complement heavy project transport with your own custom solution.

I checked if there is a core activity in Richard Verhoeff ALE. His reply is simple, it is heavy and moving vertically and horizontally, and today it is no longer diversified. Their only norm is that it should be done in the best possible way.

As with other companies, the downturn in the oil and gas industry has not had a major impact. In this late period, they achieved beneficial results without having to sell their assets. As Richard Verhoeff says: "We focus on different fields and can diversify across different fields. As a low-end product solution-driven business in the market, we focus on the high-end market from the first day It has come.

As Richard Verhoeff says: "With the rapid decline of the oil and gas market, companies felt that they needed to diversify to get the same kind of income."

In order to quickly identify the onshore renewable energy market and service the industry with a focus on wind energy, we established a complete wind energy services department in-house. They are currently considered the number one company in this area ... providing a wide range of delivery and installation for not only installation and mechanical work but also for electrical work. The department immediately provided over 80% of the renewable energy work.

In the past few years, they have provided more and more services to the offshore wind industry; wind generator manufacturers and other parts suppliers have chosen as their installation hub from any manufacturing site to any port terminal alignment area It was done.

As a Sales Director, Richard has a team that provides engineering solutions when delivering project solutions to potential customers. In the halls of the Breda office, more and more engineers are working on new equipment for future projects.

HLN asked Richard Verhoeff about the research and development department of ALEs Breda office. "Their AL.SK crane is a typical example of their own engineers work. In addition to the specific equipment such as the power supply purchased from the manufacturer, the complete AL.SK crane is a product of R & D department The Mega Jack system is also “The products in this department are dedicated to ALE. Instead of renting or selling to a third party. They use the products themselves, so they have operator feedback to the designer internally. And have the unique advantage of providing significant improvements as needed.

This department includes not only structural or hydraulic engineering, but also the electronic design and software design of the basic control system for that solution. This is a unique combination not seen elsewhere. A customized control software solution is available for this project.
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Another good example of research and development is the newly developed 600 ton AL 600 beam. This is the largest transport equipment on traditional roads.


SPMT, Koreas ferry, Sewol, wrecked 17,000 ton 600 axis travel, etc. are far from the road.
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For heavier oil and gas loads, ALE performed the heaviest unloading task with hydraulic skids during the rear gliding and loading of Shell Appomattox hulls of the Shell project, weighing more than 40,440 tons in the Gulf of Mexico.


Finally, in the Malikai project, they are 40 meters high at the top and then the top.
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