Wilton-Fijenoord
The Dutch shipyard NV Dok en Werf Maatschappij Wilton - Fijenoord existed from 1929 to 1999. Schiedam The company from operating shipbuilding and ship repair and marine engineering. In 1988, the new department, ship repair will continue as women Shiprepair Rotterdam BV.
History
The roots of Wilton Fijenoord go to the 1825 by Gerhard Moritz Roentgen and the shipping company Nederlandsche Maatschappij Stoomboot in the south of Rotterdam based ship -building factory Maatschappij voor Scheeps -en Werktuigbouw Fijenoord until 1895 Establishment Fijenoord back. The operation on the grounds of the former Rotterdam Pesthauses introduced marine steam machines. Some thirty years later, in 1854, Bartel Wilton founded with the support of Willem Ruys a forge. Wilton's firm developed, possibly by the action of Ruys, more and more of a conventional ship to a forge, which employed 35 men in 1875 already. In 1876 Wilton finally acquired a site on Westseedeich Rotterdam, where he excavates a harbor and erected a cross Helling. Here renamed in 1895 with a capital of 300,000 florins established companies as NV Machinefabriek B. Wilton. Later, the operation bennet into Wilton's Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf. Fijenoord and Wilton performed well in the following decades. Wilton moved his growing operation in the meantime to Schiedam.
Wilton's Machinefabriek founded in 1921 a holding company with shares worth 25 million guilders in 1927 and completed an agreement to cooperate with the Maatschappij Fijenoord before both companies finally merged in 1929 to Dok -en Werfmaatschappij Wilton Fijenoord. 1938 acquired Wilton Fijenoord and the neighboring yard Rotterdamsche Dry Dock Maatschappij together the competitors Machinefabriek en Scheepswerf van P. Smit Jr. from Rotterdam businessman DG van Beuningen. This shipyard was not incorporated, but continued as an independent company.
After the Dry Dock Rotterdamsche Maatschappij on March 4, 1966, the shipyard Koninklijke Maatschappij " De Schelde " and the Motorenfabriek Thomassen for Rijn - Schelde en Machinefabrieken Scheepswerven ( RSMS ) were fused to Wilton Fijenoord closed on July 3rd, 1968 under pressure from the government the composite to. Also on government pressure occurred, which was experiencing financial difficulties Verolme Verenigde Scheepswerven ( VVSW ) from Rotterdam on 1 January 1971, the group in which then changed its name as Rijn - Schelde - Verolme Machinefabrieken s Scheepswerven (RSV ). On April 6, 1983, the RSV went bankrupt.
After the unbundling of the bankrupt company, the Gemeente Schiedam took over the shipyard, the Dutch government allowed new loans and the shipyard went as Dok en Werf Maatschappij Wilton - Fijenoord BV forth with a parent holding company. Not least thanks to several new orders of Koninklijke Marine persisted the shipyard. In 1987, the Wilton Fijenoord holding first the repair yard Vlaardingen -Oost Bedrijven (VOB) and a month later the shipyard Verolme Botlek. But in February 1988 he graduated the construction department of the shipyard. 1994, we acquired Wilton Fijenoord Holding the shipyard Verolme Scheepswerf Heusden. After the company was in 1998 again run into financial difficulties, it was in turn taken over by RDM Technology. A year later merged Wilton Fijenoord with the repair yard Yssel - Vliet Combinatie to Rotterdam United Shipyards and in 2003 took over the women's holding of Gorinchem the operation to which it belongs today.