Van Heck is ‘Dutch hero’
Somerset, early in February 2014: Jeroen van Heck is in the region already hit by floods for weeks resulting from continuing bad weather.
Somerset, early in February 2014: Jeroen van Heck is in the region already hit by floods for weeks resulting from continuing bad weather.
The development of the Sea Trophy – the submersible oil recovery pump devised and patented by Van Heck – continues.
Heavy rainfall had resulted in high water levels in the Horstermeer Polder northwest of Hilversum. Van Heck was called at 11:00 p.m. on Sunday, 13 October 2013.
Summer 2013: a time of great suffering. Rainwater and meltwater accumulated in Germany just south of Magdeburg where the Elbe and Saale converge.
Van Heck likes to keep things simple. But good. That combination of qualities perfectly applies to the screw pumps utilized by this Noordwolde-based pump specialist. The extremely simple-to-use screw pumps are also enthusiastically utilized by…
“We’re a market leader and our system’s been in demand for quite a while… But we continue to invest in improving it simply because we’re innovative and we’re always looking for the best possible solution”…
Why make something difficult when it could just as well be easy? This is a kind of motto for Jeroen van Heck, the man who loves complex issues, but always goes for the simple solution…
For the renovation of a total of six pumps, Water Board Friesland requested Van Heck to temporarily take over the pumping capacity.
Imagine this: a 180- by 45-metre pontoon on the open seas, carrying a 20,000-ton oil platform suspended above the support columns that will keep it in place. Van Heck’s job in this type of operation…