Robin Hoeksma
Robin Hoeksma has an educational background in Chemical Engineering, and throughout his career, he has worked in the dairy industry with several companies such as Avantium (DAWN Technology), FrieslandCampina and Hochwald Foods Nederland B.V.
At Avantium (DAWN Technology), he worked with commissioning and startup of a separation and purification unit at the DAWN pilot plant factory.
At Royal FrieslandCampina, he was employed as Process Engineer at FrieslandCampina Leeuwarden for 6 years and was responsible for process engineering & design of technical projects and modifications in the plant. Some of the projects he worked on were conceptual design and pre- & basic engineering of new boiler house, utility engineering new mixing and filling lines ice & shake concentrate and decommissioning evaporated milk and powder plant.
For 2,5 years he worked as Process Engineer at Hochwald Foods Nederland B.V, where he was responsible for process engineering & design of technical projects and modifications in the plant and P&ID drafting & management. Projects he worked on, include Conceptual design and pre- & basic engineering piping of new Sweetened Condensed Milk filling machines and pre- & basic engineering new unloading dock & standardization of Evaporated milk concentrate.
Specialty in:
- Process design & process engineering
- Hygienic design
- Process safety design
- Dairy, evaporation units, pasteurization & sterilization, filling lines, and CIP systems
- Utilities, steam & condensate systems, industrial cooling (ammonia), waste and cooling water
- Optimalisation & modification of existing processes (brownfield projects)
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We are happy to welcome Robin Hoeksma to our team where he will be strengthening our competencies in the dairy industry.