NPAL stands for the Northern Productivity Alliance (Noordelijke ProductiviteitsAlliantie), a not-for-profit organization for the industry. We facilitate activities in which approximately 200 people from almost 100 leading companies actively participate . Our goal is to strengthen the competitiveness of the Northern Netherlands, by supporting companies that want to improve their productivity. NPAL organizes clusters of companies and provides a support structure that helps companies realize their improvement ambitions more quickly.