2024-03-18 | Navigating the Dutch BSN Number with A1 Werkplan

Embarking on a successful career journey in the Netherlands begins with obtaining your BSN (Burger Service Nummer), commonly known as the Personal Tax Number. This crucial identifier is indispensable for processing your salary. The BSN number is formerly called Sofinumber. If you haven't acquired your BSN number yet, A1 Werkplan will care about it and help you to get one. A1 Werkplan streamlines this process for you. We provide comprehensive support, guiding you through the necessary steps and scheduling appointments with the relevant townhall to obtain your BSN number promptly and hassle-free. Our service is not only efficient, but also completely free of charge.

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2024-01-11 | New Electrical engineers

We are happy to announce that The Badger Company has welcomed two new electrical team members to our team! Georgiana Stefan has joined us as an electrical engineer in our Ploiesti, Romania office, and Roberto Ribeiro has joined us as an electrical engineer in our Porto, Portugal office. This is a significant step in the further development of our electrical department.

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2023-12-14 | The Badger Company wishes you a Merry Christmas

The Badger Company wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Safe 2024. We are looking forward to 2024 which is our anniversary year, in which we will celebrate our 20th anniversary.

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2023-12-14 | A1 Werkplan wishes you a Merry Christmas and a Happy Newyear

Merry Christmas and a Happy 2024 from A1 Werkplan

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2023-10-05 | FPSO Upgrading ? PROJECT COMPLETED!!!

The Badger Company has successfully finalized a FEED project for the revamp of an existing FPSO(Floating Production, Storage and Offloading) vessel.

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2023-05-25 | The faces behind The Badger Company - Meet Nicolae Stoica

?The faces behind The Badger Company? - Meet Nicolae Stoica Nicu is one of our Senior Piping Engineers who has been working with The Badger Company for over 16 years. He was involved in some of our most challenging projects, using state-of-the-art 3D modelling software and different engineering standards to deliver the best results for our clients from different continents.

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2023-03-29 | Let's introduce recruiter Daniela Ferreira

We want to introduce you to our newest colleague, Daniela Ferreira, who has joined our recruitment team as a recruiter in Portugal. With a background in psychology and human behavior, Daniela brings a unique perspective to the hiring process, ensuring that our clients have access to the most talented candidates available.

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2023-03-23 | Company video The Badger Company

Today we publish our new short company video.

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2023-02-13 | FPSO One Guyana

Recently, The Badger Company was tasked with a critical role in the engineering and design of the topside module of FPSO One Guyana. The Badger Company was responsible for the piping and supports, which are crucial components of the FPSO topside. The Badger Company's team of experienced engineers used the latest software and tools, such as AVEVA E3D for 3D design, Ceasar II for stress calculations, and Staad Pro for structural calculations, to execute the project.

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2022-12-14 | Happy New year

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year

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2022-12-13 | New Logo

In the last period we were busy with development of our new corporate identity. We will introduce this to you in the coming period, but now we can already announce our new company colours and logos. We are ready to roll out our plans for 2023.

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2022-11-22 | NEN 4400-1 certification renewed

This week A1 Werkplan had an SNA audit for the NEN 4400-1 certification. We are proud to say that the audit went well and that we can renew our NEN certificate.

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2022-11-14 | LED screens

In addition to large industrial projects, sometimes requests come from completely different sectors. For example, last weekend on 11-11, the carnival season started in Tilburg (the Netherlands).

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2022-10-20 | Verhuizing administratie naar kantoor Hoogvliet

The administration from the Urmond office is completely taken over by our colleagues in Hoogvliet. This allows us to perform internal processes better and more efficiently. As a result, we will close the office in Urmond and we will increase our team in Hoogvliet.

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2022-10-11 | New general Manager office Porto

Announcement: We are happy to announce that the first steps of our new office in Porto (Portugal) are taken. We want to introduce Nuno Lopes as our new General Manager of the Porto office.

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2022-05-24 | Article in Agenda Constructiilor

In the May edition of Agenda Constructiilor is published an article about The Badger Company with an interview with Razvan Cretu, the General Manager of the Romanian office in Ploiesti, Romania.

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2022-05-12 | Shell Pernis, together with A1 Werkplan, is tackling twenty factories at the same time

Shell Pernis tackles twenty factories at the same time: every valve, nut and screw is examined, repaired or replaced. With A1 Werkplan we supply technical personnel for current maintenance projects at Shell Pernis and Shell Moerdijk for various contractors, such as pipe fitters, flange fitters, welders and E&I technicians.

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2022-04-07 | Gas skids

Since March 2022, various mechanics have been hard at work on a great project. Gas Skids are being worked on in the east of the Netherlands. A1 Werkplan supplies E&I mechanics, pipe fitters and mechanical fitters for this project.

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2022-03-11 | Turn Around Shell Pernis March 2022

The TA at Shell Pernis is now about half way. Our welders and pipe fitters from A1 Werkplan are busy bringing this stop to a successful conclusion. At the moment we are on schedule and working safely.

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2022-02-07 | Looking for General Manager Portugal

ENCODE Group, privately held, is expanding to grow and diversify its business and origin of resources. Part of this Strategy is to establish an affiliate in Portugal, to expand both the activities of The Badger Company and A1 Werkplan.

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2022-02-01 | Announcement Manager F&A - HR

We want to announce that from 1st of February, Jaroen Leenheer, is our new Manager Finance & Administration and Human Resources.

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2022-01-27 | Maintenance Shutdown at SHELL Pernis until July

Next month, Shell Pernis will be taking a very long maintenance halt. The work will be completed by the end of June. A1 Werkplan will provide manpower for this project, such as foremen, welders and pipefitters. Shell Pernis has announced that major maintenance will be carried out at the refinery from February onwards. A large number of installations will be inspected inside and out, cleaned and parts will be replaced. The work is scheduled to be completed by the end of June.

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2022-01-07 | Johan Castberg FPSO

With The badger Company did we do detail engineering and design of the Turret Mooring System of the Johan Castberg FPSO. We did this project for and together with our client SBM Offshore in Monaco. Now End client Equinor is publsihing the first movies of the construction phase of the Johan Castberg FPSO.

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2022-01-02 | Tank terminal Project in construction phase

In the first months of 2021, we worked hard on this project together with our customer. It is an extension of the terminal in Rotterdam with seven tanks and countless transfer and loading options. At the end of the summer we completed the basic engineering for the piping, structural, mechanical and E&I. The executing parties have now been selected by the customer and the civil works have started.

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2021-12-21 | Pipefitters for new projects early 2022

Yes, great news. A1 Werkplan is awarded for some new projects starting in January 2022 for at least 6 months. Besides the current running projects, there will start at least 25 pipe fitters extra in January for these projects.

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2021-12-16 | Xmas

We wish you all a merry christmass and a happy new year.

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2021-12-13 | Company Structure

At this moment ENCODE Group runs the brands The Badger Company, A1 Werkplan, DBP Management and Reg Dab Recruitment Services. Thru the years these brands by virtue of the growth of their operational activities started to overlap each other and it became increasingly difficult to tag their mutual distinction. ENCODE Group has therefor decided to restructure its activities in three product/market combinations being Engineering, Recruitment and Remote Services.

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2021-10-29 | Helping Retail client

Out of the ordinary. For a large international retail client in need, we designed a truss for one of their shops from readily available piping material. Creative and fast solution, operational within days.

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2021-10-07 | Yinson's FPSO Anna Nery

For EPC contractor Aragon in Norway are we doing detailed engineering and design for the topside modules for the Petrobras FPSO Anna Nery for the Marlim field. See here a nice video of the construction phase.

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2021-06-04 | An appointment to get a COVID-19 vaccination

The Netherlands is busy to get as much as possible people vaccinated for COVID-19 now. Also people from abroad working in The Netherlands can get a free vaccination.

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2021-01-21 | authorized for design of fire limitation and extinguishing systems

The Badger Company is now authorized by the Romanian Ministry of Internal Affairs for Fire Safety and Civil Protection (General Inspectorate for Emergency Situations (IGSU) / National Centre for Fire Safety and Civil Protection), for the preparation of projects in fire fighting.

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2020-11-23 | Replacement of Process Gas line Hydrogen plant

The Badger Company has successfully completed the engineering of a project for the replacement of a high temperature process gas pipe system at a Hydrogen production facility.

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2020-11-02 | Fake vacancies

In the last days we receive messages from people who received a letter from it looks like The Badger Company about vacancies. Especially from Pakistan and Oman we receive messages.

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2020-09-17 | Delamine Turn Around finished

De Turn Around at Delamine is finished. A1 Werkplan was with a great team part of this TA.

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2020-09-10 | Romania-Turkmenistan Business opportunities

The Badger Company responses positive to the invitation received from Prahova Chamber of Commerce and attended the ?Business Opportunities ROMANIA ? TURKMENISTAN ? event, hosted by the Prahova Chamber of Commerce at the initiative of Turkmenistan Embassy in Romania in collaboration with Turkmenistan Chamber of Commerce.

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2020-09-08 | Social Media

Via several social media channels can you follow us to stay updated about new developments, new projects or nice pictures of ENCODE-Group or The Badger Company, Reg Dab recruitment services, DBP Management and A1 Werkplan.  Here is an overview of the social media channels per business unit, so you can easily follow us.

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2020-09-08 | Engineering in Ploiesti

Why is our engineering office based in Ploiesti Romania? Besides that Ploiesti is the oil city of eastern europe, with it's refineries, in Ploiesti is also located the University of Oil & Gas.

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2020-08-25 | Flange Tree Abu Dhabi

For a technical school in the middle east for instance we were happy to provide design and construction drawings for a so called flange-tree, which will be used to explain and understand the different types of flanges and joints used within piping engineering.

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2020-08-10 | New website

We have updated the website of ENCODE group, The Badger Company, Reg Dab recruitment services, A1 Werkplan and DBP Management, so we can provide everyone with information about our companies.

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2020-08-07 | Certification extended, audits with good result

During the holiday period we have been busy with audits to show that our safety and quality systems are still in compliance. After a period of various audits, we can proudly announce that the certifications of the Dutch companies have been renewed.

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2020-08-04 | Johan Castberg TMS Load out

Watch some key moments during SBM Offshore?s activities on the Johan Castberg TMS project. The video covers the fabrication phase of the TMS in Dubai before shipment to Singapore for integration into Equinor?s Johan Castberg FPSO. The Badger Company has executed the detailed engineering and design for the TMS Gantry as SBM Offshore's subcontractor.

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2020-07-01 | Mercury removal plant in magazine Technisch Weekblad

In Kwinana (Western Australia) there is a brand new mercury processing plant from the Dutch company BMT Mercury. The Dutch-Romanian engineering firm The Badger Company took care of the entire design.

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2020-06-29 | ASML project with A1 Werkplan

At the project at ASML are A1 Werkplan pipe fitters and sprinkler mechanics working.

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2020-06-07 | Rubis tanks in operation

Good news, Rubis Terminal Rotterdam is ready to operate 15 brand new stainless steel tanks with a total capacity of 31.500 m3 (6 x 3.000 m3 and 9 x 1.500 m3) in June 2020!

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2020-04-28 | Sailaway Johan Castberg Turret Gantry

Sailaway of the Gantry and manifold modules of the Turret for the Johan Castberg FPSO.

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2020-04-14 | Mercury plant in Australia

Basic en detail engineering finished for BMT Australia.

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2020-02-19 | Rubis phase 2 engineering completed

For Rubis Terminal in Rotterdam we are completing the detail engineering of phase 2.

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2019-10-19 | Largest Plant Chemelot in Turn Around

Turnaround Olefins 4 SABIC is completed

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2019-07-12 | INSEMEX - GANEx certification

The Badger Company is INSEMEX certified.

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2019-07-05 | Maintenance Claus power plant by A1 Werkplan

A1 Werkplan is currently working on the maintenance of the Claus power station.

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2019-05-21 | Maintenance Turbine Keulen A1 Werkplan

The mechanics of A1 werkplan have done maintenance on the Turbine of the powerplant in Keulen-Germany. The project is done safely and within the planning.

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