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23rd September 1993
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UK EXCLUSIVE

by Toby Clark

• Belgian trailer and body manufacturer Renders' RMCC container chassis is claimed to be the only design that ensures correct weight distribution with 20-45ft containers. Renders also produces reefers, tippers and mega-trailers up to 100m3.

Renders has a new factory at Chemnitz in eastern Germany, with more than 300 employees and access to an enormous market for mining and earthmoving equipment.

The intention is to be able to provide both loaders and tippers for heavy construction. The German-built products are not cheap because of increasing wage rates in Eastern Germany, but have been developed to use proprietary components including Perkins or Mercedes-Benz engines.

All products can be customised to suit user's needs.

Renders boasts that its use of computer-aided design and machining (CAD/CAM) and computerised stock control makes flexible manufacture much easier and more economical. Heavily subsidised by the German government, the Chemnitz plant's advanced facilities include fabrication gear for handling modern high-tensile steels. These allow the construction of strong, lightweight trailer chassis. Export markets include Kazakhstan and a joint venture deal in the Far East. Renders has yet to make its mark on the UK, which export manager Jan Laenen describes as "a very difficult market" with its own requirements.

The company was started in 1974 by managing director Frans Renders. Based in Beerse, near Antwerp, the company more than doubled in size last year when it bought the vehicle manufacturing side of East German mining firm Wismut.

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Organisations: German government
Locations: Beerse, Antwerp

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