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.
