Koppens

1961	Foundation of Koppens Machine factory by Jan, Wim and Nelly Koppens and the start of the production of billiard thermostats.
1966	First employee employed.
1968	Start of the production of minced meat hot dogs shorteners, cooking kettles and cooling tunnels.
1974	of the production of rotating burger forming machines.
1975	Start of the production of mixing drums.
1976	Start of the production of fryers.
1977	Start of the production of block press forming machines.
1980	Start of the production of batter and breading lines.
1988	Swedish ALFA LAVAL group acquires Koppens.
1989	Start with the sales of freezers.
1991	TETRA PAK takes over the entire ALFA LAVAL Group.
1993	Koppens is part of TLF - Tetra Laval Convenience Food.
1994	Start of the production of the auger feed forming machines.
1995	Start of the production of the CFS CookStar.
1997	Foundation of Convenience Food Systems.

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Processing Equipment