navigation search van leeuwen pipe and tube group founded 1924 headquarters zwijndrecht the netherlands products pipes tubes pipecomponents valves revenue 623 million 2015 number of employees 1 220 website www.vanleeuwen.com the van leeuwen pipe and tube group is a dutch international industrial distributor of steel pipes valves and fittings . history edit stock of pipes and tubes in the early years of van leeuwen . the van leeuwen pipe and tube group was established by piet van leeuwen jr. in zwijndrecht the netherlands in 1924 . soon after the end of world war ii the company became active internationally . the company opened a subsidiary in vilvoorde in belgium in 1947 . soon more subsidiaries were opened in france great britain and germany between the 50 s and 70 s. in the years to follow the company took its first global footsteps . starting in 1975 with north america rapidly followed by south east asia with the opening of a stockkeeping facility and salesoffice in singapore in 1979 . in 1983 the first location in australia started . after the year 2000 the company extended its global presence more . especially by the start of offices stocklocations and joint ventures in china the middle east and central europe . note edit information from the annual report of the van leeuwen pipe and tube group . retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title van leeuwen pipe and tube group & oldid 718233568 categories distributorscompanies of the netherlandscompanies established in 19241924 establishments in the netherlandszwijndrecht netherlands navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages nederlands edit links this page was last modified on 2 may 2016 at 09 29 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view