SC

Stefan Cops

Production And Maintenance Manager at Raffinerie Tirlemontoise - Tiense Suikerraffinaderij

Stefan Cops is an experienced professional in production and maintenance management with a career spanning over three decades. Currently serving as Production and Maintenance Manager at Raffinerie Tirlemontoise since July 2012, Stefan previously held the position of Maintenance Manager at Anheuser-Busch InBev from July 2007 to July 2012, overseeing a team of technicians in First Line and preventive maintenance. Prior to this, Stefan worked as Production Manager at ZF Getriebe Sint-Truiden, managing the machining department for CVT transmission components from March 2002 to July 2007. Stefan's career began at VCST, where various roles included Production Supervisor and responsibilities in Production Engineering, Project Engineering, and Construction and Development Departments from August 1986 to March 2002. Stefan's educational background includes studies at Hogeschool PXL and Tisj Bilzen.

Location

Antwerp, Belgium

Links

Previous companies


Org chart


Teams

This person is not in any teams


Offices


Raffinerie Tirlemontoise - Tiense Suikerraffinaderij

1 followers

Raffinerie Tirlemontoise in a nutshell: • 2,096,000 Hard Cubes a year • 3 to 3,500,000 T of sugar beets per year • 600 employees • 8 Sites in Belgium and the Netherlands • 90 % industry, 10 % retail ----------- Raffinerie Tirlemontoise is a Belgian sugar producer, part of the Südzucker Group, leading producer and supplier of sugar products and its specialties in Europe. Südzucker’s success is a direct result of all the employee's efforts who constantly put qualities like diversity, competence and sustainability at the forefront. Raffinerie Tirlemontoise share these key values: we’ve been successfully pursuing the same goals since 1836. Today, with a team of more than 600 motivated and dynamic professionals, we continue to invest into what we’ve branded #BelgianSweetness and #TheBestIsClose, a common denominator for our values, indicating that: • We have faith in our products; • We fortify our agro-relations; • We invest in in R&D; • We optimize our logistics; • We support our customers; • We stand for sustainability; • We respect our communities. We believe that the beauty of our activity consists in investing in 'locality'​: local products, grown by local farmers, and transformed through local knowhow, which shows that everything hitting close to home is truly our best asset. With the deregulation of the European sugar market, several challenges lay ahead. Although the future may seem a little puzzling, we’re confident that it also presents itself with opportunities that we’re ready to take on. Market studies showed that we’re able to venture into the global market and represent Belgian sugar products with the quality and excellence that they possess. More information about Raffinerie Tirlemontoise, its products and people can be found on the website www.raffinerietirlemontoise.com. We’re telling our stories on social media too and are happy to keep you updated on Facebook, Twitter & Instagram.