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LIMBURG IN MEUSE-RHINE
[EDIT/BIZ: Maastricht, February 2]
On January 18, during a business lunch, one of a series held at the Maastricht School of Management (MSM), the governors of both the Dutch and Belgian provinces of Limburg spoke on economic development prospects and the relationship...[more]
FAREWELL HELMUT BREUER
[EDIT/EDU: Aachen, February 10]
Professor Helmut Breuer, Professor of Economic Geography at the RWTH University in Aachen, is retiring after 30 years of service. Professor Breuer is the presiding academic genius in all matters Euroregional and he has also been...[more]
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AVANTIS VENTURE MARKET
[BIZ: Avantis, February 15]
Around 40 international investors from Europe, Israel, Asia, and the US are visiting the Aachen region on February 15 and 16 to make contacts with business. The specific interest of the investors is focused on companies with concrete...[more]
CONUSBAT
[BIZ: Aachen, February 14]
A New Service for Meuse-Rhine Business is offered by Conusbat
CONUS Business, Advice & Training in Aachen
They can provide:
An industry contact in the USA?
Support with a US-Delegation surprisingly announcing its visit?
A...[more]
NEW DSM BOARD MEMBER
[BIZ: Heerlen, February 14]
DSM intends to appoint Mr Tom de Swaan as a member of its Supervisory Board. Mr De Swaan was born in 1946 and is a Dutch national. From 1972 to 1998 he worked for the Dutch Central Bank, from 1986 as a member of its Governing Board....[more]
GALILEO PROJECT NEEDS MONEY
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Brussels, February 10]
More money has to be invested in Galileo, the European system for satellite navigation, according to Philippe Maystadt, the Belgian chairman of the European Investment Bank. Galileo, which should be operational in 2008,...[more]
ELECTRABEL TO AUCTION SITES
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, February 10]
Electrabel is going to auction off its unused production sites to the competition, as agreed between Suez, the parent company, and the government. The auction is planned for April and will involve the capacity of 1500MW. Two...[more]
DENTAL FIRST FOR ES TOOLING
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Beringen, February 10]
The ES Tooling company in Beringen, which focuses on dental prostheses and aerospace, has achieved a world first: producing a one-piece dental prosthesis that can be used with all types of implants. There has been an enormous...[more]
DSM 2005 & 2006 PROSPECTS: GOOD
[BIZ: Heerlen, February 9]
Operating profit for 2005 EUR 808m, 44% higher than in 2004. Net profit excluding exceptional items EUR 563m (+33%). Q4 operating profit EUR 183 million, up 41% from 2004. Exceptional items in Q4 net out at EUR 26 million negative. Proposal:...[more]
DUTCH WANT BELGIAN IT PARTNERS
[BIZ: Brussels, February 9]
Twenty-six Dutch IT and multimedia companies are looking for partners in the Belgian market. The Belgian consultancy A&B Partners is organizing a program with the help of the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs. Among the Dutch organizations...[more]
NUON & ESSENT WANT TO MERGE
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, February 9]
The two biggest players in the Dutch energy market, Nuon and Essent, think that a merger is the answer to the separation of the network companies. Various reliable sources confirm in the Dutch weekly Fem Business that both companies...[more]
ADDAC NEWS
[BIZ: Aachen, February 9]
ADDAC, the specialists in IT, have been investigating how one should reach senior citizens and have unleashed teams of students to investigate the problem. On March 2, the three best teams will be presenting their results at the Cologne...[more]
CMI SALES UP
[BIZ: Liège February 8]
Sales at CMI were up at EUR 457m for 2005, EUR 403m coming from traditional activities and EUR 54m from new business. CMI is an industrial Group specializing in mechanical technologies. The company focuses on Engineering and Services,...[more]
NYK LOGISTICS & KANSAI PAINT
[BIZ/LOG: Genk, February 7]
Japan-based NYK Logistics is going to provide services to Kansai Paint Europe, the producer of chemical coatings. A contract has been signed recently for the warehousing and distribution trajectory for automotive coatings, which will...[more]
CANADIANS CHASE TELENET BIZ
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, February 6]
The Canadian cable and media company Cogeco, active in Meuse-Rhine, is going to compete with the Mechlin-based telecom company Telenet with a view to participation in Walloon cable companies. The Canadian company is active in...[more]
EMPLOYMENT UNIT EX FORD JOBS
[BIZ: Genk, February 3]
Forty percent of the workers who were collectively dismissed two years ago from Ford in Genk have managed to find jobs. A great part of them have found jobs in the SME sector. This was revealed by the figures from the Ascento employment...[more]
CMI GROUP ACQUISITIONS
[BIZ: Liège, February 2]
The Belgian Group Cockerill Maintenance & Ingénierie (CMI) acquired the engineering company Kappa Thermline (Paris), specializing in industrial thermal processes, last November. On December 19, CMI also acquired the Russian company...[more]
LIEGE TRILOGIPORT
[BIZ/LOG: Liège, February 2]
Liège Trilogiport is the multimodal platform for the Liège Autonomous Port (PAL). In 2004 the Walloon region acquired this 100-hectare site and assigned its management to the port. It is dedicated to logistics and has a container...[more]
HANSEN 100% GREEN POWERED
[BIZ: Lommel, February 2]
The Hansen Transmissions factory in Lommel is running 100% on green energy from January 1st. Hansen Transmissions started operations in 2004 in Lommel, where it produces gearboxes for multi-megawatt wind turbines. HANSEN TRANSMISSIONS...[more]
STAR INFORMATIC IN RUSSIA
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Liège, February 2]
STAR INFORMATIC has announced a new partnership in Russia with T-Project, a Saint Petersburg based IT company. This new partnership is already very successful and STAR INFORMATIC has announced three new customers in Russia,...[more]
MACINTOSH TO ACQUIRE SCAPINO
[BIZ: Maastricht, February 2]
Macintosh Retail Group has reached an agreement in principle with Retail Network on the proposed acquisition of shoe retailer Scapino by Macintosh Retail Group. If the relevant procedures are completed successfully and the acquisition...[more]
NEW TO THE CYCOS SUITE
[BIZ: Alsdorf, January 30]
SMEs may now benefit from a particularly economic entry into professional Unified Messaging and Computer Telephony Integration (CTI). From February 1 through April 30, Cycos AG will be offering mrs office – a series of packaged solutions...[more]
BABOR AT 50
[BIZ: Aachen, February 2]
Babor, the Aachen-based international specialists in beauty care and wellness, are celebrating their 50th anniversary this year. You can learn about the company from its website where information is also available in English....[more]
THREE MILLION TOURISTS IN LIEGE
[BIZ/LEI: Liège, February 2]
Liège wants to establish its position as a cultural center in the Walloon country and the councilor responsible, Michel Firket, has given his support to this. According to him, over three million tourists visited Liège last year....[more]
REDEVELOPMENT IN VERVIERS
[BIZ: Verviers, February 2]
Major squares in six districts of Verviers are to be upgraded, including the Place du Marché in front of the City Hall. Refurbishment and upgrades will take place in Petit-Rechain, Heusy, and Ensival, and new ‘green facilities’ will...[more]
ESSEC STAKE IN NAVITELL
[BIZ: Beringen, February 2]
The Limburg telecom chain Essec has taken a minority stake in the Hasselt software and telecom company Navitell. This young company has seven employees and specializes in adding content to digital media, like Internet cell phones...[more]
REGITEL IS BACK
[BIZ: Thorn, February 2]
Limburg companies expect to spend more on IT in the coming 12 months. This will mean more employment in the sector, but at the same time specialists will be more difficult to get hold of. The companies involved expect more attention...[more]
RAYTHEON DOUBLES ITS PROFITS
[BIZ: Waltham/Liège, February 2]
Raytheon, a US-based industry leader in defense and aerospace systems supply, has doubled its profits. This is significant for Meuse-Rhine, because companies in Liège, including PFSWeb and Ionic Soft, play a role in the company’s...[more]
HEERLEN TURNS Q-PARK DOWN
[BIZ: Heerlen, February 2]
Heerlen City Council has decided not to accept the offer made by Q-Park, the Maastricht-based European parking giant, to take over its parking garages and the shares in Parkeer Heerlen BV. The council found Q-Park’s bid to low and...[more]
LIEGE EXPORTERS
[BIZ: Liège, February 2]
The Belgian Purchasing Association (ABCAL), with the support of the Liège Export Club, is organizing a forum called ‘The Multimodal’ in cooperation with Ernst & Young and the Organization of Traffic Managers (OTM). It will be held on...[more]
CATERING & FINE FOOD
[BIZ: Maastricht, February 2]
The BBB catering fair and the European Fine Food Fair, which were held for the 52nd and 12th times respectively, were a success. There was also the annual award of the prestigious Columbus trophy as well as the HotelloTop conference...[more]
MAASTRICHT CULINAIRE
[BIZ/LEI: Maastricht, February 1]
Maastricht Culinaire is an association of Maastricht’s top restaurants and on January 30 it was joined by the Michelin-star restaurant Tout à Fait and Maastricht’s celebrated Italian restaurant Ca'del Biro. At a reception at...[more]
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A2 TUNNEL EUR 631.3M
[INFRA: Maastricht, February 14]
National and provincial government levels and the cities of Maastricht and Meerssen have reached a final agreement on the financing of the A2 highway tunnel to Maastricht. It will be a divided highway with four lanes on either...[more]
NEW WALLOON AIR AMBULANCE
[LOG/INFRA: Lierneux, February 10]
A new EC-145 Eurocopter from North Sea Helicopters will replace the Dauphin helicopter as an air ambulance at the heliport of Bra-sur-Lienne in Lierneux. This doesn’t provide a hospital but it does provide an emergency medical...[more]
ABX JOINS CARGOLINE
[LOG: Brussels, February 10]
SNCB subsidiary ABX Logistics has joined CargoLine, a cooperative network of German cargo carriers. This means that ABX will be one of the biggest forwarders on the German home market. Both CargoLine and ABX were, thus far, middle...[more]
DEUTSCHE POST DUMPING
[LOG: Bonn, February 7]
German business newspaper Handelsblatt says that the German Federal Network Agency, responsible for the electricity, gas, telecommunications, postal, and railway markets, as well as the underlying legislation and important consumer rights...[more]
TNT INVESTS IN INDIA
[LOG: Amsterdam, February 3]
Bas Dijkhuizen, writing in Logistiek.nl, says that TNT wants to invest EUR 100m in express services in India over the next five years. According to TNT, the company is the first multinational operator to offer international and inland...[more]
WATERWAYS REPLACE 1M TRUCKS
[LOG/INFRA: Brussels, February 3]
By 2011 the Flemish inland waterways will be able to reduce highway traffic by one million trucks. This information was presented by NV Waterwegen and Zeekanaal when they presented their annual figures. In total 119 public-private...[more]
UPS: BIGGEST DC INVESTMENT
[LOG: Amsterdam, February 2]
Marjan Lijftogt writes in Logistiek.nl that UPS has opened a new European distribution center at Cologne-Bonn Airport. This expansion is the biggest European investment in the history of the company. The sorting capacity has been...[more]
BELGIUM FOR LOGISTICS
[LOG: Brussels, February 2]
A new study about the real estate specialists Cushman & Wakefield says that Belgium remains the best location for industry and logistics in Europe, taking into account access, costs, availability, and prices of real estate. The same...[more]
AGAINST THE IRON RHINE
[LOG: Düsseldorf, February 2]
The North-Rhine Westphalian Minister of Transport, Oliver Wittke, regards the reactivation of the ‘Iron Rhine’, the rail link between Belgian Limburg and the Ruhr that has been out of service since 1991, as a problem. And he’s looking...[more]
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POLICE HIT CROSS-BORDER CRIME
[BIZ: Hasselt, February 10]
Police services and the justice departments in the border regions in Belgium, The Netherlands, and Germany are going to join forces to combat cross-border crime. This was decided at a meeting in Eupen where information was exchanged...[more]
EUPEN & THE RHINELAND
[GOV: Eupen, February 10]
The Eupen communal government wants to cooperate with the Landschaftsverband Rheinland organization. The idea is to draft a cooperative agreement, which would be signed officially in May. Partnerships and cooperation will be in the...[more]
CROSS-BORDER CONSULTANCY
[GOV: Düsseldorf, February 7]
The latest issue of the INTER-NED newsletter contains articles on competence consultancy in cross-border business. It deals with the truck toll on German highways, although the observation is made that compensation by discounts...[more]
RCE: SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
[EDU: Kerkrade, February 7]
The RCE Rhine-Meuse regional center of expertise learning for sustainable development in collaboration with the United Nations University, Tokyo, will be holding an event on April 3 at Rolduc Abbey in Kerkrade entitled ‘Sustainable...[more]
EURES DAY
[GOV: Aachen, February 7]
EURES is an EU-based organization that is concerned with employment across borders and they are holding a meeting on Friday, March 17 (St Patrick’s Day) from 9.00 hrs to 16.30 hrs at the Kreishaus Aachen, Zollernstr. 10 in Aachen. After...[more]
MAYOR DEMEYER ON EU FUNDING
[GOV: Liège, February 6]
The Mayor of Liège is concerned about access to ‘European Structural Development’ funds in the next period from 2007 to 2013, and he is requesting funding of EUR 140m for the Liège area. Mr Demeyer is calling upon the Walloon government....[more]
CUT BACK ON FRENCH STUDENTS
[EDU: Liège, February 3]
The Minister Responsible for Higher Education in Belgium’s French-speaking community, Marie-Dominique Simonet, wants to cut the number of foreign students at various university faculties and colleges in the region. From September the...[more]
UWC IN MAASTRICHT
[EDU: Maastricht, February 2]
The Netherlands Limburg provincial government has decided to contribute EUR 100,000 to the establishment of the United World College (UWC) in Maastricht. The deputy responsible for economics and education Martin Eurlings said: ‘The...[more]
250 EXTRA POLICE
[GOV: Maastricht, February 2]
Two hundred and fifty additional police officers will be active in the Dutch border region, according to the responsible ministry in The Hague. This will enable the police to combat increasing crime in South Limburg and the Tri-country...[more]
NATIVE SPEAKERS IN DG
[EDU: Eupen, February 2]
Foreign language teaching in Belgium’s German-speaking community is to be developed by using native-speaking teachers from the French-speaking community. The objective is to exchange specialist teachers. Education Minister Paasch in...[more]
CHANGES IN DG PARLIAMENT
[GOV: Eupen, February 2]
The new Secretary General of the Parliament of Belgium’s German-speaking community is the lawyer Stephan Thomas, who replaces the former Secretary General Manfred Beckers — retiring after 32 years. The new Secretary General has been...[more]
2007-2013 FUNDING
[GOV: Maastricht, February 2]
The Executive of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion has taken criticism by the Council seriously. The structural reform of the Meuse-Rhine foundation demanded by the Council and the Chambers of Commerce has caught the ear of the Executive....[more]
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LIOF LOAN FOR PATHOFINDER
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, February 8]
PathoFinder is a Dutch nucleic acid diagnostics company specializing in the development and commercialization of a new generation of molecular diagnostics, focusing on the detection and identification of human pathogens causing...[more]
BIOTECH BUSINESS CAFÉ
[Life-SCI/BIZ: Maastricht, February 2]
With 65 participants, the first BioTech Business Café on February 2 at the Colonel Building in Maastricht was a success! Set up by LSP, LIOF, Biopartner Center Maastricht, Life Sciences Limburg, Limburg Ventures, BioMedbooster ...[more]
CROSS-BORDER HEALTHCARE
[HEALTH: Maastricht, February 2]
Limburgers and Brabanders who live close to the Belgian border will soon be able to go to a GP in Belgium faster and without paying any more. CZ, the health insurance company, will be extending its contracts with Belgian GPs...[more]
MEDICAL FIRST IN VERVIERS
[HEALTH: Verviers, February 2]
The emergency medical services and hospital emergency departments will be receiving better information about their patients in future, because they will be able to receive information from a central computer, using share medical...[more]
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JULICH NEUTRON SCIENCE CENTRE
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, February 14]
February 16 represents a milestone in the history of Jülich neutron research: this date marks the foundation of the Jülich Centre for Neutron Science. This centre - known as JCNS for short - will focus activities in Jülich and...[more]
IONIC SOFTWARE AT 4TH GML RELAY
[SCI-TECH: Liège, February 7]
At Emmen in the Netherlands on January 26, IONIC Software excelled at the 4th GML Relay, organized by Geo-Information Netherlands (GIN). The GML Relay in Netherlands was set up to show how GML data could be read and edited by one...[more]
GERMAN-CHINESE SYMPOSIUM
[SCI-TECH: Jülich/Lanzhou, February 2]
In January, a symposium was held in the city of Lanzhou in central China, organized jointly by Research Centre Jülich and the Lanzhou Institute of Modern Physics. The purpose of the meeting was to discuss and prepare joint...[more]
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ASTRID KRUX
[LEI: Maastricht, February 15]
Astrid Krux, a Dutch poet from Sittard, who has already been honored for her poetry, gave a reading on February 5 of her new collection of poems called Zouttuin (The Salt Garden) at the Groote Sociëteit on the Vrijthof in Maastricht....[more]
SEDUCTION
[LEI: Liège, February 13]
Seduction is an exhibition at Eglise Saint Antoine, Hors Château, Liège, from February 13 through July 30. Whether it is linked to the reproductive urge or is a calculated attempt to gain something from someone, seduction often takes...[more]
THE GULPENER BEER EXPERIENCE
[LEI: Valkenburg, February 10]
There is to be a range of beer experiences organized by the South Limburg tourist authority and the Gulpener Beer House in Gulpen. There will be trips, beer tasting, presentations, brunches — all manner of interesting combinations....[more]
THE PRINCE-BISHOPS' CRUISE
[LEI/EDU: Liège, February 9]
In this, the year of Saint Lambert, the theme for trips along the Meuse will be the Prince-Bishops. With the help of the travel agency Ligne Bleue and the Hotel School, two cruises are planned onboard the MPS Princess belonging to...[more]
GUUS VAN WINKEL
[LEI: Landgraaf, February 8]
From February 6 through January 7, 2007, the works from Mrs Guus van Winkel will be on display at the Hotel Winselerhof Restaurant Pirandello and Luigi’s Trattoria in Landgraaf. There are 22 pictures evocative of nature and wintertime...[more]
LE COMTE ORY
[LEI: Liège, February 8]
There will be a performance of Gioacchino Rossini's opera ‘Le Comte Ory’, the adventures of a young libertine, at the Royal Walloon Opera in Liège from February 24 through March 3. The times and prices are all available online at the...[more]
A BLUE SHIP
[LEI: Heerlen, February 7]
The carnival boat, the Blue Vessel, will be leaving Heerlen on Monday, February 20, for its 56th voyage. The journey will last five days and will take it through the waters of the Euroregion to more than 30 harbors to announce the...[more]
CARNIVAL GUARDS
[LEI: Eupen, February 7]
Eupen has been the location for a meeting of carnival guards. These are elegantly dressed men-of-arms in their 18th century uniforms who play a major part in the carnival festivities. Twenty-five of these guards from the three countries...[more]
THE LIBRARY
[LEI: Liège, February 3]
The Library is a program of dance (from January 26 through February 18), which has a series of performances in the Walloon country and was linked to Maastricht’s Theater aan het Vrijthof. On January the 25 in Liège the premiere was held...[more]
RUPERT WACE AT THE TEFAF
[LEI: London, February 3]
Following his successful debut last year, Rupert Wace Ancient Art will again be exhibiting at The European Fine Art Fair (TEFAF), Maastricht, the world’s most prestigious art and antiques fair, that takes place from Friday March 10...[more]
ÖTZI, THE ICEMAN
[LEI: Maaseik, February 2]
From November 16, 2005 to March 25, 2006 the Maaseiker Museum in the Minderbroedersklooster will be holding a large family exhibition about Ötzi, the world-famous 5,300-year-old Iceman from the Italian Alps. This travelling exhibition,...[more]
GASTROEUREGIO
[LEI: Aachen, February 2]
The Gastroeuregio Guide is a good guide that covers more than 500 restaurants in the Euroregion. It also has some extra features in this issue, including a special feature on one local specialty, fruit flans — the open fruit, rice,...[more]
WHAT’S ON IN MAASTRICHT?
[LEI: Maastricht, February 2]
Maastricht’s Uitburo, the organization that advises visitors and people living in the city what’s going on in the leisure front in the city, has produced a new monthly publication from the Tourist Bureau called ‘UIT!’ and the website...[more]
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