Blok Group sponsors sailers Lisa and Lobke
Blok Group Eyecatchers Olympic sponsors a campaign that women sailors Lobke Berkhout and Lisa Westerhof guides towards excellence in the World Championships in Scheveningen and Australia. Another goal is to achieve a medal in the women's 470 class at the Olympic Games in London 2012.
Lobke Berkhout
Lobke, called the sailing queen of the Netherlands, guarantees success. She won almost every race there is to win. Her strengths are professionalism and enthusiasm.
Lisa Westerhof
Lisa is the greatest talent of world sailing mentioned. At a young age she became world champion before all men in the Optimist. In the 470 she won several medals at World Cups, European Championships and World Cups. Her strengths are her tactical skill, extremely good feeling and a real boat winning mentality.
Blok Group became an enthusiastic friend of Lobke and Lisa.
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New website
The new website of The Block Group currently online.
We are happy to inform you on our website about our three divisions: ‘Blok Mechanical Industry B.V. ', 'Blok Industrial Services B.V.’ and ‘Blok System Supply B.V.'. We inform you about the high quality of our products and services and give you a virtual look inside our machinepark. Our latest news is also available on this website.
The Blok Group is your partner and supplier for high quality, complex and technical issues. Our goal is to be a a leading supplier in the metal industrie and to protect the continuity of the company.
New: computer-aided tool management system
The Blok Group is using a computer-aided tool management system since mid June. Cost savings and never miss anything are greatly in our advantage.
The company's workshop is included with three FMS-systems running 24/7. This way our tools will stay up to date.
Stephan van Sante, director of supplier Gühring Netherlands: "Blok group already worked systamatic. Therefor our implementation of products went smoothly. This way employees didn't had to change their approach radically.
In an article of Metal & Engineering you can read more information about our computer-aided tool management system.
The Blok Group certified by standard AS 9100 C
Blok Mechanical Industry B.V. is certified by standard AS 9100 C, by Lloyd's Register Netherlands BV.
The AS 9100 standard is recognized worldwide as the leading Quality Management System for the aerospace, defense and aerospace manufacturers. It represents the highest degree of quality and reliability. To achieve this level of certification, in the whole organization we have had some strict supervisions. This all happened in a few weeks time.
Great performance
Blok Mechanical Industry B.V. is one of the companies in the world which achieved this level of certification, a great achievement. This result is regarded as a direct result of the company's commitment to continuous improvement and World Class Performance to pursue.
Blok Mechanical Industry B.V. is an innovative company in the production and assembly of advanced components and complete systems for various industries.
By obtaining the AS 9100 C licence Blok Mechanical Industry B.V. can also focus on the aerospace industry.
Blok Group takes over activities of NMA
The Blok Group took over the activities of NMA (Dutch Machinefabriek Alkmaar BV) at 1 July 2008. We acquired the mechanical department and the plate work banks of NMA. The Blok Group also took all the employees involved, the current orders and customer base of NMA.
The location where we acquired the NCA activities remains unchanged. We do this in the current premises in Broek op Langedijk.
At the end of 2007 NMA Industries BV in Broek op Langedijk, the parent organization of NCA activities, decided to focus their strategic goals and investment activities on ‘traffic engineering’, ‘Oil & Gas' and 'engineering'.

Blok Mechanical Industry B.V. is certified by standard AS 9100 C, by Lloyd's Register Netherlands BV. The AS 9100 standard is recognized worldwide as the leading Quality Management System for the aerospace, defense and aerospace manufacturers. It represents the highest degree of quality and reliability.