Production & Supply chain
At Arteco, we have built a resilient and agile global supply chain designed to ensure continuity, quality, and responsiveness in every situation. Our supply chain is not only efficient, it is strategically structured to anticipate and adapt to disruptions, ensuring that our customers receive uninterrupted service, even in volatile market conditions.
With state-of-the-art production facilities in Schoten, Belgium, and Nantong, China, we combine advanced manufacturing technologies with robust process control systems. This enables us to scale flexibly and respond swiftly to changing demand patterns across regions. To further strengthen our operational resilience, we maintain a diversified network of qualified subcontractors, all of whom are rigorously vetted and required to meet our uncompromising quality standards. This multi-sourcing strategy enhances our ability to pivot quickly in the face of unforeseen challenges.
In addition, we enforce strict vendor qualification and monitoring processes, ensuring that every input into our supply chain contributes to the consistent excellence our customers expect. Our contingency planning includes safety stock strategies, dual sourcing, and proactive risk assessments, allowing us to safeguard business continuity and maintain service reliability under all circumstances. At Arteco, supply chain excellence is rooted in uncompromising quality and operational efficiency, but it doesn’t stop there. We go further by embedding resilience, adaptability, and future-readiness into every layer of our supply chain, ensuring we can deliver consistent value no matter the challenge.
Operational excellence
At Arteco, our commitment to operational excellence is exemplified by our IATF 16949:2016 certification. This prestigious certification is one of the most widely recognized international standards in the automotive industry, ensuring that our processes meet the highest quality management criteria.
While IATF 16949:2016 is rooted in the automotive sector, its principles and standards are equally relevant to other industries we serve, such as data centers and various industrial applications. This certification underscores our dedication to maintaining superior quality and operational efficiency across all sectors we operate in.
Our commitment to operational excellence extends beyond the IATF 16949:2016 certification. We adhere to ensure the highest level of performance and reliability across all our products and services. You can read more about our comprehensive quality standards on our Performance First page.
Our modern plant in Schoten, Belgium, equipped with state-of-the-art technology and control systems, along with our recently established coolant production plant in Nantong, China, exemplify our unwavering commitment to operational excellence. These advanced facilities not only enhance our supply chain resilience but also optimize our operations and mitigate the risks associated with extensive global supply chains.
Our efficient and customer-oriented supply chain ensures reliable deliveries worldwide from various production sites, guaranteeing that our products reach our customers promptly and consistently.
State of the art production
We have production facilities around the world: in greater Europe and Africa, we have production locations in Belgium, the Netherlands, Turkey, South Africa,... In Asia our facilities are located in China, India, Japan, South Korea and Thailand,... In the Americas we have 3 locations in North America and 2 in South America.
Depending the location, we work together with subcontractors or with plants owned by our parent companies. Preferably our partners are IATF 16949:2016 certified and need to take part in the annual global LPTP (Lab Proficiency Testing Program) and ALIP (Annual Layout Inspection Program). To ensure the highest standards in these collaborations, Arteco has developed a rigorous subcontractor qualification and evaluation process.
We offer our customers both bulk products and a wide range of packaging options. We supply coolants to OEMs that meet stringent requirements for first fill and service fill. In addition, we play an important role in the aftermarket, supplying coolants to major oil companies, independent blenders, major chemical distributors and other vendors. For data centers we offer a wide range of different direct-to-chip liquid coolants. Our industrial heat transfer fluids are distributed through a large network of local distributors.
Vendor management
In collaboration with our parent companies, we have developed a strategized Supplier Qualification Process (SQP). We have adopted an approach that emphasizes improving overall performance through collaboration. This strategic approach helps us deal with suppliers in a systematic way that includes insightful analysis of their background, performance and credibility.
Our Arteco's Supplier Code of Conduct was introduced years ago to ensure that our commitment to human rights and working conditions, HSE performance and business ethics is respected and carried on further in our supply chain. In the meantime, this CoC has been expanded to reflect our commitment to responsible sourcing of raw materials and energy consumption and our expectations towards suppliers on these topics.
We also developed our own system of supplier performance measurement where we evaluate supplier performance against defined parameters to ensure reliability, quality, and performance while minimizing risk. The tool monitors whether suppliers perform their work as agreed. Its purpose is reducing costs, mitigating risk and driving continuous improvement.
