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In Philippines, Dutch firm finds perfect factory fit

DAVAO City, Philippines—One of the first things that Onno Luitjes and his Filipino wife, Lyndy, noticed when they ordered certain machine parts for fabrication was that the workers in the small shop could not interpret their engineer’s drawings.

But when the couple showed a sample of the stud bolts they wanted, the workers found the job quite easy to do.

The experience made Onno, Dutch president of HGG Profiling Specialist Philippines Inc., and Lyndy realize they can actually trust and rely on Filipino skills when they opened the first overseas branch of the Dutch firm HGG in Davao.

The firm produces parts for its pipe-cutting Computer Numerical Control (CNC) machines for global export.

HGG stands for the initials of the first names of the three owners of a group of companies in Netherlands producing fully automated equipment that have serviced the world’s biggest construction, shipbuilding and offshore industries in the last 25 years, Luitjes says.

“About 87 percent of the parts of these machines are now being produced here,” Gil Dureza, chief of the Board of Investments (BoI) in Southern Mindanao, says.

Since starting its CNC production here in 2008, HGG has shipped out 28 pipe-cutting machines, including equipment that helped build the new airport in Hong Kong and a polo stadium in India.

Made in Davao

“To give you an idea of the technology we are doing in the Netherlands, the pro cutter is the most basic machine the HGG Group is producing,” Luitjes says, referring to the pipe-cutting machine called PC600, which is being produced in Davao.

“The smallest equipment that our company produces in the Netherlands is up to 6.5 meters in height, weighing over 400 tons, which is even bigger than this bodega,” he says of the nondescript warehouse in Bajada.

When HGG opened its Davao branch in 2008, its aim was to explore the growing demand in Asia.

“We are using these products to see the possibilities in the Philippines and to explore the market in Asia,” he says.

Near where he stood looms a yellow machine, the color of which stands out from among the blue ones in the room. He says the machine, which has Chinese markings, would be marketed in China, where people highly preferred bright colors, like yellow.

Closer to customers

By opening up the Davao branch, the company aims to come closer to the customers in terms of the delivery of the new equipment and servicing.

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