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THIS AND THAT
[EDIT: Eijsden, June 30]
The A2 Highway through Maastricht is going to be a double decker twin tunnel version. Wendy and Guido are on PBS [Heerlen’s musical stars, with their Tripoint concert at Vaals, on the US Public Broadcasting System] , Odile Wolfs is twittering...[more]
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PHOTOVOLTAIC CARPORTS
[BIZ: Trooz, June 30]
ArcelorMittal, SPI+ (the economic development agency for the Province of Liège) and the Municipality of Trooz have presented the first Walloon photovoltaic carport at the Trooz Business Park. Its success will herald the advent of another...[more]
SILICON MINE AT CHEMELOT
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 30]
The Province of Limburg (NL) has made a declaration of intent to provide a conditional guarantee of EUR 15m for the construction of a silicon plant - the Silicon Mine (TSM) – at the Chemelot site in Sittard-Geleen. This plant will...[more]
TRIANEL IN TOP 100
[BIZ: Aachen, June 29]
Trianel, the Meuse-Rhine-based European energy company is among the top 100 most innovative businesses in Germany. Trianel boss, Joerg Vogt, received the TOP 100 seal from Lothar Spaeth former PM of Baden-Wuerttemberg, June 26.
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NEW BOSS FOR THE EUROGRESS
[BIZ: Aachen, June 26]
The Oldenburger Christina Wulf is to be the new boss of the Eurogress exhibition and conference center in Aachen. The decision was taken on June 4 at a meeting of the relevant council and Christina Wulf won from a field of 70. She has...[more]
SECOND WALLOON MARSHALL PLAN
[BIZ: Eupen, June 26]
The Walloon region is to have a second Marshall Plan and a sixth competence center for environmental technologies. This has been decided by the spokesman for the new government coalition in Namur, Messrs Di Rupo, Javaux and Antoine. The...[more]
END OF AIRCRAFT LIFE
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 26]
AELS is offering AELS is offering the aviation industry an environment-friendly solution in cooperation with Recylux near Maastricht Aachen Airport. With this service AELS will provide aviation maintenance companies with a guaranteed...[more]
TIGENIX CAPITAL INCREASE
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Louvain/Sittard-Geleen, June 26]
TiGenix has announced that the capital increase of EUR 5.4m as mentioned on June 19, 2009 has been completed. The capital increase was executed following the signing of a long term lease agreement for a production...[more]
FOREIGN ENTREPRENEURS
[BIZ: Aachen, June 26]
The Aachen region has foreign entrepreneurs: there is an engineering entrepreneur with Syrian roots, an import-export company from Turkey, a lady designer from Kosovo, an environmental technology entrepreneur from South America. They are...[more]
SPE LUMINUS & NUCLEAR TAX
[BIZ: Hasselt/Liège, June 26]
The SPE-Luminus power company wants to have the EUR 250m tax imposed last year by the federal government on the producers of nuclear power declared invalid. And for this reason the company is approaching Belgium’s constitutional...[more]
G-TEC IN INDIA
[BIZ, Liege, June 26]
Indian Gas Limited (IGL) is looking for foreign partners to help them in a project to build a substantial energy port geared towards massive coal imports at Manappad, a village located 18 km from Tiruchendur in Tamil Nadu - with the first...[more]
CORPORATE IDENTITY FOR WATER
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 25]
Zuiderlicht has developed a new corporate identity for the Limburg water company, Waterleiding Maatschappij Limburg. This involves a new logo, new house style and three new magazines about water. The company is also involved in providing...[more]
EAST BELGIAN DEVELOPMENT
[BIZ: Eupen, June 25]
The East Belgian development company presented its review of the year headed by the president Professor Palm and the general manager Mr Langohr. In essence, looking at the review for 2008, the number of new business start-ups rose for the...[more]
BELCOMPANY (B) SOLD TO TELENET
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 25]
The Macintosh Retail Group has reached an agreement with Telenet on the sale of its BelCompany stores and points of sale in Belgium, as well as its head office in Mechlin. The transfer will take effect from June 30, 2009. The staff...[more]
SABIC EUROPE CEO GOES
[BIZ: Sittard, June 25]
Boy Litjens, CEO and chairman of SABIC Europe’s managing board, will be leaving SABIC as of December 31, 2009. This is the result of the implementation of a new global organization and business model for the second half of this year....[more]
LOOKING AT CORPORATE MEETINGS
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 25]
From June 8 through 25, 2009 the Maastricht convention bureau and 14 organizations from Maastricht and the surrounding area visited 75 Belgian, German and Dutch planners of corporate meetings and conventions. These planners were all,...[more]
DSM SCIENCE AWARDS
[BIZ/SCI-TECH: Heerlen, June 24]
SOUTHSwiss researcher Alexandra Teleki has won the first prize in the DSM Science & Technology Awards (South) 2009. An international judging committee, chaired by Dr Manfred Eggersdorfer, R&D Director at DSM Nutritional Products, ...[more]
FRAUENRATH MAKES LAKE PHOENIX
[BIZ: Heinsberg, June 24]
Frauenrath, the Heinsberg-based engineering group, is going to restore Lake Phoenix in Dortmund Hörde. The total operation involves the EUR 27.2m project, of which Frauenrath’s activities will be worth EUR 18m and will involve hydraulic...[more]
LIMBURG’S OLYMPIC BUS
[BIZ/LEI: Venlo/Born, June 22]
Limburg’s Olympic Bus from Topsport Limburg is Seacon’s way of getting Limburg ready for the 2012 London Olympic games. You can rent it as a stand, with fireworks, catering, music, artists and top sports personalities from Limburg....[more]
80 JOBS AT TELEPERFORMANCE
[BIZ: Maastricht, June 21]
Established in 1978, Teleperformance is the global expert in contact center management, creating more value through a better customer experience. Their core business covers the full spectrum of CRM/BPO contact center solutions. Their...[more]
BACK TO SCHUNCK
[BIZ: Heerlen, June 20]
‘Rights of Passage’ is the name of an opening event that marks the transition of what used to be known as the Glass Palace (Glaspaleis) to SCHUNCK, a recognizable and exemplary cultural and educational institution in the Parkstad–Limburg...[more]
TIGENIX AT CHEMELOT
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Sittard-Geleen, June 19]
TiGenix of Louvain has decided to set up a new cell expansion facility in Europe for the commercial production of its cell-based products on the Chemelot Campus in Sittard-Geleen. The financing for the facility has been...[more]
TIBECO & VIRCO TO BEERSE
[BIZ: Beerse, June 19]
The pharmaceutical companies, Tibotec and Virco, are moving their activities from Mechlin to empty buildings belonging to the parent company Janssen Pharmaceutica in Beerse. The operation should be completed in the course of next year...[more]
TRIANEL AT TEN
[BIZ: Aachen, June 19]
The Euroregional power company, Trianel, was founded on June 8, 1999 by the Aachen city power company known as ASEAG and the Maastricht power company with a clear task of operating in the liberalized German energy market. Now Trianel has...[more]
10,000 EXTRA JOBS
[BIZ/GOV: Maastricht, June 17]
Limburg has set up an investment program to make its economy more viable. Twenty-two projects have been included which should provide Limburg with an extra 10,000 jobs. These projects will receive an investment of some EUR 20bn...[more]
ULRICH SCHIROWSKI
[BIZ/GOV: Aachen, June 17]
At the Aachen development company AGIT’s General Meeting on June 17, the regional and cluster development focus, which is concerned with target-two projects, was strengthened by a new department leader in the shape of Ulrich Schirowski....[more]
TEFAF SHOWCASE 2010
[BIZ/LEI: Helvoirt, June 16]
Young art dealers have been able to put their names forward as candidates for the TEFAF Showcase in 2010. This is part of Europe’s major TEFAF art fair in Maastricht, seen as the most important art and antique fair in the world,...[more]
NEW GENERALI HQ
[BIZ: Aachen, June 16]
Generali Deutschland Holding AG has opened a new headquarters, and the ceremony was attended by North-Rhine Westphalia’s Prime Minister Dr Jürgen Rüttgers. The Generali group, which employs 2,500 at Cologne, handed a welcome gift to Cologne’s...[more]
ALL EMBRACING ENERGY IDEA
[BIZ: Aachen, June 16]
The CDU party in Aachen has asked for a plan for the development of sustainable energy. The idea is that the authorities should indicate the prospects for all types of sustainable energy — solar, wind power and biogas — and, with the assistance...[more]
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THROUGHPUT CAPACITY AT STEIN
[LOG: Stein, June 30]
The Port of Stein (Haven Stein BV) which falls under L’Ortye holding company in Hoensbroek is building 2 warehouses, a quay and the required through put capacity in the port of Stein. The expansion in throughput capacity is scheduled...[more]
FOURTH LANAYE LOCK
[LOG: Liège, June 23]
Pierre Morel, writing in the Belgian newspaper Le Soir, says that there could be a new fourth lock at Lanaye on the canal between The Netherlands and Belgium for 2015. The fourth lock would serve to release the stranglehold at the Dutch...[more]
NEVER ON SATURDAY
[LOG: Berlin, June 20]
In addition to the traffic ban on Sundays which is valid all the year round: there are restrictions of heavy goods vehicle traffic in the Federal Republic of Germany on all Saturdays between July 1 and August 31! Please keep the following...[more]
BELGIAN RAIL TO FRANKFURT
[LOG: Brussels, June 16]
The target is for high-speed trains to carry three-quarters of all travelers between Brussels and Frankfurt. This was stated by Marc Descheemaecker, the boss of Belgian rail (SNCB), in the context of the completion of the new high-speed...[more]
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TWITTERING FROM VILNIUS
[GOV: Vilnius, June 30]
Go to the link for the latest round of twittering from Odile Wolfs in Vilnius, all in pursuit of European Cultural Capital status. At least Odile Wolfs was able to get to the current Cultural Capital which one understands is, in itself,...[more]
GRAND OFFICIER JURGEN LINDEN
[GOV: Aachen, June 29]
On July 3 the mayor of Aachen, Jürgen Linden, is to receive the ‘Grand Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite’ of the French Republic from the French ambassador in Germany, Bernard de Montferrand. Mayor Linden has been a Commandeur de...[more]
GOVERNOR SUPPORTS AACHEN
[EDU: Maastricht, June 29]
Limburg’s governor Léon Frissen, Chairman of the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion is supporting the Aachen Region’s candidacy for the International Garden Show (IGA) in 2017. The IGA is a prestigious international horticultural exhibition. This...[more]
CROSS-BORDER PUBLIC TRANSPORT
[GOV: Aachen, June 26]
Cross-border public transport is to be facilitated by a European Interreg IV-A grant for Project M3 — Mobility without Borders in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion. The total volume is EUR 3.2m; EUR 1.6m comes from the European Union and EUR...[more]
CITY HALL IN REFLECTED GLORY
[GOV: Aachen, June 25]
After several months of renovation, the Aachen City Hall is in superb shape. Around EUR 1m has been spent on the renovation and installation of modern audio-visual technology. Electronic screens show the historical significance of the...[more]
MASTERS IN TRAFFIC SCIENCE
[EDU: Hasselt, June 24]
On Thursday, July 2 the first masters degree graduate in traffic science will graduate at the University of Hasselt. The bachelors and masters program in traffic science started five years ago to meet the growing demand for this discipline....[more]
DELOITTE & MAASTRICHT U
[EDU: Maastricht, June 19]
In May, Roger Dassen, chairman of the Board of Deloitte Netherlands and Dean Jos Lemmink of Maastricht’s Faculty of Economics and Business Administration (FEBA) signed a contract for cooperation in the field of education, internships...[more]
TROM TOURISM
[GOV: Weert, June 23]
Attention is to be paid to tourism and recreation in central Limburg. This is the objective of cooperative agreements that eight municipalities signed on June 22. The tourist and recreation development company for central Limburg, to be...[more]
SUN PROJECT
[GOV: Liège, June 19]
Five city districts from Meuse-Rhine are to participate in an Interreg-funded project known as SUN (Sustainable Urban Neighborhoods). The city districts involved are: Saint-Léonard in Liège, Hodimont in Verviers, the lower city in Eupen,...[more]
EUROPEAN ENERGY AWARD
[GOV: Aachen, June 19]
Aachen has given the starting signal for the European Energy Award. This means that the City of Aachen has taken a number of measures in respect of climate control and energy saving since the beginning of the ‘90s, and now it’s linking...[more]
LIEGE CULTURE
[GOV/LEI: Liège, June 19]
There are a number of projects on the cultural front. One is to develop Liège Métropole Culture 2010 in cooperation with Belgium’s French community and the Liège region. There will be a call for programs for a project coordinator, for...[more]
TUL STUDENT PRESENTATIONS
[EDU: Maastricht, June 19]
Maastricht was the location for the second Research Day at the transnational University of Limburg, a cooperative program between the universities of Maastricht and Hasselt. The program on Research Day was primarily concerned with...[more]
GO DUTCH AND SAVE MONEY
[EDU: Maastricht, June 18]
Go Dutch and save money: British students can take English medium degrees at the University of Maastricht and pay lower fees than at home. An article in the British quality daily paper ‘The Independent’ gives the figures and recommends...[more]
CONTINIUM
[EDU: Kerkrade, June 16]
The new Discovery Center and Continium in Kerkrade was selected as the chair for the European association of science centers and science museums for the coming year. This took place at a conference held in Milan from June 4 through the...[more]
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TIGENIX OK FOR CHONDROCELECT
[LIFE-SCI: Louvain/Sittard-Geleen, June 26]
TiGenix has announced that the company has received a positive opinion from the Committee for Advanced Therapies (CAT) and the Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) of the European Medicines Agency...[more]
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BODY ENGINEERING DAYS
[SCI-TECH: Aachen, June 25]
The Aachen body engineering days starting on September 22 will provide information on foreign exchange on the latest developments in body engineering over a two-day period. Speakers will include Rudolf Stauber from BMW, who will talk...[more]
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AMADEO
[LEI: Aachen/Vaals, June 30]
The Euriade Foundation’s Amadeo Music Festival has published the following program from July 9.09.07.2009 Prix d’AmadèO de Piano
1. Elimination round
10.00-19.00 Uhr, Quellenhof, Aachen 10.07.2009 Prix d’AmadèO de Piano ...[more]
CHARLEMAGNE ROUTE
[LEI: Aachen, June 27]
Aachen’s historic City Hall will be the first stop on the new Charlemagne Route and this will be open on Saturdays and Sundays at 11:00. The meeting point is in the foyer of the city hall. Costs are EUR 10 or a reduced price of EUR 7.50....[more]
WORLD MUSIC CONTEST 2009
[LEI: Kerkarde, June 26]
In 2009, the 16th World Music contest will be held in Kerkrade. It runs from July 9 through August 2 and involves brass bands, percussion, marching and show bands. Twenty thousand musicians from 35 countries are expected and over the...[more]
CHATEAU HOENSBROEK
[LEI: Hoensbroek, June 25]
Chateau Hoensbroek is presenting the Knight Hoen festival on July 16 and 23 and on August 6, 13 and 20. There will be demonstrations of hawking, archery, and a great deal more besides. Check the website.
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ACROSS BORDERS
[LEI: Aachen, June 25]
The Aachen cultural authorities and railway station are working on a new ‘across the borders project’ for the long night of the museums on August 29 at the Aachen station, called Trans Euroregional Express Art Stations. Those involved...[more]
EDEN IN PARKSTAD
[LEI: Parkstad, June 17]
You can find dogsledding, dinosaurs and Europe’s longest-running outdoor pop festival - 40 years with 1.7m visitors since 1970 - at Gravenrode. This is why the Park has won Europe’s EDEN award. EDEN stands for European Destinations of...[more]
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