In 2002 VONK strengthened its power conversion capabilities by integrating HOLEC Projects and has since been providing solutions and services to highly specialized and complex power conversion challenges – especially where a combination of high power, high accuracy and high reliability is critical.
VONK became the strategic supplier of drives in the uranium enrichment industry (>50% of centrifuges in western hemisphere rely on VONK drives) and defence (exclusive supplier to leading defence client to power & cool its hi-tech military grade naval and land radar systems), and delivered multiple landmark solutions to renowned scientific institutes (most recently a 140MW DC drive solution to suspend plasma of 200 million degrees in an electromagnetic field)

In 2012 Imtech combined all its (non E&I contracting) businesses with global industrial clients including Imtech-VONK into a separate division called Industry International with a strategy to develop as a specialist EPC contractor mainly focused on oil & gas: foregoing margin for size and taking on increasingly larger projects. This division was sold to current shareholders in 2015.
New shareholders already decided that given its diminished scale this ‘EPC strategy’ was not viable and that only sharing an international industrial client base offered too few synergies across each different business and in 2016 separated the different businesses again into separate companies each with their own technical niche speciality. And because it still enjoyed broad recognition in the industry the oil & gas business activities were relaunched as VONK.
Partly also due to the coinciding slump in the industry, too few large contracts were awarded and as VONK’s backlog was cleared results could deteriorate quickly and business turn-around was required: VONK refocused on its core capabilities and businesses: specialized containerized and control & automation solutions particularly for complex brownfield settings (where its OEM competitors struggle) and by restoring and strengthening relationships with its core power conversion clients in defence and nuclear (which had become strained under Imtech). It also included reducing VONK’s cost position by diversification and optimisation of its supply chain, outsourcing of manufacturing & assembly to a network of trusted suppliers & partners in lower cost countries.
Testimonial to its enduring reputation, network, and especially its recognised and trusted differentiated technical- and project management prowess, VONK was awarded with increasingly large contracts not normally awarded to a company of its size.