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Yesterday we received the IJmond Onderneemt Award 2018! We are very proud of our employees of Microtechniek. Thanks to them we have achieved this great performance!

Prime Minister Mark Rutte has admired our products such as the VITF structural parts (see photo) and VITF assembly mold during the official opening of the new Airbus Defense and Space Netherlands production facility in Oegstgeest. The 'smart factory' has 5,000 square meters, is located directly on the [...]

The partnership between Microtechniek Special Products and Pentacon has recently been awarded the contract from Thales Alenia Space to develop, engineer, manufacture, test and deliver several products of Mechanical Ground Support Equipment for the brand new full electrical platform product line; the Space Bus NEO telecommunication Satellite, which [...]

Recently, we machined a prototype product using simultaneous 5-axis milling operations. It is used for launching multiple satellites to space. We are proud to have contributed to this!

In the NASA Glenn Research Center Plum Brook (United States) the integration team has already performed a fit-check with the Variable Integration RIG which is manufactured by Microtech Special Products, this in preparation for the installation of solar panels on the satellite.

We were there! Microtechniek Special Products had a stand where visitors could ask questions about our products. All in the theme of the annual Weekend of Science. ESTEC is part of the European Space Agency. During the ESTEC open day you got the chance to explore the technological heart [...]

Airbus Defence and Space has developed and delivered the qualification model of the solar array for the European Service Module (ESM) of the Orion crewed spacecraft. During a deployment test with the deployment jig manufactured by Microtechniek at NASA's Plum Brook Station facility in Sandusky, Ohio (USA), the model [...]

Company structure change Special Products BV on January 1, 2016 Since 2016, Microtechiek Special Products is a daughter company of Microtechniek Groep BV. The company builds on the power of the group and has full access to the resources in the field of craftsmanship, systems and processes. Investments are [...]

Two new European satellites were launched on Tuesday from the launch site in French Guiana. These are the thirteenth and fourteenth probe which will be part of the Galileo global navigation network, which will eventually consist of 24 satellites. Each satellite carries the name of a child from a [...]