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FRANS WOLFS
[OBIT: Maastricht, April 28]
Frans Wolfs was a gentleman; he was also a man of great warmth, kindness and instinctive understanding. He died on Sunday, April 24 at the age of 54, following a mortal struggle with cancer. Galerie Wolfs, his life’s work for more...[more]
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MEETING LIEGE SCIENCE
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Liège, April 29]
Businesses and research centers at the Liège Science Park and on the Liège University campus want to be better known and with the support of Interface and SPI+, from May 2, they are starting a series of presentations, called ‘Visiting...[more]
LIMBURG IT MONITOR
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Maastricht, April 29]
Limburg’s IT Monitor is intended to monitor IT developments among Limburg users, both in business and in the non-commercial sector. These monitors or barometers have existed at national level for some time and have been implemented...[more]
DSM Q1 2005 RESULTS UP 44%
[BIZ: Heerlen, April 27]
General
DSM posted an operating profit of EUR 188m in the first quarter of 2005, up EUR 57m from the first quarter of 2004. Net profit from ordinary activities was EUR 131m, an increase of 35% compared with Q1 2004. Net profit doubled...[more]
GERMAN LAW FROM STRICK
[BIZ: Cleves, April 27]
Peter Strick, the presiding genius at the Strick law firm in Cleves paid a visit to South Limburg to talk to the Dutch German Business Club in Vaals on April 25. His personal performance added a vital dimension to his excellent newsletter....[more]
DUTCH INTEREST IN MAASVALLEI
[BIZ: Hasselt, April 26]
The Dutch group Teema International is interested in the Maasvallei, the former Center Parks location in Lanklaar. This was reported by TVL and confirmed by the owners of the 250 ha site. Teema International is a group of Dutch investors...[more]
BIO-ETHANOL FOR WANZE
[BIZ: Liège, April 25]
Südzucker, Europe's biggest sugar producer with over 50 sugar plants, employing 18,000 and producing revenues of EUR 4.6bn, has signed a declaration of intent to build a 300,000m³ capacity, bio-ethanol production plant, employing 60 for...[more]
LIEGE AIRPORT
[BIZ/LOG: Liège, April 23]
With a storm of blue and orange confetti, a cannon’s roar and jungle music, Liège Airport’s new terminal opened on Saturday April 23 in the presence of 1,250 guests from Belgium and abroad [There did not, however, appear to be too...[more]
UAG-JACOBS RETAIL VENTURE
[BIZ: Aachen, April 22]
The Fortune 500 US automotive retailer United Auto Group (UAG) has announced a joint venture with the Aachen-based multi-franchise Jacobs Gruppe. The group’s family owners/managers are to remain in place, but their business will have...[more]
MEDTRONIC'S DRUG ELUTING STENT
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Heerlen/Santa Rosa, Ca., April 16]
Drug-eluting stents promise to solve one of the biggest problems of interventional coronary treatment, i.e.: the restenosis or reclosure of the artery. Boston Scientific's TAXUS stent is currently responsible...[more]
BEEK IN OUTER SPACE
[BIZ: Beek, April 16]
Beek-based HAL 3 Projects, a company run by Berna Esselaar and Mark Hoogstede, supplies three-dimensional models of rockets, tornado machines and even a training module for astronauts. It enables investigation and exploration programs for...[more]
NEURO ENGINEERING TO EXPAND?
[BIZ: Liège, April 16]
Liège Science Park-based, Neuro Engineering, a software engineering company active in traceability and specialized in electronic identification (RFID), is looking to raise capital (EUR 500,000) to expand its business. Its objective is...[more]
RESPONSIBLE BUSINESS
[BIZ: Maastricht, April 16]
Servatius, the Maastricht and Meuse-Rhine based housing association, has just produced a new policy document for 2005-2010. The focus is on social responsibility. Of course they are in business to make money, but they are looking...[more]
START-UP PARTY
[BIZ: Aachen, April 16]
In November 2004, AC² began a start-up and growth program with a big party in the Old Kurhaus in Aachen. After six months, start-ups and SMEs in Aachen, Düren, Euskirchen and Heinsberg have been supported and over 45 businesses have been...[more]
MONSCHAU TO BARCELONA
[BIZ: Monschau, April 16]
The Aachener Zeitung reports that Weiss Druck in Monschau has purchased two of the latest new printing machines able to print 1.3 million meters of paper within 24 hrs. This would cover the road from Monschau to Barcelona. Weiss employs...[more]
CMI MAJOR IRAN CONTRACT
[BIZ: Seraing, April 16]
CMI industries, based in Seraing, have recently sold a Galvanization line to Iran for use in the Iranian automotive industry. The company sold two Hot Dip galvanization and painting lines to China in 1999...[more]
SATELLITE SAFETY
[BIZ: Eupen, April 16]
Elke Silberer, writing in the Grenz-Echo, reports that a company known as ‘Kids Protect’ is offering satellite surveillance of children, so that parents will always know where their children are, using a current GPS technology. The children...[more]
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HST WI-FI
[LOG: Brussels, April 21]
On April 21, the first Wi-Fi-broadband Internet connection was installed on the Thalys high-speed train between Brussels and Paris. Siemens is the technological partner for this pilot project, which is supported by ESA and Anglo-Belgian...[more]
48,000M² AT TRILOGIS
[LOG: Bierset, April 21]
DTZ, the international real estate consultancy, has announced the completion date for the first 12,000m² of logistics facilities at Liège Airport’s Trilogis Business Park. Mercator Insurance had earlier sold 48,000m² of logistics-dedicated...[more]
WATER IN LIMBURG (B)
[INFRA: Hasselt, April 20]
There has been a major chance in attitudes to water over the last ten years and as a result, innovative technologies and processes have been developed to reduce water waste. Important innovations have had a direct impact on production...[more]
EUR 200M HEERLEN RING
[INFRA/BIZ: Heerlen, April 16]
The Heerlen municipal council decided Wednesday April 6 to go ahead with the construction of the inner and outer ring roads for Parkstad Limburg. This is of great importance for the region because it opens up business parks and...[more]
LIMBURG (B) NORTH-SOUTH LINK
[INFRA: Hasselt, April 16]
The Belgian Limburg employers association Unizo, VWK and the Voka-Chamber of Commerce have approved the alternative plan of the Flemish Minister of Public Works Kris Peeters (CD&V) for the completion of the North-South link in Houthalen/Helchteren....[more]
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NEW PS LEADER
[GOV: Liège, April 27]
The election of the new head of the 22,000-strong Socialist Party of Liège is an issue of great importance, without which, as politics tends to have a stranglehold on business, little is likely to move in the province in the near future....[more]
CROSS-BORDER INFO
[GOV: Aachen, April 26]
On Saturday June 4 from 10:00 to 16:00 hrs at the Theaterstrasse 67 in Aachen, there will be information for migrant workers in the Euroregion covering matters like employment, car insurance, rent, children’s allowance, choice of doctors,...[more]
EUR 650,000 FOR GANGELT
[GOV: Gangelt, April 26]
The municipality of Gangelt is building a new EUR 650,000 sports facility. In addition to the football facilities, there will also be a 400-meter athletics track, allowing for all light athletics disciplines. The new center will be used...[more]
NEW COLLEGE IN EUPEN
[EDU: Eupen, April 21]
On Friday April 21, an agreement was signed to establish an autonomous institution of higher education in the Belgium’s German-speaking Region (DG). This will be the first educational institution to combine both Catholic and public institutions...[more]
GOVERNANCE FROM MAASTRCHT
[EDU: Maastricht, April 19]
The Maastricht Graduate School of Governance is a new project at Maastricht University; it unites the best faculties of the University with the input of leading scholars from other universities and research institutes. Their joint...[more]
PARKSTAD LIMBURG SUBSIDY
[GOV: Heerlen, April 18]
At a recent meeting, Tripool, the cooperative association between the municipalities of Heerlen, Maastricht and Sittard-Geleen, the ambition of Parkstad Limburg to achieve special subsidy status (known as Wgr+ for regional bodies working...[more]
LIMBURG MEETS LIEGE
[GOV: Maastricht, April 16]
The following is an extensive summary of the minutes of a meeting between representatives of Netherlands’ Limburg and with the Province of Liège, held in March. It should convey some of the atmosphere of the occasion.Governor ...[more]
BERENSCHOT’S MAASTRICHT
[GOV/EDIT: Maastricht, April 16]
Among the many attempts to forecast the future or to envisage trends, such as we saw in our last number about Liège, there has been a recent study of Maastricht by the Dutch-based Berenschot Consultancy. The study caught this...[more]
COR PERSPECTIVES 2007-2013
[GOV: Brussels, April 16]
Sir Albert Bore First Vice-President of the CoR and rapporteur on the financial perspectives for 2007 –13 produced the following statement in March.
Building our common future
Policy challenges must have sufficient budgetary...[more]
WORK ON THE BORDERS
[GOV: Hasselt, April 16]
Around 17,000 workers from Belgian Limburg are employed across the borders and may need information about taxation, social security and health insurance. For this reason, a new website has been launched which will be able to answer a...[more]
HASSELT IN FRENCH AND DUTCH
[GOV: Hasselt, April 16]
The city of Hasselt is going to cooperate with the Provincial educational authorities and its expertise center to give its civil servants, police officers, and business people in the retail and restaurant sectors, intensive courses in...[more]
FIGHTING FIT
[GOV/LEI: Heerlen, April 16]
From April 11, the Limburg Olympic boxing champion Arnold Vanderlyde has been giving courses to young people in the Heerlen district of Molenberg. The course is called Fighting Fit and the idea is to give young people an introduction...[more]
MILLIONS FOR MONSCHAU
[GOV: Monschau, April 16]
The North-Rhine Westphalian Minister of Finance, Jochen Dieckmann, has promised the city of Monschau further financial help with the new national park. According to the Minister, who was visiting the area, tourism in the area could...[more]
CHRISTIAN DEMOCRATS
[GOV: Eupen, April 16]
The Christian democratic parties in the large neighboring Euroregion of Saarlorlux want to set up a shared cross-border platform. The new platform would have representatives of Christian Democratic parties from the Saarland, Lorraine and...[more]
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MOBILE OSTEOPOROSIS CLINIC
[HEALTH, Liège, April 16]
On Friday April 15, in the presence of deputy Georges Pire, responsible for public health, new mobile osteoporosis clinics were launched in Liège. In fact, the mobile breast cancer diagnostic units were equipped with osteodensity meters,...[more]
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DSM STANYL® IN A380
[SCI-TECH: Heerlen, April 27]
At 11:30 hrs on April 27, the A380 Airbus with an aircraft engine component made from DSM Stanyl made its maiden flight at Toulouse-Blagnac International Airport in Toulouse with a six-member test flight crew on-board.
The...[more]
CLIMATE DATA FROM AIRLINES
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, April 26]
Airlines will be delivering data for research on the atmosphere and the climate. Dr Andreas Volz-Thomas of the Jülich research center and researchers from Germany, France and England and the Airbus company have joined forces with...[more]
DISTANT WORLDS
[SCI-TECH: Liège, April 22]
The Joint European and National Astronomy Meeting Distant Worlds (JENAM 2005) will take place in Liège, July 4 through 7. The mornings will be devoted essentially to plenary talks, with several 50-minute conferences each morning....[more]
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MOTHER’S DAY LOAF
[LEI: Kerkrade/Herzogenrath, April 29]
The three-country specialty market invites families and their children on May 8 to Rolduc, the oldest and largest abbey in the Netherlands, on the border between Kerkrade and Herzogenrath/Kohlscheid. 30 Exhibitors from...[more]
FOR EPICURES
[LEI: Liège, April 28]
‘Epicuriales’, a gastronomic fair following the pattern of Maastricht’s Preuvenemint, will run from Thursday June 2 through Sunday June 5 in Liège at the Espace Tivoli, Place Saint-Lambert. Tickets will be EUR 1,25 and sell in books of...[more]
URBAN IDENTITY
[LEI: Parkstad Limburg, April 27]
Urban identity is a series of five lectures intended to chart recent urban developments in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, East and South Limburg and Parkstad. They will be held at the Glaspaleis Film Theater in Heerlen, starting...[more]
ROYAL PHILHARMONIC AT WMC
[LEI: Kerkrade, April 27]
The World Music Contest Foundation Kerkrade has scheduled London’s Royal Philharmonic Orchestra to perform the Opening Concert on Thursday July 7.
This orchestra is among London's top three and performs at the Royal Festival and...[more]
MAHHL CITY PRESENTATION
[LEI: Heerlen, April 26]
In the near future, everybody in Meuse-Rhine will be receiving a brochure about trips to the MAHHL cities of Maastricht, Aachen, Heerlen, Hasselt and Liège. This is just one of the initiatives taken by the cities to point to the attractions...[more]
ANTIQUARIES FAIR
[LEI: Maastricht, April 25]
The opening of the 4th edition of the Euroregional Antiquaries fair for books and prints is to take place on Friday May 6 at 16:30 at the Centre Céramique in Maastricht. 30 Renowned antiquaries from Belgium, the Netherlands and Germany...[more]
RUPERT WACE IN BRUSSELS
[LEI: Brussels, April 20]
The noted London dealer in ancient art, Rupert Wace, will be exhibiting for the first time at the Brussels Ancient Art Fair (BAAF) on Wednesday 8 to Sunday June 12 2005. The works on offer span 2,500 years and represent civilizations...[more]
THE ARTS TOUR
[LEI: Maastricht, April 18]
On May 21 and 22, from 11:00 to 18:00 hrs, a KunstTour will be held in Maastricht for the sixth time. This voyage of discovery takes you to all those places in Maastricht where the arts and design are a principal interest. The tour...[more]
LIVING STATUES
[LEI: Thorn, April 17]
On Sunday June 19 from 12:00 to 17:00 hrs, a vineyard festival will take place at Wijngaard in Thorn and will include the gallery of living statues and the Open Limburg championship for best living statue. The festival is organized by...[more]
MAASMARATHON DE LA MEUSE
[LEI: Visé, April 16]
The annual Meuse Marathon event, with a full Marathon, a half Marathon going through Visé, Oupeye, Maastricht, Eijsden, Fourons and back to Visé, and 5 or 10-kilometer cross-country runs, starts May 1, 2005. The event is surrounded by music,...[more]
GENGHIS KHAN’S HERITAGE
[LEI, Bonn, April 16]
In 2006, it will be 800 years since the foundation of the Mongol Empire. The Bonn Arts and Exhibition Hall of Germany (Kunst- und Austellungshalle der Bundesrepulik Deutschland) is holding an exhibition about the heritage of Genghis Khan...[more]
DAYTRIP TO HASSELT
[LEI: Hasselt, April 16]
The Hasselt tourist office has issued a brochure offering B-Day trips organized with Belgian railways, including theme tours (historical city tour, fashion tour or jenever tour); museums (Fashion museum or the National Jenever museum)...[more]
FLOWERS AND FRUIT
[LEI: Hasselt, April 16]
In April, there will be festivals, tours and visits to fruit growing companies in the Hesbaye, the Belgian fruit-growing region. Enjoy the blossom on a tour - guided or otherwise - walk, cycle or go by car. Enjoy a whole weekend....[more]
HAIR TO MAASTRICHT
[LEI: Maastricht, April 16]
The successful rock musical HAIR is coming to Maastricht from May 3 through May 6 at the MECC. The leading roles will be played by Chaira Borderslee and René van Kooten...[more]
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