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MEUSE-RHINE STATS
[EDIT: Eijsden, January 15]
In 2006, on the basis of 24 issues, for the 3500 decision-maker subscriber base (in government and business), the The Meuse-Rhine Journal site recorded 206,264 visitors (sessions), 453,613 page views and 1,529,642 hits. ...[more]
FLYING SOLO: ROB NOORTMAN
[EDIT/OBIT: Maastricht, January 15]
News reached this office today, of the sudden death yesterday as the result of a heart attack, of a major figure in the art world: Maastricht’s Rob Noortman (60). He had received the City of Maastricht's Medal of Honor January...[more]
NEW ENERGY WEBCAST
[EDIT/SCI-TECH: Maastricht/Heerlen, January 15]
Climate change, high energy prices and the consequent desire to be less reliant on fossil fuels mean that this is the age for new energy initiatives - yet another area where Limburg’s Acceleration Agenda is showing...[more]
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EUR 1M+ FOR VIVYS
[BIZ: Halen, January 15]
The Flemish innovation Fund (Vinnof) is a new shareholder in Visys NV with EUR 400.000, in addition to the Limburg (B) Development Company (LRM),via KMO fin and the Allegro Investment Fund, who are kicking in EUR. 400,000 and EUR 150.000,...[more]
ENERGY GRANTS
[BIZ: Maastricht, January 12]
Since January 1 businesses have been eligible for an energy investment deduction. This makes it possible to save 44% of an investment in energy saving and sustainable energy and deduct them from the tax profits. The important factor...[more]
CROSS-BORDER SHOPPING
[BIZ: Maastricht, January 12]
There is to be a Euroregional investigation into consumer behavior. This is a repeat of an investigation that took place in 2004. It will be organized by Heerlen, Maastricht, Roermond, Sittard-Geleen, Venlo, Venray and Weert, the...[more]
FORTUNE NAMES PHILIPS’ CEO
[BIZ: London, January 12]
FORTUNE has announced that it has named Gerard Kleisterlee Europe Businessman of the Year. In one masterstroke, selling the Dutch conglomerate’s semiconductor business last summer to private-equity buyers, Kleisterlee took a giant...[more]
VALKENBURG HEALTH/CURE PARK
[BIZ/LEI: Valkenburg, January 11]
A project to revitalize tourism is to be undertaken by the Valkenburg aan de Geul development company, for which they will receive a subsidy of EUR 225,000. The objective is to put Valkenburg forward as a pilot to develop instruments...[more]
CYGENICS SELECTED BY WEF
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Singapore/Valkenburg, January 11]
Singapore companies have been winning international awards. Healthstats International and Cygenics, which recently selected South Limburg as a base, are amongst 47 companies worldwide selected by the World Economic...[more]
BELGIUM AS A TAX HAVEN
[BIZ: Brussels, January 10]
Forty one percent of European employers assessed Belgium positively when asked about the tax situation in Europe. This comes from the European Observatory for Business Tax and the research bureau Ipsos. The results were published...[more]
PARKSTAD BUSINESS PARKS
[BIZ/GOV: Parkstad, January 10]
It’s going to cost EUR 55m to clean up the business parks in Parkstad, Limburg. In the seven municipalities of Parkstad, there are 17 business parks ready for refurbishment. The quality of these sites no longer meets contemporary...[more]
MAA 2006 FIGURES
[BIZ/LOG: Maastricht, January 10]
In his new year’s speech, reviewing business at Maastricht Aachen Airport, MD Jan Tindemans said that there had been a fall in the number of passengers using the airport from 327.000 to 287.000. This was a result of a 30% drop...[more]
AXA: THEFT PREVENTION
[BIZ: London, January 10]
With its extensive art and insurance knowledge and global resources AXA Art, the world’s premier art insurance specialist, will highlight two subjects that continue to concern the international art community. This year at The European...[more]
AZL WITH ING GROUP
[BIZ: Heerlen, January 9]
AZL, the Heerlen-based pension specialist, has reached agreement in principal with the ING Group which wants to work with them. Together ING and AZL will have a strong position to provide the market with integrated services and to grow...[more]
SOUTH LIMBURG CHAMBER SPEECH
[BIZ: Maastricht, January 8]
Jan Mans, the president of the Chamber of Commerce for South Limburg, delivered his annual speech at the Orangerie in Roermond. His main points were as follows:Thus far there are been two chambers of commerce in Limburg (North ...[more]
VAN DEN ENDE’S MAASTRICHT
[BIZ: Maastricht, January 8]
Hot on the heels of the plan to build a Harrah’s Las Vegas–style casino in Maastricht, new interests have made an appearance, in the form of Joop van den Ende, the Dutch billionaire media tycoon, theatrical producer and co-founder...[more]
EUR 4M FOR HASSELT CHIPS
[BIZ: Hasselt, January 5]
AsicAhead, a wireless fabless semiconductor company serving mobile and wireless markets, launched the AA1001 — the only single chip programmable for wideband radio for WiMAX — based upon its breakthrough reconfigurable radio technology....[more]
CHAMBER DATABANK
[BIZ: Aachen, January 5]
The Meuse-Rhine Euroregion and its institutes of higher education are going to link their technology businesses and research centers using a technology know-how portal that is scarcely available elsewhere. To make cooperation between...[more]
RWE DROPS GAS PRICES
[BIZ: Düren, January 4]
The price of natural gas for clients of the RWE Rhein-Ruhr AG is to be cheaper through March 1. The price will go down an average of 22 cents per kilowatt hour (net). On average consumption this will lead to a saving of EUR 52 per year...[more]
FLUXYS RUNS DISTRIGAS TRANSIT
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, January 3]
Fluxys will be running the commercialization of the transit capacity of Distrigas in Belgium from January. The two companies have signed a cooperative agreement. Thus far, these activities have been handled by Distrigas & Co,...[more]
BELPOWER FOR WALLOONS
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, January 3]
The Walloon Committee for Energy (CWAPE) has issued a positive advice on licensing Belpower as an energy supplier for the Walloon Country. Bell Power — the energy branch of Reibel which specializes in solar energy — will in the...[more]
SLOW FOOD LIMBURG
[BIZ/LEI: Maastricht, January 3]
Since December 2006 there’s been a new movement, Slow Food Limburg, which is recognized by Slow Food International. The objective is to establish a platform for producers and consumers of food that is good to eat, pure and honest....[more]
PARSYTEC IN INDIA
[BIZ: Aachen, January 3]
In November, Parsytec AG – the world’s leading supplier of surface inspection systems for strip products – won its first order in the Indian metals market: the Indian steel manufacturer Ispat Industries has ordered an espresso SI surface...[more]
LIMBURG CYBER CENTER
[BIZ: Maastricht, January 3]
Limburg is going to have a special center for data storage. The Limburg company Open Line has taken the initiative in this new development. Construction of the center will involve an investment of EUR 11m and the location could be...[more]
GALLER ON THE GULF
[BIZ: Chaudfontaine, January 3]
The celebrated Galler chocolate factory in Chaudfontaine is opening six shops in Quatar in the Gulf States. A Lebanese citizen and former Belgian resident in Belgium, assisted in the reorganization of the company, of which the...[more]
RP TAKES OVER SUNPARKS
[BIZ: Vielsalm, January 2]
The Dutch RP Holidays group will probably be the new owner of the Sunparks vacation group, which has bungalow parks in De Haan, East Dunkirk, Mol and Vielsalm with a total of 1,752 vacation homes. RP Holidays has 52 parks in The Netherlands...[more]
PLOPSA DOES WELL
[BIZ: Hasselt, January 2]
The number of visitors to Plopsa Indoor, which was opened a couple of years ago, is far higher than expected. This is the largest covered leisure park in Flanders and it is already making money. This year the target was 240,000 visitors...[more]
LIEGE: 55 NEW APARTMENTS
[BIZ: Liège, January 2]
Fifty-five new apartments are being built in part of a move to refurbish industrial sites in Saint Léonard. They are on the rue Vivegnis, on the hillside. These will be 55 apartments from 80-120m2 of a type similar to those built by Servatius...[more]
RIGHT BANK FACELIFT
[BIZ: Liège, January 2]
The architect Valentiny is redeveloping 18,000m2 between Val-Benoît and Sclessin on the right bank of the River Meuse, along the Liège-Seraing axis — a site not currently celebrated for its attractions. This area will be developed into...[more]
NEW LIFE FOR OLD IKEA
[BIZ: Awans, January 2]
The Ikea building on the chaussée de Tongres in Awans, which closed down in 2001, is to be refurbished and will provide space for ten new retail establishments. These are ten commercial properties ranging from 1,000 to 2,5000 square meters...[more]
BODYGUARDS
[BIZ: Maastricht, January 2]
The Echelon Group is concerned with a range of police and security related activities and was established by Mr Hamelers, the current President. Recently Mr Jack Vlaming was elected as vice president of the group. He had served as...[more]
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TRAINS
[LOG: Brussels, January 12]
Eurostar, which runs between Brussels, Paris and London and is linked to Liège and Maastricht, carried 7.45 million passengers last year, this is 5% more than the year before. Business travel went up by 17% and this sector is currently...[more]
MAASTRICHT NIGHT BUS
[LOG: Maastricht, January 4]
From Saturday, January 6 Maastricht will run night buses. The trial period will run through to the beginning of April 2007. The period chosen, which includes the carnival period, will be used to assess the value of this service...[more]
CANAL LINK TO FRANCE
[LOG: Brussels, January 3]
After 18 months of assessment and consultation, the French government has given the green light to the start of the new Seine-Nord Canal. The official public survey will start early in 2007, leading to a declaration of public interest...[more]
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JAN HUYEN AWARD
[EDU: Maastricht, January 12]
On the 31st anniversary of the University of Maastricht the Jan Huyen Award has been established for the best Master’s thesis in the area of marketing biomedical technology products and services. Jan Huyen is making available a...[more]
PACE PRESIDENT TO BELARUS
[GOV: Strasbourg, January 11]
Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE) President René van der Linden, from South Limburg, will visit Belarus from January 18 to 20, 2007 to engage in a dialogue with the authorities, the opposition and civil society - including...[more]
MONTESQUIEU INSTITUTE
[EDU: Maastricht, January 11]
The Montesquieu Institute, a new institute based at Maastricht University that will undertake research into the internationalization of law, and The Hague Institute for the Internationalization of Law will be able to rely on a grant...[more]
EUREGIONALE HORSES
[GOV/LEI: Kreis Aachen, January 10]
A horse park bout the size of New York’s Central Park is a project included in EuRegionale 2008. The horse park would be marked by 45km of white paths and would be on the Lousberg in Aachen, a traditional location for equestrian...[more]
EUREGIONALE FORUM
[GOV: Aachen, January 9]
Now, in the context of EuRegionale 2008, the Indeland Project on the Eschweiler Blaustein lake and Lake Center there is to be a performing stage. This will represent an investment of EUR 3.5m. Most of the money will come from Water Sports,...[more]
EUR 888M FOR NRW ROADS
[GOV/INFRA: Gelsenkirchen, January 5]
The highway authorities for the German state of North-Rhine Westphalia invested a record sum on their roads and highways last year of EUR 888m, this is a rise of 10% on 2005. ...[more]
EUREGIONALE
[GOV: Aachen, January 4]
Now that the Bauhaus Europa project has been turned down in a referendum — this was the project to construct a glass cube between the Cathedral and Aachen City Hall. There is a need for an alternative proposal by March 1. In the past...[more]
INTER-NED NEWS
[GOV: Düsseldorf, January 3]
Inter-ned news relevant to The Netherlands and North-Rhine Westphalia includes a new proposal to impose a license fee on PCs that are able to receive broadcast programs. There is also to be an online company registrar in Germany....[more]
SILVER ECONOMY CONFERENCE
[GOV: Kerkrade, January 3]
A two-day International Silver Economy Conference was held in Kerkrade in November 2006. This is an area with great opportunities for the economy. Limburg can expect 1,000 more jobs on the basis of the silver economy within the decade....[more]
LIMBURG ACCELERATES TO BRU
[GOV: Brussels, January 3]
On December 6 representatives of the province of Limburg (NL) from the worlds of business, education and government presented the Acceleration Agenda to European institutions in Brussels under the heading ‘Limburg Crossing Borders’....[more]
REACH (CHEMICALS)
[GOV: Brussels, January 2]
The European Commission proposed a new regulatory framework for the Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) on October 29, 2006. It will enter into force on June 1, 2007. The aim is to improve the protection...[more]
LIEGE COLLEGES MERGE
[EDU: Liège, January 2]
The ‘Hautes Ecole’ in the province of Liège are merging. They will become one tertiary college institution for the province as a whole. The institutions include the Province’s Hautes Ecoles: Rennequin Sualem, André Vésale and Léon-Eli...[more]
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BIOMEDICA 2007
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, January 15]
The link below introduces Biomedica 2007, the joint life-sciences fair to be held March 21 through 22 in Aachen. We shall be returning to this topic in our next issue with an article on Transcend, the Meuse-Rhine cooperative project...[more]
AACHEN REGION LIFE SCIENCES
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, January 10]
One hundred and fifty companies are involved in the areas of medical devices, biotechnology and pharmaceuticals in the Aachen region. It’s an ideal location for research development and education in life sciences and is attracting...[more]
HEERLEN’S NEW HOSPITAL
[HEALTH/INFRA: Heerlen, January 10]
Acute care, planned care, the labs, the rehabilitation department and kidney dialysis in Heerlen are going to move to a new building in 2009. The new treatment center, labs, rehabilitation and dialysis will be able to open...[more]
MRI IN DG
[LIFE-SCI: St. Vith, January 2]
The St Joseph Clinic in St. Vith will have a magnetic resonance tomography unit within the next three months. The government administration of the German-speaking community has opened the way for this. Patients will be able to...[more]
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SOLAR CELL 40+ % EFFICIENCY
[SCI-TECH: St. Louis, MO., January 14]
Boeing [NYSE: BA] announced December 06, 2006 that Spectrolab, Inc., a wholly-owned subsidiary, has achieved a new world record in terrestrial concentrator solar cell efficiency. Using concentrated sunlight, Spectrolab...[more]
JAPAN AWARD FOR JUELICH
[SCI-TECH: Tokyo, January 11]
The Science and Technology Foundation of Japan announced the names of three laureates for the 2007 (23rd) Japan Prize today. They include the French scientist Professor Albert Fert and German scientist Jülich’s Professor Peter Grünberg...[more]
SPACEBEL: JULES VERNE
[SCI-TECH/LEI: Liège, January 10]
From January 15 until May 16 2007, the Wallonia space building (l’Espace Wallonie) in Liège will accommodate the "Jules Verne" exhibition which was a sheer success from October 2005 to March 2006 at the Mundaneum, the Centre...[more]
HYDROGEN POWER
[SCI-TECH: Wilmington, January 2]
HyPower Fuel Inc. announced that the company has equipped a Volkswagen GTi with its H2 Reactor (H2R) hydrogen system that can produce sufficient hydrogen on board, on demand to power the vehicle using only water. The H2 Reactor...[more]
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RESTAURANT VANILLE, EIJSDEN
[LEI/BIZ: Eijsden, January 15]
A new restaurant is opening its doors in Eijsden, adding to the considerable culinary attributes of this small village. This is Restaurant Vanille, which will take the place of the Kapoen at the top of the Diepstraat. After a career...[more]
TRENCHERMAN REFLECTS
[LEI: Eijsden, January 15]
Looking back on the year’s dining experience; Trencherman reflected that Paris, with its numbered ducks, overpriced Springbank and, most of all, the Lido remained in the mind. However, the last month of the year in Meuse-Rhine was...[more]
THALIA AND KEZJEM CONCERT
[LEI: Maastricht, January 14]
On Saturday, January 20 the Thalia string quartet and the Kezjem ensemble will be giving a concert at the Roeie Zaol Tongerseweg 346, 6215 AC Maastricht. It will start at 20:00 and works played by the Thalia quartet will include...[more]
BEER FESTIVAL "KOM PREUVE!"
[Lei: Maastricht, January 11]
This is a link to the website of the one and only Beer festival called "Kom Preuve!" in Maastricht. The website took some time to set up, but it is now online and the organization is ready for action to make "Kom Preuve 2007" a...[more]
NANOTECH AT INDUSTRION
[LEI: Kerkrade, January 8]
There is to be an exhibition called ‘Nanotechnology, Your World!’ from January 19 to 31 which shows some of the amazing developments in this area, including ideas like ‘half-robot/half-man’. Check the website...[more]
GAIA PARK PULLS THE CROWDS
[LEI: Kerkrade, January 5]
The Gaia Park Zoo in Kerkrade, with its giraffes, gorillas and other animals, is pulling in the visitors. This year the zoo attracted 320,000 — 20,000 more than in 2005 — to its 25-hectare site. New developments are planned for the...[more]
RESTAURANT JAGERSHORST
[LEI: Leende, January 5]
The well-known restaurant the Jagershorst in Leende on the A2 (on the way from Maastricht to Eindhoven) is opening its doors again in January. The Jagershorst is run by Westerhout Hospitality, which has hotels in Maastricht, Heerlen,...[more]
MURDER AT COLONSTER
[LEI: Liège, January 3 2007]
A major feature film called ‘Les sapins bleus’ by Romuald Beugnon, co-produced by les Films du Fleuve, a production company run by the Dardenne brothers and Bizibi Productions Paris is being shot at the Chateau de Colonster of the...[more]
SNOWWORLD NEW RECORD
[LEI: Landgraaf, January 3]
SnowWorld has achieved a record number of visitors. Thousands of winter sport fans from Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands visited the indoor ski slope in Landgraaf. SnowWorld can take a maximum of 1,500 visitor; but, if there are...[more]
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