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[EDIT: Eijsden, October 30]
The Meuse-Rhine Journal completes its 3rd year of publication with this issue. On January 30 this year, we moved the letter to a new template. In the 9 months following publication of the template, the Meuse-Rhine-Journal.com site,...[more]
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MORE MONEY FROM HASSELT
[BIZ: Hasselt, October 30]
LRM, the Limburg (B) Development Company, is organizing an information session on venture capital for starters and SMEs in the evening of November 6 at the Trouwzaal of the Stadhuis in Genk, Dieplaan 2. Go to the link to register...[more]
WOLFRAM KUSCHKE IN AACHEN
[BIZ: Aachen, October 28]
The North Rhine Westphalian Minister for Europe, Wolfram Kuschke, visited the Euroregional Chambers with Jürgen Roters, the current chairman of Meuse-Rhine, and discussed the issue of legal obstacles to cross-border cooperation. The...[more]
EUR 4.2 M FOR MEUSE-RHINE
[BIZ: Maastricht, October 28]
EUR 4.2m has been granted in Interreg project funding to a series of Meuse-Rhine projects.
They include: the project on organic light admitting diodes (OLEDs) which will be run in cooperation between the universities of Aachen,...[more]
BUSINESS OF THE YEAR
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Brussels, October 28]
Euroscreen has been selected by the jury as the winner of the 8th edition of the ”L’Entreprise de l’Année 2003” [Business of the Year 2003] for Brussels and the Walloon country. From among 6 nominees (Balteau, Business Solutions...[more]
DSM Q3 NET LOSS EUR 78M
[BIZ: Heerlen, October 27]
DSM has reported the following Q3 results:
· Q3 2003 operating profit (EUR 26 million) shows a very strong decrease due to lower net sales, margin squeezes for some business groups and one-off events.
· Net loss, due to extraordinary...[more]
TV MERGER
[BIZ: Sittard, October 24]
Wim Claessen, the former MD of the cable newspaper (Kabelnet), TV Gazet, the man behind Pie Medical and also a breeder of Wagyu Japanese cattle, in the Fourons region of Belgium, has decided to go back into the TV business and will...[more]
JUNGHANS GRUPPE IN FOCUS
[BIZ: Aachen, October 24]
As part of its ongoing presentations of local business, the Aachen Chamber of Commerce has invited the Junghans Gruppe to make a presentation in the Foyer of the Chamber in Aachen on November 17 at 18.30 hrs. The Junghans Gruppe produced...[more]
FIVE-STAR CONVENT
[BIZ/INFRA: Liège, October 23]
The 17th century convent of Sainte-Agathe in Liège is being transformed into a hotel with 20 air conditioned suites and telephone and Internet connections; but, preserves some of the traditional style of the original building....[more]
CONTACT CENTERS
[BIZ: Heerlen, October 23]
On October 23, the annual meeting of the National Contact Center Benchmark Platform, NCCBP, came together at the ABP Pension Fund building in Heerlen. During the meeting, the results of the 6th benchmark investigation by the platform...[more]
FREEZE DRY FOCUS
[BIZ: Wavre, October 23]
The Walloon business association UWE will be holding their 700th environmental diagnostic meeting, looking at ten years of environmental management in Walloon business on October 29 at EDEL in Grâce-Hollogne, a company which specializes...[more]
NEW AMB REAL ESTATE BOSS
[BIZ: Aachen, October 23]
The Board of Management of AMB Generali Holding AG has appointed Bernhard Berg (44) as new Chief Executive of AMB Generali Immobilien GmbH (Cologne) as of October 1, 2003. Before joining the AMB Generali Group, Bernhard Berg was in...[more]
500,000 EXTRA TONS FOR ALZ
[IND: Genk, October 23]
The Genk steel company, ALZ, can now ship 500,000 tons more steel because of the extension of the rail connections to Ugine/ALZ, This means that ALZ, part of the Arcelor steel group, remains the biggest client for the cargo arm of the...[more]
FAVINI'S NEW COLORS
[BIZ: Meerssen, October 22]
A 12-month rebranding exercise came to life on October 22, 2003, when Favini Group adopted 'Favini' as the new company name, following a series of important acquisitions including the Dutch paper producer Meerssen & Palm. 'Our...[more]
BORN POLICE SPACE STAR
[IND: Born, October 22]
The South Holland police are going to buy 45 new Mitsubishi Space Star multi purpose vehicles for their fleet. The Space Star, specifically designed for the European market and built at the NedCar plant in Born, the Netherlands, has been...[more]
BELGIAN-GERMAN TAX ACCORD
[BIZ/GOV: Berlin, October 22]
Following the German parliament, the upper chamber has now passed the additional agreement on the Belgian-German double taxation accord, meaning that both countries are on schedule to allow the treaty to come into effect, starting...[more]
RAIL TEST CENTER FULL
[BIZ: Wegberg-Wildenrath, October 21]
Siemens rail test center at Wegberg-Wildenrath has business for two years of work on its order books, according to a company spokesman. Starting in 2004, the second series of the ICE 3 high speed train will be tested at...[more]
12 SMES FOR BRUSTEM
[BIZ: St Trond, October 21]
The city of St-Trond has sold land, which was part of the former air force base at Brustum, to 12 SMEs. The 3.7 ha are going to provide 50 new jobs making a total of 80. Six of the 12 companies come from St Trond: Freal Metalworking,...[more]
JUELICH’S HIGH-TECH MALL
[BIZ/LIFE-SCI: Jülich, October 21]
Jülich’s business park at Königskamp is growing and the first tenants, Jülich Fine Chemicals GmbH (JFC) and AC Biotec GmbH, have moved in. JFC had been in the DASGIP building, but now they are starting in their own premises....[more]
MARKETING AACHEN
[BIZ: Aachen, October 20]
A series of new publications to market Aachen as a technology region has been produced by the Aachen development company AGIT. They are in German and English and cover the city region of Aachen itself, the districts of Düren, Euskirchen...[more]
RAIL SIMULATOR AT HEINSBERG?
[BIZ/INFRA: Heinsberg, October 20]
The next development at the rail competence center at Wegberg-Wildenrath could be a qualification and innovation forum with education facilities and a rail simulator. The development company for the Heinsberg district (WFG)...[more]
EUR 105M UM CALATRAVA CAMPUS
[BIZ/EDU/INFRA: Maastricht, October 18]
Work is soon scheduled to commence on the 75,000 m² and 66,000 m³ University of Maastricht campus in Randwijck which will provide accommodation for 600 students and will include guesthouse, sport facilities and offices....[more]
PAPER SALES
[BIZ: Niederau, October 18]
The indebted, Swiss-owned, special paper producer Sihl, which has a base in Düren, has sold its core business to the Italian Diatec group. According to general manager Heiner Kayser at the Düren Sihl plant, Diatec and Sihl have a...[more]
E-FACTORY NEWS
[BIZ: Roermond, October 17]
E-Factory, a Roermond hosting operation which has a 300 m² modern datahotel with two super fast fiber-optic connections (2x155Mbit backbone) to two hubs in Amsterdam and Frankfurt, ensures that your website never goes down. It is...[more]
SPRAY FILLING
[BIZ: St-Trond, October 17]
A&L Jeubis in St-Trond, which started business recently as a contract filler of spray cans and other bottles, is making its presence felt by reason of its flexibility. It can deal with short and long runs; and, together with its clients,...[more]
TESSENDERLO GROWS IN POTASH
[IND: Tessenderlo, October 14]
The Tessenderlo Group has decided to expand the capacity of the caustic potash (KOH) flakes unit of its French subsidiary, Produits Chimiques de Loos. By the third quarter of 2004, the factory near Lille will be able to produce...[more]
STYLE OF ADDRESS
[BIZ: Maastricht, October]
Ruth Coolen, a German-born marketing consultant who has been resident in the Netherlands Limburg for almost 12 years, made some interesting remarks on formality in German linguistic usage in a recent speech to the WFG Forum on Dutch-German...[more]
COLGATE PALMOLIVE R&D
[BIZ: Liège, October]
Colgate Palmolive’s Research and Development operation, which is located in the Hauts Sarts business park near Liège, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year. The parent company is celebrating its 75th anniversary at the same time, although...[more]
AMBIORIX PRIZE
[BIZ: Hasselt, September 26]
The CEO of the Incopack Groep, Gilbert Nijs, has been awarded the Ambiorix prize 2003. This prize is awarded by the Limburg (B) Employers Association (VKW) annually and is presented simultaneously with the the publication of the...[more]
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FRANS MAAS IN TUNISIA
[LOG: Venlo, October 29]
Limburg(NL) logistics giant, Frans Maas has opened a location in Port de Rades (Tunis), Tunisia, staffed by ten professionals.In accordance with local legislation, Frans Maas' shareholding in the company is limited to 49%. CMC (Compagnie ...[more]
POLAR AIR HONG KONG
[LOG: Liège/Purchase, NY, October 23]
Polar Air Cargo today announced plans to launch a new service between Hong Kong, Malaysia and India, further enhancing its worldwide and regional network of scheduled freighter services. Beginning October 26, Polar will...[more]
150 YEARS MAASTRICHT-AACHEN
[INFRA: Maastricht, October 23]
October 23 saw the 150th anniversary of the oldest transfrontier rail connection in the Netherlands. The first trip began in Maastricht and went via Valkenburg, Schin op Geul, Simpelveld to Aachen. Valkenburg railway station was...[more]
LOCAL PUBLIC TRANSPORT
[INFRA: Maastricht, October 23]
A plan for local public transport in Meuse-Rhine is being developed. The first stage will be to develop a coordination point for further development of transfrontier traffic. Secondly, an external consultancy is establishing a...[more]
EXEL LIFE-SCI DISTRIBUTION
[LOG: Opglabbeek, October 20]
The Exel British logistics operation has built a major 12,500-m² warehouse for the medical sector in Opglabbeek. This is to meet an agreement on logistics with the Japanese manufacturer of medical devices Terumo who want to centralize...[more]
AIRPORT'S ENVIRONMENT CERT.
[INFRA: Liège, October 18]
Liège Airport is the first in Belgium to obtain ISO 14001 environmental certification. The Walloon Minister of the Environment, Michel Foret, symbolically handed the diploma to Luc Partoune, MD of the Airport managing company, SAB...[more]
MEDIA CITY
[INFRA: Liège, October 18]
A major new project is on the cards for Liège in 2005. This is the EUR 150m Media City complex. The project will include a cinema complex with 16 auditoriums, 36,000 m² of space for business, 2,400 parking spaces, a hotel, studios...[more]
CHAMBER BACKS EARLY THALYS
[INFRA: Aachen, October 16]
The Chamber of Commerce and Industry in Aachen has been highly critical of plans to scrap the early morning 7.35 train from Liège to Paris and the 15.55 return from Paris to Liège. German rail (DB) is calling for the services to be...[more]
TOLL BOSS WALKS
[INFRA: Berlin, October 16]
The boss of the Toll Collect, the system designed to collect tolls on highway truck traffic in Germany, Michael Rummel, who is responsible for the introduction of the system, has resigned, handing over to his operational director...[more]
NATURAL GAS STATION
[INFRA: Aachen, October 15]
STAWAG, the Aachen city energy company, has opened a filling station for motor vehicles and will be supplying them with natural gas. Thus far there are no natural gas-driven vehicles in Aachen, but this is expected to change soon....[more]
WATTPLUS TO SUPPLY WALLOONS
[INFRA: Antwerp, October 10]
WattPlus, the energy supplier which joined forces with Dutch Essent in 2002, has received a permit from the Walloon government to supply electricity to the Walloon market. The permit relates to normal and green energy. The Walloon...[more]
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NEW PS V-P FROM LIEGE
[GOV: Liège, October 23]
The new vice-president of the PS, the Francophone socialist party, was elected unanimously on October 20. Her name is Christie Morreale and is 26-years-old. She has a degree in criminology from the University of Liège and works as a...[more]
WAZ TO GO
[GOV: The Hague, October 23]
The Self-employed Disability Act (WAZ), which has been subject to considerable criticism from the business community, will be repealed July 1, 2004 rather than on January 1. Minister De Geus says that the arrangements cannot be made...[more]
DG RETAINS EU SEAT
[GOV: Eupen/Brussels, October 23]
In the next European Parliament, there will be a representative from Belgium’s German-speaking community. The Minister of Interior Patrick Dewael has proposed this in the Federal Council of Ministers to guarantee representation...[more]
WORK AND PLAY IN MEUSE-RHINE
[GOV: Maastricht, October 17]
On Saturday November 15 there will be an information market at the Centre Céramique in Maastricht for those who want to know about studying, living or working in the Euroregion. The information market is directed at those who are...[more]
MASTER CLASSES
[EDU: Maastricht, October]
Twelve top students have been asked to write a thesis on water and energy in the Meuse-Rhine Euroregion. This is part of an annual master class which will be run by the Jacques Delors chair. The project started recently at Alden Biesen...[more]
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ISOTIS ORTHOBIOLOGICS
[LIFE-SCI: Lausanne / Bilthoven / Irvine, October 27]
IsoTis has announced the completion of the merger between IsoTis S.A. and GenSci OrthoBiologics Inc. This marks the creation of a new global contender in the rapidly growing field of OrthoBiologics. With...[more]
AACHEN’S RETT THERAPY
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, October 27]
Pediatric Neurologist, Professor Vincent Ramaekers, and his team at Aachen’s Klinikum University Hospital, in cooperation with Prof. Dr. Nenad Blau of the Laboratory of metabolic diseases, University Children's Hospital Zürich...[more]
LIFE-TEC AACHEN
[LIFE-SCI: Aachen, October 24]
350 People attended the Life Sciences Day at the Aachen Technology Center. There were four sessions, nutrition, brain and central nervous system, bioprocess technology and medical technology/biomaterials. Participants were Life...[more]
HARDENING OF THE ARTERIES
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, October 24]
Esther Lutgens has won the 18th SNS Bank prize for research into the development of atherosclerosis. The jury decided unanimously that Dr Lutgens’ dissertation ‘Cell turnover and immune cell activation in the control of plaque...[more]
PORK MUSCLE SHOWS THE WAY
[LIFE-SCI: Liège, October 22]
A European team headed by Liège Professor Michel Georges has been looking at pigs to locate specific genetic predispositions. A predisposition to a number of diseases, including cancer, cardio-vascular disease, diabetes and asthma,...[more]
MONITORING FETAL BLOOD SUPPLY
LIFE-SCI: Aachen, October 17]
A German-British team, including Aachen University scientists, Peter Kaufmann und Berthold Huppertz, has developed a new method for detecting serious threats to a pregnancy, as in preeclampsia. The new technique of imaging (color...[more]
REDUCING PROSTATE CANCER RISK
[LIFE-SCI: Maastricht, October 17]
Men who have a higher selenium content in their bodies have a 30% lower chance of contracting prostate cancer than men with a low selenium content. This has emerged from a large-scale Dutch investigation of nutrition and cancer...[more]
MAKING UREA WITH THE MOUSE
[LIFE-SCI: Sittard, October 16]
Protomation B.V., a company in Sittard, has developed a new urea simulator in close cooperation with Stamicarbon. Urea is a fertilizer material used for direct application to crops or in the preparation of blended fertilizers....[more]
FEMALE INCONTINENCE
[LIFE-SCI/HEALTH: Liège, October 14]
The University of Liège, the Liège Hospital Center and the American company Gynecare (subsidiary of Ethicon which is part of the Johnson & Johnson group) announced a partnership agreement on the development and promotion...[more]
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DVD LASER RESEARCH
[SCI-TECH: Aachen / Suwon, October 28]
AIXTRON, the world's leading supplier of Compound Semiconductor Equipment, reports on the repeated sale of an AIXTRON MOCVD Reactor System to Samsung’s Advanced Institute of Technology (SAIT). Samsung’s research laboratory,...[more]
LASER HYDROCARBON SPOTTER
[IND/SCI-TEC: Monschau, October 25]
The Monschau-based company Dansotec specializes in innovative technologies for the cleaning of industrial parts, using the latest control and measurement technology to determine the quality of the operation. A world first...[more]
LEGION D’HONNEUR FOR TREUSCH
[SCI-TECH: Jülich, October 24]
Professor Joachim Treusch, chairman of the board at the Jülich Research Center, has received the ‘Legion d’Honneur’ in the ‘Chevalier’ class, an order of merit, awarded by the government of France for his services to cooperation...[more]
FRAUNHOFER PRIZE
[SCI-TEC: Aachen, October 22]
Three members of the staff of the Aachen Institute for Laser Technology have been awarded a prize in Duisburg. They have developed a process by which an object scanned by laser can be reproduced as a digital image....[more]
BBC SPORTS VIA EVS AIRBOX
[SCI-TECH: Liège, October 20]
BBC Sports has put an EVS AirBox-XT in service to produce regularly updated sport bulletins of two minute duration. These are broadcast continually by BBC News Interactive and streamed via the BBC Sport website. Duncan Jones, ...[more]
AIXTRON SUPPLIES SAMSUNG
[SCI/TECH: Aachen/Suwon-City, October 20]
AIXTRON AG, a leading Supplier of Compound Semiconductor Equipment is pleased to announce the upcoming installation of another GaN MOCVD mass production system at Samsung Electro-Mechanics Co., Ltd. (SEMCO), facilities...[more]
AMB PRIZE FOR INK-JET MAN
[SCI-TECH: Aachen, October 16]
Professor Joachim Heinzl from Munich has been awarded the EUR 30,000 ‘Aachener und Münchener’ Prize for Technology and Applied Natural Sciences. He is being honored for his innovative work and inventions in the field of micro-technology...[more]
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BOOKS AND PRINTS
[LEI: Maastricht, October 30]
The annual Euroregional antique book and print fair will be held November 15 and 16 in Maastricht, at the Platte Zaol, Griend 6-7. The fair will be opened by the Hon. French Consul, Camille Oostwegel and features the work of Salvador...[more]
SHOP EARLY...
[LEI: Liège, October29]
There will be a Christmas village in the heart of Liège from November 29 and running through December 28 at the Place St.Lambert and the market square. During the week it will run from 11.00-19.00 hrs and Friday through 20.00 hrs and...[more]
RAMON JAFFE
[LEI: Fourons, October 28]
The Riga-born Ramon Jaffé, who attended the Rubin conservatory in Jerusalem and studied in Cologne and Salzburg, will be giving a cello concert on Sunday evening at the Muziekschuur in Fourons on November 2, 20.00 hrs. See the website...[more]
BELGIAN BEER
[LEI: Hasselt, October 25]
There will be a weekend of Belgian beer at Zaal De Schakel, Rechterstraat 43, in Hasselt, where more than 120 beers are waiting your attention. It starts on November 14 from 18.00-02.00 hrs; then, Saturday November 15 from 14.00 –...[more]
TOP SNOWBOARDING
[LEI: Landgraaf, October 24]
The largest indoor winter sport facility in the world, the 35,000 m² Snowworld in Landgraaf has opened and held the world’s first Nokia Indoor-Snowboard championship. See the website for the details....[more]
TOUR DE FRANCE LIEGE START
[LEI: Liège, October 23]
The City of Liège is to be the start of the prologue of the Tour de France in 2004. For four days the worlds’ top cycling event will take the teams through the provinces of Liège, Luxembourg, Namur and Haunault. In Liège, a six-kilometer...[more]
THE MALE MILLINER
[LEI: Liège, October 20]
Elvis Pompilio, the celebrated milliner from Seraing has provided headgear for Amélie Nothomb and Elton John and the Belgian and British royal families. He has shops in London, Paris and Brussels and shows his creations in tableaux vivants...[more]
AZTECS IN BONN
[LEI: Bonn, October 19]
There is a major exhibition of Aztec art through January 11, 2004 at the Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle in Bonn. The exhibition displays 350 pieces, including sculpture, mosaics, gold and jewels, and painted ceramics. For details see the...[more]
WHAT’S ON AT THE VRIJTHOF
[LEI: Maastricht, October 19]
The Theatre at the Vrijthof in Maastricht has, as usual, a wide range of offerings in November, including the Old Music Network which is actually at the Sint Janskerk on November 1. There is the Limburg Symphony Orchestra with Musica...[more]
EURIADE AT STOLBERG
[LEI: Stolberg, October 18]
The International Festival of the Arts and Sciences Euriade will be held in 2003 for the 21st time with ‘Humanity and Bestiality’ as its theme. What started as a literary
symposium has extended to include disciplines such...[more]
ITALY IN EUPEN
[LEI: Eupen, October]
Every year, one European country exhibits its works of art in Brussels This year it is Italy; the exhibition is devoted to the image of nomadic life. It can be seen in Eupen too. The exhibition which runs at IKOB in Eupen runs from November...[more]
ART IN THE PYRAMID
[LEI: Gulpen, October]
There will be an exhibition of Dutch Masters of the 19th and early 20th centuries, starting November 9 at the Piramide at Gulpen. Works include those of Jan Jacob Lodewijk ten Kate with ‘Vissers met botters op ’t strand’, Lodewijk Franciscus...[more]
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