Our sponsor Vanderlande Industries prolonged their commitment to Forze for the third year in a row. Vanderlande delivers material handling systems like baggage handling systems to airports, highly automated warehouses to retail, fashion and other customers and sorting solutions to the parcel and postal markets. Vanderlande is a world market leader, they deliver the largest and most advanced material handling systems all over the world. Drive to win is the common ground between Forze and Vanderlande Industries as they want to be the best in providing automated material handling systems and related services.

In the Netherlands Vanderlande employs more than thousand employees with more than 60% HBO or WO level there are about 60 open job positions at the moment (see www.vanderlande.com).

In the past few weeks some tubes of metal have been turned into the frame for the Forze V. The production at West End BV provided a better-suited environment to ensemble the frame. The new frame is twenty centimetres shorter and is reduced in width as well. Combining these smaller dimensions with the use of thinner steel tubes has led to a weight loss of six kilograms. The weight loss did not come to the cost of the torsional stiffness, which is equal to 1600 Newtons per degree.

Maybe equally important to designing the frame is actually building the frame and the possibility to use the equipment and the skill of West End in their workshop in Lisse is instrumental to get the improvements in design to the track.  We are very thankful to West End for this possibility!

Assembling the frame, and the finished frame.