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THE VIEW FROM AACHEN
[BIZ: Aachen, March 14]
The Aachen Chamber of Commerce’s Annual General Meeting was held in the Coronation Hall in Aachen on March 14 and was addressed by its president, Michael Wirtz. He greeted those present, including the president of the university and partners...[more]
PUNCH INTERNATIONAL & SMART
[IND: St-Martens-Latem, March 14]
Punch International, the Flemish technology group wants an interest in the Smart Car, the loss-making Dutch-American subsidiary of DaimlerChrysler, according to the Belgian newspaper De Tijd. Punch wants, wants to make a hybrid...[more]
TOM TOM AND FORD
[IND: Amsterdam, March 14]
TomTom, the producer of automotive navigation systems, has signed an agreement with Ford Spain to install TomToms in the Ford Fiesta. This was announced by TomTom without giving any financial details. TomTom also has agreements with...[more]
PARK INN LIEGE AIRPORT
[BIZ: Liège, March 10]
Coinciding with other developments at the airport, the Rezidor SAS Group is joining forces with the Belgian investor, GL international to build a new hotel at Liège airport. THe Foundation stone was laid on March 10. The Park Inn will...[more]
FAVINI TO CLOSE 1 MACHINE
[BIZ: Meerssen, March 10]
As part of a far reaching review of Favini’s production base and product mix, the company is proposing to close one of its three paper machines at its Meerssen mill in the Nethrlands. In the company’s view, this internal restructuring...[more]
FFA IN A LAND OF IDEAS
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Aachen, March 12]
The Ford Research Center in Aachen (FFA) has been designated as a key institution in a special German presentation of 365 top-locations countrywide in a ‘landscape of ideas’. The ‘land of ideas’ campaign is designed to give a...[more]
MARIANNE DE CRISTAL
[BIZ: Liège, March 10]
The 2006 Marianne de Cristal, a business prize awarded by an independent jury to an SME in the province of Liège or Luxembourg that has improved its relations with France, will be awarded on March 23 by Joëlle Bourgois, the French Ambassador....[more]
HASSELT TESTS DIGITAL NETWORK
[BIZ/INFRA: Hasselt, March 10]
A start has been made with a test project for a wireless digital network in Hasselt. The vzw i-City is a company that has been set up by Telenet, Microsoft, Siemens, and Concentra and works with the Flemish government and the University...[more]
TRILOGIS TAKE OFF
[BIZ/LOG: Liège, March 10]
Trilogis Park, was presented to the press during a meeting at Liège Airport. The 46,000 m2 complex of buildings is in the direct vicinity of Liège Airport and the Loncin highway interchange. Construction is in the hands of the Moury...[more]
STRATEGIC INNOVATION
[BIZ: Maastricht, March 10]
‘Strategic innovation’ is a major EUR 5.8m cross-border, 650-Company project to help the business community to innovate their work processes, products and services. Financed by the EU’s Interreg III program, it provides low cost (EUR...[more]
IONIC HIRES DE LATHOUWER
[BIZ: Liège, March 10]
IONIC Software has announced the appointment of Bart De Lathouwer as Business Development Manager. He joined IONIC from Autodesk, where he was Product Manager for server products and OGC liaison. Bart will play an important role in ...[more]
INTRADEL SUPER INCINERATOR
[BIZ/INFRA: Liège, March 9]
An end has come to the debate that has been going on for more than a year. A green light has been given for the construction of a super incinerator for domestic waste by Intradel - the biggest in the Walloon country. This represents...[more]
NEW MECC DIRECTOR
[BIZ: Maastricht, March 9]
René Hanssen has been appointed Director of the MECC, the Maastricht exhibition and congress center. He is following Erik Rosier, who resigned on January 1. Mr. Hanssen took up his position on March 9. René Hanssen is 47 years old ...[more]
FORD STARTS S-MAX PRODUCTION
[IND: Genk, March 3]
The production schedules for the Ford S-MAX and the Galaxy have been established and, as is the case for the new Ford Mondeo, these models will be produced exclusively in Genk. Production started on March 6. A great deal of emphasis is being...[more]
COO Q-PARK DENMARK
[BIZ: Maastricht, March 8]
The board of Q-Park NV, the Maastricht-based parking giant, has appointed Arent Kjaer (34) as COO of Q-Park Denmark. Arent Kjaer was active as business controller at Sonofon A/S, part of Telenor in Norway, and before that he had a...[more]
ANDRE DUMONT SALE
[BIZ: Liège, March 8]
The Walloon branch of the international real estate company DTZ has just sold a major part of the 9,000m2 Andre Dumont residence on the Place du XX Août in the center of Liège to a group of Brussels-based investors. The transaction includes...[more]
AMB GENERALI
[BIZ: Aachen, March 8]
Generali, the parent company of AMB Generali, Aachen’s premier company, has been changing policy from its headquarters in Trieste, as the company wants to improve its general position vis-à-vis its competitors: France’s AXA and Germany’s...[more]
TEAMBUSINESS NETWORKING
[BIZ: Zaltbommel/Maastricht, March 7]
Te@mBusiness has a new idea for bringing people together. They organize lunches at top sporting occasions and invite about 15 companies, who can then get to know one another in an informal fashion. It appears that after...[more]
CENTRICA ON THE GERMAN MARKET
[BIZ/INFRA: Düsseldorf, March 6]
The British energy company Centrica, already active in Belgian Limburg, wants to move into the German market. Centrica will be the first major international competitor to take advantage of the opening of the German energy market....[more]
THE PORT OF LIEGE
[BIZ/LOG: Liège, March 6]
Although the figures are down for gross tonnage handled at the Port of Liège of 2005 by 6.32 %, representing 960.324 tons out of a total of 14.229.743, this was an expected decline because of shutdowns on the hot rolled steel front....[more]
MONA, PINKPOP... TO VERMEULEN
[BIZ: Heerlen, March 6]
Vermeulen, a brand identity bureau in Heerlen, has a number of new clients and projects. It has been asked to develop campaigns for Mona and Chevagne cheese. It is producing the website for Pinkpop, a major pop festival. The municipality...[more]
XAVIER NEUJEAN
[BIZ/INFRA: Liège, March 6]
Marie Liégeois, writing in La Libre Belgique, talks about the infrastructural changes in construction going around the Xavier Neujean Square, hemmed in by the Boulevard le Sauvenière, the Royal Opera, and the Carré in the heart of...[more]
DTZ SELLS 18,000M2 NEAR STATION
[BIZ: Liège, March 5]
DTZ Wallonia has acted as an intermediary in the sale by AXA of 12,000m2 of office space with 6,000 m2 of business space in the rue des Guillemins, close to the station in Liège. The building was the home of one of the city services of...[more]
LIEGE BUSINESS GET-TOGETHER
[BIZ: Liège, March 4]
There was a meeting of Liège businesses on February 20 in the context of the chamber. The invitations went to the CEOs of 2,000 companies in the province employing more than 10. Etilux was the host of the first session. There are to be...[more]
LRM INVESTS IN VISYS NV
[BIZ: Hasselt, March 4]
The Limburg (B) investment company LRM, together with a group of industrial investors, is investing in Visys to support the commercial development of its applications. The shareholders of Visys NV, a company that specializes in visual...[more]
ELECTRABEL UP 60% IN 2005
[BIZ: Brussels, March 4]
The Belgian electricity producer Electrabel achieved net profits of EUR 2bn for 2005, 60% above the previous year. An important part of the profits is due to the added value that the group achieved on selling its Elia and Telenet shares....[more]
BACK TO CHINA
[BIZ: Liège, March 3]
The Meuse-Rhine Chamber of Commerce is organizing a trip to China for the third year in succession. This is a mission that will be visiting Shanghai (Yangtze delta) and Guangzhou/Canton (Pearl River delta), and will be taking place from...[more]
EON POWER STATION FOR NL
[BIZ/INFRA: Düsseldorf, March 3]
The German energy provider, EON, is going to build a new EUR 1.2bn coal power station near Rotterdam in The Netherlands. EON is already running an 1100MW coal-fired station there at present. The new plant will also have an installed...[more]
POINTS FOR CONSTRUCTION PLOTS
[BIZ/INFRA: Hasselt, March 3]
The inhabitants of Hasselt are to have a chance of buying affordable housing. The city government is selling 75 lots for a fixed affordable price, using a special points system. There are a number of conditions in order to be eligible...[more]
VERVIERS OUTLET CENTER
[BIZ: Verviers, March 3]
Three months after the opening of the Verviers Outlet Center, the operators have had a look at the books. They haven’t published visitor numbers but they say that the target of 1.2 million remains realistic. Eighty percent of the visitors...[more]
MAASMECHELEN VILLAGE
[BIZ/LEI: Maasmechelen, March 2]
Maasmechelen village is offering special arrangements to induce shoppers to visit its luxury outlet mall. Focusing on the delights of the Euroregion, the inducements are a VIP golf and shop arrangement and a Plop and shop arrangement....[more]
TECHSPACE AERO
[BIZ: Herstal, March 2]
In December 2004, Techspace Aero signed a partnership agreement with General Electric for the GEnx engine. Since Techspace Aero entered the program several months after it started there was a real challenge. In January 2006, Techspace...[more]
CEBIT 1ST: MRS FOR CRM
[BIZ: Alsdorf, March 2]
Cycos AG will premiere the first ever Communications Suite for Microsoft CRM 3.0 at CeBIT 2006 (Hall 4, F47). MRS for Microsoft CRM provides Computer Telephony Integration (CTI), messaging, voice and routing functions. Therefore, Unified...[more]
NEW EUR 20M CINRAM DC
[BIZ/LOG: Alsdorf, March 2]
The official start of construction on a Cinram DC in Alsdorf has begun. The DC will be completed this fall and will have a surface area of 20,000m2 for 16,000 pallets, and will be able to ship up to 50 million DVDs annually. The total...[more]
N. LIMBURG (B) GAS RESERVOIRS
[BIZ/INFRA: Hasselt, March 2]
North Limburg geologists have received a permit to explore the underground areas of North Limburg. The Flemish Institute for Technological Research (VITO) believes that the deep sandstone strata in North Limburg are suitable for...[more]
CALATRAVA BOULEVARD
[BIZ/INFRA: Liège, March 2]
Olivier Béart writes in La Libre Belgique: Santiago Calatrava, the architect of the new Liège TGV station, was in Liège recently to give his view of the future of the Guillemins Quarter, where the station is to be found. This was...[more]
SPA-FRANCORCHAMPS SAVED
[BIZ: Spa, March 2]
The Spa-Francorchamps circuit operating company SPCF has been saved. The Walloon government has transferred a loan of EUR 15m to capital. Had they not received this money the organization would have become bankrupt. The deficit arose because...[more]
ETSI RESTRICTS PATENTS
[BIZ: London, March, 1]
The European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI) is working on a radical plan to restrict Intellectual Property Rights for patents essential to all components of the next version of the 3GPP-based radio standard - Long-Term...[more]
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MAASTRICHT TUNNEL & BELGIUM
[INFRA/GOV: Hasselt, March 10]
The residents of the border areas of Belgian Limburg and Dutch Limburg will have a right to be heard in the plans for the construction of the A2 highway tunnel through Maastricht. The Dutch Ministry of Transport has placed major...[more]
MOND JOINS BRITISH TDG GROUP
[LOG/BIZ Barchon: March 8]
On March 1, Belgian transport and logistics group Mond (Welkenraedt), Transporter of the year 2004, became part of British group TDG (Transport Development Group). This integration involves all of the companies of the Mond group, i.e.:...[more]
CROSS-BORDER RAIL TRAFFIC
[LOG: Eupen, March 2]
Changes planned in German Rail’s electricity network are interfering with cross-border rail traffic between Liège and Aachen. Because of new technical developments in Germany, Belgian Rail will be required to switch to diesel locomotives...[more]
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UMBS PROGRAMS
[EDU: Maastricht, March 14]
There will be a strategic management and organizational behavior module at UMBS from May 15 through May 20, at Tongersestraat 53 in Maastricht.
This six-day module consists of two courses, which address issues like how to...[more]
PARKSTAD: DEMOGRAPHIC CHANGE
[GOV: Parkstad, March 10]
At the initiative of the Parkstad Limburg Development Company, in 2005 a program has been set up focusing on ageing and population loss in Parkstad Limburg. One of the parts of the program, which was to use European cooperation to align...[more]
REGIO AACHEN
[GOV: Aachen, March 8]
A number of newsletters have recently been produced in Aachen, relevant to Meuse-Rhine developments, Regio Aachen has brought out its 9th issue for February 2006. It deals with the task force for cross-border problems, Dutch health insurance...[more]
OBSERVE THE ECLIPSE
[EDU/LEI: Liège, March 8]
The Astrophysics and Geophysics Institute of Liège University, Réjouisciences and the Astronomy Society of Liège invite you to come and watch the partial solar eclipse in safety on 29 March 2006. A bank of telescopes will be available ...[more]
COMMISSION VP IN AACHEN
[GOV: Aachen, March 7]
Margot Wallström, vice-president of the European Commission and responsible for international relations and communications strategy, was invited to Aachen for March 9 at the initiative of Mayor Jürgen Linden. The idea was to talk about...[more]
NRW NEWSLETTER
[GOV/BIZ: Düsseldorf, March 3]
The new North-Rhine Westphalia-Netherlands Newsletter (inter-ned) deals with a cross-border business meeting in the context of the International Trade Day at the Chamber of Commerce; CeBit 2006, the IT fair in Hanover; electronic...[more]
LE GRAND LIEGE
[GOV: Liège, March 3]
As the name suggests, Le Grand Liège, is one of those institutions, which allows the great and good to meet together and talk of matters of great moment. On February 21, the Govenor, Michel Foret, came to Liège’ s splendid city hall “La...[more]
LEADER OF EUROPE
[GOV: Brussels/Maastricht, March 3]
"Leaders of Europe", a lively political tv debate on European politics, today becomes the latest program to be shown on EACh, the European Affairs Channel.
The program, filmed in the studios of the European Parliament,...[more]
AGIT TECHNEWS
[GOV: Aachen, March 2]
Agit has published its fourth newsletter, which deals with the Life sciences and startups, patent protection in the context of the innovation day, the EURODE business center, the automotive innovation center and patents in Euskirchen...[more]
LIEGE AND LIMBURG CLOSER
[GOV/EDU: Eupen, March 2]
The Belgian provinces of Liège and Limburg want to strengthen their cultural exchange agreements. A declaration of intent was signed in Hasselt at the beginning of March and a cooperative agreement will be worked out by the end of the...[more]
DG IN SPELLING’S HIGHER REALMS
[EDU/GOV: Eupen, March 2]
Belgium’s German-speaking community will take its place at the next meeting of the Council for German Orthography of to be held in Vienna in September. The government has decided that the Dean of the Faculty of Philosophy at Louvain-la-Neuve,...[more]
AACHEN AGGLOMERATION
[GOV: Aachen, March 2]
The Aachen urban agglomeration has received support from the highest quarters. The North-Rhine Westphalian Minister of the Interior, Dr Ingo Wolf, stands firmly behind this type of reform, which tends to broaden the tax base of city regions....[more]
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LIEGE HEALTH FILMS
[HEALTH: Liège, March 13]
The 7th Liège International Festival of Health Films runs through March 18. Organized par the CHU (Hospital), the University of Liège and the Province of Liège, the Festival is ejoing increasing success. Check the web site....[more]
BIOFORUM AT 10
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, March 10]
The organizing committee announces the 10th edition of the BIOFORUM, a unique one-day meeting between Bio-industries representatives and young researchers in Life Sciences in Liège on May 17. Since the first edition eleven years ago,...[more]
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JUELICH’S SUPERCOMPUTER
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, March 6]
Jülich’s supercomputer, the fastest in Europe, is now operational at the Research Center. It can carry out 45 billion calculations per second, which equals the performance of 12,000 modern PCs. The supercomputer, known as the Jülich...[more]
IT IN AACHEN
[SCI-TECH: Aachen, March 7]
A special brochure, called ICT region Aachen, has been published for the CEBit fair in Hanover. It is bilingual (in English and in German) and deals with various aspects in the region. Companies presented are: the Telco, Eccon, Ascon,...[more]
ADAPTIVE OPTICS DEVELOPMENTS
[SCI-TECH: Liège, March 3]
CRIF and Technifutur have come for a presentation for industry of new developments on the adaptive optics front. The presentation will take place at the Liège Science Park in the morning and afternoon on April 27. The Science Park...[more]
LIEGE U & ECO MARATHON
[SCI-TECH: Liège, March 2]
The University of Liège will again be taking part in the Shell Eco Marathon in France this year with its Spa Mobile, a vehicle that it has developed itself. In the Europe-wide competition the participants must attempt to cover as many...[more]
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CROSSROADS NOW ONLINE
[MEDIA: Maastricht, March 14]
Crossroads, the English-language newsletter for and about the international and academic institutes in the Maastricht area, is now available online at the link below.
First launched in print form in December 2001, Crossroads...[more]
NIVEAU AGAIN
[MEDIA: Maastricht, March 11]
In addition to the superb panoramas that one has come to expect from Niveau Euregiomagazine (including the Hesbaye country this time), there is a welcome attention to detail - even including the diamond grader's loupe. Jacques...[more]
LA SEMAINE ALLEMANDE
[LEI: Liège, March 10]
Marcel Stiennon, president of the Germany Belgium Association introduced the program for Liège’s German week, by pointing out that this was an excellent opportunity to work on German-Belgian relations, which have traditionally played an...[more]
SKATE PARK IN HASSELT
[LEI: Hasselt, March 9]
Hasselt will see the biggest skateboard park in Europe — around 3,000m2. The first skateboarders will be able to try it out in May. The cost of the project is EUR 600,000...[more]
TRIPOLIS 2006: URBAN ARTS
[LEI: Maastricht, March 9]
There is an exhibition of the urban arts at Government House in Maastricht from March 9 through March 31. The exhibition is also to be seen at Heerlen’s Glaspaleis, the Het Domein Museum in Sittard-Geleen, and the Centre Céramique...[more]
TURKISH ART
[LEI: Aachen, March 8]
An exhibition by Turkish artists entitled ‘Transfer’ is to be held in three different locations, including Aachen on Saturday, March 18 at 16:30 at the Ludwig Forum in Aachen....[more]
BOOK FAIR
[LEI: Maastricht, March 8]
From March 31 through April 2 there is a major book fair in the MECC in Maastricht. There will be half a million books, CDs, DVDs, and CD-ROMs available at reasonable prices. This is a unique annual event. The prices and free entry...[more]
THE GULPEN PYRAMID
[LEI: Gulpen, March 8]
There is a spring exhibition at the Pyramid in Gulpen, with 19th century and early 20th century Dutch masters. Check the web site for details....[more]
A STORY OF ‘O’
[LEI: Maastricht, March 8]
No, our trencherman is not exploring the further reaches of Pauline Réage’s depravity. ‘O’ is the name of a new restaurant in Maastricht’s Rechtstraat. Restyled and upgraded, following the departure of the pleasant little restaurant...[more]
VERA HILGER
[LEI: Maastricht, March 5]
There is an exhibition of the work of Vera Hilger, called Landscape, at Gallery Wolfs, Hoogbrugstraat 69, in Maastricht, from March 5 through April 1....[more]
THE MERRY WIDOW
[LEI: Liège, March 2]
There are to be performances of Franz Lehar’s “Merry Widow”, at the Royal Walloon Opera from Friday March 17 through Sunday March 26. Details and booking are available online at the site below. The performance is also included in the program...[more]
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