About
What NEXOS is
NEXOS is the European pillar of an Asian manufacturer's operation in the European hydrogen, LNG and CNG fuelling market. The role is sustained, structural and operationally accountable: customer contact, technical liaison, authority representation, compliance custodianship and certification coordination held together as one engagement.
The name comes from the Latin nexus — a bond, a tie. It names the operational link the engagement holds in place between the manufacturer's headquarters and the European market.
The pillar is not a service or a deliverable. It is a position — a function the manufacturer's European market presence rests on. NEXOS occupies that position for the lifecycle of the product in the European market.
The operational foundation
NEXOS is built on eight years of operational work inside European hydrogen, LNG and CNG fuelling infrastructure. The work was performed from the operator side of the industry, not from a consultancy desk. It spanned industrial hydrogen production and distribution. It included operations engineering across LNG fuelling stations through corporate restructuring. It covered asset engineering at a multi-country European hydrogen station network. Project closeout included factory and site acceptance testing.
Compliance and regulatory exposure during this period covered PED, ATEX, ADR and the Dutch PGS family of operational directives. Each was managed at the operational level where its requirements actually land — not at the level where they are summarised. This is the depth NEXOS now applies to the representation of Asian manufacturers in the European market.
NEXOS was founded and is led by Thijs van Gerven, based in Arnhem. The professional certifications held by the founder are ATEX Ex 001, ADR Safety Advisor (CBR-certified), and IPMA D Project Management.
The engagement model
NEXOS offers one engagement: the sustained European operational representation of an Asian manufacturer. The engagement is a long-term partnership, not a project. Minimum term twelve months; most engagements run multi-year.
Within the engagement, NEXOS holds European customer contact, technical liaison, authority representation, compliance custodianship and certification coordination as one continuous operational relationship. The shape of that relationship is described on the European Operations page: what is included, how it is structured, and what it is not.
The engagement is the unit. Certification is one of its deliverables, not a separately purchasable service. The same applies to compliance monitoring, customer response and authority liaison. The relationship is the product.
Why these exclusions
The engagement is designed around what NEXOS does. The exclusions exist because they are necessary for the engagement to do its work.
No product sales
NEXOS is not a distributor, reseller or commercial agent. No commissions are tied to manufacturer revenue. European customers should know what NEXOS is paid to do: represent the operational relationship, not push the equipment. The independence is operational, not rhetorical.
No formal Authorized Representative role
Where European regulation requires a formal AR, that role is filled by an accredited notified body in the NEXOS network. NEXOS coordinates the appointment; NEXOS does not take it. This preserves the separation between regulatory representation and operational representation. It also means the AR role cannot become a hidden commercial dependency.
No on-site work
No installation, no commissioning, no field repair on customer sites. Site work is a different operational discipline with different liability, different insurance and different professional accountability. NEXOS coordinates with whoever performs it; NEXOS does not perform it. The role NEXOS occupies is the European pillar — not the site engineer's role.
No stand-alone certification
Certification is a deliverable within the engagement, not a separately purchasable service. Manufacturers who want only a CE certificate at the lowest cost are not the right fit for NEXOS. They are directed to firms that perform certification as a stand-alone service. The work NEXOS does happens after certification, not before it ends.
Practical information
Working languages
Dutch, English and German. English is the primary working language with the manufacturer's headquarters. Dutch and German are used for European authority and customer interaction.
Location
Arnhem, the Netherlands. NEXOS operates from one location; the practice is concentrated rather than distributed.
Reporting cadence
The monthly NEXOS Operations Letter is delivered to the manufacturer's headquarters on the second working day of the following month. Ad-hoc flags follow within five business days for matters that carry operational urgency.
Confidentiality
Engagement contents are confidential from the first conversation. No client names, no engagement specifics, no past or current arrangements are referenced in public materials.
From here
If the engagement model and operational foundation match what the manufacturer is considering for the European market, the next step is a scoping conversation.