Rolande B.V.

Rolande B.V. is convinced of the advantages of running on liquefied natural gas and biogas for road transport. The carrier has to deal with increasingly stringent environmental requirements and higher costs. The noise produced during loading and unloading will be subject to increasingly stringent legislation. The deployment of LNG trucks provides the solution to these problems.

Rolande B.V. has taken the initiative to allow driving on LNG in the Netherlands and Europe. Rolande B.V. is a wholly owned subsidiary of Iveco Dealer Schouten. In recent years the innovative company has established working hard in Giessen (Noord-Brabant) to co-develop trucks on LNG and the development and construction of LNG stations. This ultimately led to the LNG system is built on the Iveco Stralis factory and these trucks have a European type. Before rolling out the entire chain of service stations, distribution, procurement, customer and providing trucks- received Rolande B.V. grant from the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. AgentschapNL has thus supported the development of the infrastructure for LNG as a transport fuel in the Netherlands.

Business activities
Rolande B.V. core business is the purchase and sale of LNG and bio-LNG, which is mainly used as fuel for the trucking industry. In addition there are the following other business:

- Development, construction and operation of LNG tank facilities
- LNG truck rental and sale
- Support and advice on switching to LNG
- Transportation of LNG for road transport or industrial application

Rolande B.V. provides in cooperation with Titan LNG also supply LNG for other (industrial) applications. Especially the transport of cryogenic gases and ornate this is a highly specialized operation. Rolande B.V. Titan and LNG have with this experience and use their own transport. For LNG transport Rolande has B.V. about 20ft, 40ft and 45ft tank containers.