SCHEUTEN FOR AVANTIS

[BIZ: Heerlen/Venlo, May 19]
The Venlo company Scheuten Glas group prefers Heerlen as a location for its solar panel foil plant. This plant will employ 1,000. There was competition from Gelsenkirchen in Germany; and, most recently, Lommel in Belgium. The head office of the company will remain in Venlo and will be expanded. There will be a campus and several hundred high-tech jobs. In Gelsenkirchen, Scheuten has a solar panel plant and this will be extended.

The new plant will be on the Avantis cross-border science and business park between Heerlen and Aachen. The construction in Heerlen will require an investment of EUR 150m and is scheduled to come on line in 2011. LIOF is also apparently willing to contribute to the new development.
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