Delvano bankruptcy: 700-plus lots go under the hammer

More than 700 lots of crop sprayers, spare parts and production equipment from bankrupt Belgian manufacturer Delvano go under the hammer this week, closing a business founded in 1966.

Online auctioneer Auctim is running the sale on behalf of the bankruptcy trustee. The company's collapse was revealed last month. Poor harvest yields on the continent are understood to have cut demand for its machines, starving the business of turnover.

What is in the main auction?

The larger of two online auctions covers agricultural sprayers, spare parts, technical components and production equipment.

The headline lot is an unused 2026 Delvano Euro-Trac 7000, fitted with a Volvo Penta engine and a 7,000L tank. Around it sit several used Hydro-Trac self-propelled sprayers (hydrostatic drive, meaning each wheel is powered by fluid pressure rather than a mechanical gearbox), trailed and mounted sprayers, and unfinished ST27 machines.

The parts inventory is extensive: pumps, wheel motors, traction pumps and control systems. For farms already running Delvano kit, this is the practical significance of the sale. With the manufacturer gone, this stock of spares may be the last organised supply of components for machines that remain in fleets across Belgium and beyond.

The factory contents go too. Metal-working machinery, tools and workshop equipment will be sold alongside the sprayer stock, effectively liquidating the company's entire production capability.

Which historic machines are included?

Collectors will find two pieces of note. A 1960s Delvano Safe-Trac, one of the company's early self-propelled designs, is in the catalogue. So is a trailed crop sprayer dating from 1942 — older than the company itself, which grew out of agricultural contracting before it turned to manufacturing.

Founder Paul Vanlerberghe started that contracting operation and was unimpressed by the crop sprayers available at the time. He built his own alternative. By 1962 he had developed a self-propelled crop sprayer on a converted Fordson tractor, four years before Delvano formally existed in 1966.

That converted Fordson laid the foundation for the Safe-Trac and, eventually, Delvano's development as a specialist sprayer manufacturer. Three generations of the Vanlerberghe family ran the company, building a reputation around its distinctive blue-and-yellow machines.

How did the technology evolve?

The product line advanced steadily. In the 1980s Delvano introduced the hydrostatically driven Hydro-Trac, a step up in traction and control from mechanical drivelines. Electronic controls and further spraying technology followed.

In 2000 the Euro-Trac won a Gouden Aar award at the Agribex agricultural trade fair — recognition that placed Delvano among the credible European self-propelled sprayer builders of its era. The 2026 Euro-Trac 7000 now up for sale is the last expression of that lineage.

Manufacturing was not the only activity. Delvano also sold earth-moving equipment, including machines from Case Construction. That side of the business explains the second auction.

What does the second auction contain?

A separate sale covers Delvano's vehicles and mobile equipment. Standout lots include a 2025 Case 721G Agri wheel loader and a Case crawler excavator. Trucks, vans, trailers, forklifts and other professional equipment round out the catalogue.

Both auctions open on Saturday, October 31 and close on Tuesday, November 10. Bidders have eleven days to compete for the inventory of a firm that traded for roughly six decades.

For contractors and farmers, the practical watch-points are two: parts availability for existing Delvano fleets once these lots sell, and the price the nearly new Euro-Trac 7000 fetches as a read on second-hand self-propelled sprayer values this winter.