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WHERE SIZE MAKES EUROPE EASIER
[EDIT/WEBCAST: Eupen, July 30]
Those readers familiar with English Literature will know Gerard Manley Hopkins’ great poem, The Wreck of the Deutschland - written to memorialize the death of five Catholic Franciscan nuns fleeing from Westphalia and Bismarck’s...[more]
TOP STORIES & ONE-LINERS
[EDIT: Eijsden, July 30]
Top stories clearly include the new Eupen Webcast with a vignette of Belgian ‘kingmaker’, Karl-Heinz Lambertz. Logistics enmeshes us on all fronts with new plans for the Iron Rhine on a Roermond/Elmpt trajectory. Maastricht Aachen Airport...[more]
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DSM Q2: BEST EVER
[BIZ: Heerlen, July 29]
DSM reports very strong Q2 result based on 17% organic sales growth;Changing dynamics in vitamin business drive significantly higher profitability in Life Sciences; Materials Sciences performing well against difficult economic background;...[more]
NEW LOTUS FROM LANAKEN
[BIZ: Lanaken, July 25]
The British automotive concern Lotus has recently presented its latest model, the Evora. The Evora was developed by Steven Crijns (40) from Neerharen (Lanaken) in Belgian Limburg, but he remains a man of considerable modesty. He dreamt...[more]
KIWI LIMBURGER @ CHATELAIN
[BIZ: Echt, July 25]
There is a new name on the wine front, Châtelain Vins Fins, which allows for online orders. Wim Julicher returned to his birthplace in Swalmen recently. A Limburger who emigrated to New Zealand in 1997, he has been making high quality wines...[more]
I-CITY FUTURE
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Hasselt, July 24]
The Flemish government is going to investigate the future of i-City, the experimental setting for mobile applications at the Hasselt Research Campus. The Flemish government has just approved extra finance for i-City and, according...[more]
AACHEN INNOVATION PRIZE
[BIZ: Aachen, July 23]
It is possible to register for this year’s innovation prize up to August 31 in Aachen. The areas of innovation that are favored are:- technology development
- businesses measures to improve environmental protection and energy provision
- new ...[more]
CENTRICA 51% STAKE IN SPE
[BIZ: Brussels, July 23]
The British power utility Centrica Plc has announced that it is to increase its shareholding in Belgian generation and supply company SPE SA (SPE), which is active in both Limburg and Liège, to a controlling 51%. Incidentally SPE still...[more]
MONDEO IN PINK
[BIZ: Genk, July 22]
At the special request of the Mary Kay cosmetic company, Ford Genk is building 65 pink Mondeos. This means an extra shift for a week in the holiday period, but it’s such an exceptional order for pink Fords that it is sure to attract interest....[more]
SUEZ ENVIRONMENT IN BELGIUM
[BIZ: Brussels, July 22]
Suez Environment, which is largely visible in Sita in Belgium, has annual revenues of EUR 500m. The former parent company GDF Suez has a 35% stake in Suez Environment. Suez Environment is concerned with processing waste at Sita in Belgium,...[more]
DUFERCO: SECOND POWER PLANT
[BIZ: Farciennes, July 21]
The Belgian steel group Durferco has taken an option on a 15-hectare site in Farciennes to invest in a second power plant. The steel manufacturer will build a power plant with a maximum capacity of 450 megawatts, either alone or with...[more]
DACHSER AND SEACON AT MAA
[BIZ/LOG: Kempton/Maastricht, July 20]
In early July 2008, internationally-active logistics service provider Dachser and Seacon Logistics, a renowned sea freight carrier and contract logistics provider based in the Netherlands, formed a joint company within...[more]
RESTORING THE ORW
[BIZ/LEI: Liège, July 18]
The Royal Walloon Opera will soon be very considerably renovated. The neo-classical shape will be respected but the original décor will be reintroduced and this will make a major change. The building will be white, with columns of red...[more]
DACIA SELLS IN BELGIUM
[BIZ: Hasselt, July 18]
Dacia, the French-Romanian automobile company is opening four new sales outlets in Belgium before the end of this year, according to the newspaper L’Echo. These will be in Hasselt, Mechlin, Fléron and Marche. Dacia has being sold in Belgium...[more]
CONSTRUCTION IN LIEGE
[BIZ/GOV: Liège, July 18]
On the Emile de Laveleye Boulevard an office building is being transformed into 25 apartments and some business units. The zoning and building permit has been assigned. The building is at 64 boulevard Emile de Laveleye. Then there is...[more]
OPTICS TO HOLLYWOOD
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Aachen, July 17]
9,500Km of fiber optic cable, as thin as a human hair, has been used by Netcologne to link in the city of Aachen. This is the distance from Aachen to Hollywood. The young Cologne telecom company has bundled 288 fiber optic cables...[more]
NEW AT AIXTRON + RESULTS
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Aachen, July 16]
AIXTRON AG announced today an order for two MOCVD tools from Changelight, a company based in Xiamen’s Torch Industry Park of Fujian Province, China. Both systems were shipped in the second quarter 2008.This order is for AIX ...[more]
BSB IPO EUR 4.31M
[BIZ: Brussels, July 16]
The Walloon IT service provider, the BSB Group, picked up EUR 4.31m in its IPO at Alternext in Brussels. Despite the crises, the initial objective EUR 5m has been virtually achieved and the staff requirement is completely supported....[more]
MAAS GROEP & BAANBREKEND
[BIZ: Heerlen, July 16]
The Maas Groep and the Baanbrekend Limburg companies are going to get together to work on the labor shortage problem. By working together, both parties will be ble to serve the market better and ensure that supply and demand are better...[more]
SAMCO MAINTENANCE AT MAA
[BIZ/LOG: Beek/Maastricht, July 16]
Aircraft maintenance company SAMCO at MAA is now to include work on Fokker 70s and 100s. The addition of the F70 / 100 to the approval coincides with a doubling of Base Maintenance Hangar capacity in Maastricht. This expansion...[more]
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ROTTERDAM BACKS IRON RHINE
[LOG: Rotterdam/Elmpt, July 29]
Rotterdam city government is supporting a speedy reactivation of the Iron Rhine, the railway line that runs from Antwerp through Belgian and Dutch Limburg to the Ruhr in Germany. There have recently been stories about using the...[more]
AIRPORT ‘ECOTAX’ RETAINED
[LOG/GOV: Maastricht, July 29]
Maastricht Aachen Airport (MAA) and Ryanair regret the judgment by an appeal court to push forward with what is called an ‘ecotax’ as planned. MAA and Ryanair had asked the courts to suspend the tax until the European Commission...[more]
EL AL TO LIEGE
[LOG: Liège, July 28]
El Al Cargo announced last week its decision to leave Amsterdam/Schiphol for Liège Airport - where the company already has its night flights. The move will take effect as from October 6th this year. The decision was made mainly because...[more]
BORDERLESS PUBLIC TRANSPORT
[LOG: Maastricht, July 20]
There was a meeting between representatives of Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands on June 30 to sign a joint undertaking on cooperation in the area of Euroregional public transport. Despite extensive progress in recent years, ...[more]
NEW SCHENKER IT APPLICATIONS
[LOG: Maastricht, July 18]
In the July edition of the DB Schenker newsletter (DB Schenker is the German rail logistical operation), attention was paid to new IT applications that will offer clients the option of consulting timetables for cargo to and from Germany...[more]
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CROSS-BORDER FUNDING
[GOV: Aachen, July 25]
Since the end of May and to the beginning of September there will be a major cultural program across borders in the context of EuRegionale 2008. The program, which will be presented on the Charlemagne Route, represents an investment of...[more]
CHANGING TIMES
[GOV/LEI: Aachen/Raeren, July 25]
Times are changing at the borders and the borders crossing with their barriers and customs are getting out of date. An event is being held at the border crossing between Aachen and the German-speaking part of Belgium in Raeren...[more]
WIKI PATHWAYS
[EDU/SCI-TECH: Maastricht, July 25]
Science finds it almost impossible to deal with the exponential growth of knowledge and information in biology, and to make the collected data accessible, up to date and manageable. The manner in which information is managed...[more]
TRAINEES SOUGHT
[EDU/BIZ: Aachen, July 23]
There were around 300 free training positions with the Chamber of Commerce in Aachen and the Trades Chamber for the instructional year beginning in August. There are still 200 free and it will be possible to register through October...[more]
DATA MINING COURSE
[EDU: Maastricht, July 20]
There will be an intensive five-day introduction to the methods and applications of data mining at the Maastricht University in The Netherlands from August 26 through 30. Registration deadline is Augustus 4.Data mining is a relatively ...[more]
LIEGE-U ABSORBS AGGIES
[EDU: Liège, July 18]
The Faculty of Agriculture at the University of Gembloux will be integrated into the University of Liège in 2009. From 2010 they will be unified and will receive a financial injection of around EUR 30m.This makes Liège an all-round university. ...[more]
UWV STICKS WITH HEERLEN
[GOV: Heerlen, July 17]
The UWV, the authority responsible for employment insurance and social security among other things and which employees 900 office staff in Heerlen, is to remain in the city. It had been looking at optional locations in Heerlen, Venlo...[more]
FIRE SERVICE LIMITS
[GOV: Aachen, July 16]
Developments confronting Aachen’s fire service are rather alarming. While the number of alarms has remained constant since 1993, in the last ten years the demand on the service has grown exorbitantly. Whereas the fire service went out...[more]
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BIO-MARKERS
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, July 25]
Researchers at Maastricht’s Cardiovascular Research Institute (CARIM) have discovered two biomarkers that may play an important role in the early and treatment of ruptured atherosclerotic lesions and accompanying cardiovascular...[more]
PROF GERAEDTS, HEALTH COUNCIL
[LIFE-SCI/EDU: Maastricht, July 17]
Professor Joep Geraedts, the head of clinical genetics a Maastricht UMC+, has been appointed a member of the Health Council. Professor Geraedts studied biology in Nijmegen and did his PhD at Leiden in 1975. In 1982 he was ...[more]
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PICOMETER SCALE
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, July 25]
Jülich scientists have succeeded in precisely measuring atomic spacing down to a few picometers using new methods in ultra-high resolution electron microscopy. This makes it possible to find out decisive parameters determining the...[more]
FUEL CELLS AT THE NUERBURGRING
[SCI-TECH: Troisdorf, July 23]
Lap runs on the Nürburgring Nordschleife in Germany’s Eifel region are often cancelled due to rain. But the wet weather didn’t stop Nissan from taking its X-Trail fuel cell vehicle for a spin on the course recently, making Nissan...[more]
FIRST SEX, NOW LOOKS
[SCI-TECH: Aachen/Maastricht, July 16]
A lot of interest was excited by proposals and suggestions from Maastricht U that human beings would eventually end up having sex with robots. An article in The Economist, referring to research from Aachen U, now informs...[more]
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OPERA ZUID PROGRAM
[LEI: Maastricht: July 29]
We present the highlights of Opera Zuid’s 2008-2009 season below. Details of venues, dramatis personae, etc are available at the web site.La Fille du Régiment by Italian composer Donizetti is a comic opera with its own Italian style, ...[more]
MUSICA SACRA
[LEI: Maastricht, July 26]
From Friday, September 19 through 21 there will be the 26th Musica Sacra Maastricht 2008, a festival of sacred music. It will go under the heading of ‘Witnesses: Professors and Martyrs’ and will include English Gothic Voices, the Italian...[more]
AINSI CULTURAL FESTIVAL
[LEI: Maastricht, July 26]
From August 13-17 AINSI is organizing a new summer evening festival in Maastricht: A major festival at a range of different locations around the old cement factory on the Meuse. There’s a lot of music, ballet and cinema. Check the...[more]
NRW ART TO STAY
[LEI: Aachen-Kornelimünster, July 25]
Following a discussion with the NRW Minister for Culture, Hans-Heinrich Grosse-Brockhoff, the Mayor of Aachen, Dr Jürgen Linden and the Arts specialists Wolfgang Rombey have decided that the ‘Art from North-Rhine Westphalia’...[more]
CONCERT ON THE BARGE
[LEI: Liège, July 25]
As part of the Linz Europa Tour 2007-2009, there will be a free concert in Liège on August 8 on the Esplanade Albert 1er – at the side of the Héliport – opposite the Palais des Congrès featuring:
19.00hrs: Mona Murray
20.00hrs: Hubert...[more]
CROSS-BORDER FESTIVAL
[LEI: Aachen/Raeren/Vaals, July 24]
There is to be a Euregional product market in Welkenraedt with 30 exhibitors on Friday, August 1 from 17:00 to 21:00. There is also music in Vaals on August 2 and 3, and the traditions of the region with a special village...[more]
ABOUT XAVIER MAASSEN
[LEI: Lanaken, July 24]
The Limburg racing driver Xavier Maassen has introduced himself with just one and a half week to go before the ‘24 Hours of Spa’ race, a major event of the FIA GT championship. Xavier Maassen is presently lying second in the World Championship...[more]
ROMANS IN RIMBURG
[LEI: Landgraaf/Übach-Palenberg, July 23]
Rimburg on the Worm river - on Saturday, August 16 and Sunday, August 17 from 10:00 to 17:00 on the border between Landgraaf and Übach-Palenberg at Rimburg from the time of the Romans and Celts will come to life. Here,...[more]
FREE SAUNA IN LIMBURG
[BIZ: Hasselt, July 22]
From September through November 30, those walking in Belgian Limburg’s countryside can go the sauna or the Turkish bath free of charge if it rains or hails. The wellness checks are a follow-up on the bad weather guarantee, which 60 companies...[more]
MEDITATION IN GLASS
[LEI: Roermond, July 20]
The Mariska Dirkx Gallery in Roermond is putting on an exhibition of artists called ‘Meditations in Glass’ in the cloisters of the Bishopric of Roermond Carthusian Monastery (Swalmerstraat 100). The artists concerned are: Roel Lambert,...[more]
EUREGIO’ATHLON
[LEI: Bütgenbach, July 20]
On the weekend of August 8-10 there will be the ninth edition of Euregio’athlon in Bütgenbach. This is a major sporting activity. There will be three major sports: running, the duathlon and triathlon. There will be opportunities for...[more]
ART ACROSS THE BORDER
[LEI: Wittem, July 20]
There will be an ‘Art over the border’ event at Wittem from September 6 through 28. There will be art, literature and music from Belgium, Germany and The Netherlands. The concerts are adopting a Balkan focus (Romania, Greece and Hungary)...[more]
MASTERS IN SCULPTURE
[LEI: Maastricht, July 17]
For the eleventh year in succession, Gallery Bell'Arte is organizing a 'Masters in sculpture' exhibition in cooperation with Camille Oostwegel.In the gardens of Chateau and Chateau Neercanne St. Gerlach approximately 100 sculptures ...[more]
VALKENBURG’S SONG
[LEI: Valkenburg, July 16]
On July 1 the world release of the Valkenburg Song took place. This was a unique musical project in cooperation with the Valkenburg artist, Jayme Xaya. Everyone will recognize the feeling of a special place where you feel at home in...[more]
OLYMPIC WEEKEND
[LEI: Heerlen, July 16]
During the weekend of August 2 and 3 there will be extra activities in the Thermen Museum in Heerlen. The activities will relate to the Olympic Games of Coriovallum, where visitors will meet the Emperor of Coriovallum and his musical...[more]
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