{"id":10973,"date":"2025-08-21T11:42:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:42:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.spaansbabcock.com\/good-bye-to-30-years-water-treatment\/"},"modified":"2025-08-21T11:42:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-21T09:42:11","slug":"good-bye-to-30-years-water-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.spaansbabcock.com\/de\/good-bye-to-30-years-water-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Good bye to > 30 years water treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>My start in the water world was at Nijhuis -Water as CEO and shareholder . Brought this company from a bankruptcy to a very successful company with excellent results , and sold this company very successful in 2008\u00a0 .<\/p>\n<p>After 15 years as CEO and 32 years as a shareholder of the Spaans Babcock Group, the time has come to go out of the driver\u2019s seat. It has been a tremendous honour to serve this outstanding company and I look back with deep gratitude and pride.<\/p>\n<p>During these years Spaans Babcock has grown into a stronger, more resilient and more innovative organisation. We tripled our operating results together with Spaans foreign operations.<\/p>\n<p>We did serious investments in R&amp;D always with a long-term view. We enhanced our operations, refined our leadership approach and strengthened our brand.\u00a0This together with our branches and our international representative network.<\/p>\n<p>The past decade brought many global challenges \u2013 from pandemics to geo-political unrest. Still, we weathered the storms and came out stronger. What I value most, however, is our people; their dedication, creativity and values.<\/p>\n<p>Thank you for your trust. Now is the time right for a transition, the company is performing extremely well, the order portfolio is filled and the main shareholder is a solid reliable Dutch Privat equity company.<\/p>\n<p>I will stay as a shareholder and member of the advisory board of Spaans Babcock.<\/p>\n<p>I will hand over my responsibility to my successor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.linkedin.com\/in\/peter-meijer-b7705118\/\">@<strong>PeterMeijer<\/strong><\/a>. I am confident that under his leadership Spaans Babcock group will continue to thrive and stay true to its values.<\/p>\n<p>A special thank you to our shareholder employees and other stakeholders for your support throughout the years.<\/p>\n<p>I wish Spaans Babcock continued success, resilience and sustainable growth.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Tonnie Eijt<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-10962 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.spaansbabcock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tonnie.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"917\" height=\"516\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.spaansbabcock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tonnie.jpg 917w, https:\/\/www.spaansbabcock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tonnie-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.spaansbabcock.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/tonnie-768x432.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 917px) 100vw, 917px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My start in the water world was at Nijhuis -Water as CEO and shareholder .&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10965,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-unkategorisiert"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.2 - 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