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[EDIT: Eijsden, June 15]
Remembering that today is father’s day and the anniversary of the Magna Charta (1215), we can carry on to reality and to Meuse-Rhine, which is dominated by the Interreg IV European funding story. The Meuse-Rhine statistics story is also...[more]
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BIOSTAR EDC VENLO
[BIZ/LOG: Maastricht, June 13]
LIOF, the Limburg development company, has announced that Biostar, the Taiwan-based motherboard and graphics card manufacturer, supporting Intel and AMD processors has opened a distribution center in Venlo. The company will be...[more]
HANSEN 6000 MW CAPACITY
[BIZ: Lommel, June 12]
Hansen Transmission has expanded its plant in Lommel. The company now has 20,000 cogwheel units for wind turbines. The expansion required an investment of EUR 180m. Hansen currently has a 6000 MW capacity on a total area of 110 m2. The...[more]
MEDTEC SUPPLY CHAIN
[BIZ: Avantis, June 12]
On June 19 at the World Trade Center at Avantis (Heerlen-Aachen) at 11:00, there will be a seminar on the European MedTec supply chain and optimal logistics solutions. Join the audience of top (logistics) MedTec companies at this event....[more]
SKECHERS DOUBLES EDC CAPACITY
[BIZ/LOG: Liège, June 11]
SKECHERS USA, Inc., a global leader in lifestyle footwear, has announced that it will double its European distribution center capacity to 45,000 square meters in 2009, with the addition of an adjoining facility. SKECHERS EDC SPRL, which...[more]
KRUISHEREN: NEW CHEF
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 11]
After five years of passionate and pleasurable work at the Michelin-starred restaurant Aubergine in Steijl, chef Eric Arts has decided to take up a new challenge and is going to work with the Kruisheren Hotel team to move their restaurant...[more]
REACH SEMINAR
[BIZ: Eindhoven, June 10]
There is to be a seminar at the chamber of commerce for North Brabant and Limburg in cooperation with the Dutch SMEs on June 24 from 13:30 to 16:30 at the Eindhoven chamber building. It looks at the new EU policy on chemicals called...[more]
WISELINE
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 10]
WiseLine is a new start-up from Maastricht, which, basically, displays a whole life in a graph. The best way to get an idea of this is to go to the website and see how it works (www.wiseline.com). It is a global start-up based in Maastricht,...[more]
CREME DE LA CREME (L)
[BIZ: Dubai, June 10]
Crème de la Crème, the Limburg manufacturer of quality ice cream, is opening its first branch in the United Arab Emirates. A contract has been signed with an investment group in Dubai. CO Rik Zweegers announced this when the company moved...[more]
STRATEGIC INNOVATION
[BIZ/EDU: Lanaken, June 10]
A major project developed by UNU-MERIT, allied with the University of Hasselt in Limburg and the regional development companies, was concerned to get companies to analyze the competitive position to determine the priorities for innovation,...[more]
BIOENERGY’S POTATO PEEL POWER
[BIZ: Lommel, June 9]
BioEnergy has started up in Lommel, the company will process potato peels into electric power for around 12,500 families. BioEnergy was set up by Farm Frites, which makes French fries, and the Machiels Group, in order to provide an environment-friendly...[more]
DSM TECHNOLOGY AWARD
[BIZ/EDU: Heerlen, June 6]
Belgian researcher Maarten Roeffaers of the Catholic University of Louvain has won the first prize in the DSM Science & Technology Awards (North) 2008. An international judging committee, chaired by DSM Chief Technology Officer Dr...[more]
Z-SAFETY AT CHEMELOT
[BIZ: Geleen, June 6]
Z-Safety has opened an operational coordination center at Chemelot in Geleen. From the center, it will provide safety services to the industrial companies and service providers on site. The services of Z-Safety will be used during major...[more]
MAASTRICHT ON MARKET
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 6]
As far as the Maastricht Convention Bureau (MCB) is concerned, Maastricht in Belgium from June 9-13, 2008 is the focus of attention. During this week, the MCB and its partners will be presenting Maastricht and the surrounding area as...[more]
EUROPEAN ELECTRICITY
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, June 5]
One year after signing a Memorandum of Understanding power exchanges and transmission system operators in Belgium, France, Germany, Luxemburg and the Netherlands have achieved significant progress towards coupling the Central Western...[more]
CROSS-BORDER FINANCIAL PERILS
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 4]
Paying and being paid - what is the custom on either side of the border and what are the pitfalls? How can you minimize the danger of your clients not paying? Is it useful to have export credit insurance for example? The answers ...[more]
RFID MARKET USD 9.7BN
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Aachen, June 4]
Market analysts at ABI Research are talking about long-term stable growth in the RFID sector. Not only the Airbus, but the US Defense Ministry too is showing a great interest in the technology. And as noted in our headline, through...[more]
PROVADA
[BIZ: Aachen, June 4]
The Aachen region, in the shape of its regional economic development company AGIT, will be at the PROVADA real estate fair in Amsterdam. ‘Energy Develops at the Border’ is the Aachen slogan from July 10 to 12 at the fair in Amsterdam. Together...[more]
PACKAGING TAX
[BIZ: The Hague, June 4]
Through October 1, businesses are not required to present data for a packaging tax to the Dutch tax authorities. Furthermore, Secretary of State Jan Kees de Jager of Finance has said that the tax on packaging is to be made much simpler,...[more]
RECORD FOR TESSENDERLO
[BIZ: Tessenderlo, June 4]
The Tessenderlo Group achieved an annual result last year of EUR 150m. That’s the best that the group has ever achieved and is, to an important degree, thanks to major restructuring and savings. The plan produced EUR 39m in savings...[more]
I-COMMOTION IN NORWAY
[BIZ: Hasselt, June 4]
The Hasselt ICT SME, i-Commotion, has signed a contract with the Norwegian virtual operator, Trigcom. This last company is going to distribute ‘MobileAnywhere for Microsoft Dynamics CRM' in Norway. In concrete terms, Trigcom will sell...[more]
THE CAIRLINE NICHE
[BIZ/LOG: Maastricht, June 3]
FeMex, a family-owned logistical service provider at Maastricht-Aachen Airport, is starting a niche service in air-cargo logistics from Maastricht with its Cairline Critical Air Services. The excellent location at MAA puts its terminal...[more]
DSM COMPLETES ON PTG
[BIZ: Heerlen, June 2]
Royal DSM N.V. announced on May 30 that it had closed the acquisition of The Polymer Technology Group, Inc. (PTG). Through this acquisition, DSM gains a global leading position in the fast growing biomedical materials market. PTG will...[more]
SABIC WINS ENERGY AWARD
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Sittard/Bergen op Zoom, June 2]
SABIC Innovative Plastics was named the national Energy Globe Award overall winner for The Netherlands in recognition of its Brine Recovery project in Bergen op Zoom, The Netherlands. At the EU Parliament in Brussels,...[more]
DSM R&D IN CHINA
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Pudong, June 2]
Patrick Niels, BU director of DSM Powder Coating Resins, performed the official opening ceremony for the new R&D synthesis laboratory at the DSM Powder Coating Resins site in Kunshan, Jiangsu Province, China (PRC).
At the...[more]
INTER-NED NEWS
[BIZ/GOV: Düsseldorf, June 2]
The INTER-NED newsletter from Düsseldorf deals with new packaging regulations in Germany, which focuses on recycling, and on competing better with one another to create a ‘win-win’ situation together in the Dutch–German context....[more]
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
[BIZ/GOV: Maastricht, June 2]
The public interest is best served by the power company Essent if the commercial part of the company joins with a strategic, possibly foreign, partner. Only with economies of scale can the company provide sustainable energy to the...[more]
ONLINE MEUSE-RHINE STATS
[BIZ/GOV: Roermond/Aachen, June 2]
The Meuse-Rhine Euroregion has a new and unique service known as the EIS or Euroregional Information Service. This new platform provides up-to-date, cross border, comparable data. These are available according to individual...[more]
DURACAR: MOST PROMISING
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Heerlen, June 2]
DuraCar, a Netherlands/Avantis based automotive company, presented the company's all-electric delivery van QUICC! at the 17th Cleantech Forum in Brussels. At this event, attendees voted for DuraCar as the most promising investment...[more]
WSLLUX
[BIZ/SCI-TECH, Liège, June 2]
It was reported from Toulouse on Friday, April 25 that WSLlux was in the process of building a 1,200m2 innovatively-designed modular infrastructure which, from the end of this year, would house companies wishing to promote the potential...[more]
AUTOMOTIVENET.EU
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Eindhoven, June 2]
AutomotiveNET is looking for entrepreneurs with guts for synthetic materials instead of metal gears, for cross-border cooperation among companies and for an automotive atlas. And although it’s come to the end of one EU project,...[more]
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PORT LANAKEN
[LOG: Lanaken, June 12]
John Hoofs writes in Dagblad de Limburger that the Belgian town of Lanaken, across the border from Maastricht, is planning a major rail-cargo terminal, designed to be a new logistical hub. The city has a major rail-marshalling yard, which...[more]
LIEGE AIRPORT EXTENDS RUNWAY
[LOG: Liège, June 9]
The Managing Director of Liege Airport has confirmed the decision to extend the main runway by 413 meters to a total length of 3,700 meters. The work on this extension began at the end of March 2008 and will occupy a total of 2 years. The...[more]
AVNET EDC
[LOG: Tongres, June 2]
The US technology distribution and services company, Avnet, is expanding its central distribution center EDC in the town of Tongres by an extra 10,000 square meters. The investment is worth ca. EUR 7m. Avnet’s central distribution center ...[more]
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ANOTHER BELGIAN STATE?
[GOV: Eupen, June 14]
A new political force was born yesterday in Eupen, it will be known as ProDG and will have as its objective the clear recognition of Belgium’s German Speaking community and its autonomy, for the Belgium federal State. The have a website...[more]
INTERREG IV FUNDING
[GOV: Maastricht, June 13]
The European Union is making the sum of EUR 72m available to the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, for the 2007-2013 period. The agreement was signed by the chairman of Meuse-Rhine, Governor Leon Frissen, on June 13. The agreement includes the...[more]
SARAH’S WORLD
[EDU: Avantis, June 12]
Sarah’s world has been chosen as the vehicle for knowledge about sustainable and new energy for children. It allows children teachers and parents to take a different look at their world with the focus on sustainable energy and saving...[more]
MINE HISTORY
[EDU: Brunssum, June 12]
The South Limburg’s Tourist offices and the Municipality of Brunssum have produced a brochure including a unique walk and cycle route, which reveals the influence that the mines Hendrik and Emma had on the development of Brunssum. It...[more]
BELGIUM, 12-TON TRUCK TOLL
[GOV: Aachen, June 12]
Now that Flanders and Wallonia in Belgium have agreed, there will be a toll in Belgium for trucks from 12 tons. This toll will follow the German model. A combination of a chip in the vehicle and GPS satellite tracking is being discussed...[more]
NO SMOKING IN GERMANY
[GOV: Aachen, June 12]
In Germany the no smoking law came into effect on January 1. Since then, smoking in public buildings has been prohibited. Smoking in the hospitality industry will be prohibited from July 1, whatever the size and type of the establishment....[more]
PARKSTAD PASS
[GOV: Parkstad, June 11]
There is a Parkstad Pass, 100,000 of which are to be issued this month. They have to be activated, either online, via the call center or at libraries. They will then give access to reductions which are not further specified in the press...[more]
BOARDERS AT ST.GEORGE’S
[EDU: Aachen, June 10]
St. George’s School Aachen also has English-speaking branches in Cologne and Duisburg and is to introduce a boarding department in Cologne. They are holding two open days on June 18 and 21, at the Cologne School. ...[more]
UMBS GOES RABO
[EDU: Maastricht, June 10]
With a view of encouraging entrepreneurship in South Limburg, the branches of the Rabobank in South Limburg have entered in a cooperative agreement with the University of Maastricht’s Business School. As a partner and co-financer of...[more]
AUTONOMOUS ART
[EDU: Heerlen, June 10]
Hogeschool Zuyd, the Limburg college, has appointed Dr. Peter Peters (1960) as reader in the autonomy and social relevance of the arts, effective May 1. This readership will be with three faculties of arts within the Hogeschool Zuyd,...[more]
GREEN METROPOLIS SIGNED
[GOV: Aachen, June 9]
On June 9, authorities from the Green Metropolis region signed an agreement on their future strategy. The Green Metropolis is a cross-border cooperative endeavor to link regions in Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. After the opening...[more]
M-R. E DEMOCRACY AWARD
[GOV: Maastricht, June 2]
At a special session in Maastricht on May 21, the first Meuse-Rhine Democracy Award was made to Wim Cuyvers, for his research on ‘Traces of Autism: Wander-Research in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine’, and Saskia Lindelauf-Gorgels, of the Limburg...[more]
SPINOZA FOR JOEP LEERSSEN
[EDU: Amsterdam, June 2]
On June 2, the Netherlands Organization for Scientific Research (NWO) announced the winner of the NWO-Spinoza Prize for 2008. The winner is J. Th. (Joep) Leerssen, professor of Modern European Literature at the University of Amsterdam.
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DEMENTIA AND EUTHANASIA
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, June 13]
The Alzheimer’s disease center in Limburg organizes an annual series of dialogues on dementia. On Wednesday June 18, at the university hospital (AZM), the dialogue is called ‘Dementia and Euthanasia’. It will be held in the Greepzaal...[more]
OMS GOES WITH MERCK
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, June 10]
OncoMethylome Sciences has announced that it has signed a licensing and testing agreement with Merck KGaA of Darmstadt, Germany. Under the terms of the agreement, OncoMethylome will provide MGMT gene promoter methylation testing services...[more]
BIO.NRW
[LIFE-SCI: Düsseldorf, June 9]
In April of this year, the BIO.NRW business center started its activities at the Life-science center. The team is concerned with innovation and the implementation and coordination of biotech projects in North-Rhine Westphalia....[more]
AIDS IN MEUSE-RHINE
[LIFE SCI: Herzogenrath, June 6]
The second Euroregional AIDS conference complained about alarming trends in dealing with this deadly virus. HIV and AIDS represent a danger for people in the Euroregion too, but the deadly virus has become invisible and its dangers...[more]
RADIOLOGY REPORTERS
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, June 4]
Professor Jan Wilmink, who retired from his chair in neuroradiology at the University of Maastricht on June 7, expressed his concern about the increasing trend for radiologists simply to be used for radiological reports without...[more]
LIEGE BIOLINGUISTICS II
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, June 4]
"In 2007, we started discussions with the Groupe de Redéploiement Economique (GRE - Economic Redeployment Group) in order to coordinate the assets in the region in terms of biotechnologies and logistics", explained Jean-Claude Marcourt,...[more]
AC:TIV
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, June 4]
Since June 3, Aachen has become one of the 20 health regions in Germany which is to be assisted by the Ministry for Education and Science (BMBF). They will, in future, help in the improvement of patient care and in strengthening the...[more]
OMS NOVEL TEST
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, June 2]
OncoMethylome Sciences released additional data on June 2 from an ongoing clinical verification trial of their bladder cancer test. The new data confirms the ability of this non-invasive urine-based test to accurately detect early-stage...[more]
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DON CARLOS IN LIEGE
[LEI: Liège, June 15]
A performance of Verdi’s Don Carlos will close the Royal Walloon Opera’s season in Liège from June 20 through June 28. This is a new production by the Royal Walloon Opera, with Yonghoon Lee in the title role. Elisabeth of Valois is played...[more]
AMADEO
[LEI: Vaals, June 15]
There will be a series of concerts in Aachen and Vaals, in the context of Euriade’s chamber music program, starting July 11 through July 22. Check the website for the details. Among the offerings are an Austrian evening on the 17th, a Russian...[more]
ANTONIO MARO AT ROLDUC
[LEI: Kerkrade, June 15]
There will be an exhibition of the work of Antonio Máro (80), the Peruvian artist, who has lived most of his life in Europe and currently resides in Belgium’s German-Speaking region, from June 15 through July 4, in the cloisters of Rolduc...[more]
OLD-STYLE MILITIAS
[LEI: Opoeteren, June 6]
For the first time in the history of the old Limburg Schuttersfeest — a custom whereby old-style militias in uniform take it in turns to shoot a bird, or something resembling it, from the top of a high post using weapons which even include...[more]
DESIGN BIENNIAL
[LEI: Liège, June 13]
The fourth-annual design biennial in Liège will be held from September 26 through October 19. One focus will be on the 150th anniversary of the birth of Gustave Serrurier, a Liège designer with a global reputation and influence. There will...[more]
YACHT HARBOR LUXURY
[LEI: Ophoven-Kinrooi, June 13]
On Thursday June 19, Marec, the biggest and best yacht harbor in Western Europe with moorage for 1400 boats is opening a new floating hotel. ...[more]
DIALECT
[LEI/EDU: Aachen, June 13]
The Meuse-Rhine Euroregion is the home in its Germanic language areas to cross-border dialects, which are reciprocally intelligible. On September 19, there will be a dialect festival honoring the Aachen dialect poet Hein Engelhardt....[more]
RUD A DUB DUB
[LEI: Maastricht, June 12]
Rud a Dub Dub is Maastricht’s oldest rock band. They have been in the business for 30 years and they are playing June 20 in the Muziekgieterij, with Rob Delsing, voice and double bass; Marc Delsing, voice and guitar; Sjoerd Teerling,...[more]
COALFACE
[LEI: Genk, June 12]
Het Vervolg is presenting a number of activities that show the transformation of the ‘COALFACE’ in artistic terms this summer. These include an exhibition in Beringen by Danny Veys on the industrial history of the area. There is the ‘COALFACE...[more]
AACHEN BY MP3
[LEI: Aachen, June 4]
If you have an MP3 player, you can download a guided walk from the Internet and follow the instructions to learn more about Aachen. The tape for this is 40 minutes long and is available in both German and excellent English....[more]
ECHOLOT
[LEI: Aachen, June 4]
The Echolot Exhibition, running from June 21 through August 24 at the Ludwig Forum for International Art, is an artistic discovery of the region — by those studying in Aachen’s north, at the university, the Fachhochschule and the Art School...[more]
NIC JOOSEN AT JEHAY
[LEI: Amay, June 2]
The Chateau Jehay, in the province of Liège, is one of the rare examples of the Renaissance in the Belgian Walloon country. The castle possesses a superb park from the 16th century and will now, in the context of a EuRegionale 2008 program...[more]
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