By contract workers, for contract workers – that's the best way to describe the history and the future of family business Frans Vervaet B.V. from Biervliet in the Dutch province of Zeeuws-Vlaanderen. With a passion for the profession and an eye for customer needs, and pioneering where possible. That's how Vervaet developed the first self-propelled one-phase bunker harvester for sugar beets in 1974, while the first self-propelled Hydro Trike for low-emission injection of liquid manure dates back to 1990. Today, Vervaet develops and produces modern high-tech, self-propelled machines for harvesting sugar beets, chicory, fodder beets and celeriac and for the application of liquid manure, solid manure, chicken manure, compost, digestate, vinasse and lime.

More than 180 people currently work for Vervaet, making sure that clients all over the world receive their Q616, Q621 and Beet Eater 625 and 925 machines on time. The production of these machines takes place between February and September while, during the rest of the year, the staff works hard on the production and timely delivery of the Hydro Trikes.