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THIS ISSUE
[EDIT: Eijsden, December 15]
This issue contains a wide range of stories on new business and logistics; and, please note that this issue is number 196, our last issue was incorrectly numbered (194) in the mailing; although, of course, the content was up to date....[more]
THREE PROVINCES SIGN
[EDIT/GOV: Maastricht, December 14]
On Sunday December 14, at Chateau Neercanne, three of Meuse-Rhine’s provinces - the Belgian provinces of Limburg and Liège and the Dutch province of Limburg - signed an agreement. They were represented by Gilbert von Baelen,...[more]
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NEW LIÈGE BIZ SITES
[BIZ: Liège, December 15]
There are two new business sites in Liège. One is the Pieper Island between Coronmeuse and rue Saint-Léonard. This is 1.2 hectares and it has space for between 10 and 15 businesses. The first two of which, Naos, les Artisans vitriers...[more]
OPEN CHEMICAL INNOVATION
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Sittard–Geleen, December 15]
The Province of Limburg, DSM/Chemelot and The Limburg Development Company LIOF are to cooperate on the establishment of a Center for Open Chemical Innovation (COCI) at the Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen. This type...[more]
KUEHNE & NAGEL EDC
[BIZ/LOG: Sittard-Geleen, December 13]
Kuehne + Nagel Logistics is to set up a European Distribution Center (EDC) at the Holtum-Noord business park on an 80.000 m² site – an investment worth tens of millions of Euros with a focus on print and ink materials....[more]
LIEGE AND VERVIERS CHAMBERS
[BIZ: Liege, December 11]
The annual general meetings of the Liège and Verviers Chambers of Commerce decided to merge and form one region. With the disappearance of the chamber in Verviers, the oldest chamber in Belgium also disappears, because it was founded...[more]
SKECHERS EXPANDS
[BIZ: Milmort, December 11]
In 2002, Skechers, an American company wanting to distribute its shoes on this side of the Atlantic, opened a 22,000 m² center in Milmort near Liège. Sales have since soared and six years on, the surface area is being doubled.For ...[more]
INCOPAK IN DILSEN-STOCKEM
[BIZ: Dilsen-Stockem, December 10]
The milk product company, Incopak, is establishing a new branch in Dilsen-Stockem. At the new location the company will be producing spray cans for cream. According to Het Belang van Limburg the new plant represents an investment...[more]
BIZ PARK MONITORING
[BIZ: Aachen, December 10]
The business park monitoring system, using geographical information systems, is proving very useful in the Aachen region. In the last five years, in the region, as a whole, 377 lots with a total surface area of 253 hectares have been...[more]
TESSENDERLO 20YR PERMIT
[BIZ: Tessenderlo, December 10]
The Minister of the Environment Hilde Crevits has extended an envirionmental permit to Tessenderlo Chemie for 20 years. The company has promised to invest EUR 30m in 3 West-Limburg plants.Tessenderlo Group is investing EUR 10m...[more]
DSM REAL CHICKEN FLAVOR
[BIZ/NUTRI: Heerlen, December 10]
Maxavor® Chicken YE(1) from DSM Food Specialties is an innovative new range of chicken flavors that can be simply labeled ‘yeast extract’. As a 100% natural ingredient, Maxavor Chicken YE is the first ingredient of its kind...[more]
CROWNE PLAZA MAASTRICHT
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 9]
There was a reopening of the Crowne Plaza Hotel in Maastricht on December 9, which revealed an increase in the number of rooms. The mayor of Maastricht was able to open the hotel in the center of the city, and a desert buzzard...[more]
ECO TECHNO POLE
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Sclessin, December 9]
Eco Technopôole, an environmental technology cluster, has been established by private partners and the Walloon Minster of the Environment, Benoit Lutgen. This project, virtually unique in Europe, is to develop tools to reduce...[more]
TOP STREET
[BIZ: Liège, December 9]
Vinâve d'Ile in Liège is one of the most important business centers in the country. In addition to Rue Neuve in Brussels and the Meir in Antwerp, Vinâve d'Ile in Liège is one of the most important business streets in the country. This...[more]
GALAXIA FOR SPACE BIZ
[BIZ/SCI-TECH, Liège, December 9]
At a meeting organized by Idélux, André Antoine, the Minister of Housing, Transport and Land Development opened the "Galaxia" Centre for businesses focused on the integration of space applications, located close beside the...[more]
PARKSTAD LIMBURG
[BIZ/GOV: Parkstad, December 9]
In an interview with Jos Schneiders, the director of DSM Limburg and concerned with regional branding, Mr Schneiders makes the point that South Limburg combines to make an excellent product. With Maastricht as a center for shopping,...[more]
MINEWATER WEST
[BIZ: Sittard, December 9]
The Heerlen Minewater project, in which buildings and city districts can be heated and cooled by a geothermal process which pumps water into the old galleries and shafts of the former mines, is now gaining recognition and interest....[more]
DSM SELLS SOLUTECH
[BIZ: Sittard, December 9]
DSM has sold their stake in Solutech to the American company Lydall. Solutech, which is based in Geleen and Heerlen, develops thin, microporous films that are mainly used in water-resistant clothes, batteries and fuel cells. DSM sold...[more]
NEW DIRECTOR AT MACHIELS GROUP
[BIZ: Houthalen-Helchteren, December 9]
The managing director of Bionerga, Hugo Knevels, is leaving the company for a new job at the Machiels Group as the director of foreign activities. Knevels will be working on Machiels’ planned international expansion, with...[more]
ATEN MOVES TO ZOLDER
[BIZ: Zolder, December 9]
Aten International, a technology company from Taiwan, will extend its European distribution center to Zolder. The company has been established since 1999 in Houthalen, but because of the company’s growth, the location is turning out...[more]
HELMUT FALTER WINS PRIZE
[BIZ: Aachen, December 9]
The Aachen-Maastricht Business Club’s prize is awarded annually to persons who reveal a dedication to the arts, sport, and social or humanitarian projects, in addition to their business careers. Helmut Falter extended his bookshop in...[more]
NETHERLED AT AINSI
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 9]
Netherled has been renting a location from New Creatives at the AINSI building. Netherled is a wholesale importer of LED lighting. They deal with the retail trade, but also with architects and real estate developers. Netherled is...[more]
MALMEDY PAPER: INTERMILLS
[BIZ: Malmédy, December 8]
The Malmédy paper factory is to return to its original company, Intermills. The investors Roche from Canada and Doyle from Ireland have decided to turn the company back into an independent operation with its own business and marketing...[more]
HASSELT GIN DYNASTY ON TV
[BIZ/GOV: Hasselt, December 8]
The city of Hasselt has 135,000 overnight stays annually. Its target is 200,000, and so to increase the city’s attractions, the city and the province are going to act as co-producers in a new VRT Flemish TV show. The ten-part series...[more]
RADISSON BALMORAL RENOVATION
[BIZ: Spa, December 8]
The Radisson Hotel Balmoral in Spa is to undergo major renovation. This will involve the area of wellness, the bar and the restaurant. The company is investing EUR 4.7m for this purpose. There will also be more opportunities for daily...[more]
SPA AND WELLNESS ST GERLACH
[BIZ: St. Gerlach, December 8]
As of December 1, SPA and Wellness St Gerlach has gone over to the Sothys brand. Sothys has been well known for 60 years because of its know-how and innovative high-quality products in the area of skin care. Sothys has an adequate...[more]
CATHEDRAL JIGSAW
[BIZ/LEI: Aachen, December 8]
Aachen’s Cathedral is now available in the form of a 1000-piece jigsaw puzzle. This was developed as a souvenir, and city gift, based on a photograph by Andreas Herrmann. It costs EUR 14.95 and is 48cm x 46cm....[more]
EUR 2M INVESTED BY BATS
[BIZ: Liège, December 6]
Belgian Advanced Technology Systems (BATS), at the science park in Sart-Tilman, Liège, has just invested EUR 2m in a demonstration and training center. BATS, established in 1984, has earned a reputation as a leading European manufacturer...[more]
EUROREGION FM
[BIZ/MEDIA: Büllingen, December 6]
Euroregion FM is a future Euroregional radio station that will be based in Belgium’s German-speaking region. The idea behind Euroregion FM is new and based on a social network with a focus on associations, musical groups, choirs...[more]
AEROSPACE CHANGE
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Liège, December 5]
There has been a change at the top in the Walloon Aeropace cluster where Pierre Sonveaux replaces Philippe Schleicher. This is because Mr Schleicher is, in fact, leaving; but, he can look back on a period of great success with...[more]
YINGLIU ECD CHOOSES BORN
[BIZ/LOG: Born, December 5]
The Yingliu group is a large privately owned corporation involved in casting, forging, machining, selling research and development. The main production base is in Anhui province. Yingliu is a member of the China Foundry Association...[more]
EUR 70M FOR GENK
[BIZ: Genk, December 4]
The US automotive company, Ford, is going to invest EUR 70m in its Genk plant. This is in the context of the upgrading of its S-Max, Galaxy and Mondeo models. The modernization process is to be affected between February and August 2010....[more]
FRANK DE MOOR
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 4]
Frank De Moor of the Macintosh Retail Group has been nominated as the Top International Manager of the Year during a CEO Summit of the Belgian magazine ‘Trends’. The Macintosh Retail Group’s top man, concerned with retail chains...[more]
EAST BELGIUM PARK
[BIZ: Eupen, December 4]
The second largest business park in the province of Liège is to be the East Belgium Park that should be ready for business in 2010, and will cover 261 hectares in the municipalities of Eupen, Baelen, Lontzen and Welkenraedt. This can...[more]
THE CRYSTAL BOWL
[BIZ: Liège, December 3]
Emilio Facchi, of the café brasserie ‘Le Point de Vue’ in the center of Liège, received the Crystal Bowl for gastronomy from the Minister of Economics and the Walloon Heritage, Jean-Claude Marcourt, for his contribution to Liège’s gastronomic...[more]
EUR 40BN FOR FORD
[BIZ: Berlin, December 3]
The European Investment Bank is (end November) assessing whether it will make EUR 40bn available to the automotive industry, according to Ford’s Bernhard Mattes in an interview in the German magazine...[more]
VISYS: INNOVATIVE TOP
[BIZ: Hasselt, December 3]
Visys, located at the old Philips site in Hasselt is a pioneer in digital sorting and was rewarded by the Limburg Chamber of Commerce as the most innovative company in Limburg (B). The company is a winner primarily as a result of its...[more]
FLY TO CEBIT
[BIZ: Maastricht, December 3]
The world’s biggest IT fair, CeBIT, is in Hanover from March 3-8, 2009. The chambers of commerce in Meuse-Rhine and the WTC in Aachen are organizing a flight and a one-day visit on March 4. Contact Reiny van Kessel, +31 455 449...[more]
FALCK RISC AT CHEMELOT
[BIZ: Geleen, December 3]
Falck Risc provides education and training in dealing with emergencies in the industrial sector. The company stresses the importance of competence training and competence assessment in an internally developed system. This combines lessons...[more]
PRATT & WHITNEY ENGINE CENTER
[BIZ: Liège, December 2]
Pratt & Whitney has celebrated the grand opening of Belgium Engine Center, a military maintenance, repair and overhaul (MRO) facility, in Liège. More than 200 dignitaries, visitors and employees attended the event. Pratt & Whitney is...[more]
ORG INFORMATICS IN WALLONIA
[BIZ: Lessive, December 2]
The Indian owners of ORG Informatics are pursuing their development aims at the former Belgacom site in Lessive. They’ve just invested EUR 5m and obtained a Walloon subsidy of EUR 741,000. ORG Informatics purchased the former Belgacom ...[more]
AUTOMOTIVE SHORT TIME
[BIZ: Genk, December 2]
A number of automotive companies and their suppliers are going on short time at this time of the year because of the general worldwide economic malaise. In the case of Ford, the assembly department will close between December 12 and January...[more]
AACHEN’S PRINTEN
[BIZ/MEDIA: Aachen, December 2]
Aachen’s celebrated spicy gingerbread, Printen, a sort of cookie, has been on television. There was a special program on German TV’s WDR channel on December 9 on what is one of the many delights of a visit to Aachen. The program...[more]
CROWNE PLAZA, LIEGE
[BIZ: Liège, December 2]
There is a lot going on in Liège at the moment, and one of the projects is a EUR 38m investment in a new hotel on the Mont St Martin, which is expected to be operational in the fall of 2009. This will be a five-star hotel with 126 rooms,...[more]
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MEUSE-RHINE RAIL DEVELOPMENTS
[LOG: Aachen, December 12]
The European Union is going to invest EUR 1.8m in various innovative projects on cross-border rail passenger traffic in the region, which will involve the City of Aachen, the Aachen Transport Company and Parkstad Limburg. This is in...[more]
STEEL LOGISTICS EUROPE
[LOG: Maastricht, December 10]
The Province of Limburg has decided to allocate a subsidy of EUR 100,000 to Steel Logistics Europe to construct a public rail terminal in the Beatrixhaven in Maastricht. The total investment will be EUR 1.1m. SLE is concerned with...[more]
LIEGE TRILOGIPORT
[LOG: Liège, December 9]
A start has been made on the Liège Trilogiport multi-modal platform of 100 hectares on the Albert Canal at Hermalle-sous-Argenteau. The port is expected to move a lot of a value-added logistics and container handling from the seaports...[more]
THE PORT OF LIEGE
[LOG: Liège, December 3]
DataQuest, the research department of ImmoQuest, has just published a new study on the Port of Liège and the advantages of waterborne transport in the European context. It is clear that the Port of Liège and the Liège region are going...[more]
WALLOON LOGISTICS TOP
[LOG: Liège, December 2]
Cushman and Wakefield’s biannual European Distribution Report for 2008 puts the Walloon country, with Flanders and France’s Nord-Pas de Calais, at the top of the logistics rankings....[more]
RYANAIR BACK IN APRIL
[LOG: Maastricht, December 2]
Shortly after announcing the closedown of its Spanish flights from MAA to Spain (published in our last issue), a new press release noted that Maastricht-Aachen Airport is pleased to announce the reinstatement of the Ryanair flights...[more]
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COMBATING CLIMATE CHANGE
[GOV/BIZ: Essen-Poznan, December 12]
Dr Johannes Lambertz, CEO of RWE Power, called for a fair emissions trading scheme to ensure that power plant investments in Europe guarantee security of supply in future. He spoke at an RWE event recently in Poznan, Poland,...[more]
NL-FLANDERS EU GRANT
[GOV: Maastricht, December 12]
Europe is investing more than EUR 7m in the Flemish Dutch Border Region. The Interreg IV A-program for Flanders and the Netherlands (2007-2013) has approved two new project proposals. This represents a total investment of EUR 24m...[more]
EUR 1.5M FOR VALKENBURG
[GOV: Valkenburg, December 12]
The center of Valkenburg is to have a facelift and has recived a grant of EUR 1.5m from the Province for this purpose. The city government is not satisfied with the image of downtown Valkenburg....[more]
MEUSE-RHINE POLICE TEAMS
[GOV: Heerlen, December 10]
Fighting crime across borders has often fallen back on ad hoc teams. These teams are set up for particular purposes and then dissolve. According to the former South Limburg chief of police, this form of cooperation is more efficient...[more]
THE LIMBURG CHARTER
[GOV: Maaseik, December 10]
The Dutch and Belgian provinces of Limburg have signed a charter on the evening of the commemoration of the separation of the two provinces of Limburg. After 170 years of formal separation, it’s time now for them to emerge as one...[more]
US AMBASSADOR VISITS DG
[GOV: Eupen, December 9]
Sam Fox, the US Ambassador in Brussels, is to visit the parliament of Belgium’s German-speaking community on December 18. He will sign the parliament’s Golden Book and see a film about 175 years of diplomatic relations between Belgium...[more]
NING-PO OPENS MUSEUM
[EDU/LEI: Aachen, Ning-Po, December 9]
Aachen’s partner city Ning-Po has opened a new city and regional history museum in which the local artistic tradition is revealed. This represented an investment of EUR 30m, and the collection of exhibits has been put together...[more]
CHARLEMAGNE PRIZE 2009
[GOV: Aachen, December 9]
Andrea Riccardi (born 1950 in Rome) is the founder of the Community of Sant'Egidio. And he has been nominated as the next holder of Aachen’s Charlemagne Prize to be awarded in 2009.The Community of Saint Egidio was born in 1968 in ...[more]
LIEGE U: NEW BIZ SCHOOL HEAD
[EDU: Liège December 9]
Thomas Froehlicher is to head Liège University’s Business School, with effect from January 1, 2009. He succeeds Yves CRAMA and Marc DUBRU. Dr Froehlicher is a graduate of the Strasbourg School of Management. He has a degree in Sociology...[more]
PASSIVE HOUSES BACKED
[GOV/INFRA: Raeren, December 6]
Passive houses, discussed in our last issue, are supported by the Green Party in Raeren, East Belgium, which is concerned with the prejudices against them. The concerns are that the air conditioning is unhealthy and that traditional...[more]
RIVER AMEL TREATY SIGNED
[GOV: Elsenborn, December 6]
In Elsenborn, a second treaty on the River Amel has been signed. All 16 municipalities from Büllingen in East Belgium to Aywaille in Liège, through which the Amel flows, are signatories to this environmental move. In the next three...[more]
MAASTRICHT U 3RD
[EDU: Maastricht, December 5]
Maastricht University remains among the leading Dutch university in terms of choice in higher education, according to Keuzegids Hoger Onderwijs, which is compiled by an independent team from the Higher Education press office. This...[more]
COFFEE-SHOPS
[GOV: Visé, December 5]
According to a rapport in La Meuse, the majors of Visé, Lanaken, Riemst, Fourons and Eijsden met on December 4 to decide on a joint position vis-a-vie the coffee-shop issue. These coffee shops have in fact little to do with coffee, but...[more]
ENTREPRENEURSHIP SOUTH
[EDU/BIZ: Heerlen, December 4]
The Hogeschool Zuyd has bundled all of its activities, knowledge and research in the area of business to set up a new center of entrepreneurship. The Center for Entrepreneurship Zuyd (South) offers students and staff the chance...[more]
EUROMOSA
[GOV: Maaseik, December 3]
Euromosa is a cross-border cooperative association with the Belgian municipality of Maaseik, the Dutch Echt-Susteren, and the German municipalities of Waldfeucht, Selfkant and Gangelt. Since it was established in 2003 it has set up...[more]
BELGIAN-GERMAN RELATIONS
[EDU: Eupen, December 3]
Els Herrebout, the historian and a scholar with the State Archives in Eupen, has written an important work in Brussels on November 26 about Belgian-German relations between 1830 and 1962. According to Oliver Paasch, the Minister of ...[more]
LIMBURG CROSSING BORDERS
[GOV: Brussels, December 3]
On Wednesday, December 3, 2008, the Province of Limburg, together with Maastricht University and the Cross-Border Workers Task Force of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, organized the ‘labor mobility in border regions’ conference. This...[more]
MAYOR LINDEN IN HEERLEN
[GOV: Heerlen, December 3]
Mayor Jürgen Linden of Aachen is to be awarded Honorary Citizenship of Heerlen to mark his very many years of cross-border cooperation. This was decided at meeting of Heerlen City Council with Mayor Toine Gresel. Honorary Citizenship...[more]
ELECTRONIC CUSTOMS CLEARANCE
[GOV/BIZ: Aachen, December 2]
Because the meeting organized for January 21, 2009 is almost completely fully booked, the Aachen Chamber of Commerce is offering a second meeting on January 28, 2009 from 10:00 to 12:00 and also on July 1. This is to explain standardized...[more]
MANAGEMENT CYBERNETICS
[EDU/BIZ: Aachen, December 2]
Jean Severijns of the Province of Limburg (NL) has been appointed a member of the academic board of the Institute for Management Cybernetics. This institute is an interdisciplinary institute at Aachen’s RWTH University. It is concerned...[more]
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EUR 30M FOR MEDICAL CENTER
[LIFE-SCI/BIZ: Aachen, December 9]
There are plans (reported in November) to build a new medical center and hotel, within a 15-month period. This will be an investment of EUR 30m in Aachen according to Professor Jürgen Erbach. Deutsche Bahn (German Rail) has...[more]
SKIN CANCER
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, December 9]
The return of an aggressive type of facial tumor can be avoided by applying Moh’s micrographic surgery. This surgical technique leads to less reoccurrence and fewer skin defects. This emerged from research by a dermatology...[more]
SHORTAGE OF MEDICOS
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, December 6]
Within the next five years there will be shortage of some 355 medical doctors in Walloon hospitals, according to a study of the public medical facilities called ‘Santhea’. The greatest shortage will be among specialists in internal...[more]
GOOD NEWS FROM BOMBAY
[LIFE-SCI: Bombay, December 3]
Despite the attacks on Bombay by terrorists this year, the city’s importance is transcendent. An important statement on the Belgian Life Sciences was also in made at the beginning of November by Yves Verschueren, president of the...[more]
ILD CARE TODAY
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, December 2]
ILD stands for Interstitial Lung Diseases, including sarcoidosis and occupation-related lung diseases and a new magazine, called ‘ILD Care Today’, has been published by Maastricht University. This is a magazine, but more targeting...[more]
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CUSTOM MADE ELECTRONICS
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, December 5]
Future IT technologies and high-temperature superconductivity require new types of materials with custom-made electronic characteristics. An article has been written on this subject by physicists from the Jülich Research Center,...[more]
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PETIT FUTE LIEGE
[LEI: Liège, December 15]
The new petit Futé, guide to Liège for 2009 is out. This is the 20th issue of this useful and popular series, which covers restaurants, amusement, shopping and trips out of town. This issue is authored by Marie Honnay, who observes...[more]
MIRACLE
[LEI: Eijsden, December 15]
Jean Philippe Rieu’s new CD is out, it’s called Miracle. Jean-Philippe is a true Euroregional musician, having conducted the Liège Philharmonic at the age of 17 and also conducted the orchestra of the Maastricht Conservatory of music...[more]
AERNOUT MIK WINS
[LEI: Aachen, December 9]
The Dutch artist, Aernout Mik, has won the Aachen Art Prize for his films ‘Glutinosity’ (2002), ‘Osmosis and Excess’ (2005), ‘Convergencies’ (2007) and ‘Touch, Rise and Fall’ (2008). In these films, Mik sounds out human behavior between...[more]
ANTONIO MARO EXHIBITION
[LEI: Eupen, December 9]
From November 23 through January 11, the IKOB museum of contemporary art in Eupen will put on an exhibition of the work of Antonio Máro called ‘The Painting of the Four Seasons’....[more]
DIE FLEDERMAUS
[LEI: Liège, December 9]
The Royal Walloon Opera will be putting on the Fledermaus by Johann Strauss II from December 19 through December 31, 2008....[more]
6X CROSS COUNTRY
[LEI: Baraque Michel, December 6]
Six new cross-country ski routes have been opened in East Belgium. These are located at the centers of Baraque Michel, Mont Rigi, Signal and the nature park Botrange as well as Elsenborn and Rocherath, where there are between...[more]
GOING NORTH
[MEDIA/BIZ: Maastricht/Groningen, December 4]
The board of RTV Noord (North), the public broadcasting authority in Groningen, has invited Harro Coumans to become the temporary director of its broadcasting operation. The current director will be retiring on January...[more]
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