Company Profile

First years

During the first years Winteb was a classical foundry which casted several different products for the local industry. New designs, spare parts, unique products in materials like aluminium, copper, aluminium bronze , bronze and other non-ferrous materials were produced. During the years Winteb developed into an expert in non-ferrous castings with an eye for detail and quality. Several artists knocked at our door to have their work casted at Winteb. But even more important Winteb became a flexible innovative foundry with a solution to almost every problem. Throughout the years Winteb grow steadily and more customers got to know us. The business expanded from local industry to nation-wide. In 1976 Mr. A. van der Velde retired and was succeeded by Mr. I. van der Velde. The following years Winteb expanded its business into the European market, starting with France. The core business still was casting non-ferrous products for the industry.

1976-1987

But more and more Winteb started to develop its own products and customer made solutions. Winteb also started to do more machining of their own- and customers' products. Investments in new machinery and production automation were made and Winteb evolved into a higher level of production and machining.

 

Production of air pipe heads

In 1984 Winteb started to do business in the shipbuilding market. Mr. I. van der Velde designed the WIKO5000 series air pipe heads. The WIKO5000 series were a refreshing, innovative new design compared to existing air pipe heads.

1984-2000

The development, design, production, machining, transport (region), marketing and sales is done by Winteb. This means that the knowledge and experience is kept under one roof. Hence a flexible, innovative and high quality company is backing up the products. Meanwhile "normal" (casting for the industry) work continued. Throughout the years the air pipe heads became the core business of Winteb. This resolved in more investments in production and machining. In 1997 Winteb has received its patent on another revolutionary design. The "WINNPRESS" PV Valve. In 1998 Winteb received the ISO9001 quality control certificate confirming once again that quality is a main goal for Winteb. More investments in machining and producing facilities followed. Picture: line up of casted products in the early 90's.

2000 - 2006 The WIN2000 series air pipe heads

By now Winteb has become the world's largest producer of seawater resistant aluminium (DIN1725) air pipe heads. Winteb has developed the WIN2000 air pipe head series which will set the standard in air venting. This series will also be produced out of seawater resistant aluminium. The advantages of seawater resistant aluminium over our competitors which use cast-iron, welded hot dipped iron/steel constructions or stainless steel is that aluminium (DIN1725) will not corrode, requires no maintenance and obviously will save you a lot of weight. Furthermore the WIN2000 series has a space and weight saving design that is revolutionary compared to other Air Pipe Heads.

For example: The dimensions of the ND 50 will be ø 106 mm by 161 mm. The weight of the ND 50 will be an astonishing 2 kg.

The space saving design will allow you to put the air pipe heads somewhere away where it does not form any obstacle anymore.

Because of its volumetric design we have achieved an average higher volumetric flow. Especially the larger sizes have got a phenomenal volumetric flow The design is protected by international patent pending no. 1014531. Like the WIKO 5000 series the WIN 2000 series uses O-ring sealed retaining ring. This way the PE ball together with the O-ring provides the best possible leakage protection.

2002 New machining department

2002
Our new machining department is fully operational since 2002. 

New foundry

2003
Our new foundry is fully operational since 2003.

Production lines

The following year’s production grew and new investments had to be made in the foundry.

New furnace

To boost up our melting capacity a new larger furnace was installed in 2005. 
The new hydraulic operated furnace.

New sand storage unit

To keep up the demand for more sand a larger sand storage unit had to be installed also. 

The new larger sand storage with fresh Winteb logo.

New grinding department

In July 2005 Winteb opened a new grinding department and doubled its production area. 
Easy to handle the light weighted aluminium air pipe heads.

Our largest one (DN450)

Our largets air pipe head. The mighty WIN2000 DN450 in the new grinding department.