Inge Hofkens
Chief Operations Officer Multimetal Recycling, Aurubis
Inge Hofkens
Chief Operations Officer Multimetal Recycling, AurubisCopper is an indispensable material for global decarbonization and Aurubis is determined to produce carbon-neutral copper well before 2050. For this we need to accelerate the expansion of renewable energies and maintain competitive energy prices. Sustainable recycling technologies should be further incentivized and supported.
After lnge Hofkens earned her master’s degree in Applied Economics in Antwerp, she started as a scrap purchaser at Metalle in 1993, not knowing that her heart would soon beat for the metals industry. Today lnge Hofkens is an expert in secondary materials. In her first ten years in Beerse, she occupied different positions on the purchasing, processing and trading side of the recycling business. Afterwards, she moved to sales and hedging metal price risk and from there gradually grew into the areas of marketing and communication, business development and business strategy. After nearly 30 years as an experienced management executive at Metalle, she took on the position of Managing Director at Aurubis Oien in 2021. lnge Hofkens was appointed to the Aurubis AG Executive Board as Chief Operations Officer Multimetal Recycling effective January 1, 2023.
