Together we build greatness
Vandersanden manufactures facing bricks and façade systems, paving bricks and brick slips. But our work goes beyond that. Together with architects, construction partners and clients, we help shape living environments that are more beautiful, sustainable and enjoyable places to live, work and connect.
Who is Vandersanden?
Vandersanden is a family-run company and one of Europe’s largest producers of bricks. We produce facing bricks, pavers, and brick slips and provide solutions for façades and streetscapes.
Our motivations are craftsmanship, co-creation, being innovative, and sustainability. We interact closely with designers, developers, and construction companies to identify solutions that inspire and unite and that enhance and safeguard collective well-being. This is a major social responsibility that helps us to contribute to an environment that people want to be a part of. We don’t create functionality – street, square, façade, pavement, garden – but facilitate liveability.
Collective well-being
As a part of society, Vandersanden wants to contribute to people’s happiness. Our economic growth and financial gain are not goals in themselves. Profit is merely a means of realising our goal of making an essential contribution to the well-being of employees, customers, society, and the environment. We like to call this ‘collective well-being’,
People of Vandersanden have their say
Vandersanden is a company with people, for people. A family business with more than 700 colleagues, who are committed both in front of and behind the scenes. Day in, day out. We let a few of them have their say: the People of Vandersanden.
Proud of your job
To work at Vandersanden is to be part of a family-run company with more than 700 fellow employees. In the same way that we hope to inspire and unite through our products and processes, we also want to give employees a working environment in which inspiration and interaction are standard. At Vandersanden, everyone has the opportunity to expand their expert knowledge and skills.
Academy
Sharing expertise helps everyone. Vandersanden is always eager to share expertise and skills with architects, developers, contractors, suppliers, students, users, and other interested parties. By doing this, we are forming an ‘expertise community’ where professionals can inspire one another, and jointly, we can further strengthen our field.
Site visit
Vandersanden is at the heart of the community, literally and figuratively. We would be happy to show you what we do, and how we do it. We organise regular educational tours of our plants in Bilzen and Maasmechelen (Belgium) and Tolkamer (The Netherlands).
100 Years of Vandersanden
If our founder, Jaak Vandersanden, could return for just one day, how would he see Vandersanden today? Watch the video and discover the journey we have taken — from a modest field kiln to one of Europe’s most innovative brick manufacturers. From spark to fire – 100 years of Vandersanden in seven milestones.
