Company profile

SAF-HOLLAND supplies high-quality components and systems for trailers, semi-trailers, trucks, tractor units, buses, and recreational vehicles. We offer axle and suspension systems, fifth wheels and coupling devices, kingpins, and landing legs. Where top quality, safety, and reliability matter, the truck and trailer industry around the world relies on products from SAF-HOLLAND.

The business combination of regional champions SAF in Europe and Holland in the US in December 2006 was for both companies the beginning of a new era. Integration teams have sought to tap the enormous synergy potentials as fast as possible.

We reached a major milestone on July 1, 2007 with the new SAF-HOLLAND organisational structure. It aligns the Company into the Trailer Systems, Powered Vehicle Systems, and Aftermarket Business Units. On the basis of this customer-oriented structure, we aim to continue to grow in the future and to tap further synergy potentials.

Two companies, both market leaders, joining forces – can something like that work? It works very well, actually. If they complement each other as well as SAF and Holland do, the best foundations have been laid for a growth story. SAF and Holland are a perfect match – in terms of products and customers, as well as regionally.

Both companies have been successful for decades in the systems and components market for heavy-duty commercial vehicles. SAF concentrated mainly on products and systems for trailers and did business mainly in Europe. Holland, in contrast, focused on both the truck and trailer industry and was represented mainly in the North American market. Both had an extensive service network in their respective core markets. There was no overlap, let alone any duplication, in their product portfolios.

Since the business combination, competencies and markets have complemented each other. A wide product range for powered vehicles, semi-trailers, and trailers is now marketed from a single source in Europe, America, and Asia.