Group Victor Peeters

What Group Victor Peeters does

Group Victor Peeters (branded 'Group Peeters') is a Belgian-headquartered industrial cleaning services platform and the primary operating brand of the Gentals Groep conglomerate. Founded in 1955 by Victor Peeters in Herentals, Belgium, the company has grown to nearly 1,200 employees ('Cleannovators') across 10 strategic locations in Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany, positioning it as one of the largest independent players in the Benelux industrial cleaning sector. It serves petrochemical, chemical, refining, energy, pharmaceutical, food, and municipal customers with a roster that includes ExxonMobil, TotalEnergies, BASF, BP, INEOS, ArcelorMittal, ENGIE, Umicore, Vopak, Janssen, and Port of Antwerp Bruges.

The service portfolio spans the full industrial cleaning stack: high-pressure cleaning using in-house-developed HD units (from 650L/200bar to 24L/3,000bar), vacuum cleaning, robotic tank cleaning via magnetic and vacuum-wheel crawlers branded 'TankTijgers', laser cleaning, dry ice blasting, ultrasonic cleaning, chemical cleaning, sponge blasting, hydrodemolition, cold cutting, and catalyst handling. Adjacent services include civil works, sewage management with BELAC-accredited camera inspection, industrial painting and coating, and waste management using specialized 40 m³ containers. Proprietary technology — including the in-house HD units, the TankTijgers robotic platform, and a water reuse system developed for ExxonMobil — combined with extensive certifications (ISO 9001, ISO 14001, VCA Petrochemie, WHG Fachbetrieb, NIWO permits) forms a regulated service offering that is difficult for unqualified competitors to replicate.

The business model is project-based and quote-driven, with no public pricing and revenue earned from multi-year industrial framework agreements, turnaround contracts, emergency response, and 24/7 availability across weekends. Group Peeters distributes via direct enterprise field sales supported by regional operations centers in Antwerp, Rotterdam, and Nörvenich, with subsidiaries covering Flemish Belgium (Peeters OIW NV), Wallonia (Peeters TPI SA, IC&SC NV), the Netherlands (Peeters Nederland BV, General Tank Cleaning BV), and Germany (Industrieservice Peeters GmbH). The company is family-owned, with Bart Moonen as CEO, Emma Peeters as sustainability coordinator, and Paul Peeters managing the German subsidiary; the brand operates under the Gentals Groep umbrella alongside adjacent industrial, facility, and staffing entities.

Name

Group Victor Peeters

Legal name

Peeters O.I.W.

Website

https://grouppeeters.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1955

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

1,001–5,000 employees

Short description

Group Victor Peeters is a Belgian industrial cleaning services platform with nearly 1,200 employees across Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany, providing high-pressure, robotic, laser, and chemical cleaning to petrochemical, chemical, energy, and municipal clients.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Cleaning Services

NAICS

Waste Treatment and Disposal (56221)

SIC

Sanitary Services (4950), Refuse Systems (4953)

akta.pro primary industry

Specialty Deep Cleaning (Duct/Kitchen Exhaust/Pressure Washing) (IMAIADAN)

akta.pro secondary industry

Industrial Vacuum & Tank Cleaning Services (Non-hazardous) (EUAIAGAL)

Keywords

• Industrial cleaning services
• Tank cleaning services
• High-pressure cleaning
• Industrial waste management
• Civil engineering services

Headquarters

HQ city

Herentals

HQ country

Belgium

HQ region

Europe

Offices18 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure, Supply Chain

Revenue model

1. Industrial Cleaning Services: Core revenue from comprehensive industrial cleaning services including vacuum cleaning, high-pressure cleaning, chemical cleaning, and specialized techniques. Services provided to petrochemical, chemical, energy, pharmaceutical, and food industries.
2. Civil Works and Infrastructure Services: Civil works, ground works, construction works, and infrastructure projects including foundation work, sewage work, and large-scale constructions.
3. Waste Management Services: Waste handling services with specialized containers including 40m³ containers for waste transport and processing.
4. Tank Maintenance Services: Specialized tank division (Peeters Tank Solutions) providing cleaning, purging, freeing, cutting, blasting, coating services for storage tanks up to 80+ meters diameter.
5. Industrial Painting Services: Industrial painting, coating, and blasting services for installations, containers, tanks. Includes tank lining, special coatings, new construction and maintenance painting, workshop work, and various blasting techniques.

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels8 records

Core offering

Group Peeters provides industrial cleaning services for tanks, reactors, pipelines, heat exchangers, sewers, and industrial installations, using techniques such as high-pressure cleaning (up to 3,000 bar), vacuum cleaning, laser cleaning, dry ice blasting, ultrasonic cleaning, robotic tank cleaning, chemical cleaning, and sponge blasting. Service is complemented by waste management, civil works, tank maintenance, sewage management, concrete renovation via hydrodemolition, ground suction, cold cutting, and industrial painting and coating, with 24/7 availability and custom project quotations.

Product overview

Group Peeters operates as a multi-service industrial cleaning platform under the Gentals Group, offering a broad portfolio of integrated cleaning, maintenance, and related services across Belgium, the Netherlands, and Germany. The core offering centres on industrial cleaning techniques — including vacuum cleaning, high-pressure cleaning, laser cleaning, dry ice blasting, chemical cleaning, sponge blasting, and ultrasonic cleaning — delivered through specialised divisions such as Peeters OIW NV (Belgium), Peeters Nederland BV, Peeters TPI SA (Wallonia), IC&SC NV, Industrieservice Peeters GmbH (Germany), and General Tank Cleaning (GTC). The Peeters Tank Solutions (PTS) division handles specialised tank maintenance and no-entry robotic cleaning. Adjacent services include civil works, sewage management (with robotic renovation and indoor drone inspection), waste management, catalyst treatment, concrete renovation via hydrodemolition, ground suction, cold cutting, and industrial painting and coating. Supporting offerings include the Cleannovator Academy for staff development and handsfree/robotic cleaning technologies (automated high-pressure robots, magnetic crawlers, bundle cleaners). The company was founded in 1955 by Victor Peeters and celebrated its 70th anniversary in 2025.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Peeters Tank Solutions (PTS): Specialized tank division handling cleaning, emptying, degassing, cutting, blasting, coating of storage tanks
• Cleannovators
• Cleannovator Academy
• TankTijgers
• CleanWise
• EVA

Products and services

• Vacuum Cleaning (Vacuüm Reiniging) Vacuum cleaning of cisterns, silos, drums, pits and other vessels using a fleet of vacuum trucks ranging from small to large, in stainless steel where required. Extracted products are discharged at designated locations or authorised processors.
• High-Pressure Cleaning (Hogedruk Reinigen) High-pressure cleaning using internally developed units with pump capacities up to 750 hp and pressures up to 3,000 bar, applied to standard industrial cleaning, paint removal, coating stripping, concrete renovation and cold cutting of metals.
• Laser Cleaning (Laserreinigen) Environmentally friendly laser cleaning for industrial-scale removal of coatings, product residues, fats, oxides, mill scale, rust, radioactive isotopes and toxic elements without damaging the surface or creating additional waste.
• Dry Ice Blasting (Droogijsstralen) Dry ice blasting using solid CO2 at -79°C that sublimates directly from solid to gas without residue, suitable for electrical environments and machines or installations that cannot come into contact with water.
• Robot Tank Cleaning (TankTijgers) Handsfree tank cleaning using robotic crawlers with magnetic or vacuum wheels, strikers and brokk units that move autonomously along tank walls, enabling high-pressure cleaning or anti-corrosive coating removal while operators remain outside the line of fire.
• Chemical Cleaning (Chemisch Reinigen) Broad range of chemical cleaning techniques determined by steel analyses, covering coolers, drums, columns, pipelines, steam boilers, heat exchangers, cooling systems and chemical pickling or passivation of carbon steel and stainless-steel installations.
• Sponge Blasting Sponge blasting technique firing millions of small recyclable sponges at extreme speed against contaminated surfaces, absorbing contamination without damaging the substrate.
• Peeters Tank Solutions (PTS) Tank Maintenance Specialised tank division that handles cleaning, emptying, degassing, cutting, blasting and coating of all types of storage tanks up to 80+ metres in diameter, using Reduced Man Entry (REM) methods verified by Bureau Veritas.
• Waste Management Services (Afvalbeheer) Waste handling services using specialised containers including a 40 m³ flagship container, with waste transport and disposal at authorised processors, backed by NIWO and EU waste transport licences.
• Civil Works (Civiele Werken) Civil engineering services including earthworks, construction works, sewerage works and large-scale infrastructure construction delivered by a dedicated construction department.
• Sewage Management (Rioolbeheer) Specialised sewer department providing inspection, cleaning and renovation of sewage systems for municipalities and industry, including robotic renovation, air-tightness testing and indoor drone inspections.
• Catalyst Treatment (Katalystebehandeling) Emptying, cleaning and filling of reactors, performed via free flow or suction, with safety vehicles supplying breathing air and communication and total execution management.
• Concrete Renovation / Hydrodemolition (Betonsanering) Concrete renovation via hydrodemolition, removing deteriorated concrete using automated robotic hydro-equipment to safely and accurately expose reinforcement in hard-to-reach places and large surfaces.
• Ground Suction (Grondzuigen) Technique for high-force suction of solid ground using ground suction trucks to dig trenches, reducing manual labour and limiting risk of damage to underground cables and pipes.
• Cold Cutting (Koudsnijden) Cold cutting using a high-pressure cold water jet mixed with abrasive to cut through metal quickly, precisely and contact-free, providing a safer alternative to heat-based cutting methods.
• Ultrasonic Cleaning (Ultrasoon Reinigen) Water-saving and safe technique for intensive cleaning of heat exchangers and loose parts without disassembly, immersing equipment in an ultrasonic bath so that sound waves dislodge contamination from unreachable places.
• Industrial Painting (Industriële Schilderwerken) Industrial painting, coating and blasting of installations, containers and tanks performed on-site or at the company's Port of Antwerp workshop, including tank lining, special coatings, new-build and maintenance painting, and multiple blasting treatments.
• Air Cooler Bank Cleaning (Airfinbank Reiniging) Internal and external cleaning of air cooler banks using advanced high-pressure equipment with maximum use of automated cleaning to ensure personnel safety and protect equipment from damage.
• High-Pressure Techniques (Hogedruktechnieken) Dedicated high-pressure service line leveraging over 60 years of expertise and a fleet of internally developed HD-units ranging from 650 litres at 200 bar up to 24 litres at 3,000 bar.
• New 22 m³ Stainless Steel Tank Container (HIC774) A 22 m³ stainless steel tank container (HIC774) designed and built in-house at the Herentals construction department with a frame-less design, aluminium railing and steps, suited for transport and safe entry during tank opening and cleaning.

Quantifiable outcome

• Ecovadis Gold Medal score of 80/100 (top 5% of companies)
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers39 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Five partnerships are on record, tiered core and minor.

• EcovadiscoreOthersPeriodic assessment by Ecovadis for objective evaluation of structural progress in sustainability and greening. Group Peeters achieved Gold Medal with score of 80/100 (top 5%). Feedback enables targeted continuous improvement in environment, social responsibility, and ethical entrepreneurship.
• Mercy ShipsminorOthersCharitable beneficiary of VP Classic annual cycling event. Mercy Ships provides life-saving medical care to people who otherwise have no access to it.
• Algemene Belgische Schoonmaakunie (ABSU)coreOthersProfessional association for cleaning and disinfection sector, heavy industrial cleaning, waste and chimney sweeping industry. Enables early integration of new guidelines and participation in shaping future industry standards.
• Stichting Industriële Reiniging (SIR)coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerEssential collaboration to guarantee highest standards in industrial cleaning. Enables implementation of safe, efficient, and environmentally friendly cleaning processes according to strictest guidelines and best practices.
• DENUOcoreOthersBelgian federation of waste and recycling sector. Membership keeps Group Peeters informed of latest circular economy developments and contributes to sustainable waste management practices through exchange with other members.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Altrad Group: France-headquartered industrial services group providing scaffolding, insulation, painting, and industrial cleaning/maintenance to energy, petrochemical, and heavy industrial customers across Europe and globally. Comparable in scope of specialty services and customer verticals.
• Bilfinger SE: Germany-based industrial services provider serving petrochemical, chemical, and energy customers across Europe with maintenance, turnaround, and cleaning services. Comparable as a direct competitor in industrial cleaning and plant services for the same enterprise customer base.
• Stork Technical Services (Fluor): Netherlands-headquartered industrial services firm (now part of Fluor) providing maintenance, modification, and asset integrity services to oil & gas, chemical, and power customers. Directly comparable given overlapping petrochemical customer base and Benelux presence.
• HydroChemPSC: US-based industrial cleaning services provider specializing in high-pressure cleaning, tank cleaning, and chemical cleaning for refineries and petrochemical plants. Comparable as a specialist industrial cleaning peer with similar service portfolio, though geographically distant.
• A. Hak Industrial Services: Dutch industrial services company executing pipeline, mechanical, and industrial cleaning work for oil & gas, chemical, and utility customers in the Netherlands and beyond. Comparable as a Benelux-based specialist industrial services peer.
• SPIE SA: France-based multi-technical industrial services group with strong Benelux and German operations, providing mechanical, electrical, and industrial cleaning/maintenance services to chemical and energy clients. Comparable in scale and service mix.

Broad incumbents

• ISS A/S: Denmark-based global facility services provider with industrial cleaning and workplace services for large enterprise customers. Comparable as a broad incumbent in facility and industrial cleaning services across Benelux.
• Veolia Environnement: Global environmental services giant operating across water, waste, and energy services with a broad industrial cleaning portfolio. Comparable as a larger, more diversified incumbent that competes for enterprise industrial services and waste management contracts across Europe.
• REMONDIS SE & Co. KG: Germany-headquartered waste and environmental services company with industrial cleaning, tank cleaning, and hazardous waste handling across Europe. Comparable as a larger broad incumbent with overlapping Benelux/German footprint.
• SUEZ SA: France-based water and waste management services group with industrial and hazardous waste handling capabilities. Comparable as a larger, diversified incumbent competing in adjacent waste and environmental services.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat6 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance12 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles3 records

Subsidiaries18 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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