About us
Sprague Magnetics Europe was founded late 1999 by 2 ex-Digital/Compaq employee’s from the WW Service Logistics Engineering Operation in the Netherlands.
Sprague started by leveraging the Digital developed and qualified capability (1995) for DLT head repair/ re-furb for DLT 2000/4000.
The company is privately held with 100% of shares held by the 2 managing directors.
The 2 managing directors have over 40 yr’s management combined experience in International Service Logistics and Service Engineering in the IT Industry.
Company highlights
- Oct 1999 Started in a garage in Oct 1999 offering DLT drive repair capability
- Aug 2004 1st OEM repair/service contract with StorageTek
- Aug 2005 2nd OEM repair/service contract with Overland Storage
- Oct 2005 Consolidated all activities in 1 building
- Jan 2006 Training/consultancy activities brought into a separate Company, InnovaStor
- Feb 2006 ISO 9001:2000 certification obtained
- Apr 2007 3rd OEM repair/service contract with SUN Microsystems incl. defective stock warehousing management and a BtB system implementation
- Jul 2007 Qualified Supplier for BDT AG
- Aug 2007 Support agreement established with BDT AG to support Sprague with parts and processes.
- Jan 2008 Herman Goemans joined as Managing Director
- Apr 2008 Sprague Magnetics Europe buys-back the 10% shares owned by SMI - New Company Logo designed
- Jun 2008 InnovaStor sold to it’s managing Director
- July 2008 6 mnth revenue breaks the 2M€/6 mnth or appr. 3M$/6 mnth barrier
- Jan 2009 Fourth OEM repair/service contract with HP
- Aug 2009 Repair contract with DELL
- Nov 2009A new bigger building close to our old location