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ANAXIS AND RFID
[BIZ/LOG: Genk, June 15]
Essers is going to implement RFID (radio frequency identification) tags. These will no longer be scanned one-by-one, but will be handled at the pallet level. Automatic RFID readers will be in an antenna at the gate to the business, which...[more]
LOG ON WINS VELE D'ORO
[BIZ: Maastricht/Riccione, June 15]
The Maastricht Company, LOG ON's Event Assistant was voted this year’s overall winner of the international LE VELE D'ORO innovation prize. The award ceremony took place on the 25th of May in Riccione, Italy. Event Assistant...[more]
CMI BOILERS
[BIZ: Liège, June 14]
The CMI group had revenues of EUR 307 million in 2005 and increased this to EUR 408 million in 2006. It is targeting EUR 500 million mark in 2007. This reflects the growth of the group’s boiler business, with incoming orders practically...[more]
INTER-NED NEWSLETTER
[BIZ: Düsseldorf, June 13]
The current issue of the Inter-Ned newsletter covers the World Trade Center in Aachen, which had its official open house on June 14. It deals with NRW Invest, service to foreign investors; notes that the number of construction permits...[more]
GMBH: LIGHT AND ULTRALIGHT
[BIZ/GOV; Cleves, June 13]
GmbH, a German corporate form for a private limited liability company is suffering from competition with the recently-introduced private limited liability company, Ltd, familiar in the UK and gaining strength in the EU. As a consequence,...[more]
JCI 2007 IN MAASTRICHT
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 13]
Maastricht is hosting the European Congress of JCI (Junior Chamber International) from 13 to 17 June 2007. About 2,500 entrepreneurs and (potential) top managers from all over Europe will attend an interesting program, featuring an...[more]
EMISSION CERTS. SALES
[BIZ: Aachen, June 13]
In the view of Trianel European Trading, GmbH, Meuse-Rhine’s power company, the planned auction of a part of the emission certificates for plant operators is a danger to competition in the energy market. The plan is to auction around 9%...[more]
TRIANEL CLEAN COAL POWER
[BIZ: Aachen, June 13]
Trianel Coal Power has received international environmental certification. Their management systems have been certified and current certification ISO 14001 levels for environmental requirements have been achieved. Company innovations relate...[more]
MIGRANT WORKER INFORMATION
[BIZ/GOV: Kerkrade/Herzogenrath, June 12]
There will be consultation for cross-border workers on Wednesday, June 20 from 14:00 to 17:00 at the Eurode Business Center in Kerkrade/Herzogenrath. There will be advisors available from the German Social Security Bank,...[more]
PORT LIMBURG
[BIZ: Hasselt, June 12]
The VIL study ‘The Limburg Logistical Port’ has started something moving in Belgian Limburg. The objective of this study was to set up a plan for Limburg and its implementation, which would turn ongoing developments into a seamless sequence....[more]
AIR TRAFFIC CONFERENCE
[BIZ/LOG: Aachen, June 12]
There has been an Air Traffic Conference at the Aachen Eurogress with leading experts from international air traffic institutions and representatives of major German airports. There has also been a symposium on the neighboring airport....[more]
CLIRP GRAND PRIX
[BIZ: Liège, June 12]
The Communication Prize for the Liège Information and PR Association (CLIRP) for 2006 has gone to the Christmas Village (Village de Noël de Liège) organized by ENJEU. This comprised some 190 chalets and received 1,250,000 visitors — quite...[more]
WALLOON AEROSPACE
[BIZ: Liège, June 12]
The International Air Show at Paris Le Bourget will run from June 18 to 24 and there will be major representation from the Walloon Country. ...[more]
SCHEUTEN SOLAR STAYS IN VENLO
[BIZ: Heerlen, June 12]
Contrary to an earlier report in this journal (Issue 159), Scheuten will not be building its solar foil production plant in Avantis but will be extending its Venlo location. This is a disappointing day for Avantis, the cross-border Dutch-German...[more]
CORIOMOSA: LIMBURG WINE
[BIZ: Vaals, June 10]
Although Gelderland has stolen the march on Limburg as the leading wine-producing province in The Netherlands, Limburg does have 38 wine producers and they’re producing good wine. With the climate changing towards that of Burgundy 150 years...[more]
HARRAH’S, HILTON, V.D. ENDE AND...
[LEI: Maastricht, June 9]
Maastricht hotelier Benoît Wesly has presented a plan to the mayor and council of Maastricht for a major theatre with a wellness center on the northern side of the Geusselt on the A2 highway as it enters Maastricht. The project will...[more]
CHATEAU ST GERLACH BEST
[BIZ/LEI: St Gerlach, June 8]
The management team of the Chateau St Gerlach Hotel has won the Dutch Hotel Award 2007. The reasons for their success are that they are not only an excellent hotel for the guests but for their staff too and, of course, their superb...[more]
STUDIO JANSSEN IN DUBAI
[BIZ: Dubai, June 8]
Multimedia Studio Janssen from Stein in South Limburg has received a major contract from the German engineering company Schiess Defries from Duisburg to set up a promotional project. Currently the largest oil-drilling platform in the world,...[more]
MAASTRICHT ON TV5
[BIZ/LEI: Maastricht, June 8]
On June 8 there was a special Maastricht report, broadcast on the French international TV program TV5. The program lasted 24 minutes and had a potential audience of 170 million. The focus was on Maastricht’s gastronomic tradition,...[more]
EPEN PANCAKES TO INDIA
[BIZ: Epen, June 7]
Mark Menezes runs a hotel in Bangalore in India and there are a great many Dutch people working there at the ING Bank and in the IT sector. Now and again, when they want a rest from Indian cuisine, they want a Dutch pancake, and Mr Menezes...[more]
ELECTRABEL-CUMERIO IN BULGARIA
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, June 7]
The Belgian power company Electrabel and the copper processor Cumerio have an interest in the Bulgarian nuclear power station at Belene. The Belgian combine is part of a group of ten candidates who have officially declared their...[more]
BIESMANS TAKE-OVER
[BIZ: Genk, June 7]
The roofing company Herremans & Lippens from Malle is being taken over by Biesmans from Genk. This makes it possible for Biesmans to expand its activities and to set up a second distribution center. The transaction also includes the distribution...[more]
VEBEGO DOES WELL
[BIZ: Voerendaal, June 6]
Vebego a service organization, which focuses on cleaning, facility services and HR services, was founded in 1943 and has developed into a multinational employing 31,000 in 20 separate businesses in cross-border Europe. In 2006 revenues...[more]
VAN GANSEWINKEL/CEGEKA
[BIZ: Hasselt, June 5]
The Limburg IT specialist Cegeka has received an outsourcing contract from the Dutch waste processor Van Gansewinkel. The contract is worth EUR 20m. Cegeka is looking after technology applications, the development of software applications...[more]
DG/AACHEN PARTNERSHIP
[BIZ/GOV: Eupen, June 4]
Belgium’s German-speaking region (DG) wants a close relationship with Aachen’s urban agglomeration (the StädteRegion Aachen). DG’s PM Karl Heinz-Lambertz made this clear in a meeting with Aachen’s mayor Dr Jürgen Linden and Regional...[more]
EUR 140M FOR LIMBURG (B)
[BIZ: Hasselt, June 4]
The Limburg (BE) investment company LRM recorded a consolidated net profit of EUR 32m in 2006. This means that it now has EUR 140m available for investment. This is money that will be invested in the coming years to the Limburg economy....[more]
PATENT CONSULTING DAY
[BIZ: Aachen, June 4]
Creative ideas are often not used because their inventors forget to patent them. Without intellectual property rights, a patent or a utility design model, commercial deployment of an invention is often very difficult. This means that the...[more]
TESSENDERLO POWER PLANT
[BIZ/INFRA: Tessenderlo, June 2]
Tessenderlo Chemie is building an environment-friendly power station. This is in cooperation with the Swiss company Advanced Power and Siemens Project Ventures. Tessenderlo Chemie indicates that in Belgium there is a structural...[more]
KYTOZYME EUR 9.5 M UNIT
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Liège, June 2]
The foundation stone for a new KitoZyme production plant, an investment of EUR 9.5 million, was laid in the presence of Walloon ministers Marie-Dominique Simonet and Jean-Claude Marcourt. The investment will produce a further 50...[more]
GERMAN RAIL+ CHIO AACHEN
[BIZ: Aachen, June 2]
German Rail [Deutsche Bahn AG] has become a partner of the Aachen International Equestrian Festival, which will be held this year from July 3 through 8. Three hundred and thirty thousand visitors and hundreds of journalists travel from...[more]
HORSE AUCTION ONLINE
[BIZ: Aachen, June 2]
Top horses and foals will be auctioned off from July 4th in Aachen - all relevant information is available online in Aachen. Go to the website, click on Auction and then on the Online Auction Catalog which includes video presentations...[more]
MAASTRICHT-AACHEN AIRPORT
[BIZ/Log: Maastricht, June 2]
Sander J. Heijmans has been appointed Director of Business Development at Maastricht-Aachen Airport effective from May 29. Mr. Heijmans was previously the Business Unit Manager responsible for passenger traffic with Martinair Holland...[more]
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WEISWEILER-LANGERWEHE
[LOG: Aachen, June 15]
Construction has started on the Weisweiler-Langerwehe rail link which will complete the Euregiobahn network through to Aachen Cologne. Weisweiler is currently the Euregiobahn terminus. The link should be operational in H1, 2009 and will...[more]
200 LIMBURG HGV DRIVERS
[LOG: Hasselt, June 7]
From September, Limburg will train 200 young HGV (heavy goods vehicle) drivers annually. The training will take place in every technical and vocational school in the province. It will focus on six to 18 year olds and provide a theoretical...[more]
HEERLEN INFO CENTER
[INFRA/GOV: Heerlen, June 6]
Visitors to the City Information Center will now be able to receive information about new housing options in the city. The ongoing projects include three apartment buildings (Athos, Porthos and Aramis), unique because of their architectural...[more]
VENLO RAIL TO THE EAST
[LOG: The Hague, June 5]
Forty logistical companies in the Venlo region are interested in a direct rail link for freight trains between Venlo and a number of destinations in Eastern Europe. There is sufficient interest to work further on this project, which...[more]
ROYAL JORDANIAN CARGO LEAVES
[LOG: Maastricht June 4]
MAASTRICHT Aachen Airport (MAA) is to lose an important cargo customer. Royal Jordanian Cargo is moving its operations to Brussels. The move is occasioned by Royal Jordanian’s recent entrance into the OneWorld Alliance.MAA is now...[more]
MAA-BARCELONA FLIGHTS
[LOG/BIZ: Maastricht, June 2]
Ryanair started flights from Maastricht-Aachen Airport to Barcelona on June 2. The fares run from EUR 34.65 on Monday through Thursday and Saturday. The travel period is June 16 through October 27....[more]
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RCE RHINE-MEUSE: FIRST RESULTS
[GOV/BIZ: Maastricht, June 14]
The Rhine-Meuse Expertise Center (RCE) is cooperating with business and knowledge institutions in the Euroregion on sustainable development. As a result of this synergy, a range of projects has been initiated and successfully implemented....[more]
LIMBURG GOES INTERNATIONAL
[GOV: The Hague, June 13]
The decision has been taken to make international cooperation easier. This is the core of the advice given by the Internationalization Committee under the chairmanship of Loek Hermans and the Province of Limburg. The committee strongly...[more]
WAR MEMORIAL INFO CENTER
[GOV: Margraten, June 13]
The American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) wants to establish an information center at the US war cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg, comparable to the one at Colleville-sur-Mer in Normandy. ABMC supervises all US war cemeteries;...[more]
SCHOOL FOR CONDUCTORS
[EDU: Eupen, June 11]
The Minister of Education for Belgium’s German-speaking region, Mr Paasch wants the Music School in the community to offer courses for orchestral conductors. The reason for this is that there is an acute shortage of conductors in the area....[more]
PACE PRESIDENT TO PORTUGAL
[GOV: Strasbourg, June 6]
Limburger, René van der Linden, President of the Council of Europe Parliamentary Assembly (PACE), will be in Lisbon on June 8 to meet the President of the Portuguese Parliament Jaime Gama and the Foreign Minister Luís Amado. Discussions ...[more]
HEERLEN-AACHEN
[GOV/BIZ: Heerlen, June 2]
Foreign Minister Maxine Verhagen wants to see the cabinet focus on experiments in far-reaching, cross-border activity in the Heerlen-Aachen region. The province and Parkstad municipalities have been working for a long time on the role...[more]
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UM JUNE PHDS IN MEDICINE
[LIFE-SCI/EDU: Maastricht, June 15]
Robrecht N. Planken, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life Sciences
Title: “Hemodialysis vascular access imaging”
Supervisors: Drs J Tordoir and T LeinerBianca LW Bendermacher, Faculty of Health, Medicine and Life ...[more]
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CONCRETE CANOES
[SCI-TECH/LEI: Aachen, June 14]
Concrete canoes, called Wirragon and Texagon, weighing 180 kg, with a skin 10mm thick, will participate in the Hanover Concrete Canoe Regatta June 15 through 17.The canoes were built by students of Construction Research at ...[more]
FRAUNHOFER CONSTRUCTION PHYSICS + SOLAR
[SCI-TECH/BIZ: Stuttgart, June 13]
The Fraunhofer Institute (Well represented in Meuse-Rhine) for Construction Physics is now the seventh member of the Association for Solar Energy. This is an extra-university association of cooperating research institutes for...[more]
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LIEGE GASTRONOMY
[LEI: Liège, June 15]
Guy Delville’s latest newsletter recommends the following restaurants in the greater Liège area:
L’Ecailler [fish and shellfish; a solid bet in our view. Ed.] – Rue des Dominicains, 26 – 4000 Liège – Tél. : 04.222.17.49 – E-mail:info@ecailler.be...[more]
ORLANDO FESTIVAL 2007
[LEI: Kerkrade. June 14]
The Orlando Festival (July 8-22 at the 900-year-old Abbey of Rolduc) has been bringing musicians of all levels together for twenty-five years. Young amateurs, adult amateurs, students and young professionals are taught by renowned masters;...[more]
BOULI LANNERS SHOOTS AGAIN
[LEI: Liège, June 13]
Following his prize-winning film ‘Ultranova’ in Berlin 2005, the famous Liège film director Bouli Lanners is working on a new production called ‘California Wash’. It’s going to be shot between June 11 and July 28 in Liège and Luxembourg....[more]
NZ ARTISTS
[LEI: Maastricht, June 13]
There is to be an exhibition on September 15 and 16 at the Kunsthandel van der Aa, Rechtstraat 19 in Maastricht introducing New Zealand artists Alan Wehipeihana
and Pamela Annsouth, Brian Carmody, Austin Davies, John Drawbridge,...[more]
ARBRES D’ACIER
[LEI: Liège, June 12]
Arbres D’Acier (Steel Trees) is a topic chosen, where 16 works of art by artists from the French-speaking community of Brussels, the Belgium-Wallonia German-speaking community, Saarland, the Rhineland Palatinate, Lorraine and the Grand...[more]
CHARLEMAGNE ROUTE
[LEI: Aachen, June 12]
The Maastricht firm of Maurer United Architects will present their ideas for the Charlemagne Route on Tuesday, June 19 in the Ball Room of the Alten Kurhaus in Aachen. The Charlemagne Route is a City project in the context of EuRegionale...[more]
LIEGE CARILLON
[LEI: Liège, June 12]
There is to be an international Carillon festival in Liège, which will take place in St Paul’s Cathedral in the city during the month of July. There will be an aperitif concert every Saturday from 12:30 to 13:30 hours. The first performance...[more]
ACADEMIA MUSICA
[LEI: Aachen/Vaals, June 11]
There will be the sixth Chamber Music Festival in Aachen and Vaals from July 13 to 22. This falls under the heading of Amadèo. Check the website...[more]
MIDSUMMER IN EYNEBURCHT
[LEI: Hergenrath, June 10]
There will be fun for all of the family on midsummer’s day from June 23 to 24 in Eyneburcht; tournaments and all sorts of medieval things, as discussed before, will be held every day at 15:00, Saturday 23 and Sunday 24 from 12:00....[more]
WARHAMMER AT INDUSTRION
[LEI: Kerkrade, June 8]
Elves, dwarves, knights, vampires and reptilian figures will all be on view at the special Warhammer show on Sunday, June 17 at the Industrion museum in Kerkrade....[more]
CYCLING IN SOUTH LIMBURG
[LEI: Valkenburg, June 8]
There are to be five unique cycling routes through the western mining region and Parkstad Limburg. On Sunday, June 24 there will be a South Limburg Cycling Day which will cover these routes, looking at all of the attractions in Beek,...[more]
WILLEM KALF DRAWS 20,000
[LEI: Aachen, June 5]
The Suermondt-Ludwig museum has attracted 20,000 visitors to its exhibition ‘The Still Life of Willem Kalf’, which started on March 8....[more]
BRUECKENKOPF PARK
[LEI/GOV: Aachen/Jülich, June 4]
The Euregionale 2008 was the framework within which the Brückenkopf Park in Jülich has been expanded. This is of benefit to the whole region. Currently the park attracts 220,000 visitors annually and with the addition of climbing...[more]
TRI-COUNTRY PROJECTS
[LEI: Baesweiler, June 2]
Next year there will be a presentation of the EuRegionale 2008 program up May 9, 2008. The EuRegionale will organize trips to the project locations and there will be a new exhibition which will be held in a number of cities in the Aachen...[more]
OOIT TONGRES
[LEI: Tongres, June 2]
A 15-hectare family park called Ooit Tongeren (or ‘Once Upon a Time in Tongres’) is being developed on the Fonteinweg in the city. The target group is made up of families with children up 14 years of age and the attractions will vary from...[more]
NEW GOLF COURSE
[LEI: Geilenkirchen, June 2]
Geilenkirchen is to add a new nine-hole golf course to its already existing driving range, which opened in September 2006. There is also a golf shop and a professional....[more]
MUSIC IN THE BARN
[BIZ: Fourons, June 8]
There will be a Rostropovich concert on Sunday, July 1 at 15:00 at Weg op Mesch 5/2 in Fourons le Comte. Hanneke Eggels will be accompanied by Christianne Steegmans, the Dutch pianist, and by Zyxcban Wolfs, the young cellist from Eijsden...[more]
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