{"id":216,"date":"2025-04-08T09:02:09","date_gmt":"2025-04-08T09:02:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.profound.highermarketing.nl\/?page_id=216"},"modified":"2026-02-10T10:58:03","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T10:58:03","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/profound.nl\/de\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00dcber Profound"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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Profound combines innovative technologies and comprehensive know-how in our product range to benefit our customers all over the world. It is our aim to provide you with the best available technology in a user friendly way.<\/p>

We develop and market Foundation Pile Diagnostic and Monitoring Systems, professional and cost-effective systems for the quality control and quality assurance of foundation piles and other structural components, and have been a pioneer in this field for over 50 years.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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The company began in the 1960\u2019s as a group of the Building and Construction Research Department within the Dutch organization for Applied Scientific Research (TNO), the second largest R&D organization in Europe. The Foundation Pile Diagnostic Systems (FPDS) Group, as it was called, took on a broad range of activities for its clients in foundation pile testing with state-of-the-art technology that was developed in research and development projects. Their equipment and software also enabled clients to perform or monitor foundation pile testing themselves.<\/p>

During the 1980\u2019s the market, and especially the international market, expanded substantially for these activities. To ensure continued optimal services to all clients (incl. the international clients) while maintaining the high technology standards of the products, the decision was made in 1999 to change the department to a fully owned subsidiary of TNO. This subsidiary was called Profound (PROfessional FOUNdation Diagnostics), which was split off from the TNO organization three years later when it became a privately held company in 2002.<\/p>

As an independent company, Profound continues with the work that was started 50 years ago, to accommodate its clients (now in more than 40 countries), and also to innovate by continuously making new practical applications\u00a0available to the market\u00a0in the field of foundation engineering and geotechnical monitoring.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Profound BV is an ISO 9001:2015 certified company, awarded by T\u00dcV Rheinland Nederland.<\/p>

T\u00dcV Rheinland Nederland is an independent organisation recognised by the Dutch Council of Accreditation. T\u00dcV Rheinland is one of the leading international providers of technical services for quality and safety. T\u00dcV Rheinland issues quality certificates for products and systems or for the company itself.<\/p>

\u00a9 2024, Profound, Waddinxveen, The Netherlands All rights reserved.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Part of our corporate social responsibility (CSR) Profound is focused to operate responsibly and do our utmost to address social and environmental issues. This vision is completed and practised by Profound at a strategic and operational level.<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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We know that the most important thing we can do to reduce our impact on the environment is to invest in design, improve our existing products, and use environmentally responsible manufacturing processes.<\/p>

For this reason we design our products to be as energy efficient as possible, to use a minimum amount of materials, durable materials and toxic free electronic components and on the other hand making materials longer-lasting products. This is part of our environmental focus and corporate social responsibility (CSR). Profound is striving to further reduce its carbon food print.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Within the last few years Profound has innovated in developing greener products by reducing toxic substances and more sustainable energy sources.<\/p>

Electronic circuit boards and related components contain a minimal amount of toxic substances. Hardware changes resulted in a 100% lead free soldering process combined with the use of environmental friendly fluxes that are soluble in water.<\/p>

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Our products are being shipped worldwide to our customers in 100% recycled cardboard boxes. To minimise the use of plastics we make use of the protective cardboard inserts. We do everything possible to minimize our packaging to avoid oversized parcels.<\/p><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t

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Within our office we limit printing to a minimum and if necessary, documents are printed as much as possible on double-faced recycled paper.<\/p>

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Profound strongly believes in responsible social and ethical conduct and is committed to achieve a balance in terms of interests of the various stakeholders. Good entrepreneurship, integrity, openness and transparency of decisions of the management, and proper supervision, are the principles of our company policy. Furthermore, Profound wishes to deal with social issues\u00a0carefully.<\/p>

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About us Profound combines innovative technologies and comprehensive know-how in our product range to benefit our customers all over the world. It is our aim to provide you with the best available technology in a user friendly way. We develop and market Foundation Pile Diagnostic and Monitoring Systems, professional and cost-effective systems for the quality […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-216","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/profound.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/profound.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/profound.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profound.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/profound.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/profound.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2292,"href":"https:\/\/profound.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/216\/revisions\/2292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/profound.nl\/de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}