History

1875

Johannes De Cloedt, a Flemish civil contractor, took the step from shore to water and started to specialise in hydraulic works, mainly maintenance dredging works in Oostende.
Gery De Cloedt is now representing the 6^th generation.

1981

The family started an aggregate company in the harbour of Nieuwpoort (Belgium) - NHM. Later on, new water bound aggregate terminals were developed in the maritime ports of Oostende and Brugge.

1991

The company, well known as “NV Baggerwerken Decloedt en Zoon”, merged with “Dredging International” to form the holding “DEME”.

1997

Group De Cloedt’s first inland terminal in Brugge was operational.

1998

NHM took over a water-bound aggregates company along the Leie, thus establishing their new site NHM Izegem. It became the springboard for the delivery of aggregates by barge over the inland channels, which became the speciality of Group De Cloedt.

2000

After 10 years with the holding DEME, the family withdrew from the holding and sold them the rights to keep using the name “NV Baggerwerken Decloedt en Zoon”. With this sale, ir. Gery De Cloedt, started to shape his Group.

2002

Group De Cloedt acquired their first 4 dredgers: Interballast 1, 2 & 3 and Margaret Ann.

2003

Group De Cloedt took over a small environmental company, Bioterra, in Genk to participate in the general clean up of grounds in Europe which was starting.

2004

The Group acquired their 5^th dredger DC Vlaanderen 3000, very modern for the actual time.

2005

Once the permit for sandstone aggregate extraction was secured at the Seljestokken site (Norway), the group developed Norwegian Sandstone Export and Oster Pukk (Respectively DC Seljestokken Aggregates and DC Eikefet Aggregates since 2016).

Group De Cloedt acquired the multipurpose TSHD Rio of 2504m³.

2008

Group De Cloedt bought Thyborøn NordsøRal (Denmark) to develop the sea gravel deliveries in Northern Europe.

2013

DC Environment took over Solaz, strengthening its presence in the Walloon part of Belgium for the clean up of the region.

Group De Cloedt also secured the Société d’Exploitation des Carrières d’Yvoir (SECY). The new owner is one of its subsidiaries, Granulats et Sables de Wallonie. This sale is part of Group De Cloedt’s strategy which aims to strengthen its position in aggregates.

2014

Group De Cloedt also procured the quarry Les Carrières du Fond des Vaulx in Wellin, to strengthen its position in the aggregates business.

2015

Group De Cloedt acquired DC Ostend, formerly Sand Harrier, of 2700m3. With the acquisition, we are now independent of external suppliers, and the ship serves mainly Thyborøn and the Group's other sites in Denmark, but also other customers in Northern Europe.

2016

Dansk Natursten and Thyborøn NordsøRal become part of DC Resources.

2017

Group de Cloedt acquired Yeoman Halsvik (100%) and today the company operates under the name DC Halsvik Aggregates (DCHA). DCHA also has extraction rights in Kvalsund located in Finnmark region Northern Norway, and is specialised in offshore stones for oil & gas or windmill projects.

Minerals DC Novak (our branch in Poland, established in 2017 as a result of cooperation between Handel i Mineralny Nowak and Group De Cloedt) and DC Resources Baltic (formerly Yeoman Latvia) joined the organization.

We started with the CO2-Conscious level 3 certificate of the CO2 Performance Ladder.

2018

DC Orisant, our new dredger, was put in service at the end of the year.

2019

The Watertruck+, developed in collaboration with De Vlaamse Waterweg, were put into service. These low emissions vessels will take about 300,000 tons from the road to the water every year.