ABOUT COOPS & NIEBORG Coops & Nieborg's primary activity is designing and building hatchcovers, tweendeck hatchcovers and hatchcover gantry cranes for ocean-going vessels. The company also offers post-sales support and maintenance, builds ship sections for shipyards world-wide and constructs to order for the aluminium and stainless steel industries. Technicians also carry out maintenance work in local industries. This Dutch company employs more than a hundred people at its production facilities in Hoogezand and Foxhol in the province of Groningen.