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Belgian Economic Mission
to Seattle & Vancouver
8-14 March 2008
Organised by the regional institutions for Foreign Trade (Brussels Export, Flanders Investment & Trade FIT, the Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency - AWEX)
and the Belgian Foreign Trade Agency
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His Royal Highness Prince Philippe of Belgium
HRH Prince Philippe was born on 15 April 1960 in Brussels, Belgium, as first child of
HM King Albert II and HM Queen Paola. He is first in the line of succession to the throne
of Belgium and, as such, he bears the title of Duke of Brabant.
On the 4th of December 1999, the Prince married Miss Mathilde d’Udekem d’Acoz.
On the 25th of October 2001 Princess Mathilde gave birth to a daughter, Princess
Elisabeth. Her brother Prince Gabriel was born on the 20th of August 2003. On the 4th
of October 2005, Princess Mathilde gave birth to her third child, Prince Emmanuel.
At the end of secondary school, which he attended both in French and in Dutch, the
Prince continued his education at the Royal Military Academy from which he graduated
in 1981. He then subsequently qualified as fighter pilot (1982) and as a paratrooper- and
commando officer before assuming command over a paratrooper platoon. He now holds
the rank of Major-General in the Armed Forces (2001).
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Japan and Brazil (2005), South Africa, the Federation of Russia, Canada and Bulgaria &
Romania (2006), China and Bahrain & Qatar (2007).
On 3 May 2003, Prince Philippe was appointed Honorary Chairman of the Board of the
Foreign Trade Agency, replacing the BFTB.
On June 21, 1994 he became a member of the Senate.
In addition to his various official duties, Prince Philippe concentrates on gaining more
in-depth knowledge of his country, its role and its image in the world and in international
relations.
The Prince is keenly interested in the situation of young people and their integration in
the society of tomorrow. He therefore visits schools and universities, but also follows
closely various social issues such as unemployment and the struggle against poverty
and exclusion.
Prince Philippe completed his academic training at Trinity College, University of Oxford
(UK) and at the Graduate School of Stanford University (USA) where he took a
“Master of Arts Degree” in political science in 1985.
In May 1997, Prince Philippe was appointed Honorary Chairman of the Belgian Federal
Council for Sustainable Development, created after the Conference of Rio.
The Prince holds an Honorary Doctorate of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven (conferred
in 2002).
In 1998 the Prince Philippe Fund was created, with the aim of fostering exchanges
between citizens or organisations from all three Communities of our country.
As a result of the increasing number of commitments, the “Household of Prince Philippe”
was created in 1992.
In 2003, Prince Philippe became Honorary Chairman of BIO (Belgian Investment
Company for Developing Countries).
On August 6, 1993, by Government decision, Prince Philippe was appointed Honorary
Chairman of the Belgian Foreign Trade Board (BFTB). He succeeded to his father, who had
been Honorary Chairman of the BFTB since 1962. In this capacity, Prince Philippe has
headed more than forty important economic missions, of which the most recent are
Malaysia, Chile, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia & Kuwait, Australia & New-Zealand (2002),
Mexico & California, Vietnam and Poland (2003), United Arab Emirates & the Sultanate
of Oman, Turkey, Algeria & Tunisia and the People's Republic of China (2004), India,
Since 2004, Prince Philippe is also Honorary Chairman of the European Chapter of the
Club of Rome and of the International Polar Foundation.
In May 2004, Prince Philippe obtained his licence as a civilian helicopter pilot. He spends
his rare leisure moments at home with his family and also likes to read, especially on
subjects related to the problems and challenges confronting men and women in today's
society. He practises sports regularly and is keen to maintain a healthy physical
condition.
His Royal Highness Prince PHILIPPE of Belgium
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Born in Overmere on January 27, 1954
Resident in Berlare, Oost-Vlaanderen
Educational background
Political career
Master in Law, Vrije Universiteit Brussel (1976)
Mayor of Berlare (2006- )
Minister of Foreign Affairs (2004- )
Member of Parliament (2003- )
Minister of State (2002- )
Member of the European Parliament (1980-1994)
National President VLD (1999-2004 )
Member of the Flemish Parliament (1995-2003)
Senator (1994-1995)
Member of the local Council of Berlare (1989- )
National vice-President PVV (1985-1988)
Alderman of Finance in Lebbeke (1983-1988)
National President Liberal Youth (1977-1979)
Member of the party executive PVV/VLD (1977- )
President National Liberal Student Union (1975-1977)
President Liberal Student Union Brussels (1974-1975)
Secondary school education: Latin-Mathematics,
Royal Atheneum Aalst (1971)
Mandates
Lawyer Honourable
Professor European Law VUB
Member of Parliament
Minister for Foreign Affairs
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HE Karel DE GUCHT
Federal Minister of Foreign Affairs
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Born in Edegem, Belgium on April 29, 1941
UNIVERSITY DEGREES
Bachelor of Economics and of Applied Economics (Un. of Louvain-laNeuve, Belgium)
MBA (U. of California, Berkeley)
Ph.D. in Economics (Erasmus Universiteit, Rotterdam)
Chairman of the Committee on Finance and Budget since 2003
Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Secretary of State for Development Cooperation (1983-1985)
Minister of Defense (1985-1988)
Mayor of the City of Brussels (1995-2000)
Minister-President of the Brussels- Capital Region - also in charge of Scientific
Research (2000-2003)
2. International organizations
PRESENT FUNCTIONS AND ACTIVITIES
Minister of State (Member of the Crown Council)
Member of the Belgian House of Representatives; Chairman of the Committee
on Finance and Budget; Member of the Committee on Foreign Affairs
Head of the Belgian delegation to the OSCE Parliamentary Assembly
Vice- President and Former President of the Belgian delegation to the
Inter-parliamentary Union
Chairman of MEDEA (Research Institute on Euro-Mediterranean Dialogue).
Member of the Board of the Royal Institute for International Relations
(Belgium)
Member of the Strategic Council of the “Université Saint Joseph”, Beyrouth, Lebanon
Professor Emeritus at the University of Louvain
Member of the European Parliament (1989-1991)
President of the EU Council of Ministers on Research during the Belgian
Presidency of July-December 2001
President of the Belgian delegation to the Inter-parliamentary Union (IPU)
(2003-2007)
Rapporteur of the First Standing Committee (Peace and International Security)
of IPU in 2005-2006, on the trafficking of small arms and light weapons
and Rapporteur of the Second Standing Committee (Sustainable Development, Finance and Trade) in 2007-2008, on “Parliamentary Oversight of
State Policies on Foreign Aid”
Chairman, on behalf of Belgium, of the 62nd plenary meeting of UNECE,
Geneva, spring 2007
3. Private organizations
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
1. Belgian Public Sector
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Member of the Belgian Parliament (I981-1989, 1991-2000 and again since
2003) Chairman of the Committee on Foreign Affairs of the House of
Representatives (1995-1998)
Professor of Economics and Public Management at the University of Louvain
(Full time 1971-1981; part time 1982-1997)Chairman of the Board of the
public television broadcast station “Télé Bruxelles” (1995-97)
Member of the Board of Crédit communal de Belgique and Crédit local de
France which merged into Dexia (1992-2000).
HE François-Xavier de Donnea
Minister of State
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Born in Awans, on 16 October 1956
1974-1979:
1998-1999:
1999-2003:
2003-2004:
University of Liege,
Juris Doctor in Law
Attorney at the Liege Bar (On leave since 1992)
Director of Cabinet of the Walloon Regional Minister for Internal Affairs
Director of Cabinet of the Walloon Regional Minister for Internal Affairs, Civil Service and Budget
Director of Cabinet of the Walloon Regional Minister for Budget, Finance, Employment and
Training and French
Community Minister for Budget, Finance and Civil Service
Director of Cabinet of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for the Economy and Telecommunications
Director of Cabinet of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister for Employment
Director of Cabinet of the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Justice
Since 2004:
Minister for Economy, Employment, Foreign Trade and Heritage of the Walloon Regional Government
Since 1979:
1992-1994:
1994-1995:
1995-1997:
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HE Jean-Claude MARCOURT
Minister for Economy, Employment, Foreign Trade
and Heritage of the Walloon Regional Government
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Born in Maaseik on 5 June 1965
Education
In 1988 Patricia Ceysens graduated at the Catholic University of Leuven with a Masters in Law. Additionally she received a
certificate in 1991 of marketing manager.
Professional experience:
From 1988 until 1999 Patricia Ceysens practised Law at the Bar of Leuven.
From 1990 until 1995 she specialised in Intellectual Property Law within the Law firm Loeff Claeys Verbeke (now Allen &
Overy).
Within the same period she lectured undergraduates at the Catholic University of Leuven (1989-1990) and was until 1999
editor-in-chief of a Flemish juridical magazine until 1999.
Political career:
Since 1995 Patricia Ceysens is city councillor in Leuven and for a short period of time seated she was also part of the provincial
council (1995).
In the same year she was elected as a Member of the Flemish Parliament.
In 1999 she became chairwoman of the Commission Welfare, Health and Equal Opportunity within the Flemish Parliament,
a Commission she successfully chaired until June 2003.
From June 2003 until July 2004 Patricia Ceysens is appointed as Flemish Minister of Economy, Foreign Policy and E-Government.
From July 2004 until October 2007, she was Leader of the Open-VLD party in the Flemish Parliament.
Since October 2007 Patricia Ceysens is Flemish Minister for Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade.
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HE Patricia CEYSENS
Flemish Minister for Economy, Enterprise,
Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade
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Summary
Private & Public Organisations, Chambers
of Commerce and Federations
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Industrial & Service Companies
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Public Sector
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Private & Public Organisations,
Chambers of Commerce
and Federations
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AGORIA
Diamant Building
Boulevard A . Reyers 80
1030 Brussels
+32 2 706 79 39
Agoria is Belgium's largest employers' organisation and trade association
representing 1.550 members, active in the following 13 sectors that form the
pillar of the Belgian economy – the technology industry: aerospace; automotive;
construction products; contracting & maintenance; electrical engineering;
industrial automation; information and communication technologies (ICT);
mechatronical engineering; metals & materials; metal processing; mounting &
cranes; plastics; security & defence.
+32 2 706 79 43
[email protected]
www.agoria.be
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François de HEMPTINNE
Advisor - Area Manager
Agoria member companies supply goods and provide services for many
international projects abroad: equipment for large-scale infrastructure works,
oil, gas and petrochemical plants, international sports events, environmental
infrastructure, construction, renewable energy, ICT solutions for the financial
sector, equipment and services for the medical and paramedical sectors, textile
machinery, R&D, etc.
AGORIA RENEWABLE ENERGY CLUB
Diamant Building
Boulevard A . Reyers 80
1030 Brussels
+32 2 706 79 39
The Agoria Renewable Energy Club is a network of experienced Belgian
companies which provide solutions, products & services in renewable energy
projects with a dedicated focus on wind energy, solar energy (thermal &
photovoltaic) & biomass.
We offer a structured overview of solutions and references and serve as
principal point of contact.
+32 2 706 79 43
[email protected]
www.agoria.be
François de HEMPTINNE
Director
The Agoria Renewable Energy Club regroups the most prominent Belgian
companies with particular know-how and experience related to innovative
solutions for renewable energy projects.
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BELGIAN AEROSPACE / FLEMISH AEROSPACE GROUP (FLAG)
Vosstraat 343
B - 2100 Deurne
+32 3 294 68 47
FLAG (Flemish Aerospace Group), is the association of all the Dutch (Flemish)
speaking aerospace companies based in the North of Belgium (Flanders) with
about 80 members. This includes major companies such as Sabena technics
(MRO, maintenance repair and overhaul of airliners), ASCO (high value, hard
metal structural components), BARCO (avionics, displays, and visualization
solutions), Sabca Limburg (composite structural components) and LMS (design
software modules including for acoustics and fatigue).
+32 3 294 68 56
[email protected]
www.flag.be
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Karel VERVOORT
Managing Director
The group also includes a whole series of very young and dynamic SME’s with
very interesting new aerospace and associated technologies.
Website: http://www.flag.be with links to the 80 plus member companies
BELGIAN AEROSPACE / SKYWIN WALLONIE
Chemin du Stockoy 1-3
B - 1300 Wavre
+32 10 47 19 44
+32 10 45 33 43
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.skywin.be
www.ewa.be
www.wallonie-espace.be
Pierre -Manuel JACOB
Managing Director
The new Wallonia Aerospace Cluster SKYWIN was officialized by the Wallonia
Government in July 2006. SKYWIN is a federation of two existing clusters: EWA
(60 affiliated aeronautic companies) and Wallonia Space Cluster (25 members)
representing a total workforce of 6,500 and a total turnover of 1.15 billion
euros.
SKYWIN groups industrial companies, research centers and training centers on
the basis of specific projects according to the following strategic priorities:
- More composite materials (with the purpose to increase the use of
this material in the aeronautic sector)
- More intelligence (with the purpose to promote the use of electronic
and telecommunications systems and the “health monitoring” of aircrafts)
- More applications and services (for space applications and subcontracting
among SME’s).
Jean-Jacques WESTHOF
Secretary General
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BELGIAN INSTITUTE FOR SPACE AERONOMY
(BIRA-IASB)
The main tasks of the Institute are public service and research in the field of:
Avenue Circulaire 3
B - 1180 Brussels
- The physics and chemistry of the earth and planet(s) atmospheres
and its effect on climate, ozone, air quality, aerosols …, through
research, modeling and forecasting (chemical weather)
+32 2 373 04 13
+32 2 375 93 36
[email protected]
www.aeronomie.be
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Noël PARMENTIER
General Director
- Space plasma, and the Sun-earth effect on the earth environment:
« Space weather »
BRUSSELS ENTERPRISES COMMERCE & INDUSTRY (BECI)
Avenue Louise 500
B - 1050 Brussels
+32 2 648 50 02
+32 2 640 93 28
[email protected]
www.beci.be
In 2007 the Chamber of Commerce of Brussels (CCIB) and the Brussels Business
Federation (UEB) decided to cooperate under a joint and shared name: BECI – Brussels
Enterprises Commerce and Industry. BECI has 3000 company members - SME’s and large
companies, Belgian and international companies - located in the Brussels’ Region.
The Brussels Business Federation is the interprofessional organisation regrouping the
businesses in the Brussels-Capital Region.
The Brussels Chamber of Commerce and Industry offers its services to businesses and
self-employed workers in the Brussels-Capital Region.
BECI, private partner in the Brussels Export initiative, has an international department
to promote foreign trade and international relations of the Brussels’ businesses. This
department provides a broad range of services:
- Information: export lunches, seminars, publications, counselling;
- Promotion actions: business trips, business clubs, welcoming of foreign
economic delegations;
- Administrative formalities: ATA booklets and certificates of origin.
Olivier WILLOCX
Managing Director
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CLUSTER DECHETS SOLIDES - CLUSTER SOLID WASTE
Rue de Dampremy 77
B - 6000 Charleroi
+32 71 31 74 44
+32 71 33 11 25
[email protected]
www.dechetssolides.com
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Etienne KNOOPS
Executive Director
Wallonia’s Solid Waste Cluster gathers the expertise of more than 40 companies
based in the Wallonia Region of Belgium involved in solid waste management
including:
- household or standard industrial waste
- dangerous industrial refuse or plant waste
- contaminated soil or mud
- inert or special products
- incineration or composting
- bio-methanation or landfilling
- development of land areas and industrial sites
FEB - FEDERATION OF ENTERPRISES IN BELGIUM
Rue Ravensteinstraat 4
B - 1000 Brussels
The Federation of Enterprises in Belgium (FEB) is the only multisector
employers' organisation representing companies in Belgium. FEB has 31 full
members, all of which are professional sectoral federations - in addition to its
applicant and corresponding members. All in all, it represents more than 30,000
businesses, of which 25,000 are small and medium-sized firms. In job terms,
it represents some 1.5 million workers in the private sector.
+32 2 515 08 11
+32 2 515 09 99
[email protected]
www.vbo-feb.be
Rudi THOMAES
CEO
The main activities of the Federation of Entreprises in Belgium are:
- promoting and stimulating entrepreneurship
- defining common positions of Belgian employers
- ensuring representation in many national and international advisory
and administrative committees and institutions
- acting as an intermediary between employers and government,
administration, trade unions, consumers
- providing a flow of information to its members and the general public.
Elizabeth DE WANDELER
Advisor
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GIMV
Karel Oomsstraat 37
B - 2018 Antwerp
+32 3 290 21 94
+32 3 290 21 05
[email protected]
www.gimv.be
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Herman DAEMS
Chairman
Founded in 1980, GIMV is a leading Belgian investment company listed on
Euronext Brussels since 1997. Today the company manages well over EUR 1.6
billion in private equity and venture capital, turning it into one of the largest
listed equity companies in Europe.
As a venture capital provider, GIMV aims to be an active partner for promising
companies in knowledge-based sectors such as life sciences, information &
communication technology, and cleantech. In more traditional sectors, GIMV
focuses on providing growth capital and buy-out financing to small to midsized
companies and business projects in well defined markets, i.e. Belgium, The
Netherlands, Germany and France.
HEALTHCARE BELGIUM
Rue des Sols 8
B - 1000 Brussels
+32 2 515 09 38
Healthcare Belgium (HCare.be) is a non-profit organization established by 11 of
the most reputable and important Belgian hospital groups with the support of
the Federation of Enterprises in Belgium and Agfa Healthcare.
Healthcare Belgium’s objectives are to promote Belgian telemedicine and to
organize and encourage the delivery of medical services to foreign patients
and foreign health care providers in an ethical and coordinated way.
+32 2 515 09 39
[email protected]
www.healthcarebelgium.com
Due to the combined offer of the centers of excellence of the member hospitals,
Healthcare Belgium is able to offer high quality medical care for a very wide
range of treatments.
Telemedicine applications such as teleradiology and virtual colonoscopy have
already been successfully presented to healthcare stakeholders in South Africa
and Canada during previous missions.
Rudi THOMAES
Chairman
Falk BEERTEN
General Manager
Stefaan GRYSPEERDT
CEO VCTC
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IBBT
Gaston Crommenlaan 8 - bus 102
B - 9050 Ghent
+32 9 331 48 00
+32 9 331 48 05
[email protected]
www.ibbt.be
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Wim DE WAELE
General Manager
IBBT, the Interdisciplinary Institute for BroadBand Technology, is a research
institute founded by the Flemish government, aimed at Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) in general, and the development of broadband
applications in particular. IBBT’s primary mission is to develop highly competent
human capital and to carry out multidisciplinary research on behalf of the
Flemish business community as well as the Flemish government. IBBT receives
a yearly budget of 23,2 million euro. Since its foundation in 2004, IBBT has
started over 30 projects with more than 120 organisations. These projects strive
for the joint development of innovative applications in several domains, as
there are health care, mobility, new media and e-government.
UNIZO
Spastraat 8
B - 1000 Brussels
+32 2 238 05 11
+32 2 280 03 79
[email protected]
www.unizo.be
Jan SAP
General Director
U N I Z O, t h e o rg a n i s a ti o n f o r i n d e p e n d e n t e n t r ep re n e u r s a n d S M E ’ s is a
non-profit interprofessional employers’ organization and social partner.
With over 100 cooperating professional sectoral organizations and over 85.000
members, UNIZO is the largest organization for entrepreneurs in Flanders.
The main activities of UNIZO are: defending the interests of the entrepreneurs,
providing information and advice and stimulating networking. They are aimed
at five specific categories: start-ups, young companies, growing companies,
international active companies and business transfer.
UNIZO -Internati onaal is responsible for stimulating international trade of
Flemish SME’s and cooperation in European and international projects. Unizo
is a member of UEAPME, the European SME-organization.
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UWE - WALLOON BUSINESS FEDERATION
Chemin du Stockoy 1-3
B - 1300 Wavre
+32 10 47 19 44
+32 10 45 33 43
[email protected]
www.uwe.be
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Jean-Jacques WESTHOF
Director Department Foreign Trade
The Walloon Business Federation is an association of companies active in
Wallonia. The aim of this private organization is to promote and support
business, the driving force of the Region’s economic and social well-being.
The Walloon Business Federation is the official spokesman of industrial,
commercial and service companies of all sizes established in Wallonia. It is
funded by contributions from its 6,000 members of all sizes, from all sectors,
and employs a permanent multidisciplinary staff based in Wavre.
VOKA - CHAMBER OF COMMERCE AND INDUSTRY MECHELEN
O.L . Vrouwestraat 85
B - 2800 Mechelen
+32 15 45 10 20
+32 15 45 10 21
[email protected]
www.voka.be/mechelen
There are 8 Chambers of Commerce and Industry (CCI) in Flanders (private
institutions).
Together with the Voka - Flemish Employers Association, these 8 Chambers
form the Voka alliance (politically independent) which unites more than 17.000
businesses from all services within the Flemish region (the largest Flemish
network of enterprises). Voka aims at stimulating economic activity and intends
to create an optimum framework for successful enterprises. Voka contributes to
supporting the economic development of Flanders by lobbying, networking
and offering tailor-made services to small, medium and large businesses. Voka
- Chamber of Commerce Mechelen unites and serves over one thousand
companies from various industries in the region of Mechelen.
The Chamber offers highly experienced entrepreneurial advice and services,
extensive opportunities for networking and both individual and collective
lobbying services on all different government levels.
Willy IVENS
Director
Petra VAN BOUWELEN
Manager International Entrepreneurship
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INDUSTRIAL
&
SERVICE COMPANIES
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4ALL NETWORKS
4ALL NETWORKS is the only Belgian solution provider with a sole focus on
Identity and Access Management.
Molenstraat 65
B - 2840 Reet
+32 3 880 75 75
+32 3 880 75 71
[email protected]
www.identitymanagement.be
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Patrick COOMANS
CEO
4ALL NETWORKS’ solutions empower companies to manage the lifecycle of
digital identities and their privileges and policies from a business perspective
as well as privacy, security and regulatory compliance. 4ALL NETWORKS services
health-care, mid-size, enterprise, governmental and military customers in
Europe and beyond for:
- identity and Access Management As-a-Service
- identity and Access Management TenderHelp (help IAM RFP’s)
- identity and Access Management Architecture Consulting
- implementation of Identity and Access Management solutions
ADAM SOFTWARE
E-3 laan 84
B - 9800 Deinze
ADAM is a Digital Asset Management company that provides clients the ability
to manage, structure and deliver media between people, processes and
systems.
Our software has an intelligent open architecture that provides the ability to
customize and continuously develop new applications using our ADAM SDK.
+32 9 381 63 36
+32 9 381 63 46
[email protected]
www.adam.be
Pieter CASNEUF
Executive Partner
We understand our clients’ needs to share and collaborate, automate mundane
tasks and control quality. We are passionate in providing our clients with
intuitive and easy to use software to help them organize media and distribute
assets as quickly as possible. We have the knowledge of the way the media
supply chain works, its people, the workflow and the common goal to publish
and distribute quality content.
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AD ULTIMA
Vlamingstraat 4
B - 8560 Wevelgem
+32 56 43 28 06
+32 56 41 76 36
[email protected]
www.adultima.be
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Filip BOSSUYT
CEO
Ad Ultima is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner which implements ERP projects
with Microsoft Dynamics AX (a.k.a. Axapta) since 1999.
Along several ERP implementations Ad Ultima also integrates business
intelligence (BI) solutions and information worker solutions such as Microsoft
Office SharePoint Server.
Ad Ultima has developed its own add-on products, called UltimAX Suite, which
contain all our sector-specific know-how and expertise in order to offer the
perfect fit with the existing Business processes of each customer. Therefore we
focus on the following sectors: healthcare, high-tech industries, wood &
furniture, metal & machinery and construction.
ADVANCED PRODUCTS
Development and manufacturing of polymer sealing solutions for extreme
conditions.
Rupelweg 9
B - 2850 Boom
+32 3 880 81 50
+32 3 888 48 62
Advanced Products NV was acquired by Parker Hannifin in 2005.
Our core product is sold under the trade name FlexiSeal.
Typical applications are in aerospace and oil- and gas industry.
[email protected]
www.parker.com
Gino DE REGTER
Engineering Manager
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ADVANCO
Rue de la Fusée 66
B - 1130 Brussels
+32 2 726 88 00
+32 2 726 40 39
[email protected]
www.advanco.be
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Olgun YENERSOY
President - CEO
Advanco is an end-to-end solution integrator for manufacturing, logistics and
retail processes enabled by automatic identification technologies (RFID). We
also have software development activities based mainly on Microsoft
technologies. Advanco has certified partnerships with SAP, ‘SIEMENS automation
and devices’ and MICROSOFT.
In 1992 Dr Yenersoy won the ‘Entrepreneurship Award’ in Belgium.
In 2005 Advanco won the ‘most innovative BPM application’.
In 2007 Advanco won the ‘most important deployment using RFID award’.
The main software product of Advanco is ARC™ (Advanco RFID Controller). ARC
is one of the two products certified by SAP in Europe. This ‘Integration Software’
is presented as a component of the solution integration philosophy and
methodology of Advanco.
AGFA HEALTCARE
Septestraat 27
B - 2640 Mortsel
+32 3 444 80 01
+32 3 444 72 85
www.agfa.com/healthcare
Michael GREEN
President and VP Sales
Agfa HealthCare Canada
Agfa HealthCare, a member of the Agfa-Gevaert Group, is a leading provider of
IT-enabled clinical workflow and image management solutions, and state-ofthe-art systems for capturing, processing and printing images in hospitals and
healthcare facilities. The company has over a century of experience in diagnostic
imaging and has been a pioneer on the healthcare IT market since the early
1990’s. Agfa HealthCare today employs 5,700 staff members, with sales offices
and representatives in over 100 markets worldwide. Sales in 2006 amounted
to 1,452 million €, accounting for 43% of total group sales.
Agfa HealthCare accompanies healthcare providers in their transformation from
analog to digital to integrated Imaging & IT solutions, leading to improved
access and the delivery of enhanced medical and patient care, all of which
support more cost-effective healthcare.
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ANUBEX
Veldkant 35C
B - 2550 Kontich
+32 3 450 42 50
+32 3 450 42 51
Anubex has been a leader in automated legacy transformation for the past 15
years.
Anubex technology has driven the migration of mission-critical software for
over 40 companies throughout Europe and beyond. Currently Anubex specializes
in migrations involving mainframe architectures.
Our typical customers have software legacy with dependencies on IDMS,
SAG-Natural/Adabas, Wang/VS, VSAM, or BS2000/OSD, and migrate to open
web-enabled, SOA-ready architectures, and relational databases.
migrations@anubex .com
www.anubex.com
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Louis HEYMANS
Managing Director
Ben WILSON
Director of Research and Development
ASCO INDUSTRIES
Weiveldlaan 2
B - 1930 Zaventem
+32 2 716 06 02
+32 2 716 07 77
[email protected]
www.asco.be
To be a world leader in design and manufacture of high lift devices, complex
mechanical assemblies and major functional components for the aerospace
industry ASCO is a proven specialist in the co-development, design, precision
machining, processing and certified assembly of complex high-strength aircraft
components (flaps and slats mechanisms, engine mounts, landing gear
components, etc.) out of titanium, high-strength steel alloys and aluminium.
Asco usually participates as a risk-sharing partner and single source supplier in
most large commercial aircraft programs.
Asco works closely with its customers as partner in the development and design
of new products and continuous improvements using new technologies
developed from its large internal research and development program.
Asco is the world leader in the precision engineering and manufacturing of
complex subassemblies and assemblies for most commercial aircrafts over 50
seats.
The Asco Consortium is currently the world-leading manufacturer of slat
actuation systems and a leader in flap actuation devices.
Emile BOAS
Director
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BARCO
Barco, a global technology company, designs and develops visualization
products for a variety of selected professional markets.
Pr. Kennedypark 35
B - 8500 Kortrijk
+32 56 26 26 01
Barco has its own facilities for sales & marketing, customer support, R&D and
manufacturing in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. Barco (Euronext
Brussels: BAR) is active in more than 90 countries with about 3800 employees
worldwide.
+32 56 26 29 00
Barco posted sales of euro 751 million in 2006.
www.barco.com
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Herman DAEMS
Chairman
BARCO AVIONICS
Pr. Kennedypark 35
B - 8500 Kortrijk
+32 56 23 30 45
+32 56 23 35 38
[email protected]
www.barcoaerospace.com
Kristof VIERIN
Director Marketing & Sales
Barco is a recognized international technology leader providing highperformance display systems for high-integrity aerospace applications. Building
on decades of experience and innovation, Barco provides the avionics market
with technologically advanced, cost-competitive visualization solutions.
Barco’s broad offering of display products ranges from Mission Displays and
Electronic Flight Bags up to Control Display Units and safety-critical Primary
Flight Displays. Thanks to the unique MOSArt Modular Open System Architecture,
these solutions are easily integrated into a wide variety of new and retrofit
aircraft and helicopters. The company’s global customer base includes system
integrators as well as aircraft and helicopter manufacturers.
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BELGACOM
Boulevard Albert II 27
B - 1030 Brussels
The Belgacom Group (Euxonext: BELG) is the Belgian benchmark provider in
the field of integrated telecommunications services. Backed by its experience
as the country’s national operator and its capacity to innovate, the Belgacom
Group, through the strong brands of its subsidiaries (Belgacom, Proximus and
Telindus) provides a full range of offers, solutions and expertise in the areas of
fixed and mobile networks.
+32 2 202 81 53
+32 2 217 99 66
[email protected]
www.belgacom.be
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Didier BELLENS
President & CEO
The Belgacom Group proposes a complete quadruple-play solution comprising
fixed and mobile telephony, the Internet and television.
For the fiscal year ending 31 December 2006, the Group posted a total revenue
of €6.1 billion and a net operating profit before depreciation and amortization
(EBITDA) of €2.15 billion.
BELVI
Molenweg 41
B - 3530 Houthalen-Helchteren
+32 11 26 96 00
+32 11 26 96 01
info@airdeck .be
www.airdeck.be
Ewald HOUBEN
CEO
The innovative light-weight floor system Airdeck® is internationally patented
and owned by the holding company NV Belvi. This energy and material saving
building concept has already created a true revolution in the multistory
construction industry. With a wide range of architectural, building, hygienic and
technical advantages Airdeck® gives each construction project valuable
competitive assets. Advanced technologies, as heating and cooling through a
thermally active concrete core will make life more comfortable. Based upon a
licensee agreement with local prefabricated concrete floor producers we are
searching for valid partners to further expand and commercialize our
international business.
Net, our innovation…your comfort and profit.
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BIOPLANT IN VITRO
Rue Eysden Mines 43A
B - 6698 Grand-Halleux
+32 80 21 57 93
+32 80 21 44 90
[email protected]
www.bioplant.be
Founded in 1983, Bioplant runs a tissue culture laboratory that specializes in invitro micro propagation of acid-loving ericaceous plants, producing a wide range
of rhododendrons, azaleas and kalmias.
The company is located in Belgium where it produces a wide range of plants,
which are exported to the four corners of the world. By combining traditional
horticultural skills with detailed scientific knowledge Bioplant achieves that
rare combination, the best of both worlds.
In 2000 the company set up a partnership with the University of Liège, called
Phytesia. It carries out further in-depth research into hardy ornamentals. The
first results are impressive, resulting in a wonderful range of perennial
terrestrial orchids that are now available for avid gardeners everywhere.
Bioplant employs a highly professional team. Together they cover the intricate
and varied disciplines necessary to run the complex operations involved in the
tissue culture production of our products.
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Guy G. CABOOT
CEO
Fabienne CABOOT-FLOUR
Management Assistant
BIRD & BIRD
Avenue d’Auderghem 22-28 - box 9
B - 1040 Brussels
+32 2 282 60 00
+32 2 282 60 11
[email protected]
www.twobirds.com
Paul HERMANT
Managing Director
Bird & Bird is an international law firm that provides a full range of legal services
and manages cross-border activities across Europe and Asia. The firm has
established a long relationship with several prominent “best friends” law firms
in Seattle, Vancouver and other North American cities. Our practices cover the
full range of intellectual property law (including a.o. patents, licensing,
trademarks and copyrights), information technology law (including a.o.
outsourcing operations, privacy and data protection aspects), EU & competition
law (including a.o. trade and customs, all EU regulatory aspects and public
affairs), corporate transactions (including a.o. mergers and acquisitions and
incorporation of new companies), commercial agreements (including a.o.
licensing, leasing, sales & marketing, advertising, franchising, distribution),
finance (including a.o. project finance and marketing and distribution of
financial products), employment, real estate and dispute resolution.
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BIZZDEV
Zone industrielle de l’Europe 4
B - 7900 Leuze-en-Hainaut
+32 69 66 95 10
+32 69 66 95 45
[email protected]
www.bizzdev.com
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Christian VERDONCK
President
BizzDev develops custom smart client applications for Windows Mobile based
terminals. BizzDev sets-up the necessary infrastructure and security on the
client data centers in order to be able to run de applications safely. The
applications are developed using the Microsoft .Net framework technology and
the .Net development tools.
The applications are targeting Internet, Intranet or Extranet, being connected or
not and in a secure way. We are using our own technology: Bizzlink and Mworker. Using these technologies, we minimize the development time and the
risk of the project, creating therefore more value than classic development
schemes. BizzLink is a framework, a superset of .Net that allows quick and safe
development of mobile apps and enable standard development, takes care of
data synchronization, manages both online and offline states, and deploys
applications automatically of mobile devices and keeps the applications up-todate. M-Worker is a software application suite that offers standard mobile
functions in order to optimize the field forces tasks.
Emmanuel OTTEVAERE
Managing Director
BMT AEROSPACE - EURAIR
Gears and subassemblies for aerospace applications
Kampveldstraat 51
B - 8020 Oostkamp
+32 50 82 69 07
+32 50 82 69 74
- slat leading edge racks and pinions
- turbine engine gears
- auxiliary power units
- gears for fuel and lubrication pumps
- actuation systems
- helicopter drives
[email protected]
www.bmtaerospace.com
Luk ROELS
CEO
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BROTHERS OF CHARITY
Stropstraat 119
B - 9000 Ghent
+32 495 21 31 20
+32 9 216 35 51
[email protected]
www.brothersofcharity.org
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René STOCKMAN
General Superior
The Congregation of the Brothers of Charity is a pontifical congregation founded
in 1807 by the Very Rev. Peter Joseph Triest, titular canon of St. Bavon of Ghent.
For over 200 years the Brothers have helped the poor, handicapped and
mentally ill.
Presently there are ongoing projects in 25 countries, involving 15,000 workers.
The organization is well-known for its professionalism and Christian charity.
Inspired by Christ’s message of universal love and charity, its primary mission
is to help the poor, the mentally ill and the disabled, motivating the
commitment of 600 brothers and 150 associate members who work in the
congregation’s social projects.
Johan MAERTENS
Director International Development
CARLSON WAGONLIT TRAVEL - CWT
Boulevard de la Woluwe 34
B - 1200 Brussels
Worldwide leader in travel distribution, CWT realized in 2007 a business volume
of approximately 26 billion USD. In Belgium, CWT represents a business volume
of 420 million €.
CWT is active in business and leisure travel and organizes the Belgian economic
missions.
+32 2 258 10 05
+32 2 258 13 08
[email protected]
www.cwt.be
Baudouin GILLIS
Vice-President BeLux
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CEGEKA
Universiteitslaan 9
B - 3500 Hasselt
With more than 1.000 employees and a turnover of about 102 million euro,
CEGEKA undoubtedly ranks in the top 10 of the Benelux suppliers of end-toend solutions. Cegeka presents the image of a unique and complete supplier
for the whole ICT value chain: business and ICT consultancy, architectural design,
development and maintenance of software applications, support and helpdesk,
maintenance, hosting and housing of applications and IT infrastructure.
+32 11 24 02 17
+32 11 24 28 71
[email protected]
www.cegeka.be
Thanks to a large know-how and expertise, Cegeka can design, develop and
implement solutions that meet the major challenges of sectors such as health
care, social security, media, public and finances.
Cegeka supplies health care solutions to more than 40 Belgian hospitals. In the
field of ICT applications for clinical labs, Cegeka is one of the European top
players.
Cegeka’s headquarters are situated in Hasselt, with establishments in Antwerp
and Leuven.
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Luk SCHOONBAERT
Business Unit Manager Health Care
CERAN LINGUA USA
CERAN LINGUA USA is the US branch of Etilux, a well-known Belgian company
active in more than 60 countries worldwide.
3614 Wade Street
USA - 90066 Los Angeles, CA
+1 310 429 7406
+32 485 68 25 69
usoffice@etilux .be
www.ceran-us.com
Charlotte NEVE
Managing Director
In 2004, CERAN LINGA USA was established to ensure a stronger presence of
Etilux on the US market and to develop business relationships in its sectors of
activity, starting with the promotion of CERAN intensive language immersion
programs. The CERAN concept, which was developed in Belgium over 30 years
ago, is now considered as one of the most effective way to learn a foreign
language. The unique combination of complete immersion in the language, a
highly personalized approach to language training, and the CERAN methodology
enables participants to achieve a maximum of progress in a minimum of time.
CERAN language programs are delivered at the 7 CERAN centers located in
Belgium, France, Spain and the UK.
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CITOBI
Rue de Clervaux 8
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
+32 10 45 85 14
+32 10 45 85 23
[email protected]
www.citobi.be
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Benoît DE NAYER
CEO
Citobi is a CRM solution provider. Thanks to the unique combination of CRM
consulting, CRM software and interactive marketing capabilities, Citobi offers
tailor-made CRM solutions, quickly implemented into your business and
delivering concrete results. The difference is not the tool but how well you
operate it. Too many CRM projects have forgotten the essentials: a true talent
for marketing operability and results. With the philosophy of delivering CRM
assist its clients with consulting, interactive marketing & software skills to help
them delivering & maximizing their results. This philosophy is applicable for
small projects (e-mailing campaigns) or large projects (building a customercentric organization from HQ to retail).
Thanks to its sectorial approach, namely health and pharmaceuticals sector,
automotive and financial services, Citobi has collaborated with the main players
in the market. Vertical solutions are perfectly integrated into existing business
models, infrastructures & technologies. Thus, considerably reducing the costs of
setting up a CRM project as well as increasing the return on investment.
CUSTODIX
Verlorenbroodstraat 120 - box 14
B - 9820 Merelbeke
+32 9 210 78 90
Custodix specializes in data protection solutions for eHealth as a trust service
provider. Custodix acts as trusted third party for privacy protection in many
biomedical data flows (research & pharma).
Its data protection services are supported by a combination of technical and
legal expertise in privacy protection (e.g. encrypted storage, de-identification,
…) and e-security solutions (e.g. PKI, VPN, Web Services security frameworks,
time-stamping, …).
+32 9 211 09 99
[email protected]
www.custodix.com
Georges DE MOOR
Founder
Custodix helps businesses deal with security and privacy related aspects of
modern data management (cf. European Data Protection Directive,
2001/20/EC, 2005/28/EC, HIPAA Privacy Rule, WHO GCP, GPMP/ICH/135/95,
...) by offering end-to-end solutions for data protection in e-Clinical Trials,
disease management and other longitudinal studies.
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CVT - COMPRESSED VOLUME TRAILERS
Quartier des Anglais 4
B - 7110 Houdeng-Goegnies
+32 64 21 65 21
+32 64 26 26 25
c [email protected]
www.sectors.walloniaexport.be/en/firm.asp?pole_id=4&sector_id=
111&firm_id=1841
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Luc CABAY
Managing Director
CVT manufactures and sells compression and horizontal ejection tanks that
make it possible to achieve significant reductions in volume and thus cut
transport costs. These applications are mainly earmarked for industrial
companies active in the processing of waste and of recyclable and reusable
materials.
This development is organized in partnership with the University of Mons and
with the assistance of the Walloon Directorate General of Natural Resources
and/of the Environment (DGRNE).
In addition to the operational gain, these applications make it possible to obtain
a considerable reduction in environmental pollution thanks to a reduction in
CO² emissions per tonne of processed materials.
D’ALCANTARA ECONOMIC CONSULTING
Stadscampus - Prinsstraat 13
bureel B-222
B - 2000 Antwerp
+32 3 220 41 82
We conceive and build state of the art quantitative models for safe, secure and
optimal economic decisions to be taken by Boards of Directors of international
companies and political decision makers. With teams of experts in various
disciplines, we compute the impacts of alternative policy decisions and
scenarios and provide decision support. For more than 30 years we have
references as independent consultants or in joint ventures with consultants
such as PwC, McKinsey, A.T. Kearney, Sema Group, Arthur Andersen…
+32 2 672 88 27
[email protected]
www.alcantara.be
www.ua.ac .be/ARGoSS
We are active in the following fields: safety & security applied in different fields,
international negotiations of the energy, refinery and petrochemical industries,
regulation of the postal sector, projecting the social security system, public
budgetary control instruments, explaining air pollution as a function of
economic activity, budgetary balance of public transport infrastructure plans,
European harmonization of internal market policies, measuring country risks
for asset management.
Prof. d’Alcantara is Professor at the University of Antwerp and member of the
Antwerp Research Group on Safety and Security (ARGOSS).
Gonzales d’ALCANTARA
Professor in Quantitative Economic Methods at the University of Antwerp
and Economic Consultant
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DEDUCO EUROPE
Doorniksesteenweg 241
B - 8500 Kortrijk
+32 56 40 29 27
+32 56 40 41 80
[email protected]
www.deduco.com
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Tom DUJARDIN
General Manager
DeDuCo is a leading Belgian provider of best-of-breed software solutions for
the consumer goods industry, the DIY industry and the pharmaceutical sector
in the sales and marketing areas.
Due to our vertical specialization, our extended experience and strong expertise
we have become a preferred partner for leading consumer goods companies in
Western Europe. Our reference list includes Altadis, Campbell Foods, ICI Paints,
Mars, Nestlé, Pernod-Ricard and many more.
DeDuCo’s software suite contains 7 modular, standardized and flexible products
which are constantly adapted to new sales and marketing insights. These
products optimize the business processes within marketing and sales, field
service and helpdesk & customer service. Furthermore, these solutions help
you to optimize marketing effectiveness, sales productivity and efficiency and
foster customer relationships.
DE KRINGWINKEL ZUIDERKEMPEN
Noordstraat 25/1
B - 2220 Heist-op- den-Berg
+32 15 23 73 93
Collection of reusable items (furniture, clothing, household items, bicycles, ...)
in a region called Zuiderkempen, cleaning and repairing of these items and
giving them a second life selling them in 1 of our 6 own shops or exporting
them to the US, Finland, India,…
Organized as a social profit company, all people working in our company have
reduced chances on the labor market.
+32 15 23 73 99
[email protected]
www.dekringwinkelzuiderkempen.be
Rik OPLICHTENBERGH
Delegated Director
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DENALI
Rue de Clervaux 8
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
+32 10 43 99 51
DENALI specializes in business process analysis and service oriented
architectures.
We have a team of very high level engineers that deliver tools and services to
large companies for helping them to bridge the gap between business and IT.
We are experts on model driven development and business service
orchestration.
+32 10 43 99 52
[email protected]
www.denali.be
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Dominique SNYERS
CEO
We have developed and are selling the Flexo Tool Set that provides business
and IT actors with a common language to specify their needs, design and
document their underlying processes before building running applications
automatically from these process models.
Dominique de WALEFFE
Technical Director
DYNAMIC RESOURCES CONSULT - DRC
Rue Blockmans 8 - box 9
B - 1150 Brussels
+32 2 734 57 57
+32 2 648 66 62
[email protected]
www.dynamicconsult.be
Michel COURTIN
President
Founded in 2003, the company is specialized in foreign trade consultancy.
The company helps the small and medium sized enterprises in search of
partnerships, personnel or business contacts.
Even though we are mainly focused on Canada and Luxembourg, we are also
interested in working in/with other countries.
Our fields of expertise are the food and the renewable energy industries, but
we can be dealing with other economic sectors as well.
We also organize business missions in Belgium for Canadians interested in the
Belgian and Luxembourg markets.
Jacqueline HUBERT
Director
Rachel CLAESSENS
Counsellor
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ECO PROJECTS
ECO PROJECTS has a ‘solution for pollution’ for excess manure and organic waste
and produces green energy through biomethanization.
Bosstraat 36
B - 8790 Waregem
+32 475 66 63 37
+32 50 36 24 15
[email protected]
www.eco-projects.com
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Jos SANTY
Director, CEO
It has developed a unique high tech fully automated biogas – installation, with
end treatment of the digestate after fermentation.
By means of the co-fermentation of manure, energy crops and organic waste
streams, electrical energy is produced and sold to the grid as green or
renewable energy.
After fermentation, the digestate is separated in a solid and a liquid fraction.
With the thermal energy recouped from the gas engines, the solid fraction is
dried and pasteurized to a new organic fertilizer and the liquid fraction is filtered
with VSEP RO membranes to re-usable or dischargeable water.
ELECTRONIC APPARATUS
Ravenshout 6- 089
B - 3980 Tessenderlo
+32 13 66 24 44
Since 1964 ELECTRONIC APPARATUS N.V. is a designer & manufacturer of printed
circuit boards for world-wide located companies in telecommunications, data
processing, medical equipment, test- and measurement devices and space &
avionics.
1. Design & development of all kind of printed circuit boards, operating with
systems as Mentor Graphics, Cadence Allegro and Cadstar-Zuken
+32 13 66 77 92
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.ea-pcb.com
Gabrielle SMEYERS
Vice President
2. Manufacturing of printed circuit boards: rigids (from 2 to 60 layers), backpanels
(1450 mm x 750 mm x 15 mm), flexibles (from 2 to 20 layers), flex rigids
(from 2 to 40 layers)
3. In house technology: burn-in-boards, blind- & buried via’s, micro via’s in pad,
laser drilled micro holes, laser routing, laser structuring, glass epoxy,
polyamide, teflon, high-frequency materials, high-power plane boards,
impedance controlled boards
Brian COWELL
Sales Manager USA
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ePOWER
ePower provides web based software to automate several human resources
processes like:
Ternesselei 330
B - 2160 Wommelgem
- performance & competence management
- training administration
- basic employee administration
+32 3 293 66 38
+32 3 293 66 39
[email protected]
www.epower.be
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Gert VAN MEERBERGEN
General Manager
All solutions are built using Microsoft technology.
ETILUX
Rue de l’Espérance 42
B - 4000 Liège
+32 87 67 93 00 / +32 4 224 99 99
Since its creation in 1972 Etilux has developed a strong reputation in areas such
as identification, marking and labeling solutions, professional audiovisual
equipment and language training solutions.
Etilux also provides office supplies including a complete collection of labels
which are nowadays considered as one of the main standards and has been
adopted by labeling software companies like Seagull Scientific.
+32 87 67 80 71 / +32 4 224 99 86
[email protected]
www.etilux.com
Benoît RONDEUX
Marketing Manager
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EUROPLASMA
De Bruwaan 5D
B - 9700 Oudenaarde
+32 55 30 32 05
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Europlasma is a manufacturer of low pressure plasma treatment equipment for
a variety of markets: aeronautics, textile and non woven, automotive, medical,
plastics in general and electronics.
Our activities:
+32 55 31 87 53
- surface treatment “hydrophobation” of insulation “Melamine Foams” for the
aircraft industry.
[email protected]
www.europlasma.be
- surface pre-treatment “activation” of plastics to obtain good adhesion before
painting, gluing, printing and coating.
Anthony VANLANDEGHEM
Managing Director
EURO-SUPPORT
Van Frachenlaan 89
B - 1820 Steenokkerzeel
+32 475 92 46 88
+32 3 449 30 02
roger.thijs@euro- support.be
www.euro-support.be
Roger THIJS
President
Euro-Support, Inc. provides interim management services, basically by Roger
Thijs himself. An interim management steers processes of transition and/or
change as line responsible within the client company for the time it takes for
getting the “to-be” level.
Focus is general management, and particularly operations and supply chain
management, with special focus on lean implementations and MRO
optimizations. Reengineering is often combined with the introduction of ERP
packages. Start-ups have been coached for Movex, SAP, Axapta, Oracle
Applications and Maximo.
Roger thijs got an engineering degree in electricity and mechanics from Leuven
University, got a m.b.a. degree in Antwerp and an executive certificate in
management and leadership from MIT-Sloan. He is Apics certified as CPIM, CIRM
and CSCP.
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FRAGOMEN GLOBAL IMMIGRATION SERVICES
Avenue des Arts 44
B - 1040 Brussels
Fragomen is the largest law firm in the world dedicated exclusively to providing
corporate immigration services. We represent a broad range of clients, including
a majority of Fortune 500 clients, and we assist them in their recruiting, hiring
and retaining foreign workers. Every aspect of our firm, from our practice model
to our proprietary technology, has been developed specifically and exclusively
to support the practice of immigration.
+32 2 550 10 20
+32 2 550 10 29
[email protected]
www.fragomen.com
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Dirk NUYTS
Practice Leader
Member of the Brussels’ Bar
Our firm is made up of a large and diverse group of professionals who maintain
key leadership roles in the field of immigration, many of whom have held
positions at major governmental agencies. This team provides our clients with
detailed knowledge of the legal and regulatory requirements, to enforcement
procedures and potential penalties that may be applicable in different countries.
HELIOS-IT
Tremelobaan 50
B - 3140 Keerbergen
+32 15 27 47 24
+32 15 27 09 73
[email protected]
www.helios-it.com
Alex VANDEREYCKEN
Partner
Helios-IT, with headquarters in Belgium (Keerbergen) and The Netherlands
(Groningen), has grown into a full size Microsoft Gold Certified Partner in the
competences Microsoft Business Solutions and Independent Software Vendor.
With a team of 100 highly qualified people, Helios-IT focuses upon the
implementation and the support of ERP software, BI solutions, CRM software
and EAI solutions based on Microsoft technology. Besides traditional
implementations, Helios-IT focuses on automotive software with Drive-IT and
Incadea®, beverage and brewery software with Drink-IT and project
management software with an industry specific add-on (Top Solutions).
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HICT
Ezelstraat 69
B - 8000 Brugge
+32 50 33 33 40
+32 50 33 33 39
[email protected]
www.hict.com
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Jan DEMEY
Managing Director
HICT is an independent management consulting and ICT company in the
healthcare industry. HICT believes that through further re-engineering,
automation, innovation and integration of healthcare processes, resources and
stakeholders, it can assist in raising the level of service and quality in favor of
the patient, and in optimizing the use of the available resources of the
healthcare providers.
HICT positions itself as architect/delivery organization of projects in the market
of healthcare providers, healthcare suppliers and healthcare related public
services and this in a fully independent way.
HICT’s 3 solution domains are:
management consulting, software architecture and business & IT integration.
HICT delivers its projects with a multidisciplinary healthcare consultancy team.
Projects where HICT is mostly involved are strategic, operational, project
management & change management projects, resulting in business and ICT
solutions for the healthcare organization.
Gunther DESMEDT
Operations Manager
HOMES INTERNATIONAL
HOMES INTERNATIONAL NV specializes in land transport and aerospace law and
economics under two aspects: publishing and consultancy.
Rue Froissartstraat 119 - box 5
B - 1040 Brussels
+32 2 230 21 87
Recent publishing includes:
1. One Sky for Europe? World-wide Challenges
2. European Trajectories in Space Law
+32 2 653 10 85
[email protected]
www.homesinternational.be
Jean-Louis VAN de WOUWER
Managing Director
Besides promotion of our publications, we would like to professionally represent
North American aerospace interests with the European Institutions, be it
industrial companies, trade associations or regional authorities.
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HOTEL BENTLEY
The Bentley Hotel is happy to welcome you right in the centre of the capital of
Europe within recently renewed surroundings.
Avenue Rogier 51
B - 1030 Brussels
+32 2 511 52 65
+32 2 513 61 65
[email protected]
www.hotel-bentley.com
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Hakan ERBAS
Managing Director
Our hotel counts 30 luxurious rooms with bath or showers, fridge, TV-set and
phone in each room.
IHC GROUP
Legeweg 157/E02
B - 8020 Oostkamp
+32 50 20 79 11
+32 50 20 79 12
[email protected]
www.ihc.be
Jan POLLET
CEO
IHC is a software company building applications for the healthcare market and
hospitals in particular. The applications support the administration and the
patient care process in a hospital. IHC uses the Microsoft technology for the
development and the integration of its applications in an existing IT
environment.
The vision of IHC as a hospital software vendor is to create an integrated
solution, not by one system, but by bringing together 'the best of breed'
applications that seamlessly work together. In order to achieve our mission, we
collaborate closely with the hospitals to meet the overall goals of the hospitals.
Electronic drug prescription in a hospital environment is one of the main
products of IHC.
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IOK WASTE MANAGEMENT (IOK AFVALBEHEER )
IOK Waste Management : intermunicipality/29 municipalities - 500.000
inhabitants-average waste production 550 kg/pp.
Antwerpseweg 1
B - 2440 Geel
+32 14 56 27 73
Waste pol icy : prevention, home composting, separate collection
(paper/hardboard, bio-waste, packaging waste), limit rest-waste.
Waste management (processing biowaste, processing restwaste (biological
drying-mechanical separation).
+32 14 57 10 30
afvalbeheer@iok .be
www.iok .be
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Paul MACKEN
Managing Director IOK Afvalbeheer
Chairman Interafval
IOK Waste Management is also responsible for the Nike reuse-a-shoe facility in
Europe and is setting up a project for recycling textiles in collaboration with KLC
Zuiderkempen.
Global results: + 70% separate collection - reuse and recycling. Restwaste very
strong limited: 120 kg/pp
Turnover IOK Waste Management: 33 million euro - 250 employees.
Flanders global: 26 different intermunicipalities (association Interafval) – global
turnover 461 million euro.
IRIS
Rue du Bosquet 10
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
+32 10 45 13 64
+32 10 45 34 43
[email protected]
www.irislink.com
IRIS is an international technology driven company that specializes in the life
cycle processing of digital documents. Its activities cover the scanning and
indexing of documents, intelligent recognition and the searching, consulting,
management, sharing, archiving and storage of documents.
IRIS develops software packages intended for office users and IT systems
integrators and markets them in around a hundred countries. The company
supplies its various technologies to scanner manufacturers and major software
publishers, including HP, Kodak, Apple, Adobe, Samsung, Panasonic, Microsoft,
Fujitsu and Plustek. IRIS also implements effective professional solutions for
government agencies, banks, insurance companies, industrial firms and
European institutions.
The company currently has over 450 internal and external staff at its offices
in Louvain-la-Neuve and Vilvoorde (Belgium), Orly (France), Windhof
(Luxembourg), Maastricht (The Netherlands), Aachen (Germany) and Delray
Beach (United States).
Pierre DE MUELENAERE
President & CEO
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JETAIRFLY
Jetairfly is the second largest Belgian airline, with yearly 1.6 million passengers
(2006).
Ringweg - Luchthavengebouw 45
B - 1930 Zaventem
+32 2 712 97 20
+32 2 749 92 63
[email protected]
www.jetairfly.com
Flights are operated from Brussels, Ostend and Liege to 71 destinations around
the Mediterranean Sea, the Red Sea, the Canary Islands and the Caribbean.
Jetairfly is a hybrid airline, with both a holiday, low-cost and business clientele.
Onboard services range from no-frills to VIP-service.
The Jetairfly fleet consists of 10 aircrafts for medium and long haul, including
various Boeings "Next Generation". During high season Jetairfly employs 550
staff people.
Jetairfly is part of TUI Belgium, the largest Belgian holiday group, member of
the international TUI Travel PLC, Europe's leading travel group. Activities include
touroperating (JJetair), aviation (JJetairfly) and travel agencies (JJetaircenter).
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André BERGER
Director Flight Operations
JOBS INTERIM / BIS
Ruytenburgstraat 11
B - 2600 Berchem
+32 3 239 84 89
+32 3 239 84 90
[email protected]
www.jobsinterim.be
www.bisnet.be
Jobs Interim
Staffing & resourcing Solutions
Interim resourcing solutions
Search & Selection
BIS NV
ICT-Consultancy & Support
ICT-Resourcing solutions
ICT-Security
Jobs Interim & BIS NV: Staffing solutions on all 3 domains: consulting-interimsearch and selection.
All our clients are the reference in their sector. We work for financial institutions,
insurance, public and multinational companies.
Edward BERGER
Managing Director
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KEY & KEYS EUROPE
Boulevard de France 9 A
B - 1420 Braine-l’Alleud
+32 2 352 87 17
+32 2 389 98 00
[email protected]
www.keyandkeys.com
Key&Keys, LLC and Key&Keys Europe SA are web-based services companies.
We provide a proven, online solution that makes it possible for manufacturers
to track and guarantee the authenticity of their product(s) in order to detect and
reduce effectively fight against counterfeits, theft, piracy. Key&Keys also
provides manufacturers, distributors and retailers with a unique and powerful
online customer relationship management (CRM) application.
The basis of Key&Keys’s unique innovation is the secure and anonymous
registration of each product at the point-of-manufacture and its subsequent
tracking through the supply chain from distributors to retailers and on to
consumers and the second-hand market.
Product tracking works seamlessly with existing supply chain procedures and
processes and is achieved by linking each product and shipment with a unique
“key” generated by Key&Keys. This service is provided to distributors, customs,
retailers and consumers free-of-charge and operates in real-time over the
internet without the need for any specific hardware or software.
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Fabian LEROO
US Representative
LEVEL IT
Liège Science Park
Allée des Noisetiers 6
B - 4031 Liège
+32 4 221 33 30
+32 4 250 60 49
[email protected]
www.level-it.be
Olivier HAULT
Co-Founder and Software Architect
Level IT is a company located in the Liege Science Park near the University of
Liege in Belgium. Established in 2000, Level IT provides solutions and services
to their customers using benefits of new technologies to address real customer
challenges.
At Level IT, we deliver integrated and customized software platforms for key
modern management activities like total productive maintenance (TPM),
business process/performance management (BPM) and regulatory and
certification compliance (ISO, REACH, ...). These people’s solutions are designed
to address simultaneously the specific needs of security, quality and
environment domains meanwhile leveraging more than 25 years of global
experience in IT systems and technology investment of our R&D department.
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LYDIAN LAWYERS
Tour & Taxis
Avenue du Port 86c - box 113
B - 1000 Brussels
Lydian, founded in 2001 as Lontings & Partners, is one of the leading
independent law firms in Belgium, driven by 50 motivated and highly
competent lawyers. ‘Lydian’ is a term used in jazz music and means ‘note
system’ or ‘touchstone’, the backbone on which jazz musicians rely in jam
sessions. In the same way, the firm seeks to be the backbone of its clients’
business ventures.
+32 2 787 90 66
+32 2 787 90 99
[email protected]
www.lydian.be
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Jane MURPHY
Lawyer
Lydian is a full service law firm, providing its clients - large and medium-sized
Belgian and international companies - with prompt assistance and to-the-point
advice, both in domestic and cross-border files. The firm is structured around
four departments: Commercial & Litigation; Corporate & Finance; Employment,
Pensions & Benefits and Real Estate, Environment & Regulatory.
METRIS
Geldenaaksebaan 329
B - 3001 Haasrode
+32 16 74 01 00
+32 16 74 01 30
[email protected]
www.metris.com
Bart VAN COPPENOLLE
President & CEO
Metris (Euronext - MTRS) provides a unique range of 3D hardware and software
inspection systems servicing design and manufacturing industries. The
company’s reliable & innovative metrology solutions cover the full range of
measurement volumes required by automotive and aerospace customers, in
both fixed and portable configurations and with optical and touch sensors.
Metris metrology solutions include coordinate measuring machines articulated
arms, optical CMMs, 3D laser scanners, laser radar, iGPS systems, CT inspection
systems and metrology software for 3D inspection and reverse engineering.
Metris completes its product portfolio with a vast range of support, metrology
and integration services. Metris headquarters are based in Leuven, Belgium.
Metris provides a worldwide network of sales and supports offices located in
Europe, Asia, and the US.
Philip VANDORMAEL
COO
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MICROSOFT
Culliganlaan 1 A
B - 1831 Diegem
+32 2 704 30 00
+32 2 704 35 35
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.microsoft.com
At Microsoft, we're motivated and inspired by how our customers use our
software to find creative solutions to business problems and stay connected to
what's most important to them.
We run our business in much the same way and believe our three core business
divisions offer the greatest potential to serve our customers:
- Platform products and services division: includes the client group, the
server & tools group and the online services group
- Business division: includes the Information worker group, the Microsoft
business solutions group, and the unified communications group
- Entertainment and devices division: includes the home & entertainment
group and the mobile & embedded devices group
We are committed long term to the mission of helping our customers realize
their full potential. Just as we constantly update and improve our products, we
want to continually evolve our company to be in the best position to accelerate
new technologies.
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Phillip VANDERVOORT
General Manager Microsoft Benelux
MISSION CRITICAL IT
Boulevard de France 9 - Bât. A
B - 1420 Braine-l’Alleud
+32 2 757 10 15
+32 2 759 27 60
[email protected]
www.missioncriticalit.com
Software has become critical to almost every aspect of modern life, but the
construction of reliable software remains a very big challenge. This is the well
known “software crisis”. Mission Critical IT has pioneered a new form of
software development, ODASE™, where:
- Domain experts, with the help of knowledge engineers, build a
formal model of the Business problem – an ontology - using standard
semantic web languages;
-““Robots” automatically generate, from this ontology, the corresponding
program source code, which is then compiled into a high performing
and scalable application.
The tight integration of formal model and code delivers low cost, high flexibility,
excellent usability and swift time-to-market. Production time is further reduced
by round-the-clock development at Mission Critical’s two sites in Brussels
(Belgium) and Melbourne (Australia).
Michel VANDEN BOSSCHE
CEO
Vinciane CAPELLE
CFO
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MOSTforWATER
Koning Leopold III laan 2
B - 8500 Kortrijk
+32 56 35 43 90
+32 56 36 02 30
[email protected]
www.mostforwater.com
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Dirk VAN der STEDE
CEO - Director
MOSTforWATER NV was founded on 20th December 2006 as a spin out company
of HEMMIS. Other shareholders are Ghent University, Baekeland Fund II (the
seed and early stage fund of Ghent University), Flanders Innovation Fund
“VINNOF” (initiated by the Flanders Government) and some employees. All the
rights related to WEST® are transferred to MOSTforWATER.
WEST software offers a user-friendly IT environment for the modelling and
simulation of wastewater treatment plants but also for integrated process
design (including sewers and rivers, water re-use, …).
MOST(acronym of Model Optimisation Services & Technology) for WATER will
add model building services to the software in order to have the most efficient
use of the world-leading technology in relation to water quality modelling,
helping to reduce investment and operational costs of water infrastructure by
10 to 40%.
HEMMIS established and expanded a worldwide network of “Scientific Support
Centers for Modelling and Simulation” including EU-countries, USA, Canada,
Australia, South Africa and Japan.
OPTIMAL AIRCRAFT DESIGN (OAD)
Rue de l’Yser 31
B - 5020 Namur
+32 497 90 96 96
+32 81 21 26 87
[email protected]
www.oad.aero
Didier BREYNE
Managing Director
The main activity of OAD is to develop and commercialize a new software
dedicated to make the conceptual design of any aircraft from very light UAVs
to a light commuter aircraft like the Avanti Piaggio for example: the so-called
aircraft design software (ADS). ADS is the new standard for the conceptual
design of the modern generation of light aircraft. The know-how of OAD was
translated into ADS, a powerful software tool which is now on the market and
available for aircraft designers, amateur builders, universities and research
institutes.
ADS is the indispensable software package to design or to modify single and
twin engine aircraft in an efficient way. In addition, ADS can be used to:
understanding the design process of products in general; understanding more
specifically the design process of an aircraft; trying out new ideas or new
concepts; exploring all the flight conditions of an existing aircraft; studying the
impact of modifications on an existing aircraft.
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OPTIZEN
Lambroekstraat 5A
B - 1831 Diegem
Optizen is a leading European provider of campaign management software.
With the Messagent Suite, Optizen offers a unique solution for the design of
interactive cross-channel marketing campaigns. Messagent facilitates seamless
design of multi-step communication scenarios over all interaction channels with
effective personalisation features for true 1to1 marketing based on behavioural
profiling.
+32 2 719 03 10
+32 2 719 00 10
[email protected]
www.optizen.be
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Jan TEERLINCK
Managing Partner
It empowers marketeers to maximally exploit the on-line channels for realtime lead generation integrated with traditional off-line channels. The
Messagent Suite is an end-to-end solution for planning, creating, executing and
analyzing campaigns. It is widely adopted in many different industry sectors like
retail, finance, travel, automotive, telecommunications, recruitment and many
others.
PAUWELS TRAFO BELGIUM
Antwerpsesteenweg 167
B - 2800 Mechelen
+32 15 28 33 33
+32 15 28 33 00
[email protected]
www.pauwels.com
Pauwels is one of the world leaders in the design and manufacturing of
innovative three-phase distribution, power transformers and integrated
solutions for generation, transmission and distribution of electric energy.
Pauwels operates manufacturing plants (transformers) and subsidiary
companies (contracting & services) on 3 continents. These plants produce more
than 30,000 transformers each year, representing a total output of above
35,000 MVA.
Pauwels also provides complete turnkey systems, such as AIS & GIS substations
up to 500 kV, and is a world leader in mobile substations & mobile transformers
up to 245 kV. Pauwels is especially active in the renewable energy industry
with the environmental friendly SLIM® transformer which introduces a new
generation of compact transformers. Pauwels is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Crompton Greaves Limited, an important industrial conglomerate based in India.
Jan DECLERCQ
Technology & Business Development Manager
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PEOPLE SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL
Avenue Lloyd George 6
B - 1000 Brussels
+32 2 647 95 09
+32 2 513 99 29
c [email protected]
www.psi-belgium.com
People Solutions Internati onal is a Pan-European network formed of wellestablished independent HR consulting companies. Our core activity is search
& selection, complemented by HR consultancy, organisation & management
development, training, and competency assessment.
Our mission is to support our clients with their human resource management
projects by developing long-term partnerships and by providing them with a
value-added dimension in their specific industry. To add an extra dimension of
service and quality, we have set up Pan-European practice teams. Their
objective is to optimise the efficiency of HR projects in terms of know-how,
time and quality of results.
People Solutions International is a growing organisation. We are constantly
strengthening our presence in local markets and enlarging our network, in line
with the needs of our clients and the dynamics of the global economy.
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Christian DUMON
CEO
REALCO
Avenue Albert Einstein 15
B - 1348 Louvain-la-Neuve
+32 10 45 30 00
+32 10 45 63 63
[email protected]
www.realco.be
Thibaut JACOBS
Export Manager
REALCO is the first company in Europe to produce non-toxic environmentally
friendly cleaning products. REALCO has been a specialist in the bio cleaning
(detergency and wastewater treatments) for the past 20 years. And since then,
it has developed enzymes and/or bacteria based green products.
REALCO has an effective, rapid and integrated solution for effective cleaning,
perfect hygiene for all surfaces, as well as reduced equipment maintenance.
Enzymes digest fatty matters into soluble organic residues. Ideal for wastewater
treatment: enzymes transform fat while the bacteria transform it into natural
elements.
REALCO is involved in the following areas: household, service institutions
(hospitals, schools, plants...), food industry, wastewater treatment (grease
traps, septic tanks, pipes,…).
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REVER
Boulevard Tirou 130
B - 6000 Charleroi
+32 71 20 71 61
+32 71 20 71 65
[email protected]
www.rever.eu
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Dominique ORBAN de XIVRY
Managing Director
As a spin off from Namur University, Database engineering lab-Prof JL Hainaut,
we offer innovative technology to take care of the enterprise Information
System.
Rever’s Model Driven Data engineering technology (database engineering,
database reverse engineering, database re-engineering) gives the enterprise
the opportunity to eliminate all risks and delays encountered during every
evolution brought to a computer application manipulating data (database
maintenance, database migration...). Rever technology has already been used
successfully with several customers like the Belgian Ministry of Finance, the
French Eurocopter …
Jean-Marc HICK
Senior Analyst
SABCA
Chaussée de Haecht 1470
B - 1130 Brussels
+32 2 729 55 49
+32 2 729 58 96
[email protected]
www.sabca.com
Remo PELLICHERO
Chairman of the Board & CEO
SABCA is a major Belgian aerospace company active since 1920 in the design,
development, production and support of civil and military aircraft, as well as
space programs.
Among the company’s specialties:
- Large metallic and composite structures as a partner for civil aircrafts
and space launchers
-Advanced thrust vectoring systems for space launchers, including
electro-hydrostatic and electromechanical actuators
Final assembly including flight testing, heavy maintenance and upgrades of
military aircraft and helicopters (F-16, A10, Mirage, Alphajet, F5, Seaking,
Agusta 109, etc..)
Patrick de WILDE d’ESTMAEL
Business Development, Civil Aircraft
Marc HUMBLET
Marketing & Sales Director
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SEPTENTRIO
Ubicenter, Philipssite 5
B - 3001 Leuven
+32 16 30 08 00
+32 16 22 16 40
[email protected]
www.septentrio.com
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Septentrio Satellite Navigation NV, designs, manufactures, markets and supports
high-end dual-frequency GNSS receivers with the best possible performance at
a very competitive price. Targeted at original equipment manufacturers (OEMs),
Septentrio’s core technology is being applied in precise positioning, timing and
attitude determination applications. Septentrio Satellite Navigation NV is a
young dynamic company founded to commercialize the Satellite Navigation
know-how developed at the Interuniversity Micro Electronics Centre (IMEC), the
largest independent microelectronics R&D lab. Septentrio’s headquarters are
located in Leuven, close to Brussels, capital of Belgium and the European Union.
Septentrio’s technology is inherently multi-system, dealing with all available
satellite navigation signals available today and actively promoting and
developing the technology of tomorrow. We actively support customers with
customization, prototyping, field-testing, and assistance in application
integration.
James Christopher LITTON
Business Development, Septentrio Inc., Los Angeles
SONACA
Route nationale 5
B - 6041 Gosselies
+32 71 25 54 88
+32 71 25 56 68
[email protected]
www.sonaca.com
Christian JACQMIN
CEO
SONACA SA, an aerospace manufacturing company located in Gosselies, south
of Belgium, is the parent company of a group of affiliates located in Brazil,
Canada and the United States, and employs more than 2,300 persons over the
world. Its main activities are development, manufacturing, assembly and
testing of aerospace structures and associated systems.
The company is a world leader in the design and manufacture of movable and
fixed leading edges for large commercial aircrafts, regional and business jets.
Thanks to its involvement in civil programs with AIRBUS, EMBRAER, DASSAULT
and BOMBARDIER, as well as in military and space programs, SONACA is known
worldwide for its know-how and its active participation in the development of
new technologies.
Michel MILECAN
Executive Vice-President Business Development
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SPRONKEN ORTHOPEDIE
Transportlaan 9
B - 3600 Genk
Spronken Orthopedie is a company that has grown from a one-man business
to one of the biggest companies in soft-goods, orthotics, prosthetics,
wheelchairs, walking aids, rehabilitation equipment and homecare products in
Europe. Due to the daily effort of more then 120 employees and their constant
care for each patient, the company keeps growing and is continuously seeking
new challenges.
+32 89 50 05 00
+32 89 50 05 20
[email protected]
www.spronken.com
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Jan VANMANSHOVEN
General Manager
The latest development of Spronken Orthopedie, invented by Mr Jan Van
Manshoven, is the ‘HORS’ walking aid.
This is a unique and custom made walking aid, which combines orthotics and
a walking frame on 4 wheels, for people of all ages, suffering from orthopaedic,
neurological or musculoskeletal system diseases.
Thomas HUYS
Product Manager
STRAALTECHNIEK INTERNATIONAL
The Group’s main philosophy and targets are, to its largest extend, to cover the
full range for the supply of products within the following trade areas:
Antwerpsesteenweg 100
B - 2630 Aartselaar
-industrial surface treatment and protection
-corrosion technology
-shot peening technology
+32 3 870 61 77
+32 3 870 61 76
[email protected]
www.straaltechniek .net
Henri DE BOECK
General Manager
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SUEZ ENERGY INTERNATIONAL (SUEZ-TRACTEBEL)
Place du Trône 1
B - 1050 Brussels
+32 2 510 70 69
SUEZ Energy International is the division of SUEZ responsible for the Group’s
energy activities outside Europe. It develops and manages electricity and gas
projects, providing energy and related services to industry and commercial
customers. Headquartered in Brussels, it employs 4,946 people and operates in
four areas: North America, Latin America, Middle East-Asia & Africa. Its assets
represent more than 27,000 MW of power generation capacity. In 2006, SUEZ
Energy International achieved a turnover of EUR 6,242 million.
+32 2 510 75 91
[email protected]
www.suezenergyint.com
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Dirk BEEUWSAERT
CEO Suez Energy International
Based in Houston, SUEZ Energy North America, Inc. is the business unit of SUEZ
Energy International responsible for managing SUEZ’s positions within the
energy value chain in the United States, Mexico, and Canada, including
electricity generation and cogeneration, natural gas and liquefied natural gas
(LNG), asset based trading and origination, and retail energy sales and related
services to commercial and industrial customers.
TECHSPACE AERO
Route de Liers 121
B - 4041 Herstal
+32 4 278 81 11
+32 4 278 52 07
[email protected]
www.techspace-aero.be
Part of the Safran Group, Techspace Aero designs, develops and supplies
modules, equipment and services for aeronautical and space engines. Over the
years, the company has developed expertise in four areas of excellence:
Civil and military aeronautics propulsion: low pressure compressors and high
technology parts (diffuser cases, disks etc.). Through partnership agreements
with Snecma, General Electric and Pratt & Whitney, the company is responsible
for the low pressure compressors of the CF34-10, CFM56, GP7200, GE90, GEnx
engines.
Equi pment: for aeronautics applications: engine lubrication systems for
launchers and satellites: valves and flow control equipment
Services: maintenance, repair and testing for engines and equipments (first
private depot for F-100 engine)
Test cell engineering: design, installation, modernisation of test cells and test
cell equipment for aircraft and helicopter engines.
Philippe SCHLEICHER
CEO
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TECNOLUB
ZI Kaiserbaracke 6
B - 4780 Recht-St Vith
+32 80 67 95 59
+32 80 67 83 46
[email protected]
www.tecnolubsystem.com
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Raymond BLAISE
General Manager
TECNOLUB is a company specialized in consulting, analysis, design, construction
and implementation in the following fields: industrial lubricants,
environmentally friendly micro-lubrication systems for various industrial
applications, treatment of metal turnings.
TETRASOFT
Avenue Voltaire 190
B - 1030 Brussels
+32 2 215 41 04
+32 2 215 47 75
[email protected]
www.tetrasoft.be
Emmanuel van HECKE
Manager
Tetrasoft is the software publisher of “Leaflet” best described as “The
professional solution for cross-media database publishing on demand”. Tetrasoft
provides also project related services for implementing and supporting Leaflet.
Database publishing solutions may be useful to companies wanting to publish
their constantly evolving assortments cheaper, faster and error-free. Leaflet
users generate all kinds of structures documents like B2B catalogs, tariffs,
product sheets, illustrated tenders or activity reports. Because of its open
structure, Leaflet can be easily integrated into any business environment,
whether simple or complex.
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THALES COMMUNICATIONS BELGIUM
Rue des Frères Taymans 28
B - 1480 Tubize
+32 2 391 22 11
+32 2 391 23 00
[email protected]
www.tcb.thomson-csf.com
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Gianni BUTERA
Marketing & Sales Director
THALES Communications Belgium (TCB) is the Belgian skills centre of the THALES
group. It is recognized worldwide for its mastery in developi ng , produci ng ,
logistics and marketing on board systems of command, control, communication
and information. These systems are designed for any type of platform and are
intended for use by defence and security.
TCB acts as a genuine partner with respect to its clients and offers them a
solution customized to their needs. To do this, its flexible and responsive team
works in close co-operation with the platformists and the subcontractors.
To satisfy its clients and its shareholders, TCB makes it a point of honour to
respect the following 7 values: corporate spirit, client focused, creativity,
thoroughness, sense of responsibility, responsiveness, ethics. These values forge
the corporate identity and are shared daily by the entire staff.
TOTALHARMONY
Hommel heide 24
B - 3511 Hasselt
+32 53 70 87 36
+32 53 70 87 36
[email protected]
www.healthduo.com
Luc JANSEN
Director
Protect yourself from electrosmog with Memon transformers. We offer solutions
for protection against all EMF for houses, offices, cars and phones.
The memon® Water Transformer specifically counteracts damaging information
contained in water.
The memon®4-system Combi Transformer considerably reduces particulate
pollution and removes the damaging side effects of geopathic interference
zones! Air particle measurement shows how much the concentration of particles
in the air is reduced.
The memon® transformers are the technological innovation which most clearly
embodies well-being, reduced stress, comfort and environmental safety. There
is no other system which paves the way towards the future of removing
energy-related environmental influences on people, animals and plants in the
same way as the memon technology. This is our standard - for man, nature
and the environment!
Greet CLAEYS
Director
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TRIPHASE
Romeinse Straat 18
B - 3001 Leuven
+32 2 669 06 04
+32 2 669 06 09
[email protected]
www.triphase.com
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Pieter COPPENS
Sales Director
Triphase is a Belgian, privately owned company that provides solutions for the
fast realization of complex, high-performance power electronics applications.
Applications are motor drives, power grid control, hybrid vehicles power train
energy management, lighting and many more.
Key technologies are programmable and user-friendly systems for rapid
prototyping and deployment of new power electronics applications. Our
technology enables customers to migrate in a seamless way from prototype to
final product. As a result development costs are cut significantly with a reduced
time to market. This allows our customers to differentiate themselves from
their competitors.
UCOMAR
Ucomar NV is an Antwerp based, family owned, forwarding company
specialized in heavy lift, over-dimensional & project cargoes.
St Katelijnevest 54
B - 2000 Antwerp
+32 3 220 03 70
+32 3 226 43 83
[email protected]
www.portofantwerp.be/ucomar
Erik WULLAERT
Project Manager
Established in 1956 Ucomar has served over the years a large number of
industrial clients as well as forwarders, with his expertise of the above through
the port of Antwerp. A small but skillful team succeeds to offer client oriented
solutions for almost anything, through excellent relations with transport
companies & shipping lines.
We handle all kinds of cargoes moving through the Ports of Belgium ( Antwerp
- Ghent - Zeebrugge ) coming and/or destined to either European countries or
further overseas destinations, i.e. North Africa, the Middle East, Russia & CIS
countries etc.
A particular product which is being moved on a regular basis is (coated) steel
pipes for the oil & gas industry.
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VITALSYS
Rue des Palais 44
B - 1030 Brussels
+32 2 211 34 26
+32 2 218 89 73
[email protected]
www.vitalsys.be
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Paul GEERINCKX
President of the Board of Directors
Vitalsys is a dynamic company that specializes in innovative medical
technologies. Vitalsys develops, sells and maintains highly efficient
telemedicine solutions and infrastructures.
Vitalsys' mission is to provide technology to improve patients' quality of life. The
complete range of medical services and equipment that Vitalsys provides
enables healthcare professionals to monitor patients in real time from home.
With this technology, healthcare professionals can follow their patients suffering
from chronic disease ensuring prompt notification as conditions change.
Vitalsys is the most important player in the area of medical telemonitoring in
the Benelux countries. Vitalsys is partnering with the main insurance and
telecom providers.
Diederick GEERINCKX
Managing Director
VOICE-INSIGHT
In 1999 the founders of this Belgian company invented a new mobile user
interface technology called VQLTM (Voice Query Language).
Avenue J. Wybran 40
B - 1070 Brussels
+32 2 529 58 12
+32 2 529 59 83
[email protected]
www.voice-insight.com
Charles KEMPER
CEO
What VQLTM really does is interfacing existing speech engines available from
the shelf to existing database content for queries and updates in natural
language. It is not a speech engine (recognition nor synthesis), nor is it a
database application on its own. It is a middleware enabling automatic voice
activation of any existing database application. As such it allows fast
deployment of voice-activated applications in any language, supporting any
device (telephone, GSM, microphones, PDA (personal data assistants),
television, remote controller, etc.), in a server-client or in an embedded
architecture. This approach has been internationally patented. The company
has developed solutions based on the SDK in different vertical niches: GIS, GPS,
logistics, maintenance, security, e-government.
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WATER CONVERT
Rue Jules Claskin 84
B - 4030 Grivegnée
+32 4 342 61 13
Each person uses 120 liters of drinking water daily on average. On these 120
liters, 40 liters are used for the rinsing of the toilet bowl.
The Water Convert are a new concept which enables you to daily save these 40
liters of drinking water thanks to a new system of recovery of water starting
from the bath-tub or the shower. This water is filtered mechanically, treated by
UV and stored in a tank of 180 liters located at the site of the traditional tank
of your WC. The drinking water is increasingly invaluable.
+32 4 349 17 70
[email protected]
www.waterconvert.com
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Malika ZAHAR
Sales Manager
This economy is at the same time direct, with less water consumption, and
indirect, by the State investing less money to treat water because the demand
for drinking water is reduced. The economy of water per year and per million
inhabitants can be estimated at 14.600.000 m3 of drinking water. The Water
Convert replaces the traditional system of rinsing of the toilet bowl without
additional obstruction and important work of installation.
WATERLEAU
+32 16 65 06 63
The core activity of Waterleau is offering technology and solutions for
environmental problems in a wide spectrum of environmental fields such as
treatment of wastewater, sludge, polluted air and solid waste; production of
process or drinking water and generation of renewable energy from waste or
bio-fuels. Waterleau’s proven track record is reflected in the design,
construction, operation & maintenance of more than 1000 references. A team
of 175 engineers, a worldwide turnover of 75 million U$ and a 100 million U$
order portfolio.
[email protected]
www.waterleau.com
Waterleau serves its clients all over the world, either through its Belgian offices
or through offices abroad or via its joint venture companies.
Radioweg 18
B - 3020 Herent
+32 16 65 06 57
Field of activities: process & drinking water, desalination (brackish water &
seawater); industrial & municipal wastewater; water reuse & effluent recycling;
off-gas treatment & VOC control; sludge & bio-waste treatment; waste-toenergy plants.
Luc VRIENS
Managing director
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WINKING
Software development of a...
... Multi-functional, Multi-CHANNEL and intelligent printer driver.
Dorpsstraat 57/2
B - 8680 Koekelare
+32 51 23 24 80
+32 51 23 24 89
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.winking.be
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Gerdi STAELENS
Managing Director
With one print command OPTIsend print does a lot more than just print.
OPTIsend Print offers new ways to process a print command.
Thanks to the multi-channel output OPTIsend Print can execute more actions
with one print command: parallel workflow. Actions can be: Automatic e-mail,
fax and/or transform the document to an XML-e-document, send the document
fully automatically, make notes and perform tasks in MS-Outlook, detect and
use all information on the print, recognize automatically data and actions, ...
ZAO MEDIA GROUP
Chaussée de Louvain 585
B - 1380 Lasne
+32 2 352 01 90
+32 2 352 01 99
[email protected]
www.zaoconsulting.com
Siegfried DEBBAUDT
Managing Director
ZAO Media Group (ZAO) was founded by Siegfried DEBBAUDT in 2003. This
company has specialized in trading, negotiating and managing video rights.
It’s also a marketing specialist building up operation with the press combining
sales with DVDs.
ZAO employs today 15 people and a gross annual revenue of 15 Million dollars.
With this strong experience, ZAO has invested heavily in new promising
products such as www.clicmovies.net and Addict game. This website (owned
by ZAO) offers a wide range of movies (almost 2,000) in a unique “download
to burn” solution. Clicmovies has signed a partnership with DivX Corp to secure
its content and offer high quality programs, available on both Mac and PCs. A
definite marketing edge in this competitive segment. About ADDICT the great
interactive quiz: named Game of the Year 2007 in France (category DVD),
ADDICT (www.jeudvdaddict.com) is making its way to the US, the UK and
Germany with multi-languages edition. Since ADDICT has no real competitor at
this point, perspectives are very encouraging.
Christophe De Pauw
Business Developer
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Public Sector
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Embassies
USA
EMBASSY OF BELGIUM
CONSULATE GENERAL OF BELGIUM
HONORARY CONSULATE OF BELGIUM
Dominicus STRUYE de SWIELANDE,
Ambassador
Ronald DE LANGHE,
Consul General
Ronald MASNIK ,
Honorary Consul
3330, Garfield Street
N.W. Washington D.C. 20008
6100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1200
Los Angeles, CA 90048
The World Trade Center Seattle
2200 Alaskan Way, Suite 470
Seattle, WA 98121
+1 206 728 51 45
+1 206 770 79 23
 +1 202 333 69 00
+1 202 333 30 79
[email protected]
www.diplobel.us
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+1 323 857 12 44
+1 323 936 25 64
[email protected]
[email protected]
Embassies
CANADA
EMBASSY OF BELGIUM
CONSULATE OF BELGIUM
HONORARY CONSULATE OF BELGIUM
Jean LINT,
Ambassador
Christine HABIG,
Consul
Monique PONCELET- GHELEYNS,
Honorary Consul
360 Albert Street, 8th floor, suite 820
Ottawa - Ontario K1R 7X7
2 Bloor Street West, Suite 2006 - box 88 166, West 10th Avenue
Vancouver BC - V5Y IR 8
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3E2
+1 613 236 72 67
+1 613 236 78 82
[email protected]
www.diplomatie.be/ottawa
 +1 416 944 14 22
+1 416 944 14 21
[email protected]
www.diplomatie.be/toronto
 +1 416 944 14 22 (Consulate Toronto)
[email protected]
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Filip Vandenbroeke, Embassy Attaché
BRUSSELS- CAPITAL REGION
BRUSSELS EXPORT - FOREIGN TRADE DEPARTMENT OF THE
BRUSSELS-CAPITAL REGION
Avenue Louise 500/4
B – 1050 Brussels
+32 2 800 40 00
+32 2 800 40 01
infos@brussels- export.irisnet.be
www.brussels-export.be
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Isabelle LAVERGE
Attaché
The Foreign Trade Department of the Brussels-Capital Region is a public body,
which aims to enhance and improve the export capacity of Brussels companies.
To develop the export potential of Brussels companies, the Foreign Trade
Department:
- provides information about foreign markets to Brussels companies,
through its network of economic and trade attachés
- organizes trade missions and group stands of international exhibitions
- supports the prospect initiatives of Brussels companies through
financial incentives
The Foreign Trade Department of the Brussels-Capital Region also guides and
helps foreign companies interested in Brussels products, services and
techniques, to make the right contacts meeting their demands and to find
business partners in the Brussels Region.
FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE FINANCE
FISCAL DEPARTMENT FOR FOREIGN INVESTMENTS
Rue Marie-Thérèsestraat 1/4
B - 1000 Brussels
+32 2 579 38 66
+32 2 579 51 12
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.fiscus.fgov.be
Albert WOLFS
International Tax Expert
Within the Federal Public Service FINANCE a team of experts informs and assists
foreign investors and investors already established in Belgium on tax matters.
The Fiscal Department for Foreign Investments was created in 1997 and it
operates under the direct authority of the Chairman of the Executive Committee
of the Belgian Federal Public Service Finance.
This service of the FPS FINANCE guides and informs the foreign investor on tax
matters, and assists him in his contacts with the tax authorities. This public
service works:
- free on charge on a flexible, non-bureaucratic and investor oriented
basis
- everything disclosed to its officials remains strictly confidential, as
they are subject to a legal and strict obligation of professional secrecy
- for tax information with regard to foreign investments in Belgium,
please get in touch with us (address below).
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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE
FOREIGN AFFAIRS, FOREIGN TRADE & DEVELOPMENT COOPERATION
EGMONT I
Rue des Petits Carmes 15
B - 1000 Brussels
+32 2 501 81 11
+32 2 501 81 70
[email protected]
www.diplomatie.be
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Henk MAHIEU
Counsellor General
The Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs, Foreign Trade and Development
Cooperation manages Belgium's foreign relations. Belgium's Foreign Affairs
network comprises 130 embassies, consulates and representations both at
home and abroad.
As an organisation with solid and long-standing experience in foreign relations,
the FPS channels its expertise into actions geared towards attaining the
following objectives: Defending Belgian interest abroad, promoting a stable,
fair, thriving world community based on solidarity and combating poverty
around the world by building up high-quality development cooperation.
Thibaut de KERCHOVE
Expert Direction Economic Interest
FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE FOREIGN AFFAIRS
OFFICE OF THE MINISTER OF FOREIGN AFFAIRS
Rue des Petits Carmes 15
B-1000 Brussels
+32 2 501 82 11
+32 2 511 63 85
[email protected]
www.diplomatie.be
Sofie GEEROMS
Deputy Director
Laurent DE MEESTER
Counsellor
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FEDERAL PUBLIC SERVICE
INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY - F E D I C T
Fedict is the public service of the Minister of ICT, which is responsible for
Belgium’s e-Government strategy.
Rue Marie-Thérèse 1/3
B-1000 Brussels
+32 2 212 96 24
+32 2 212 96 99
[email protected]
[email protected]@fedict.be
www.fedict.be
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Frank LEYMAN
Manager International Relations
Fedict has developed and continues to develop the IT infrastructure aimed at
enabling the government to improve the services it provides. E.g.: the federal
portal, the federal network (FEDMAN) and access to the crossroads Bank for
Enterprises (CBE):
- Fedict supports the government’s ICT departments. The services provided
by Fedict range from giving advice about drafting Service Level
Agreements (SLA’s) and legal advice in general, to making user
management available free of charge to departments for their own
applications.
- Finally, Fedict contributes towards developing computerization for
society in general by removing barriers relating to the use of PC’s and the
internet. The programmes undertaken in this context include campaigns
such as “internet for all”, “saferchat” for young people and the “PC-phobia”
campaign.
FOREIGN TRADE AGENCY
Rue Montoyer 3
B - 1000 Brussels
+32 2 206 35 11
+32 2 203 18 12
[email protected]
www.abh-ace.org
The Belgian Foreign Trade Agency is a public body with a legal status. It was set
up through the Co-operation Agreement concluded between the Belgian
federal government and the three Belgian regional governments on May 24th,
2002.The Agency is run by a Board of Directors and its Honorary President is His
Royal Highness Prince Philippe of Belgium. The Agency's main tasks are:
- organisation of joint economic missions
- collecting, organising and circulating information, studies and documentation
on external markets on behalf of the regional export promotion organisations
The regional export organisations are the single contact point for Belgian
companies.
The entire version of this brochure is also available on the website of the Agency for Foreign Trade,
on the following address:
www.abh-ace.org/expor/initiatives-actions/abh-ace/missions-sar/2008/usa-canada/homepage.html
Michel GOVAERTS
Vice-President of the Board
Fabienne L’HOOST
Deputy Director General
Rosemary DONCK
Coordinator of the Mission
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GOVERNMENT OF FLANDERS
FLANDERS INVESTMENT & TRADE - FIT
Gaucheretstraat 90
B - 1030 Brussels
The Flanders Investment & Trade agency promotes sustainable international
business, in the interest of both Flanders-based companies and overseas
enterprises. Whatever sector you are involved in, Flanders Investment & Trade
will help you establish contact with the Flemish companies you are looking for.
This includes not only products or services you may be sourcing, but also various
types of business relationships, from joint ventures to technology transfers.
+32 2 504 87 11
+32 2 504 88 99
[email protected]
www.flandersinvestmentandtrade.com
At another level Flanders Investment & Trade enhances Flanders’ position as the
gateway to Europe for inward investors.
The agency identifies, informs, advises and supports overseas enterprises by
establishing production and research facilities, contact centers, headquarters,
logistics operations and the like in Flanders, the northern region of Belgium.
Do visit our website and discover our worldwide network.
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Dirk VAN STEERTEGHEM
Head of Department International
Business Development
Catherine VAN RANSBEECK
Areamanager
Greta VAN GIJSEGHEM
Assistant Areamanager
GOVERNMENT OF FLANDERS
Office of the Vice-Minister-President of the Flemish Government and Flemish
Minister for Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation and Foreign Trade
Martelaarsplein 7
B - 1000 Brussels
+32 2 552 61 00
+32 2 552 61 01
[email protected]
www.patriciaceysens.be
Flanders is a region with legislative powers, with its own parliament and its
own government.
It has broad domestic and foreign powers. For example, the Government of
Flanders has competence in the field of education, the environment, public
works, the economy, sports and culture, tourism, welfare policy, housing, health
care, town and country planning, foreign trade and investment and scientific
research. In all other areas there is a strong co-operation and co-ordination
with the federal Belgian authorities.
Flanders not only conducts an autonomous domestic policy but it also has a
great deal of autonomy in its dealings with foreign partners.
The Government of Flanders can conclude agreements and treaties with other
countries and regions in each domain for which it has domestic powers. It has
also exclusive competence for its trade and investment promotion with an
elaborate network abroad.
Patricia CEYSENS is Flemish Minister for Economy, Enterprise, Science, Innovation
and Foreign Trade.
Miguel CHEVALIER
Spokesman
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WALLOON REGION
CABINET OF THE MINISTER OF ECONOMY, EMPLOYMENT, FOREIGN TRADE
AND HERITAGE
Place des Célestines 1
B - 5000 Namur
Within the context of the Belgian federal State, the Walloon Region has
sovereign legislative powers, with its own Parliament and Government. It has
broad domestic competences in important fields like Environment, Agriculture,
Transport, Economic policy, Training and Employment policy, regional aspects of
the Social policy and Health care policy, Housing, Scientific research,
organisation and supervision of the local authorities,...
+32 81 23 41 11
+32 81 23 41 22
[email protected]
www.marcourt.wallonie.be
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Jean-Louis ROLLÉ
Advisor
The Government of the Walloon Region not only conducts domestic policy, but
can also conclude international agreements and treaties with other regions and
countries in each domain for which it has domestic powers. The Walloon Region
has its own competences in External relations and is responsible for Foreign
Trade and Investment promotion.
Julien COMPERE
Advisor
Nathalie LAFONTAINE
Press Advisor
WALLOON REGION
INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS DEPARTMENT (DRI)
Place Sainctelette 2
B - 1080 Brussels
+32 2 421 82 11
+32 2 421 87 87
[email protected]
www.wbri.be
Jean-Marie WAUTHIER
Chief Engineer - Director
The Wallonia International Relations Department (DRI) is responsible for all
international matters related to the competencies devoluted to the Walloon
Region of Belgium (notably economic and employment development and
scientific innovation).
The environmental desk within the Wallonia International Relations Department
is involved in the following activities:
- Bilateral cooperation in matters such as environment, sustainable development
and climate changes. We built projects with more than 50 regions or countries
in the world. We maintain very close cooperation with some African French
speaking countries within the framework of the International Francophone
Agency.
- Multilateral cooperation: we are a member of very effective “environmental”
networks such as ENCORE, the Environment Conference of the Regions of
Europe, and NRG4SD, the network of regional governments for sustainable
development.
- International trade: the environmental desk promotes worldwide the Wallonia-based
businesses active in the environmental sector.
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WALLOON REGION
WALLONIA FOREIGN TRADE AND INVESTMENT AGENCY-AWEX
Place Sainctelette 2
B - 1080 Brussels
+32 2 421 84 93
+32 2 421 87 75
c [email protected]
f.kania@awex .be
[email protected]
[email protected]
www.wallonia-export.be
www.investinwallonia.be
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Christian VERDIN
Director
The Wallonia Foreign Trade and Investment Agency (AWEX) is the Wallonia
Region of Belgium’s government agency in charge of foreign trade promotion
and foreign investment attraction. The agency has a worldwide network of 105
Economic and Trade Attachés. AWEX is ISO 9001 certified since April 2002.
As a foreign trade agency, AWEX carries out a mission of promotion and
information for the benefit of both Wallonia and the foreign business
community. AWEX assists buyers, decision-makers, importers and foreign
prospects by providing information on Wallonia’s export potential. As an export
partner for Wallonia-based companies, Awex offers a wide range of exportoriented services and activities (market surveys, organization of trade missions,
trade show pavilions, export incentives, etc.).
As a foreign investment agency, AWEX – via its Office for Foreign Investors (OFI)
– has an overall responsibility for the attraction of foreign investment in
Wallonia. This includes seeking out and providing information to potential
foreign investors. The Agency also offers a pro-active follow-up service to
investors already established in Wallonia.
Francis KANIA
North America Area Coordinator
Jean-Pierre MARCELLE
Head of North American Investments
Head of Marketing & Communications
Pierre LECLERCQ
Business Development
US Investments
For further details concerning Belgian
products, services and techniques,
please get in touch with:
CONTACTS
Luc LIPPENS
Economic and Commercial Attaché for the
Brussels-Capital Region
Dirk VERLEE
Economic Representative of Flanders.
c/o Consulate General of Belgium
Frédéric DELBART
Trade and Investment Commissioner
Belgian trade Commission
Wallonia Export and Investment Office
1065 Av. of the Americas 22th fl
New York, NY 10018
6100 Wilshire Blvd., Suite 1200
Los Angeles, CA 90048
155 Montgomery street - suite 207
San Francisco - CA 94104
+1 212 399 85 22
+1 212 399 85 17
[email protected]
www.brussels-usa.com
+1 323 857 08 42
+1 323 938 40 24
[email protected]
www.flandersinvestmentandtrade.com
 1 415 546 52 55
+
+1 415 341 65 13
[email protected]
www.belgiantrade.org
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For further details concerning Belgian
products, services and techniques,
please get in touch with:
Jean-Pierre VASAUNE
Business Development US Investments
Chicago Office
Wallonia Export and Investment Office
André MATHIEU
Trade Commissioner for the Brussels-Capital Region, the
Flemish Region and the Walloon Region
Trade Commission - Consulate of Belgium
333 North Michigan Avenue - suite 905
Chicago - Illinois 60601-4186
2 Bloor Street West – Suite 2508 - box 86
Toronto, Ontario M4W 3E2
+1 312 961 77 38
+1 312 357 10 76
[email protected]
www.belgiantrade.org
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CONTACTS
+1 416 515 7777
+1 416 515 7774
[email protected]
HOTELS OF THE MISSION
SEATTLE
VANCOUVER
The Fairmont Olympic Hotel Seattle
The Fairmont Hotel Vancouver
411 University Street,
Seattle, Washington,
United States, 98101
900 West Georgia Street
Vancouver, British Columbia,
Canada V6C2W6
+1 604 684 31 31
+1 604 662 19 29

[email protected]
www.fairmont.com/seattle
+1 604 684 31 31
+1 604 662 19 29

[email protected]
www.fairmont.com/HotelVancouver
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ECONOMIC PROFILE OF BELGIUM,
THE HEART OF EUROPE
Belgium is a federal Kingdom, with three Regions (the Flemish Region, the Walloon Region and the Brussels-Capital Region) and three
communities (the Flemish Community, where Dutch is spoken, the French Community and the German Community).
Belgium has a population of 10.584.534 inhabitants (as of 1.01.07) and is one of the most densely populated states in Europe.
Brussels is the capital of Europe, the site of the headquarters of the European Commission, the Council of Ministers and the European
Parliament. Other major international organizations, such as NATO, are also located in Brussels. As a result, Brussels is the number
two city in the world (after Washington) in terms of its number of accredited journalists, and fourth in terms of the number of
international meetings and seminars held there.
With a surface area of 30,500 km², Belgium is one of the smallest Member States in the European Union. Nevertheless, it is a significant
player in the world economy. GDP in 2006 was € 392 billion, making Belgium the 18th economy in the world. Belgium is a high income
country, with a GNI (gross national income) per capita of $ 38,600 (World Bank data).
According to the World Trade Organization (WTO), in 2006, Belgium was the 10th exporter of goods and the 14th exporter of services
globally. Belgium’s share in world merchandise exports was 3.1% in 2006, while its share in world imports of goods was 2.9%.
Belgium is the world leader in terms of export per capita.
Belgium was also the 4th recipient of Foreign Direct Investment flows in the world in 2006 (UNCTAD World Investment Report 2007).
FDI into Belgium more than doubled to $72 billion, raising its total FDI stock to $603 billion, which was more than the country’s GDP
at the end of 2006. The continued presence in Belgium of TNC “coordination centres”, as well as the new tax incentives that entered
into force in January 2006 (notional interest deduction) may have contributed to that increase. Belgium’s FDI outflows also increased
in 2006, making it the 7th largest source of FDI worldwide.
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BELGIUM - KEY FIGURES
Trade relations with the USA
Trade relations with Canada
Belgian exports to the USA
Belgian exports to Canada
2005
2006
2006
2007
12 months
12 months
9 months
9 months
17 349 million EUR
17 984 million EUR
13 429 million EUR
13 275 million EUR
Belgian imports from the USA
2005
2006
2006
2007
12 months
12 months
9 months
9 months
2005
2006
2006
2007
12 months
12 months
9 months
9 months
1 880 million EUR
2 153 million EUR
1 601 million EUR
1 634 million EUR
Belgian imports from Canada
13 891 million EUR
15 002 million EUR
10 899 million EUR
12 006 million EUR
2005
2006
2006
2007
12 months
12 months
9 months
9 months
1 086 million EUR
1 289 million EUR
882 million EUR
1 296 million EUR
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