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11 BAM consortium to build new NATO headquarters
Netherlands-based European construction company, BAM Group, has been awarded the contract for construction of the new NATO headquarters, according to Belgian business newspaper De Tijd. The contract is worth some 500 million euros. BAM Alliance, the...
09.08.2010
12 Dutch touch screen technology in great demand worldwide
Electronics giants are queuing up for technology developed by Frisian start-up enterprise Advanced Touchscreen Technology (ATT). The company recently struck a deal to work closely with Fujitsu Microelectronics Europe (FME) in Germany. ATT will...
05.08.2010
13 Amsterdam canal district becomes a World Heritage Site
The UN cultural organisation Unesco has placed Amsterdam's seventeenth century canal district on the World Heritage Site List. The status as a World Heritage Site signifies international recognition for the historic canal district and also promotes...
03.08.2010
14 New Dutch technology generates electricity from exhaust gases
Dutch company Tri-O-Gen has developed a device which recycles unused exhaust heat. Its Tri-O-Gen ORC installation converts residual heat and exhaust fumes into electricity using the Organic Rankine Cycle. This 'electricity-from-smoke' cycle first...
03.08.2010
15 Arcadis wins large waste water project in Brazil
Dutch infrastructure company Arcadis will has signed a US$54 million contract with SABESP, the São Paulo State Basic Sanitation Company. Under the contract Arcadis will provide project management services for the extension of the infrastructure for...
02.08.2010
16 Netherlands second largest global exporter of fresh tomatoes
The Netherlands exported 965 million kilogrammes of fresh tomatoes in 2009, up 4 percent from 2008 and worth 1.1 billion euros, ranking the country second after Mexico for tomato exports. The five most important markets for Dutch tomatoes in 2009...
02.08.2010
17 Europe's first fermentation plant opens in the Netherlands
The Dutch waste processing companies HVC and ROVA have opened a unique fermentation plant in the Dutch city of Zwolle. The plant will ferment 45,000 tonnes of organic waste annually into biogas and compost, and is the largest of its kind in the...
02.08.2010
18 Dutch LED lighting implemented for climate-neutral World Cup event
Lemnis Lighting Africa, the South African subsidiary of the Dutch company Lemnis Lighting, was selected by the South African Government Department of Environmental Affairs (DEA) to help reduce the CO2 emissions resulting from the recent FIFA World...
02.08.2010
19 Innovative Dutch road surfacing purifies air
Tests carried out in 2009 in the Netherlands revealed that specific road surfaces can have a considerable impact on local air purity. Initial test results for a road surface consisting of air-purifying concrete showed that this material reduces the...
28.07.2010
20 World's largest 2nd-generation biofuel plant opens in the Netherlands
The world's largest 2nd-generation biofuel plant was officially opened recently in the Netherlands. BioMCN's biofuel plant has a production capacity of 250 million litres per year, which is enough to immediately fulfil the entire Dutch biofuel...
28.07.2010

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