Proud of ‘our boys’ Tinie Tijsen set out to ‘do something with wood’. This isn’t exactly what happened. He attended vocational school and was trained as a fitter/welder. In 1974, Tijsen joined BNG Steel Construction, which later became RijnDijk Steel Contracting. He is now the foreman at Mebra Metaalbewerking.
Working
together on great
projects
“After one year in works planning,
when I sit in the theatre of the
I made the transition to fitter/
Heuvel Gallery in Eindhoven and
welder. Back then, you really had
see the roof construction, I feel
to be skilled. There was no such
proud. Anyhow, I’m really proud
thing as computers. You were
that I work here. Seeing how the
given a scale drawing that you had
company is growing gives me a
to lay on a pipe and then you set
good feeling. When I spoke with
In the last annual report, the Andus Group presented once
to work. That involved fitting and
Tom van Rijn during more turbu-
again, alongside some excellent figures, a number of pictures of
measuring, cutting and so on.
lent times, he said: ‘Tinie, it’s like
completed projects. There were also plenty of photographs of
Now, the plans are worked out in
an old tree. You have to prune it in
Andus employees. We wanted to emphasise that projects can
the finest detail and the pieces are
order for it to thrive again.’ He was
only be realised through the continued efforts of our personnel.
all computer cut. But there are still
right, we’re in full bloom.”
Naturally, this also applies to the need for close cooperation
plenty of challenges as an archi-
with clients. For this reason, we’d like to hand the floor over to
tect’s concept is not always easy
employees and clients for this HotLine edition. As the running title
to carry out. We always have to
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make it anyway, often under great pressure. And if there’s something
We wish everyone an enjoyable holiday period.
that worries me, it’s the scarcity
Thanks for all your efforts!
of skilled guys. It seems that the metal worker is a dying breed.”
Andus Group Executive Board
Making beautiful things “But it is a fine trade. You know, we worked on the advertising mast at Schiphol Airport. That’s really amazing. As soon as you arrive in the Netherlands, you see something that ‘our boys’ made. And
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