Company Profile
The Ampelmann company is a high-tech offshore company focusing on the development, construction, lease and sale of offshore access solutions. The company was founded in 2007 as a spin-off of the Delft University of Technology. The core technology is the Ampelmann system, a motion compensation platform that allows easy, fast and safe access from a moving vessel to offshore structures, even in high waves. The technology was developed over 5 years within the Delft University of Technology, with sponsoring and participation of several international offshore players such as Shell, Boskalis and SMIT.
The company is led by Jan van der Tempel, PhD who invented the Ampelmann in 2002 while working on his thesis in offshore wind energy. The world-class expertise in the design of support structures helps the Ampelmann Company to truly tune their offshore access solutions to optimum performance and really make offshore access as easy as crossing the street.
Company Mission
The Ampelmann company sets new standards in safety
The Ampelmann company provide services and products of technological excellence to their clients worldwide with a highly skilled and motivated workforce adding explicit and intrinsic value to all.
Company Vision
Offshore access is as easy as crossing the street.
As easy as crossing the street

Jan van der Tempel, PhD - CEO