Our main clients include offshore operators, shipping companies and those working in the dredging industry. DRIE-D has grown to be a specialist in maintenance free composite bearings and brake linings, and we have expanded our original offices to take over the facilities both behind and beside us. We have also acquired the company that manufactures our bearing materials, which means we are better able to steer the product development of our materials and function as an all-round company, controlling the complete production chain, from selecting the raw materials to machining the final components. We work together with a number of relevant agents throughout the world, while at the same time operating in local markets providing technical support from our Rotterdam office to the surrounding areas.”

This year DRIE-D has had a number of large contracts that include re-lining all the brake bands on one the biggest crane vessels in the world. This project involved organising the entire process of removing and transporting onboard brake bands to an expert for the removal of the old asbestos brake linings, bringing them back to the company workshop for the installation of new brake linings, coating them to customer specifications, using x-ray for examining them on cracks and transporting them back to the ship according to a very tight schedule. Whilst handling the advanced technological aspects of a project, logistics is an additional forte for the company.