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SUSTAINABLE PERFORMANCE
[EDIT: Eijsden, April 15]
Bloomberg, Thomson Reuters, and NASDAQ are all assessing the sustainable performance of thousands of companies. Bloomberg has already visited the Meuse-Rhine Journal’s site more than 524 times in the last few weeks, presumably as part...[more]
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280 JOBS AT NEDCAR
[IND: Born, April 15]
The NedCar plant at Born will be requiring 280 additional part-time workers this year to meet the demand for the Mitsubishi Colt and Outlander models. An additional 8,000 cars are expected, bringing this year's total to 58,000 as against...[more]
NEW AIXTRON LAB
[IND: Herzogenrath, April 14]
Aixtron is a leading provider of deposition equipment to the semiconductor industry, is doubling its research capacity with a new EUR 40m lab, scheduled for completion in mid-2011. There will be an office complex, conference and...[more]
REPURCHASE OF SHARES
[BIZ: Maastricht, April 14]
The management board of the Macintosh Retail Group has announced (see below) its intention to repurchase shares to a maximum amount of EUR 3.3m to cover outstanding staff options. The repurchasing program begins on April 1, 2010,...[more]
EWT SOLAR CELLS
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Heerlen/Avantis, April 14]
Led by Solland Solar, a Dutch consortium further comprising Sunergy, Levitech and ECN, started a joint three-year project to develop high-efficiency back-contact solar cells based on the so-called emitter wrap through...[more]
ENTREPRENEURSHIP
[BIZ/EDU: Maastricht, April 14]
After a successful start last year, Maastricht University and the student association Momentum are organizing the Maastricht Week of Entrepreneurship for the second time. This runs from April 14 to 18, and will have speakers,...[more]
ENRICHMENT TECH INVESTS
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Jülich, April 13]
Enrichment Technology is a technology leader in uranium enrichment. Its operations play a pivotal role in the production of nuclear fuel and they believe that nuclear energy is vital to the delivery of a global, sustainable energy...[more]
20 YEARS OF LIEGE AIRPORT
[BIZ/LOG: Liège, April 12]
The 20th anniversary of Liège Airport is upon us. It was officially founded on April 30, 1990 as SAB (a company for the development and promotion of the Bierset Airport). The anniversary will be celebrated on May 6 from 18:45 with...[more]
EXPORT DAY
[BIZ: Sittard, April 12]
On June 8 there will be an annual Export Day held in Sittard. On this occasion the international growth markets are central. It starts in the morning at 09:00 and there are workshops on the Maghreb countries of North Africa, Tunisia,...[more]
BUSINESS ACROSS BORDERS
[BIZ/EDU: Maastricht, April 12]
On Thursday, April 22, the international student association AIESEC-Maastricht, in cooperation with the Limburg Employers Association and the Province of Limburg, will hold a conference with the topic ‘Doing Business Across Borders:...[more]
ETHIAS REAL ESTATE
[BIZ: Liège, April 12]
ImmoQuest is selling a real estate investment portfolio for the Ethias group for a total value of EUR 11m. The insurance/bank company is selling off real estate assets in order to optimize it’s capital. The portfolio consists of five buildings,...[more]
IMMOQUEST FOR RENT/SALE
[BIZ: Liège, April 12]
ImmoQuest lists a range of properties for rent or sale in the wider Liège area. Check their website for the details....[more]
TGV AND REAL ESTATE
[BIZ: Liège, April 12]
Immoquest has just released a new study (timed to coincide with the opening of the new Guillemins train station in Liège) devoted to the impact of TGV high-speed trains on real estate. It was found that in France the impact of the TGV...[more]
S. LIMBURG ASPARAGUS MARKET
[BIZ: Schinveld, April 10]
The chamber of commerce is organizing a market for its asparagus project at the market in Schinvelderhoeve. It is bringing asparagus to South Limburg and it is doing this with a special cycling arrangement and route to develop asparagus...[more]
MEUSE-RHINE STARTERS
[BIZ: Aachen, April 9]
The Meuse-Rhine Euroregion provides almost four million inhabitants and over 250,000 businesses with a great many opportunities for business activity. In order to familiarize the business community with the concept of a Euroregion for...[more]
NEW ELECTRABEL CHIEF
[BIZ: Brussels, April 7]
Dirk Beeuwsaert (1948) is the new chief of Electrabel. He has spent his whole professional career in the energy sector and started in the 70s with Intercom, but at the beginning of the 90s when Electrabel started he moved to the new...[more]
DKD STAKEHOLDER CHANGE
[BIZ: Liège, April 7]
DKD, a subsidiary of the Unijep group specializing in the production of visual communication solutions, has announced that it has changed its stakeholders and is becoming independent. Etienne Fraikin, ex-director of the Unijep commercial...[more]
EVS TAKES OVER OPENCUBE
[BIZ: Liège, April 6]
Liège-based EVS is the leader in live outside broadcast digital video production systems. Its products are intelligent recorders combined with highly reactive applications such as the slow-motion system that has become a standard worldwide....[more]
RENE STEUNS FOR LIOF
[BIZ: Maastricht, April 2]
René Steuns (54) has joined LIOF, the Limburg Development Company. He will run the venture capital side and be the Deputy MD, effective July 1. Mr Steuns is currently VP Finance at Océ Technologies. He had previously occupied international...[more]
CRYSTAL ROCKET
[BIZ: Seraing, April 2]
Belgium’s luxury Crystal brand from Val Saint Lambert is launching its Savoir Faire in China. It has produced a rocket ship made of crystal; 2.6m in height and weighing 200kg. This will soon grace the Belgian pavilion at the international...[more]
ELECTRABEL TO LEAVE ELIA
[BIZ/INFRA: Brussels, April 2]
Power utility Electrabel wants to cut its links with the energy transporter Elia. The power company has announced that it wants to sell 12.5% of Elia initially to the municipal holding company Publi-T. This transaction involved...[more]
DSM AGRO & MELAMINE SOLD
[BIZ: Heerlen, April 2]
DSM and Orascom Construction Industries (OCI) have announced that they have reached an agreement for the sale of DSM Agro and DSM Melamine to OCI for EUR 310 million on a cash and debt-free basis with effect from 1 January 2010. The intended...[more]
GIMV MAJOR SHARE IN PUNCH
[BIZ: St. Trond, April 2]
Punch Powertrain, which manufactures automatic gearboxes, has acquired a capital investment of EUR 24m. EUR 18m comes from the Gimv holding company and the Capricorn investment fund has added EUR 6m. Gimv is Belgium's most important...[more]
UMICORE BATTERY RECYCLING
[BIZ: Olen/Eijsden, April 2]
Umicore, which has plants in Belgium and in Eijsden, South Limburg, is going to invest EUR 60m in the expansion of its production capacity for a new generation of cathode materials for rechargeable lithium iron batteries. The investment...[more]
NEW BOSS FOR WINSELERHOF
[BIZ: Landgraaf, April 2]
Bastiaan Klomp (31) has been the general manager of the Hotel WinselerHof and Pirandello Restaurant / Luigi’s Trattoria in Landgraaf since April 1. After completing his studies at Maastricht’s Higher Hotel School, Mr. Klomp worked for...[more]
WALLOON SPACE INCUBATOR
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Liège, April 2]
The Walloon space science incubator is for new and start-up businesses concerned with space science and engineering. There are four to five of these companies each year that provide products and services with high added value from...[more]
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BIO-LOGISTICS IN CHICAGO
[LOG/LIFE-SCI: Chicago, April 12]
Once again the BioLog Europe team from Liège will be attending the BIO Show in Chicago from May 3 through 6. The team will visit American-based biotech and logistics companies interested in establishing an address in Liège or...[more]
POWER MARKET COUPLING
[INFRA: Brussels, April 7]
The implementation phase of Central Western European (CWE) Market Coupling project is entering its final stage. Given the unprecedented complexity of the CWE Market Coupling project, the project partners - power exchanges and Transmission...[more]
EUROPEAN RAIL POLICY
[LOG: Brussels, April 2]
In about three months time the international rail top experts will gather in Brussels. [One hopes they will all have The Economist’s April 10 article on the expansion of rail networks in China/Asia. SW] They will meet on June 22 during...[more]
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SIGNO GERMANY
[GOV/BIZ: Aachen, April 15]
SIGNO stands for the protection of ideas for commercial use. SIGNO Companies aims to intensify the innovation activity of SMEs. To disseminate information about industrial property rights, as well as scientific and technological information,...[more]
NO SMOKING PROF
[EDU/LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, April 12]
The School for Public Health and Primary Care Research at Maastricht University is appointing Marc Willemsen as professor for tobacco control research. The chair is endowed by a Dutch trust called STIVORO, which is concerned...[more]
STELLA NKOMO
[EDU: Hasselt, April 12]
On April 15 between 17:00 and 19:00 at the University of Hasselt Campus in Diepenbeek, Stella Nkomo will give a lecture on race, ethnicity, identity and the difference in organizations of the 21st century. Professor Stella Nkomo is ...[more]
GOVERNMENT WEBSITES
[GOV: The Hague, April 12]
Since the end of March the Dutch government websites have changed their links. Economic Affairs is now to be found under www.rijksoverheid.nl. For more news of the government projects check the link below.
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CABERG-MALPERTUIS PARK
[GOV/INFRA: Maastricht, April 10]
On April 10 the official start was made on work to create a new district park for Caberg-Malpertuis. The residents of this part of Maastricht and the professionals involved celebrated together—after a long trajectory of cooperation...[more]
LIMBURG AND RUHR 2010
[GOV: Maastricht, April 6]
The Province of Limburg is making two Limburg cultural products available for the Ruhr 2010 European Cultural Capital program. Fashionclash will be appearing in the Zollverein Mine in Essen on June 19 during the program called Extra...[more]
AIRCRAFT TECHNOLOGY
[EDU: Beek, April 2]
The Leeuwenborgh Educational Center will be offering 30 German students courses in aircraft technology at the Aviation Competence Center in Beek in September 2010. There is a TV program covering this at the link. The program is dated March...[more]
IT DEVELOPMENTS
[EDU/BIZ: Heerlen, April 2]
The program in Network Infrastructure Design (NID) at the IT Faculty of the Hogeschool Zuyd has organized a business day. Businesses can introduce themselves on April 19, between 08:30 and 17:00 at the business market, by giving a...[more]
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PHARMACELL ANNIVERSARY
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, April 12]
PharmaCell celebrated its anniversary on February 26. It provides contract services in the area of human-cell and -tissue banking and culturing as well as human cell line development and manufacturing of (bio) pharmaceuticals....[more]
NESCAV PROJECT
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, April 12]
The School of Public Health at the University of Liège, in cooperation with the university hospital, is taking part in a major project on the prevention of cardiovascular disease within the grand region of Sarre-Lor-Lux, the Rhineland...[more]
BIOTECH TRADE MISSION
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, April 12]
From June 14 through 18 there will be a Biotechnologies trade mission to Italy. The program includes visits to Milan and Sienna, which have a high concentration of biotech companies.The Italian biotechnology sector has grown ...[more]
MAASTRICHT U IMPLANTS ICDS
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, April 9]
Recently the cardiologist Dr. van Opstal and Dr. G. Geskes of Maastricht UMC started with the complete subcutaneous implantation of cardioverter defibrillators (ICDs). ‘Since then three patients have had ICD implants to our complete...[more]
TV MEDICS
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, April 6]
The Maastricht University Hospital (AZM) is playing an important role in a new TV series on Dutch television called ‘The University Hospital’, in which innovative treatment and surgical techniques and research methods are dealt...[more]
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AMOS IN SPAIN
[SCI-TECH/ BIZ: Liège, April 2]
AMOS was launched in 1983 on the basis of the engineering expertise of Ateliers de la Meuse and on the basis of the optical know-how of the Institute of Astrophysics from the University of Liège.
Its staff of 75 specializes...[more]
AN IDEAL QUANTUM COMPUTER
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, April 2]
A quantum computer could provide an enormous improvement in the processing speed of existing computers, however, as yet, they only exist in the laboratory in the form of small prototypes with the capacity of a few Bits. They can now...[more]
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WAL INCOMING
[LEI: Liège, April 12]
Wal Incoming is the name of a new website that is concerned with discovering the attractions of the province of Liège -the choice of the name is, of course, the responsibility of the chooser. During the initial period, products will be...[more]
MADE IN EUROPE
[LEI: Maastricht, April 12]
The Made in Europe Film Festival (April 16 through 18) is the result of a long-term program of cooperation with the Lumière Cinema in Maastricht. In recent years, the Aachen program was held in March, parallel to the program in Maastricht,...[more]
25 SCOTTISH WEEKENDS
[LEI: Alden Biesen, April 12]
The 25th edition of the Scottish Weekend will be held from September 10 through 12 at Alden Biesen in Belgium. The festival will include folk music. The Scottish-Belgian combination will be: Yew (B) and Shooglenifty (SCO). On ...[more]
BUGBURGERS
[LEI: Kerkrade, April 9]
The Continium discovery center may, in future, be offering grasshopper burgers and worm quiche in the supermarkets. The thinking behind this idea and the justification for eating insects is that insects are thought to be a more durable...[more]
MUSIC FOR YOUNG AND OLD
[LEI: Maastricht, April 2]
The Foundation of Music for Young and Old can look forward to a provincial contribution of EUR 20,000 for the 2010 series of concerts ‘Music for Young and Old’. The foundation is organizing 360 chamber music concerts, both classical...[more]
THE EMPRESS
[LEI: Nederweert, April 2]
Citizen militias (Schutterij in Dutch) are popular throughout the southern Netherlands and engage in shooting competitions, sometimes including crossbows. On the Jubilee weekend of the St. Oda Militia, on April 23, 24 and 25, there...[more]
CARMINA BURANA
[LEI: Liège, April 2]
There will be a performance of Carmina Burana on June 5 at the Church of Saint Jacques in Liège. Pierre Thimus, the conductor of Liège’s symphonic choir and the Convivium Orchestra, has invited two winners from the Queen Elisabeth competition,...[more]
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