BACKSAVER - van Oirschot Roestvrijstaal BV - Kruisbroeksestraat 17

Stainless-steel solutions, parts and improvements for the food industry have always been central to the family business. Willem van Oirschot founded van Oirschot Roestvrijstaal B.V. in Boxtel, Netherlands, as a blacksmith in 1948. He produced parts and sheet material for the local slaughterhouses. His sons, Harrie and Rini, took up the torch in 1972 and continued the quest. However, in addition to stainless-steel custom work, they started to build machines.

The first Backsaver was created by Harrie van Oirschot in response to a customer’s special request for a machine that had to be easy to move and use. It had to allow for the lifting and tipping of bins at a process-table height. Gradually the idea evolved into a standardized, mobile bin lifter and tipper. Over the following years, Harrie expanded the company’s exports throughout Western Europe.

After exhibiting at a trade show in the U.K. in the early 1990s, we christened the “Back-Saving Tipper” as the Backsaver brand. Over the following years, the company sold machines in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany, France and the U.K. In 2010, van Oirschot Roestvrijstaal B.V. / Backsaver went to Frankfurt-Am-Main (Germany) to exhibit their machinery at IFFA 2010, a major meat-processing trade show, which boosted the company’s export activities.

Bram van Oirschot, who took charge of the family business since 2011, decided to focus on globalization and an expanded range of Backsaver machines. Today, two generations after the company’s founding, we continue to optimize our customers’ production processes under the motto, “Work hard, lift smart.” Backsavers are currently available globally in 13 basic application-oriented types and already used in 55 countries.