From Beet to Sugar
The Tiense Suikerraffinaderij, founded 1836, the largest sugar refinery in Belgium. Every autumn the beet "campaign" fills the town with the smell of sugar; this is the industry that gave Tienen its name and its nickname.
Part of Sweet City
14 moments in this segment.
- - The Tiense Suikerraffinaderij. Founded 1836, the largest sugar refinery in Belgium and the reason Tienen is the Sugar City.
- - The sugar refinery at work. The plant that processes the region’s sugar beet into Tiense Suiker.
- - The refinery towers. The towers and chimneys that dominate Tienen’s skyline.
- - The Tiense Suikerraffinaderij (part 1). An older look around the sugar plant.
- - Working at the refinery - Jan Ingels. A testimonial from inside the Sugar City’s biggest employer.
- - Flower strips for biodiversity (Tiense Suiker). The refinery’s sustainability work around the beet fields.
- - The Tienen sugar factory. A visitor’s look at the famous refinery.
- - Fine beet sugar in a new blue jacket. Tiense Suiker’s packaging, the product known across Belgium.
- - From beet to sugar ("Van Biet Tot Suiker"). How the sugar beet of Flemish Brabant becomes Tiense Suiker.
- - A vacuum line at the Tiense Suikerraffinaderij. Industrial work inside the refinery.
- - A new sustainable diffusion tower in Tienen. The refinery modernising its process, the Sugar City’s industry, still evolving.
- - The magic of Tiense Suiker, in a nutshell. The refinery tells its own story, the heritage brand at the heart of the Sugar City.
- - A process operator at the refinery. The people who run the sugar plant.
- - The refinery’s €5M heat-pump investment. ROBtv on the refinery’s big sustainability spend.
