The proof is in the people

Craft passed on from generation to generation

A hundred years ago we started as a plate-making company. Today we are the bridge between designers and printers, with our own software, a 3D studio and a team that knows the craft from the inside. Family business. Nijkerk and Barendrecht. Proud.

Founded
1925
Generations of family ownership
3
Sites: Nijkerk and Barendrecht
2
Labels: Volkers, Artwork Connect, Rippl
3

Our ambition

Make brands shine on the physical and the online shelf. As a proactive partner between designers and printers, we aim to keep exceeding expectations, with packaging that captures the imagination and processes that simply work. On time and at the right quality.

The Volkers team in front of the Barendrecht building

What we stand for

  • Family business

    Decisions are made by people who believe in them and are in it for the long run. Continuity over the hype of the day.

  • A century of knowledge

    A hundred years of print and packaging experience lives in our people, processes and way of thinking. You cannot buy that.

  • Sustainability

    Automating and digitising lowers failure costs in the chain. Through SUMTHING we give something back to nature with every order.

  • Ambition and renewal

    You do not reach a hundred by standing still. We invest in our own software, AI, 3D and talent.

Meet the faces of Volkers

Read the Volkers Heroes

The foundation of 100 years of Volkers

  1. 1925

    In 1925 Henk Volkers, grandfather of current owner and director Rick, started a plate-making company in Utrecht: Photogravure.

  2. 1943

    Volkers makes the plate for Jan Campert's poem De achttien dooden, written after the execution of fifteen Geuzen and three February strikers.

  3. 1950

    Photogravure turns 25.

  4. 1963

    Acquisition of Amsterdam plate maker Van Leer. Paul, Henk's son, leads Photogravure / Van Leer.

  5. 1970

    With Koningsveld Leiden and Reproductiecompagnie Rotterdam, Paul Volkers lays the foundation of Neroc, the largest repro group in the Netherlands in the 1970s.

  6. 1999

    Rick Volkers continues independently, for printers, manufacturers and retailers.

  7. 2001

    Rick Volkers is named Graphic Media Entrepreneur of the Year.

  8. 2004

    The name Neroc Packaging is replaced by Volkers.

  9. 2006

    Nominated for the Gouden Z innovation award with FLAG (Fits Like A Glove): a round, digitally imaged flexo plate of thin polymer.

  10. 2007

    Four prizes at the international DuPont Grand Prix Cyrel®.

  11. 2017

    Acquisition of Reliëf, a prepress company from Putten.

  12. 2019

    Launch of Artwork Connect.

  13. 2023

    Second site in Barendrecht and the partnership with SUMTHING.

  14. 2024

    Launch of subsidiary Rippl.

  15. 2025

    Volkers turns 100 and moves into its own, larger building in Barendrecht.