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January 27, 2020

Kampen, The Netherlands, January 27th 2020. Jeroen Slobbe has informed the Board of Directors that he will leave as board member and director of Tembo and several daughter companies. Jeroen will say goodbye to us by the end of January 2020, after a career of 24 years at our family company. Arend van der Sluis, c…

July 31, 2019

Perron038: an industrial hall in Zwolle is transforming into an inspiring open innovation place for entrepreneurs, education and government. City Developer-S bought the former factory hall and under the guidance of entrepreneur Marius Woldberg they succeeded in bringing four companies together with a comment inte…

July 24, 2019

Three of our interns have made an automated bee monitor for their minor project (Industrial Automation and Robotics). The intention of the bee monitor is that the bees can be monitored without always having to go up on the roof and to check them manually. To be able to monitor the bees, different sensors were nee…

June 25, 2019

On the 20th June 2019 at the New York football stadium in Rotherham, Tom Roe was announced as the winner of the Rotherham Apprentice of the year – Advanced Category.  Tom, Lead engineer at SPI Developments Ltd, outshone in the short list of 6 nominations, to claim his well-deserved prize and title. SPI’s Busines…

June 12, 2019

Tembo is the new name for the international group of companies which TDC is part of. Tembo once started as a cigar factory in 1912, founded by Hendrikus van der Sluis. One of his sons started to automate the factory and trade in second-hand machinery. From there, the company started growing to a company that deve…

March 20, 2019

ITM is opening a new service centre in Romania. From this location, mainly customers in Romania will be serviced. In Romania several ITM customers are located. To provide excellent service and support to these customers, As ITM Romania, ITM has formed a team of mechanical and software engineers of Romanian techni…

March 20, 2019

The employees of RNT Machinery in Dominican Republic organized a party at Ángeles de Conani,  a home for disabled children. The company and each employee contributed money for the party, held on March 14th.  The party was a great success. The RNT staff brought sweets, cake, pizzas and sodas for the children. They…

March 1, 2019

With the creation of Tembo, a new name has been set on the horizon. From now on, fourteen different companies will be proud to claim they are a Tembo company. A total of eleven hundred employees are currently working for a Tembo company, worldwide. They work, for example, for the machine design companies ITM, Ima…

November 7, 2018

Gemba announce their latest software release at the Manufacturing Technology Centre in Coventry MTC   The event was attended by many of Gemba’s key clients who enjoyed the excellent facilities at the MTC conference centre including an exclusive event tour of the MTC’c development building where some of the very l…