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GO EAST YOUNG MAN!
[EDIT: Eijsden, April 30]
All the news seems to involve China and India nowadays. The former Governor of Belgian Limburg and one-time boss of Meuse-Rhine, Steve Stevaert, is off to Haiphong to play a role in Eurasia’s vast logistical revolution. Belgian Limburg’s...[more]
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DECATHLON SUPERSHOP
[BIZ: Maasmechelen, April 30]
Decathlon , the French sporting goods specialist is going to start construction of a new EUR 9.3m retail facility, within a year, and it has purchased a 1 hectare site from the Municipality of Maasmechelen for EUR 500,000 for this...[more]
TESSENDERLO GROUP Q1
[BIZ: Tessenderlo, April 30]
Tessenderlo Group’s Q1 2010 results showed modest revenue growth and a return to positive REBIT. Revenue grew by 4.0 % to EUR 567.3m; REBITDA increased by 65.0 % to EUR 32.5m, and REBIT returned to positive territory at EUR 4.2m....[more]
ARCELORMITTAL Q1
[BIZ: Luxembourg/ Liège, April 29]
ArcelorMittal the world's leading steel company, today announced results for the three months ended March 31, 2010.Highlights:
Health and Safety frequency rate: consistent with Q4 2009
Steel shipments of 21.5 million ...[more]
STEVE STEVAERT IN HAI PHONG
[BIZ/GOV: Brussels, April 29]
On the occasion of the official visit of to Belgium of H.E. Mr. Nguyen Van Thuan, Chairman of the Hai Phong Peoples Council and Member of the Central Party’s Committee, H.E. Mr. Steve Stevaert, former Governor of the Province of...[more]
DSM Q1 2010 VERY STRONG
[BIZ: Heerlen, April 28]
• Q1 operating profit from continuing operations EUR 196 million (versus EUR 44 million in Q1 2009 and EUR 149 million in Q4 2009)
• Organic sales growth from continuing operations +25% compared to Q1 2009
• Life Sciences continues...[more]
ELAN TAKES OVER POLY LINGUA
[BIZ: Heusden-Zolder/Hasselt, April 28]
ElaN Languages has taken over Poly Lingua’s clients. Poly Lingua has been in the language business for 20 years and has branches in Antwerp Brussels and Hasselt. Together they will be looking for business in the Netherlands,...[more]
TRIANEL NEW TECHNOLOGY
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Aachen April 28]
Trianel’s Aachen City Network is continuing to develop its innovation-based energy technology. With its strategy of service provision, Trianel is enhancing the entire value chain. The company has also been able to get Thomas Spinnen...[more]
MACINTOSH Q1 2010-04-29
[BIZ: Maastricht, April 27]
The turnover of the Macintosh Retail Group for the first quarter of 2010 was the same as in the first three months of 2009, with the balance of a limited increase in the Fashion and Automotive & Telecom sectors and a decline in Living....[more]
MACINTOSH RETAIL AGM
[BIZ: Maastricht, April 27]
Macintosh Retail Group’s financial statements for 2009 were adopted at the Annual General Meeting of Shareholders. The General Meeting resolved to distribute the dividend for 2009 in cash or, at the option of the individual shareholder, ...[more]
BRAND/ST GERLACH WIN PRIZE
[BIZ: St. Gerlach, April 26]
STER, the foundation responsible for Dutch television advertising, has nominated the Brand/St. Gerlach commercial for the Golden Prize Award. The winner of this month’s award will go on to the final in December. Brand beer and Chateau...[more]
LIOF VENTURES MORE
[BIZ: Maastricht, April 22]
LIOF, the Limburg (NL) Development Company has invested EUR 23.4m of venture capital in 41 Limburg companies. Sixty companies have been supported with a sum of EUR 52.6m, and 985 new jobs have been created with an investment of EUR...[more]
CEGEKA CONTRACT WITH ZIUT
[BIZ: Hasselt, April 21]
The Hasselt-based IT company Cegeka has signed a contract with the Dutch group Ziut, which works in street lighting, traffic control systems and camera systems in the Netherlands and wants to outsource its IT. As a result of the agreement,...[more]
TOPS IN CLINICAL TRIALS
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Brussels, April 20]
Belgium has the highest number of pharmaceutical drugs in development per capita in Europe. This is one of the main conclusions of a recent survey by Deloitte. The pharmaceutical industry is of crucial importance to the ...[more]
NEW PLANT FOR ECHO
[BIZ: Zutendaal, April 16]
Echo, which produces floor covering, has opened a new plant on the industrial estate at Genk Zuid. The site represents an investment of EUR 20m and will employ 37. Echo Genk has an 11-hectare site with a building of 9,000m2. The new...[more]
CAMP HITFELD TO GO SOLAR
[BIZ: Aachen, April 16]
Camp Hitfeld, a one-time Belgian military camp, could be turned into a solar field to generate environment-friendly energy. The City of Aachen and the owners of the 43.5-hectare area, the Federal Authority for Real Estate, have agreed...[more]
ONCOMETHYLOME CEO
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Liège, April 16]
Oncomethylome Sciences has announced today that its board of directors has appointed Dr. Jan Groen as the company's CEO. The company also reports that all agenda items for the Extraordinary General Shareholders' meeting held...[more]
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TRAINS TO BELGIUM
[LOG: Aachen, April 22]
The Belgian inter-city train from Ostend via Liège is going to stop in Eupen. There is currently no plan to extend the connection to Aachen because this would compete with the international Thalys and ICE links in the direction of Brussels;...[more]
ENERGY EXCHANGE CONSOLIDATION
[INFRA: Brussels, April 19]
The Belgian and Dutch transmission system operators, Elia and TenneT, announced today that they were transferring their respective stakes in Belgian energy exchange Belpex (60% for Elia and 10% for TenneT) to APX-Endex. At the same...[more]
LOW-NOISE TARMAC
[INFRA/SCI-TECH: Aachen, April 16]
Boxgraben in Aachen has got a new road surface. Construction was completed on the ‘International Day Against Noise’. Low-noise tarmac was used and the noise disturbance created by some 22,000 vehicles that use the highways...[more]
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TRAFFIC SAFETY
[GOV: Maastricht, April 27]
The regional authority for traffic safety in Limburg (NL) is going to distribute brochures in Polish in order to explain the Dutch rules of the road to East European road users. In Limburg and other provinces too, in logistics and...[more]
AACHEN 2030
[GOV: Aachen, April 26]
‘Aachen 2030’ is a four-year plan for spatial planning in Aachen and designed to promote sustainability in the city. The current plan dates from 1980 and was developed in the 70s. Since it has come into effect, it has been changed 70...[more]
DG GUEST IN MUNICH
[GOV: Eupen, April 26]
A delegation from Belgium’s German-speaking community (DG), headed by Prime Minister Karl-Heinz Lambertz, is in Munich. In the context of this official visit to Bavaria, Prime Minister Lambertz is accompanied by the export specialists...[more]
POLAND AND MEUSE-RHINE
[GOV: Eupen, April 26]
In the cultural program that accompanies the award of the International Charlemagne Prize to the Polish prime minister Donald Tusk. On May 2 from 11:00 to 20:00 at the tri-country point. There will be a European day for Poland and a day...[more]
FLOOD-WISE
[GOV/INFRA: Maastricht, April 26]
Water managers from ten European countries met on April 27 for the start of the international FLOOD-WISE. Fifteen regional authorities are taking part in this, including the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion, the Province of Limburg, the...[more]
DICK ANNEGARN FOUNDATION
[EDU: Liège, April 26]
The University of Liège is going to set up a Dick Annegarn foundation which will be the repository of his work and archives. Annegarn received an honorary doctorate at Liège. Dick Annegarn was born in The Hague and is a rock singer/song ...[more]
FRANCQUI CHAIR AT HASSELT
[EDU: Hasselt, April 26]
Professor Wim Robberecht of the Catholic University of Louvain is a world authority on neurology and he will be occupying the Francqui Chair at the University of Hasselt for the period 2009/2010. This is the first Francqui Chair established...[more]
LEGO ROBOTS FOR GIRLS
[EDU: Aachen, April 22]
On May 3 the Würselen network specialist LANCOM is holding a Girls’ Day for IT and Technology. Schoolgirls will learn how to have fun in writing programs. Two teams will program their own Lego robots and bring them to life. This has been...[more]
PARKSTAD CONFERENCE CENTER
[GOV/BIZ: Parkstad Limburg, April 16]
There was a meeting at the Amrâth Grand Hotel in Heerlen on April 14 to look at the MICE (meetings, incentives, conferences and exhibitions) market from the Parkstad Limburg angle. The businesses that met were Van Melick...[more]
LEUDAL: 2009 TOWN OF THE YEAR
[GOV: Leudal, April 16]
The municipality for Leudal had the best record for the 2008/2009 period, according to a report on city government in Limburg by Etil, the economic research agency. The excellent results in the labor market and on the welfare front were...[more]
ELECTRONIC COMMERCE NETWORK
[GOV: Cologne, April 16]
A study called ‘Electronic Commerce in SMEs and the Trades — Experience and Requirements’ has been carried out since 2005, and asked 3,000 SMEs from trade, industry and the services about their information requirements on e-business....[more]
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NEURODEGENERATIVE DISEASE
[LIFE-SCI: Bonn, April 29]
The Jülich Research Center and the German Center for Neurodegenerative Disease are going to do joint research in future. The organizations will be joining forces in the area of neurosciences and their objective is to face the challenge...[more]
ULTRAMODERN RADIATION THERAPY
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht/Aachen/Liège, April 20]
The University Hospital in Liège joined a project on radiation therapy at the end of March. The project is known as the Particle Therapy Center for the “Euregio Rhein-Maas”. Other members are the university hospitals...[more]
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AUTOMOTIVE CAMPUS
[SCI-TECH: Spa Francorchamps, April 30]
The Spa Francorchamps Automotive Campus and the University of Liège are introducing their partnership in the area of new forms of engine and eco-technologies for automobiles at the Spa Francorchamps Automotive Campus....[more]
SIMULATION SCIENCES SCHOOL
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, April 28]
The Jülich premises of the German Research School for Simulation Sciences have been officially opened. The new two-story building provides lecture, study, and conference facilities to support the new English-language Master's program...[more]
MEMORY DENSITY & PERFORMANCE
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, April 19]
The following abstract reveals work being done by a team at Jülich on complementary resistive switches for passive nanocrossbar memories.On the road towards higher memory density and computer performance, a significant improvement...[more]
FUEL CELL RECORD
[SCI-TECH: Jülich/Hanover, April 16]
Fuel cells provide efficient green energy for cars and the home, and will now last for even longer as a result of Jülich research. A record of over 20,000 operating hours has been achieved by Jülich fuel cells shown at the...[more]
SUSTAINABLE ENERGY TECHNOLOGY
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, April 16]
Cars, aircraft and boats could be supplied with sustainable power generated by the use of fuel cells. However, in order to make this a reality, fuel cell reformers are required to generate the fuel needed from diesel or kerosene....[more]
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BIS71
[LEI: Geleen, April 29]
BIS71 is a new center for contemporary art which is to open on the Rijksweg Noord in Geleen. This is a space for contemporary artists of national and international origin, where lovers of art and architecture can meet. The opening exhibition...[more]
ORGAN MUSIC IN THE REGION
[LEI: Aachen, April 26]
There will be a Euroregional Organ Day on May 9 which will take place in the cities of Aachen, Hasselt, Liège and Maastricht simultaneously. The idea came from the Liège organist, Serge Schoonbroodt, who received support from the City...[more]
FIVE BELGIAN ARTISTS
[LEI: Liège, April 26]
There is an exhibition of five Belgian artists at Un îlot de bien-être on Avenue Cardinal Mercier, 2, in 4020 Bressoux. More information is available from Valerie Cremer at Valerie.Cremer@student.ulg.ac.be. The five people involved have...[more]
FASHIONCLASH
[LEI: Maastricht, April 26]
FASHIONCLASH will be put on for the second time in the Timmerfabriek in Maastricht from June 4 through 6. This is a unique platform for talented designers and artists from at home and abroad who will be presenting a fashion clash....[more]
VIVO
[LEI: Aachen, April 20]
The Euroregional project known as Vivo is a variable orchestra of between five and 60 musicians who come from the Aachen-Liège-Maastricht region and are part of the association of World Citizens Music and partners from the Euroregion....[more]
DANCE IN HASSELT
[LEI: Hasselt, April 20]
For the third time the project RegioTheater, RegioDance — a stage without borders’, which is, as one might expect, a Euroregional activity on dance and theatre involving Aachen, Eupen, Hasselt, Liège and Maastricht, is going to start...[more]
ANGLO-GERMAN WALKS
[LEI: Aachen, April 16]
In the context of the city partnership between Aachen and Halifax/Calderdale, the British teacher, Neil McDonald, has been organizing Anglo-German walks since 2003. This appeals to groups of German and Dutch walkers who are able to walk...[more]
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