Production grows with SafanDarley

Production grows with SafanDarley 

Entrepreneur Wesley van Rietschoten started the company Rietcon in Spijkenisse four years ago. He recently invested in a new SafanDarley Press brake and Guillotine. Production is growing and the factory space is already becoming too small. “We are looking for bigger premises,” says the entrepreneur.

At 37 years old, Van Rietschoten is quite a young entrepreneur. But he has already made his mark during his 15 years in the sheet metal sector. “I come from a family with several entrepreneurs. My father had a metal construction company that I started working in from an early age. During my studies I learned the tricks of the trade from him. When I finished the training I started working for my father. I learned to work with the shearing machine, press brake and other machines. Also making quotations, maintaining contacts and work preparation were among my tasks. After a few years I started working for a facade construction company and learned specialised bending of different metals; just like my father on SafanDarley machines.”

Solid brand

The brand awareness of Rietcon is growing, Van Rietschoten notices. “We already have a very wide range in the webshop in various metal types and thicknesses. We can now deliver up to 3 meters in length, but in the future we want to go to 4 metres or even 6 metres in order to be able to provide even more clients with customisation. Then we hope to be able to do business with SafanDarley again. We now work with steel, corten steel, stainless steel, brass, copper and (pre-coated) aluminum. In the future we may be able to process titanium, bronze and other special materials. We can have everything delivered to your door in any size.”

The choice of machines was not difficult, says Van Rietschoten. “SafanDarley is an honest company: a solid brand with good service where accuracy and reliability are the standard. That is very important to us. If something goes wrong, it is often resolved within 24 hours. I am now looking for my own building to process more materials and larger projects. Then we can work even more professionally and handle larger contracts.” The SafanDarley machines have been there for six weeks now. “It is a pleasure to work with them. Our orders are processed very quickly and smoothly, the accuracy is perfect and we also save a lot of time setting up the programs because the software is very user-friendly. That is very convenient for us because of the many products, materials and  thicknesses that we process.”