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NEW PUBLICATIONS
[EDIT: Peapack, N.J., October 12]
A new and welcome development in Meuse-Rhine is a spate of activity on the publishing front. As was the case this time last year, Niveau magazine has come out with a new idea. A horizontal approach to publishing may be rather...[more]
A NEW GOVERNOR
[EDIT: Hasselt, October 5]
The new governor of Belgian Limburg is to be Herman Reynders. The new governor was sworn in by the Flemish Minister of Home Affairs Geert Bourgeois on October 5 in Brussels. Mr Reynders (SP. A) follows Steve Stevaert as the governor...[more]
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MEDIA CITY
[BIZ: Liège, October 12]
Hardly have the festival lanterns been switched off at the Gare des Guillemins, designed by Santiago Calatrava, than those of the MÉDIACITÉ are poised to light up. Whereas the Gare des Guillemins was a public sector project (SNCB), that...[more]
THE AGRO-FOOD LINK
[BIZ: Maastricht, October 10]
The Agro Food Link is a new international cooperative association with Germany, The Netherlands and Flanders in the area of agriculture and the nutrition industry. The agro-food sector is often not well known to the general public...[more]
CHEMTRIX MICRO REACTOR SYSTEM
[BIZ: Geleen, October 9]
After the launch of Labtrix® (intended for laboratory use) in Frankfurt earlier this year, Chemtrix launches its second product “Protrix®” at CPhI Worldwide Madrid. Protrix is intended for pilot-scale production. It can be used to perform...[more]
NEW CHAIRMAN AT SERVATIUS
[BIZ: Maastricht, October 9]
The Servatius housing association has appointed Mr Kees Hobo as the new chairman of its board. Kees Hobo (1949) has management experience in the non-profit sector and over the last 17 years he’s been a director of various housing...[more]
MICROMERITICS CHOOSES AVANTIS
[BIZ: Aachen/Heerlen/Avantis, October 9]
Ton Hustings, the manager of Micromeritics Deutschland and Benelux, whose activities are described below, says that Avantis is an ideal location for his company. Incidentally, among the other things that you can read...[more]
WALLOON LOGISTICS
[BIZ/LOG: Liège, October 8]
The logistics cluster in Liège is looking back over ten years of activity, since it was created in 1999, and it’s got some eye-catching headlines to report. For example, in this multimodal center of logistics and transport at the...[more]
CELLMADE FOR CHEMELOT
[BIZ: Geleen, October 8]
CellMade has opened new facilities on the Chemelot Campus in Geleen (NL). CellMade is a French research-based company specialized in research and development services to the pharmaceutical industry. “We help pharmaceutical companies...[more]
EUR 1.6BN REVENUE FOR TRIANEL
[BIZ: Aachen/Aachen City Region, October 6]
The strongest business in the city region in terms of revenues is Trianel GmbH on the Lombard Strasse in Aachen. It has achieved revenues of EUR 2.62bn in 2008 and this puts the energy business among the hundredth...[more]
ELECTRO MOBILITY IN CHINA
[BIZ: Aachen, October 5]
The Chinese are coming to Aachen to look at the prospects for electric cars. It had earlier been suggested that other players in the Euroregion should get together with Aachen on this issue. However, the Chinese are in the spirit of...[more]
MILK PROBLEMS
[BIZ: Aachen, October 5]
There have been problems in the milk markets leading to major demonstrations by agriculturalists in Belgium, largely concerned by the price of milk. Twenty of the 27 member states of the EU are asking for a better regulation of the dairy...[more]
PLANNERS VISIT MAASTRICHT
[BIZ: Maastricht, October 5]
Last weekend 19 planners of corporate meetings, incentives and conferences from The Netherlands, Belgium and Germany were in Maastricht and the surrounding area to get to know the region as a destination for their meetings. Such...[more]
A&M’S NEW ANNUITY
[BIZ: Aachen, October 5]
With the WUNSCHPOLICE SACHWERT-STRATEGIE No. 1 AachenMünchener has extended its range of offers in private annuity insurance. The new product focuses on the security of material assets. This is AachenMünchener’s answer to the increasing...[more]
TRIP TO INDIA
[BIZ: Aachen, October 2]
There will be a one-week trip organized by the German–India chamber of commerce to the cities of Delhi, Bombay and Bangalore, and a visit to the IMTEX exhibition, the leading exhibition for the Indian machine-tools sector and ELECRAMA,...[more]
BELGIUM & LUXEMB0URG
[BIZ: Aachen, October 2]
At the World Trade Center at Avantis, the cross-border Science and Business Park, there will be an informative meeting on November 17 from 14:00 to 17:00 on service provision in neighboring countries. The focus will be on Belgium and...[more]
INFORMATION ON GERMANY
[BIZ: Aachen/Avantis, October 2]
The World Trade Center in Heerlen/Aachen, at the Avantis cross-border business site, is holding a special information day on November 17 with the Limburg Chamber of Commerce, to look at the Dutch and German markets. There will...[more]
NING-PO AND AACHEN
[BIZ: Aachen, October 2]
On October 28, in the context of the Ning-po week in Europe, the Ning-po city government of Aachen’s partner city in China and the Aachen Chamber of Commerce and Industry are holding an informative meeting at 10:00 am in the chamber...[more]
CHAMBER NEWS
[BIZ: Aachen/Maastricht, October 2]
In Limburg there is to be a course on the transport industry, which will run from January through December at the Leeuwenborgh Opleidingen in Sittard, at a cost of EUR 990. It will cover multimodal transport by highway, rail,...[more]
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CHRISTIAN DELCOURT
[LOG: Liège, October 8]
Christian Delcourt has been hired by Liège Airport as their communications manager. He will be concerned with external and internal communications for the airport, and the key contact for media and the press. He will be a spokesman with...[more]
INLAND SHIPPING
[LOG: Brussels, October 7]
A new study by economist Tilam Platz has come to the conclusion that, in spite of years of promotion by the European Commission, and in spite of being the most environmentally friendly form of transport, inland shipping still has...[more]
MULTIMODAL INSURANCE
[LOG: Aachen, October 5]
The professional association for vehicle management BGH and the nautical equivalent have come together to provide a new professional association for transport and logistics, BG Verkehr. The agreement was signed at the end of September...[more]
EMISSIONS STANDARDS
[LOG: Aachen, October 2]
Trucks and buses are now subject to a new European Union emissions control standard known as Euro-Norm-5. New vehicles with Euro-Norm-4 status will no longer be permitted on the roads as they pollute the environment. The EU is planning...[more]
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GOLD MEDAL FOR JUERGEN LINDEN
[GOV: Aachen, October 9]
The next meeting of the mayors of the five MAHHL cities—Maastricht, Aachen, Hasselt, Heerlen and Liège—will be in Maastricht and led by Mayor Gerd Leers, who will present the Golden Medal of Honor of the City of Maastricht to Dr. Jürgen...[more]
AACHEN & THE NOBEL PRIZE
[EDU: Aachen, October 8]
Aachen is pleased that the Nobel prize for literature went to the Romanian-born German poet and novelist Herta Müller, because she also won Aachen’s Walter Hasenclever literary prize for her work. She was born in 1953 in the village...[more]
A FISH LADDER
[GOV: Liège, October 7]
As part of the Meuse Salmon project 2000, the Walloon waterway authorities have created a fish ladder at Grosses Battes, Liège. TheSalmon 2000 Project was launched in Wallonia in 1987, with the aim of reintroducing the Atlantic salmon....[more]
DR LINDEN SPEAKS
[GOV: Aachen, October 7]
Dr Jürgen Linden has been the mayor of Aachen for 20 years and has just retired He has a number of important things to say in his final speech that we shall not attempt to summarize here, but out of which we’ll take points of general...[more]
LIMBURG & BV LIMBURG
[GOV: Maastricht, October 6]
The Limburg provincial government has agreed to participate in the associative cooperative organization BV Limburg, on condition that a level of agreement can be reached. The associative cooperation, BV Limburg, is a public-private...[more]
STATE TAKES 50% OF ENERGETICON
[GOV: Cologne/Aachen Region, October 2]
The government has given the go ahead for a 50% stake on behalf of the LVR (Landschaftsverbands Rheinland) in Energeticon GmbH in Alsdorf, which is yet to be developed. Based on the history of mining and the mining industry...[more]
EU DECISION MAKING
[EDU: Maastricht, October 2]
The European Commission employs around 32,000 public servants who, although they have no formal decision-taking ability, play an important role in the decision-making process. In addition, other European institutions like the European...[more]
MSM GRADUATION 200
[EDU: Maastricht, October 2]
140 graduates received their degrees on September 7 in Maastricht at the Maastricht School of Management. They represented 30 nationalities. A European attachment group of 21 MBA students from Namibia also attended the graduation...[more]
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BIOLOG EUROPE
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, October 13]
Russ Froneberger writes: Liège (Belgium) has decided to leverage its existing infrastructures, exceptional bioscience environment and unique multi-modal transportation capabilities to become a region of excellence in biologistics...[more]
CHONDROCELECT APPROVED
[LIFE-SCI: Louvain/Sittard-Geleen, October 6]
The European Commission has adopted the decision to authorize TiGenix to commercialize ChondroCelect in the 27 countries of the European Union as well as in Iceland, Lichtenstein and Norway. The authorization arrives...[more]
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ORGAN CONCERTS
[LEI: Liège, October 12]
There will be organ concerts from October 18 to November 29, including a Bach concert at the Église Saint-Jacques on October 18 at 16:00 all within the context of the Liège concert festival. Check the information at the website....[more]
CHRISTMAS IN VALKENBURG
[LEI: Valkenburg, October 10]
There is to be a major promotional campaign for Christmas in Valkenburg, where November and the period through to Christmas bring an average of 220,000 visitors. This year there will be the culinary walk, the Route d’Amuse, Father...[more]
MARTIN BUBER AWARD 2009
[LEI: Kerkrade, October 6]
The annual Martin Buber Award presented by the Euriade foundation goes this year to Dr Hugo Tempelman and Liesje Tempelman. For more than 17 years the Dutch physician, Hugo Tempelman, and his wife Liesje, were fighting a virtually...[more]
MORE ON FRITURES
[LEI: Aachen, October 5]
Following our publication on high-class ‘fritures’, or snack bars, in Maastricht and the Eupen area, we were reminded by a reader, Mr Ralph van der Meulen, that Aachen has its own friture, also based on Aachen’s Michelin-star restaurant...[more]
DISNEY ON ICE
[LEI: Hasselt, October 5]
This season there is to be a performance of Tinkelbel (Tinker Bell) on ice with splendid choreography and castle décor. It’s at the Ethias Arena in Hasselt, on Tuesday, February 9 and Wednesday, February 10. The tickets are available...[more]
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