Tijssen Elektro and Alewijnse open new service facility in Palma de Majorca
Tijssen Elektro, part of the Alewijnse Group, is opening a dedicated service location in Palma de Mallorca. This will enable sailing yachts of all sizes to benefit from the company’s unique expertise in navigation and communication systems. This fulfils a long-standing goal of opening a third service and refit location in the Mediterranean region, alongside its existing facilities in Barcelona, Spain, and La Ciotat, France.
With this strategic move, the electrical system integrator can now provide even better and faster electrical services to all types of motor and sailing yachts in the Mediterranean area. In addition to the location in La Ciotat, the companies have also been offering electrical services from Barcelona, the heart of the superyacht industry in the Mediterranean, since last summer. Together, these Southern European locations form a strategic complement to the group’s service branches in the Netherlands, Romania and Vietnam.
“Palma de Mallorca is the best place to provide services to large yachts, particularly sailing yachts, in the Mediterranean region,” explains Robert Brugman, General Manager at Tijssen Elektro Zeeland. “With its strategic location off the Spanish coast, there is constant demand for servicing and refits on sailing and motor yachts, with peaks in the spring and autumn. After the Monaco Yacht Show, which takes place in late September, many yachts dock in Palma de Mallorca. There they can either finalise preparations before crossing the Atlantic to the Caribbean or stay there for the winter for maintenance or larger refits. Then, in the spring, this trend goes into reverse.”
“With so many owners and management companies present in Palma, having our own facility there gives us a great advantage. Not least because many yacht owners prefer to return to the original suppliers involved in the build. Sailing yachts in particular are equipped with a lot of specific navigation and communication equipment necessary for sailing and participating in races, and Tijssen Elektro has particular expertise in supplying, installing and integrating these types of systems.”
With the arrival of Ronald Bunders in Palma, Tijssen Elektro has added an extra touch to its unique service in the field of navigation and communication equipment. After a period with our partner A+T Instruments, where he made a significant contribution to product development, technical support and training, Ronald Bunders has returned to his earlier career as a navcom designer and installer. With 27 years of unrivalled experience and having lived in Palma for six years, he is the perfect person to set up this new office for Tijssen and Alewijnse.