On 31st August 2017 ABS celebrated the 25th long term service anniversary of Corona van Gorkum.  We hope Corona and her family who attended the awards celebration had a great day. ABS wants to thank Corona for her dedication & commitment and hope that many more years will follow.

As of April 1, 2017, ABS France acquires ORDEIP’s activities, reinforcing its presence in the French market.

The operation concerns the software, activities and contracts in progress, as well as the takeover of all ORDEIP employees.

The offices of ORDEIP near Rouen will continue to operate, in addition to the ABS France head office in Lyon.

ABS France was established in 2015 and has sustained significant growth through winning contracts with several major French laundry organizations. The ABS Group will continue to focus on expanding its services to the wider French market.

“Deployed in a significant number of independent laundries and mostly inter-hospital laundries all over France, the PGIO2016 solution developed by ORDEIP ideally complements our current offer based on our ABSSolute ERP. This acquisition also allows ABS France to strengthen their team and improve the quality of services provided to its French clients, in terms of Project Management and integration of solutions.” Says Anne de Boer, founder of the ABS Group and CEO of ABS France.

The two managing partners of ORDEIP, Audrey Ledée and Jean-Luc Bertin add: “We are delighted with this opportunity to join the ABS Group, the world leader in industrial laundry business solutions, its development in France and around the world. Within ABS France, our team will now evolve into an international organization of more than 130 people and use new methods and tools that will directly benefit our customers and contribute to our development. ABS is also very dynamic in the integration of UHF RFID technology, which we are fully convinced “.

The acquisition was carried out at the same time the ABS Group launched its Clover 4 concept, combining the know-how of the groups companies:

• ABS LBS:               ABSSolute ERP, Business Intelligence reporting, web and mobile solutions
• Textiligence:        Deployment and integration of UHF RFID laundry solutions
• Gotli Labs:            In association with the Jensen Group (DK), industrial production management reporting
• WG-ID:                  In association with Wilgengroep (NL), integration of automation systems and conveying systems.

From the headquarters in Boxtel (NL) ABS Laundry Business Solutions manages its ABSSolute ERP, which operates at more than 600 industrial laundry sites worldwide. Founded in 1987 by Anne de Boer, the ABS group employs more than 130 people and is present in 5 continents. The ABS group inaugurated in January 2017 ABS Japan in Tokyo.

ORDEIP was founded in 1993 in Le Mesnil-Esnard (76) and develops complete computerized textile management solutions, mainly dedicated to inter-hospital laundries. ORDEIP’s PGIO 2016 solution is a great success thanks to the integration of UHF RFID traceability technology.

Following the success of ABS’s Laundry ERP & Contract Management application at Urvina in both Morocco and Spain, we are proud to announce a third installation of ABSSolute for Urvina in Portugal. This is the first ABS installation in Portugal with hopefully many more to come. Congratulations to the Urvina and ABS project teams for another successful implementation.