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To celebrate 30 years of innovation and growth, family-run window covering specialist business Coulisse has revealed plans to invest €50 million in a new campus in the Netherlands with the latest smart technology and robotic breakthroughs.
“The new 70,000 square metre Coulisse Campus was unveiled at the new location, the Elsmoat business park in the village of Enter, eastern Netherlands at a press event on 27 October.
The new billboard, revealed by founders Christiaan and Maurice Roetgering, showed an artist’s impression of the new complex. Phase one will be the construction of the first building – a 15,000 square metre warehouse 13 metres high of which 2,000 square metres will be automated – which is planned for completion in 2023.
Phase two will be to build a fully automated highbay warehouse of 7,000 square meters, where RFID (radio frequency identification) will be in use. Plans are also in place to produce hydrogen with solar energy at this new location to reduce the company’s ecological footprint.
Christiaan Roetgering confirmed that this year, the company proudly opened a new office, showroom and warehouse in Miami after 10 years of growing on American soil. This was followed by the opening of its brand-new Sydney office and showroom a few months later.
This year also sees the commissioning of new robotic machinery that in-house engineers at Coulisse have been working on over the past few years. Roetgering said this new robotic assembling machinery will optimise production processes by making the production of pleated blinds 80% more efficient and save on CO2.
“With creativity and innovation in our DNA, we listen, think out-of-the-box and always push the limits in design and technology,” Roetgering said.
“We aspire to be the Tesla of our industry. Engineering window covering solutions that utilise the latest smart technology with the most sophisticated designs.”
Coulisse has also produced a coffee table book ‘Living Beauty’ in collaboration with renowned fashion photographer Jasper Abels. The book captures images of the wildlife of the Reggedal countryside over a year, along with a 30 year anniversary journal featuring interviews with Christiaan and Maurice Roetgering, Jasper Abels and creative director Catharina Idema.
