History of Bakker & Co: a Family Business for 100 Years

Bakker & Co is originally a Dutch family business that has existed for 100 years. In 1925, two brothers started the company Bakker & Co in Scheveningen as a supplier of drive couplings and steel wire cables. It survived the crisis and war period, but split in 1953 because it wanted to reposition itself. The steel activities moved to Rotterdam, while the drive, measurement and pump activities remained as Bakker & Co at the then location in Voorburg.

From Voorburg to Rotterdam

The Rotterdam company was named Unistaal and as early as 1955, Bakker & Co followed to the Schiedamsedijk in industrial Rotterdam. In 1960, Wim Jongbloed, the father of current director and owner Jan-Willem Jongbloed, took over the Rotterdam companies from his uncle Jan Bakker. The company flourished and specialized in customer-specific solutions for high-quality industrial production, such as steel, refining, chemicals, mechanical engineering and meteorology.

In 1980, the company moved to the current location in Zwijndrecht due to growth and expansion of maintenance services. In 1990, Jan-Willem Jongbloed took over the company. From that time, the market area was expanded in 1994 with an establishment in Wilrijk-Antwerp, Belgium, and the repair and maintenance services were expanded from 1997.

Customer-specific Solutions

After 100 years, Bakker & Co is a modern and dynamic company. Our engineered customer-specific solutions ensure that state-of-the-art technology fitting current business models allows our customers to produce without worries. Long-term relationships with customers and suppliers, combined with continuously new and current technical insights, remain the foundation for technical creativity and the best solutions.