Our Memory Lane
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Welcome to our story. our roots and our history. Going back to the early 1970`s when Harry Haverkotte began his career at TSM Mariënberg. Later in 1997 Harry founded Euro Machinery with his son Roy. Find below our memorylane and read about Euro Machinery, Emeco International, Prima Equipment and later in 2021 Findeq, Find Equipment founded by Roy Haverkotte and Jeroen Noordkamp.
Our history (since 1990)
1990
TSM Baumaschinen
Roy went to Eastern Germany working as a workshop and field service mechanic for TSM Baumaschinen.
1994
EMV Baumaschinen
Roy joint EMV Baumaschinen in Halle-Saale, Eastern Germany. This rental company had 300 Caterpillar and Komatsu Earthmoving machines in their fleet.
1996
Euro Machinery
Harry & Roy Haverkotte started Euro Machinery, who`s main business was repairing for- and trading used equipment to the USA, Australia and Kazakhstan.
1997
Grijpma Logistics
Jeroen Noordkamp joines Grijpma Logistics as their Logistics Manager.
2000
Euro Rental
in 2000 after being an established trading company.Euro Machinery started Euro Rental responding to the request for more used rental machines.
2001
Start People
Jeroen joines Start People, a staffing agency for transport- and logistics people.
2002
Euro Equipment
Euro Machinery started manufacturing and sales of their own buckets and other attachments in Euro Equipment, supplying several companies in Western Europe.
2003
Spijkers Euro Transport
Spijkers Euro Transport a company formed out of 2 take-overs, Spijkers Transport and Vechtdal Transport has been added to the Euro Machinery group of companies. Their main business was trucking loads from Scandinavia to Spain, Portugal, France and Italy.
2006
Teleroute / Wolters kluwer
Jeroen joined Teleroute / Wolters Kluwer as their account manager for Europe’s largest freight exchange system.
2007
Emeco Europe
The Haverkotte family sold the 3 Euro Machinery businesses to to Emeco International PTY from Australia to form the new Emeco Europe, a rental comany for lmedium and large mining equipment in Europe.
2010
Prima Equipment
Emeco International left Europe in the economic crisis years. The Haverkotte family bought the equipment left in Europe and founded Prima Equipment.
2013
TAS-TMS / Wolters Kluwer
Jeroen joined TAS-TMS a part of Wolters Kluwer as Account Manager TAS- Modular Transport Management Systems for transport companies and freight forwarders.
2015
Tyre Tools
Jeroen founded his own Company, Tyre Tools. Sales of Tyre Management Systems for transport companies and fleet owners.
2015
Brand Equipment / FleXiever
Jeroen started working for Brand Equipment as sales and marketing manager responsible for the sales of FleXiever screening machines.
2016
Harry Haverkotte Retired
Harry Haverkotte retired from Prima Equipment, going to do the nice things in life. Knowing Harry he will still trade some machines where he can.
2016
Ophof Recycling
Jeroen started working for, Gerrit Ophof, Ophof Recycling. He was responsible for the sales and marketing of new and used equipment and parts from SBM, Rockster Crushers, Maskin Mekano, Anaconda Screeners, Haas Shredders and Eschlböck Wood chippers.
2016
Prima Used / Van Der Spek Vianen
The Haverkotte family sold Prima Equipment to Van Der Spek vianen. Dutch dealer for Powerscreen, Lindner, Peterson, Terex, Fuchs, Hyundai, Dynapac, Telestack and Siebotec equipment. As Used Equipment Manager Roy Haverkotte was responsible for their Used Equipment business in the Netherlands and Belgium.
2021
Free Time…..
Roy left Prima Equipment / Van Der Spek in 2021 to start several other activities in consultancy, advisory and sales of used material handling equipment.
2021
Findeq (Find Equipment)
Findeq was born out of the ideas of Roy Haverkotte and Jeroen Noordkamp. Both experienced in sales and systems of recycling, earthmoving, mining, road construction and material handling machines.
2023
Findeq.com
In 2023 we changed our domain name from .eu to .com to reflect our international reach. We also launched a new website, which you can visit at www.findeq.com.
