Currently headquartered in Venlo, the Netherlands, Océ N.V. was founded by a chemist, Lodewijk van der Grinten in 1877 as a family business that manufactured machines for coloring butter and margarine for farmers and factories. Océ now develops, designs, and manufactures a series of copying and printing equipment and related software.
The company’s product lines include printers, scanners, copiers, plotters, and related software among services such as consulting. While the corporate headquarters remain in the Netherlands, the company has research and development and production facilities and regional offices in Belgium, France, Germany, the Czech Republic, Romania, Hungary, Japan, Canada, and the US.
