magazine SUMMER 2016 c/o Netherlands Embassy Aminta III 69-71 1000 Skopje Republic of Macedonia e: info@nlchamber.org.mk w: www.nlchamber.org.mk fb.com/nlchamber twitter.com/nlchamber linkedin.com/../nl-chamber youtube.com/user/nlchamber issuu.com/nlchambermace... NL Chamber was established in JÂ anuary 2012 as official Dutch-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce by 50 Macedonian companies, according to the MacedoÂnian Law on Chambers of Commerce. About half of these companies is partly or fully Dutch owned. Objective of NL Chamber is to promote and support successful business relations between Dutch and Macedonian companies.
events New president and board members Outsourcing conference Bitola Back to Business Breakfast on Thursday 1 September Study visit Dutch Fashion Business School Member teams ran at Skopje Marathon Eurostars Event 2016 Amsterdam Arena Courses smart reading / smart writing for business Female entrepreneurs visit the Netherlands network New deputy head of mission at Netherlands Embassy Heineken sends new Commercial Director to Pivara Skopje members New members Kivo, Symphony Solutions and EMT Searching for ways to turn textile waste into new products Bato & Divajn launches KarmaPix.com New building by RADiUs architects opened Linea at Fashion Weekend Skopje Dutch Event Hall by Steel Con Natuurgevelsteen for Dutch fashion outlet Bataviastad Feydom started House of Thousand Designers Marriott Hotel Skopje opened New beer: Skopsko Smooth Holmak also assembling switchboards New production facility for Hunter Douglas short Short News / Calendar of Trade Fairs Sponsors of Foundation NL Chamber:
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New president and board members The General Assembly of NL Chamber elected a new president and new board members. both board members Marcel Melles and Marta Naumovska Grnarova passed, also two new board members were elected. Alfred Schönbeck and Dirk Vlierboom were elected to join Wim and form a strong and active new board. Alfred is production development mana ger for workwear producer Royal Van Puijenbroek Textiel in Macedonia and since Wim Westen
Dirk Vlierboom
The fifth General Assembly of NL Chamber took place on 26 April at the Netherlands Embassy. Since Wietse Mutters left to continue his career for Heineken in Haiti, the members elected Wim Westen as new president of NL Chamber. Wim is running the garment production company Vima Fashion in Kocani. Since the second mandate of
recently also Albania and Kosovo. Dirk is general manager for Marriott International at the recently opened Marriott Hotel in Skopje.
Alfred Schönbeck
All NL Chamber members were invited to the official King’s Day celebration of the Embassy that took place the same eve ning at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Skopje.
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Outsourcing conference Bitola InterWorks partnered with AIIT in a conference on IT and Business Process Outsourcing.
Conference on Applied Internet and Information Technologies.
shortage of 900,000 IT professionals by 2020 UK Key-note speaker Richard Avery pointed out that the EU is facing a shortage of over 900,000 IT professionals by 2020 (source: www.cbi.eu).
According to Avery Macedonia is IBM’s largest country in terms of job creation: 750 new jobs. Key-note speaker Carola Copland (Germany) explained
that German companies still see outsourcing as a disruption of a smoothly operating company. See also: TV news item
photos: NL Chamber, Alfred Schönbeck, MIA
NL Chamber member InterWorks, the system integration specialist from Bitola orga nized a conference on Macedonia as outsourcing destination for software development and business processes in the scope of the International
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Back to Business Breakfast on Thursday 1 September The annual breakfast meeting takes place at Marriott Hotel in Skopje. Every year in September the members of NL Chamber gather for a pleasant networ king meeting with typical Dutch breakfast items to mark the end of the holidays and the start of another prospe rous business season. Chef with a Dutch touch Whereas the lovely space on the hill behind Bato & Divajn of the past two years has become a little too small, it was time to move to another evenly lovely location. With a Dutch
general manager and a Chef with five years experience in the Netherlands, we expect again a wonderful gathering with Marriott Hotel at Macedonia Square as the new venue. The open-air terrace is located at the Executive Lounge.
all pictures of this event: nl.mk/B2B-Breakfast Executive Lounge, Marriott Hotel
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Study visit Dutch Fashion Business School
Since the curriculum of TMO Fashion Business School from the Netherlands includes a sourcing study visit, several groups of students have been introduced to the Macedonian textile industry, including MGI.
Dejan Pavic, general manager of NL Chamber member EMT, a Dutch fashion production agent from Stip, is traditionally in charge of the programme.
more pictures of this event: nl.mk/2016TMO
photos: Bato & Divajn, Marriott Hotel Skopje, NL Chamber
38 students of Fashion Business School TMO visited various companies in Macedonia on their traditional sourcing study visit.
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Member teams ran at Skopje Marathon Various members participated with complete member teams in this year’s Skopje Marathon. MGI was present with no less than 39 runners. tation - again during working hours - focussed on a healthy lifestyle. Ajanovski is a professio nal runner with his own running school, Nike+ Run Club. Ajanovski finished 10th at the half marathon in 1:20:32.
Marcel Melles, MGI
Ten NL Chamber members had runners participating in the Skopje Marathon 2016. Several corporations had large teams, but MGI reached a remarkable participation of 28% of the entire staff.
Part of the team of MGI
is owner of Steel Con in Mlado Nagoricane. The team reached the 13th place.
Ajanovski at MGI
Part of the team of MGI
13th place for male team Interworks
Eddy Lieverst, Gerliko / Steel Con
especially flown in Richard Lieverst, his bro ther Eddy and two colleagues travel led especially from the Netherlands to Macedonia to participate in the Relay Marathon as Gerliko team. Gerliko
There was one participant for Tricode, three for Stobi Wine ry and Vitalia was traditionally present with a large promotional team for its sports bar pro ducts. Vitalia had seven runners at the 5 km. Their female team finished at place 51. The seven men of Symphony Solutions got the 62nd place, with director Dejan Ivanoski
The entire promotional team of Vitalia, including runners.
photos: MGI, Gerliko, Vitalia
With an initial introduction at the weekly working meeting, MGI’s general manager Marcel Melles received instantly 10 applications for a joint participation in the 5 km edition of the Skopje Marathon. The list grew rapidly to over 30 participants, after which Melles asked his friend Kokan Ajanovski to provide a short presentation about running and the marathon. With over 40 registered participants, a second presen-
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finishing in 34:24. The female team of I足 nterworks finished 30th, whereas its male team reached place no. 13.
Both teams of Interworks
Halkbank 2nd successful teams. The 16th place was for the 11 ladies. CEO Necdet Palakci finished third of the 25-member male team which brought them to the second place.
Halkbank CEO Necdet Palakci (no.6013) surrounded by his running teams.
5 km
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Frontwise Group (4F+2M) Olgica Naumovska, director
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Halkbank (11F) Halkbank (25M) Necdet Palakci, CEO
16 2:07:35 2 1:27:36 320 23:47
Marta and daughter Frontwise Group director Ol-
gica Naumovska brought five colleagues and general mana足 ger Marta Naumovska Grna足 rova of Zavar ran the 5 km together with her ten-year-old daughter Dora.
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Interworks (4F) Interworks (12M)
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MGI (34F)
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Symphony Solutions (7M) Dejan Ivanoski, director Frontwise Group
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62 2:13:35 1355 34:24
Vitalia (6F)
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Zavar (2F) Marta Naumovska Grnarova, dir 1117
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Other participants: MGI (4M), Stobi (2F+1M), S 足 ymphony Solutions (1F), Tricode (1M), Vitalia (1M). In total from Belgium: 1F In total from the Netherlands: 5F+2M
Relay Marathon
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Gerliko
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In total from the Netherlands: 1 team of 4M
Half Marathon
rank chip time*
MGI (1M) Marcel Melles, general manager 244 1:52:01 In total from Belgium: 1F In total from the Netherlands: 1F+2M
Marta and daughter Dora
* Team chip times are the sum of the chip times of the four fastest team members. Relay chip time is the sum of the chip times of all four participants in the team.
photos: Interworks, Frontwise Group, Marta Naumovska Grnarova, Halkbank
Halkbank participated with two
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Eurostars Event 2016 Amsterdam Arena The free B2B event Eurostars focusses on match-making for product, process and service development in ICT, life sciences, industrial manufacturing, energy and food technology
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Netherlands Enterprise Agency is organizing a large
match-making event for companies with innovative ideas, looking for partners to deve lop both product and market. The Eurostars event is organi
zed in the scope of the EU Eurostars/Eureka programme and takes place on 12 October 2016 at Amsterdam Arena.
Registration is free of charge and opened until 07.10.2016, but early registration increases your changes on meetings.
www.b2match.eu/eurostarsevent2016
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Courses smart reading / smart writing for business Save time by high-speed reading reports with better understanding and typing your own reports using all fingers without watching them. Reading and writing reports, emails or any other type of information are two of the most time-consuming things for professionals. Our brain can do much better. In order to use all of our brain’s capacities, we just have to change the way of reading and writing. discount for members NL Chamber received an introductionary offer with additio nal discounts for members to organize both courses in Mace donia with a Dutch training in-
stitute. With sufficient initial interest, these courses (2 days plus 1 day follow-up for reading and half a day with on-line follow-up for writing) are likely to take place in November.
trainer Paul van der Velde
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Female entrepreneurs visit the Netherlands The Dutch government funded a business visit for female entrepreneurs from Albania, Kosovo and the Netherlands. NL Chamber supported the organizers. The
Netherlands Enterprise Agency funded a training pro-
ject for a group of twenty female entrepreneurs from Albania, Kosovo and Macedonia. The project focussed on internationalization of their companies through various skills like business planning, product development and marketing. The project also included a business visit to the Netherlands with plenary sessions, events and individual match-making. NEC and NL Chamber The Dutch contractor in charge of the business visit, NEC, invited NL Chamber to join the organizing team during the visit. One of the days was dedi cated to 3D-printing for the company Le Arch 3D Nsh from Pristina, Kosovo, offering 3D modelling for architects.
Delegation for plenary sessions at Netherlands Entreprise Agency, The Hague
Another visit took place at 3D HUBS in Amsterdam, a platform to link individual designers to 3D-printing service providers.
Trial for stairs
Large 3D printer at work
printing buildings
3D-printed food items The company Oceanz in Ede is a business-to-business 3D printing service provider, specialized in small items: items for industrial applications, but also relational gifts, gadgets and even eatable items.
Seating area: 3D-printed structures, filled with concrete
Close-up Europe Building facade
Europe Building facade
photos: NL Chamber, 3dChef
Production floor at Oceanz
The last visit of the day was all about the “Reseach & Doing” activities of DUS Architects in Amsterdam. They took the initiative to experiment with 3Dprinting of buildings. One of the results is the Europe Building, a pavilion for which all facades and incorporated seating areas were 3D-printed (video).
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New deputy head of mission at Netherlands Embassy Peter Verheyen is moving to Pristina. In Skopje he will be succeeded by Andri van Mens. The 4-year mandate of Peter Verheyen (61) as deputy head of mission in Skopje has finished. Fortunately, the passionate supporter of NL Chamber and Dutch entrepreneurs will remain nearby: for the next two years Verheyen will fulfil the same role at the Embassy in Pristina, Kosovo. Sofia
Montréal As a teenager Van Mens spent most of the time in Montréal, Canada, where his fami ly moved in 1990. Andri van Mens is married and has two daughters.
Peter Verheyen deputy head of mission Pristina
Andri van Mens deputy head of mission Skopje
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Heineken sends new Commercial Director to Pivara Skopje Roderik Rosenbaum will start in Skopje early September. A few months after the departure of Wietse Mutters to Haiti, Heineken appointed Roderik Rosenbaum (39) as Commercial Director at Pivara Skopje. The past few years Rosenbaum worked for Heineken’s softdrink company Vrumona. As national account manager he was responsible for the total sales of Vrumona products to the the largest Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn, part
of the Dutch retail multinatio nal Royal Ahold NV. Roderik is married and has three sons of 8, 5 and 3 years
Roderik Rosenbaum commercial director linkedin.com/in/roderik...
old. He practices running, rugby and wintersports.
photos: Peter verheyen, Andri van Mens, Emina Shkrijelj, Roderik Rosenbaum
His successor in Skopje is Andri van Mens (39) who spent the last four years in The Hague, dealing with infrastructure development funds and publicprivate partnerships. He has been working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs since 2004, including four years at the Embassy in Sofia, followed by one year in Moscow.
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New members Kivo, Symphony Solutions and EMT Since the previous edition of this magazine three new members joined NL Chamber. As our first Kosovar member, Kivo LLC from Kacanik joined NL Chamber’s network with the ambition to expand into Mace donia. Kivo is a subsidiary of Kivo Plastic Verpakkingen BV from Volendam, Netherlands. The company in Kacanik star ted in April last year and ope rates 24/7 with 65 employees. market leader bread bags In the Netherlands Kivo is a large supplier of a wide varie ty of polyethylene packa ging materials and holds for exam ple 80% of the market for printed plastic bags for bread. The Dutch supermarket chains
The second initial product is extra strong (waste) bags for Dutch postal service and private labels, produced entirely in Kosovo. shrink foil Kivo had successful trials for printed shrink foil for six-packs CocaCola cans with Pivara Skopje and is now looking for other large potential clients for shrinkfoil in food industry but also in agriculture: shrinkfoil packaging seriously extends the shelf life of cucumbers for example.
maintain a splendid company culture with a relaxing office interior including bar and indoor garden, free language courses, games and other social and cultural events and a zero-tolerance policy towards corruption.
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are the main retailers for a large assortment of bread of which most is sold pre-cut into slices. These bags are printed in Kacanik.
e: info@symphony-solutions.eu w: www.symphony-solutions.eu linkedin.com/../symphony... fb.com/symphony.solutions twitter.com/symphony...
Kivo LLC e: maliq@kivollc.eu w: www.kivollc.eu e: info@kivo.nl w: www.kivo.nl linkedin.com/../kivo...
nl.mk/kivo-kosovo (pictures)
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Shortly after starting operations in Macedonia, Symphony Solutions DOOEL joined NL Chamber. The company is an allround provider of business software solutions with its headquarters in Amsterdam and a salesoffice near Antwerp. splendid company culture Skopje is the third “Delivery Centre” for Symphony Solutions, after Lviv, Ukraine and 170 km westwards in Rzeszow, Poland. At both locations Symphony Solutions has shown to
The third new member is the Dutch garment production agent EMT. More about EMT in the article “Searching for ways to turn textile waste into new products” on the next page.
photos: FocusNL, Symphony Solutions
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Searching for ways to turn textile waste into new products EMT plans to start production of felt articles from recycled fibres in co-operation with Dutch foundation I-Did, while Nido Global Textile is also looking for recycling options. that develops ways to reuse textile waste. fiberization I-did started redesigning overstock garments into accessories for the same brands: issy Boy, Garcia Jeans and S Wehkamp. In a later stage, i-did started developing pro ducts made out of felt for various clients. These large companies had their used uniforms and other workwear destroyed and fiberized, after which felt was produced - still resembling the corporate identity through the colours of the fibres. I-did Bag made of felt from recycled fibres.
i-did slow fashion BV e: info@i-did.nl w: www.i-did.nl fb.com/ididslowfashion linkedin.com/../idid... twitter.com/ididslowfashion
made grey-green laptop bags for the Ministry of Defense, blue-yellow-purple shoulder bags for electricity provider Nuon and sky-blue shopping bags for airline KLM. production in Macedonia
EMT DOO e: info@emt.com.mk w: www.emt.com.mk fb.com/emtdoo linkedin.com/../emt-doo
With felt being an ideal material to be produced out of textile waste, i-did saw an opportunity for larger scale production of bags and other items made from felt of general textile waste. EMT has offered to organize production in Macedo nia. See: grensverleggers.nl. cutting waste Like every company dea ling with outward processing
in textile industry (“passieve veredeling” in Dutch or “лон” in Macedonian), EMT faces the extensive procedures concer ning the customs treatment of cutting waste from temporarily imported fabrics. Having also in mind that the cutting waste ends up at Macedonian landfills, EMT aims to reuse the cutting waste of its own ope ration and other companies in the future. Customs Authority Since the producer of tablecloths for party tables Nido Global Textile in Skopje (subsidiary of Dutch Dena Textile Productions) is also thinking of ways to reuse their cutting waste, NL Chamber addressed the subject at a meeting of the Advisory Body of the Customs Authority. According to director Natasa Radeska-Krstevska the procedure for using textile waste of temporarily imported fabrics
photos: i-did
One of the new NL Chamber members, garment production agent EMT from Stip, is about to start production of bags of recycled textile. The idea came from contacts with the Dutch company i-did, an organization
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Workwear of electricity provider Nuon destroyed, fiberized, processed into felt and manufactured into handbags.
is very straightforward. However, inquiry at the company mentioned as an example learnt that there is still no understanding with the Customs Authority for using waste of temporarily imported fabrics. Dutch textile waste processor The Dutch processor of textile waste - mainly garments - is Frankenhuis BV in Haaksbergen, with which i-did co-operates. Managed by professionals with a background in waste mana gement, the company is a purely industrial business acting as a service provider in garment destruction and as a supplier of raw materials. Fashion brands bring their overstock, other companies their used workwear or any other type of textile waste.
Product samples: various types of fibre and felt.
hard shell suitcases
chasing fibres which they form with resin into back shelves and similar pro ducts. Using resin and fibres, also hard shell
suitcases have already been produced. Finally, tests have shown that insulation material made of recycled fibres can compete with glass wool on insulation value and greater ease of application.
Frankenhuis BV
Denim fibres being loaded.
e: info@frankenhuisbv.nl w: www.frankenhuisbv.nl
photos: i-did, NL Chamber
Jeans and knitted wear can be a component for new fabrics, because of the long fibres that are retrieved. Other garments mostly end up in felt. With an innovative spirit, Franken huis continuously experiments with new applications. The automotive industry is already pur-
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Bato & Divajn launches KarmaPix.com Inspired by NL Chamber relations Bato & Divajn now offers customized photobooks. I’m in Skopje now.” The Dutch guy happened to be co-owner of a company fully dedicated to printing individual photobooks. After a meeting that same evening an introduction to Bato & Divajn was scheduled for Saturday morning. In July 2015 Bato & Divajn owner Zoran Rosomanov and Bob Smit spent a few very pleasant days with this company in the Netherlands. Where the initial intention was to start photobook production in Mace donia together, parties eventually agreed to keep things sepa rated resulting in karmapix.com as the first photobook site in the region. nalized item in paper or wood. Bato & Divajn had been thin king of such investment, but the motivation to start was triggered by Dutch contacts of NL Chamber. LinkedIn connection On a Friday afternoon, early summer 2015 NL Chamber director Bob Smit got a phonecall: “We are connected on LinkedIn, but we never met.
Rosomanov visiting the Dutch photobook printing house, July 2015.
t: +389 2 2785908 / 2785904 e: hello@karmapix.com w: www.karmapix.com fb.com/mykarmapix twitter.com/mykarmapix instagram.com/mykarmapix pinterest.com/mykarmapix
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Printing house Bato & Divajn invested in a digital printing line and software for produ cing individually customized photobooks. On 30 July the website www.karmapix.com was launched. KarmaPix allows anyone to upload their pictures and completely design their own photobook or use any of the ready-made thematic designs. Karmapix will become a one-stop-shop for any perso
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New building by RADiUs architects opened The new headquarters of ProCredit Bank opened on Friday 13 May. NL Chamber member RADiUs Architects proudly attended the opening celebration of their latest assignment: a modern, energy-efficient headquarters for ProCredit Bank in Skopje. The office building measures 6,000 sqm, uses geothermic pumps for heating and coo ling and has the highest levels of insulation, including three- layer glass in doors and windows. The upper roof holds a hundred solar panels with a total capacity of 25 kW, where-
as the lower roofs have been turned into a roof terraces with green areas. RADiUs architects was also responsible for the rebranding of all branches of the bank, including interiors.
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Linea at Fashion Weekend Skopje Fashion House Linea from Stip was again present at the 13th Fashion Weekend Skopje. A large crowd came to watch the catwalk show of Linea’s collection SS16 on Saturday 2 April. Deputy Ambassador Peter Verheyen and his wife were introduced to the owner of Linea, Stamen Trajanov. Verheyen was impressed by the calm and professional approach to the event, but especially by the stylish collection. fb.com/linea.mk fb.com/modenvikend...
Designer Slavica Basarovska at the catwalk of Skopje Fashion Weekend.
photos: Porta3, NL Chamber, Fashion Weekend Skopje
Traditionally, head designer of Fashion House Linea, Slavica Basarovska presented the latest Linea collection at Fashion Weekend Skopje.
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Dutch Event Hall by Steel Con Dutch-owned steel construction company Steel Con produced the entire construction of a new multifunctional event hall in Barneveld, Netherlands.
420 tonnes The entire construction of 420 tonnes was produced by Steel Con in Mlado Nagoricane and delivered by sister company Gerliko Staalconstructies in Nij kerk. Both companies are part of Dutch Gerliko Group. The complex is conveniently located next to the exit of highway A30 and close to the intersection with highway A1. Skenderbeg Square With a Dutch production ma nager permanently based in Macedonia, the production efficiency seriously improved, making Steel Con very competitive for mass production on the Dutch market. Steel Con also executes large projects in Serbia as well as some smaller
projects in Macedonia, like the reinforcement armatures for Skenderbeg Square in Skopje. 100% Dutch since 2014 Steel Con was established in 2005 and became a 100% subsidiary of Dutch Gerliko Group in 2014, after a few years of joint-venture partnership. The company operates two shifts, seven days per week with 90 employees.
Location Midden Nederland Hallen
Download Steel Con brochure here
Gerliko Staalconstructie BV e: info@gerlikostaalconstructie.nl w: www.gerlikostaalconstructie.nl Steel Con DOOEL e: info@steelcon.mk w: www.steelcon.mk fb.com/gerlikostaalconstructie linkedin.com/../gerliko...
Artist impression of the event hall with an insert of the production facility of Steel Con in Stedenbouw no. 736 (p.56)
photos: Google Maps, Steel Con, Stedenbouw
The Dutch professional magazine for the construction industry, Stedenbouw, published an article about a new event hall, Midden Nederland Hallen.
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Natuurgevelsteen for Dutch fashion outlet Bataviastad Natuurgevelsteen is responsible for the outer walls of the third expansion of fashion outlet Bataviastad, to be made of natural stone. Batavia Stad is the first fashion
outlet in the Netherlands, near Lelystad. With 2.3 million visitors per year and te nants reporting a 12% turn over growth, the outlet decided to expand again with 45 new shops to a total retail surface of 31,000 sqm. NL Chamber member Natuur gevelsteen signed for the outer walls, which will be made of natural stone. The new “Wall of Welcome” is already in place! www.natuurgevelsteen.nl
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Feydom started House of Thousand Designers HOIOOOD is to be a playground for designers from all over the world with clear commercial ambitions using Feydom’s production and sales platform.
German Design Award Radonjanin is general manager of the internationally success-
ful furniture company Feydom in Skopje, where his wife Filimena Radonjanin is the driving force behind the product development into award winning upholstered sofas and lounge suites. Their latest model, “Choice” is nominated for the German Design Award 2017. disruptive innovation Whereas western countries are buzzing from terms like “innovation” and more recently “disruptive startup”, Feydom has “disruptive innovation” in its veins. The common cha racteristic of all products is multifunctionality, combined with a modern, solid design, fashionable colours and fabrics that ensure easy maintenance. Filimena: “Feydom is best sold by demonstrating the interaction with the products. Therefore in Europe we have new shops in partnerships with passionate, proactive people.”
Similar to the company’s philosophy for all employees, “join, develop, benefit” with full access to all resources, Feydom now extends the offer to external designers from anywhere. Zoran: “We aim for a thousand designers for a short stay within our company in a period of five years. We expect at least 25 successfull products out of 250 projects per year.” Feydom is also developing an inspiring campus for budget accommodation for both external designers and mentors.
w: www.feydom.com www.facebook.com/feydom twitter.com/feydominteriors www.youtube.com/channel/...
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The House of Thousand Designers, stylishly represented by HOIOOOD, is a design studio and product development centre for furniture and interior decoration. “It fills up the missing link between product designers, manufacturers and product distributors,” says Zoran Radonjanin, who develo ped the concept of HOIOOOD during summer last year.
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Marriott Hotel Skopje opened Three of the four very first guests at the opening day were NL Chamber’s guests. Several members are supplier to Marriott. Skopsko light and dark on draft, Stobi wines in the Execu tive Lounge and trees by European Plants: the “Sneak Preview” of the unfinished hotel back in February for NL Chamber members did lead to some fruitfull relations! Three Dutchmen who came to Skopje on a business trip with NL Chamber, were the very first guests at Marriott on the opening day, 11 May. They
agreed unanimously: M arriott is an excellent hotel with outstanding restaurant and service: marriott.com/skpmc
NL Chamber president Wim Westen at Marriott’s Executive Lounge
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New beer: Skopsko Smooth As the first brewery on the Balkans, Pivara Skopje now also brews a cold filtered beer.
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Holmak also assembling switchboards For another member of the group, Holmak started assembling complete switchboards for airconditioning systems. Following the successful opera tion in aluminium counterflow heat exchangers, Holmak also started to assemble customi zed switchboards for the hea ting systems of Wolf Heiztechnik, a sister company within German Centrotec to which
also Holmak belongs. Holmak was - with sister company Brink Climate Systems also nominated for the annual VSK-Award, for companies in heating, sanitairy fittings and climate control. More info: www.holmak.eu
VSK Awards 2016
photos: MIA, NL Chamber, Anastasija, Pivara Skopje, Mark Lammers
With new investments Pivara Skopje enabled the production of cold filtered beer, which resulted in a fresh, unpasteu rized beer with a shelf life of 90 days: Skopsko Smooth. The brewery - a joint-venture by CocaCola Company and Heineken, Patron Member of NL Chamber - also announced the introduction of Skopsko Smooth in PET bottles of a larger volume. See: y outu.be/B0CD4rwDdZY
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New production facility for Hunter Douglas The representative of Dutch Hunter Douglas, Denisco-FS from Bitola moved into a new processing facility By the end of 1993 Petruli Kotevski from Bitola registered his company Denisco-FS. He became official dealer of Hun ter Douglas from Rotterdam, the Dutch multinational in window blinds and coverings as well as facade and ceiling panelling. Kotevski invested in Hun ter Douglas machinery to cut and bend the imported semimanufactured materials into customized dimensions and now, almost 23 years later, the company moved into its own production facility. Hunter Douglas was founded in 1919 and is with 128 companies present in 90 countries, employing 19,000 people.
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t: +389 70 269578 e: deniscofs@gmail.com w: www.hunterdouglas.nl w: www.hunterdouglasgroup.com fb.com/hunterdouglas pinterest.com/hunterdouglaswf Opening celebration of the production facility for Hunter Douglas on 12 July.
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Tables for Apple
Airbus in 3D
Five-axis CNC machine, working on Apple’s table
ny go back to 1970 when Henri Peteri, an engineer at Unilever, saw the introduction of Cup-aSoup as an opportunity for developing a system that would provide boiling water straight from the tap. Nowadays, his sons run a company with 220 employees, holding 52 patents. Quooker has sold half a million taps all over Europe.
Additive Industries, a young
company from Eindhoven received a 1.8 million EUR order from Airbus for its industrial 3D-metalprinter. “Airbus will use the printer for producing small light-weight parts, but expects to be able to print up to half of an airplane,” says CEO Daan Kersten. The development of the machine took three years in which Additive Industries received support from various other high-tech companies, inclu ding neighbouring world leader in machines for producing integrated circuits, ASML.
Quooker
Dutch producer of boiling water taps Quooker has trippled its production capacity. The roots of this family compa-
and operated by AH’s logistic partner, www.xpo.com.
Passport copies
Due to the increasing number of cases of identity fraud, Dutch tourist association ANWB has asked the Dutch government to prohibit the handing over passports at the reception desks of hotels. The Dutch government already has launched a smartphone app that makes a safe copy, without showing the personal IDnumber.
Investment guide Shared Fresh DC
Dutch supermarket chain Albert Heijn (AH) has combined the distribution of cheese, salades, meat, fish and pastry into one national Shared Fresh Centre (SFC). The SFC is “shared” since suppliers deliver to the SFC straight from production. The SFC has over a hundred suppliers for 9,000 stock locations on 32,000 sqm and supplies 900 AH supermarkets. Objective of the centre is to optimize the supply chain with less transport movements and an average time in stock of less than a day. The SFC is rented
KPMG has published a guide on Investment in Macedonia which can be downloaded from: www.kpmg.com
photos: Additive Industries, Arco, DistriFood, KPMG
Dutch wooden table manufac turer Arco received an order for 500 tables from Apple, which is the largest o rder for this 112 years-old family company. The tables are made of solid, seamless white oak, weighing 300 kg and measuring 5.5 x 1.2 m2. The “Pod Islands Tables” will be placed in the common areas of Apple’s new 26 ha. office building, Campus-2. The order followed on an earlier deal for 100 (smaller) tables for Apple’s corporate restaurant.
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Calendar of Trade Fairs Selection of upcoming trade fairs.
NB: All blue text is clickable! Major trade fairs take place at: Jaarbeurs, Utrecht 99,000 sqm, 13 halls www.jaarbeurs.nl
RAI, Amsterdam 87,000 sqm, 11 halls www.rai.nl
Ahoy, Rotterdam 30,000 sqm, 6 halls www.ahoy.nl
Regional locations are: Brabanthallen, ‘s-Hertogenb.
29,500 sqm, 6 halls IJsselhallen, Zwolle 17,000 sqm, 4 halls MECC, Maastricht 29,500 sqm, 4 halls
Most fairs in the Netherlands have entrance fees and offer discounts for early registration online. Please do not hesitate to contact NL Chamber when you plan to visit a fair in the Netherlands. NL Chamber’s annual calendar also lists a selection of these fairs: nl.mk/latestcalendar
The Netherlands 15.09.2016 21-22.09.2016 27.09.2016- 02.10.2016 04-07.10.2016 04-06.10.2016 25-26.10.2016 23-24.11.2016 21-22.11.2016 29.11.2016- 01.12.2016 09-12.01.2017 10-15.01.2017 18-19.01.2017 22-23.01.2017 25-27.01.2017 06-10.02.2017 14-15.02.2017 05-06.04.2017 11-13.04.2017 04-05.10.2017 04-05.10.2017 16-17.05.2017 31.10.2017- 03.11.2017 07-10.11.2017
Relatie Z, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 80 exhibitors; relational gifts and christmas packages Big Data Expo, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht congress and exhibition with 60 exhibitors VT Wonen & Design Beurs, RAI - Amsterdam 250 exhibitors; consumer fair home interior & design World of Technology&Science, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht Industrial Processing, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 600 exhibitors; automation, electronics, laboratory; dairy industry technology; packaging Energie, Brabanthallen - ‘s-Hertogenbosch 200 exhibitors; energy saving, sustainable energy Offshore Energy Exhibition, RAI - Amsterdam 650 exhibitors; offshore industry suppliers/contractors Packaging Innovations, Taets Park - Amsterdam high-level event for brand managers, marketeers and packaging specialists World Bulk Wine Exhibition, RAI - Amsterdam 210 wineries from 20 countries Transport & Logistics, Ahoy - Rotterdam 100 exhibitors in transport and logistics services Horecava and Wine Professional, RAI - Amsterdam 400 food service exhibitors; 100 wine exhibitors Dutch Tourism Expo, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 850 exhibitors; first day for professional visitors only BioBeurs, IJsselhallen - Zwolle 350 exhibitors in the sustainable organic food chain Modefabriek, RAI - Amsterdam sales exhibition of the major fashion brands Vakbeurs Facilitair, Brabanthallen - ‘s-Hertogenbosch 400 exhibitors; products/services facility management i.e. maintenance, cleaning, catering, ict, reception etc. Bouwbeurs, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 500 exhibitors in construction Nederlandse Kerstpakkettenbeurs, Expo - Houten trade fair for christmas packages Label & Print, Brabanthallen - ‘s-Hertogenbosch Empack, Brabanthallen - ‘s-Hertogenbosch 200 exhibitors in packaging printing, labelling and converting and packaging technology Maintenance Next, Ahoy - Rotterdam manufacturing and services in industrial maintenance Pumps & Valves, Ahoy - Rotterdam pumping equipment and industrial components Solids Rotterdam, Ahoy - Rotterdam 100 exhibitors in powder and bulk processing, handling, storage and transport World Private Label / PLMA, RAI - Amsterdam european private label producers in food and non-food 3,800 exhibitors, 68 countries, 42 regional pavilions brochure MK pavilion, see: nl.mk/PLMA-brochure Aquatech, RAI - Amsterdam 680 exhibitors; process/drinking/wastewater solutions Europort, Ahoy - Rotterdam 1,100 exhibitors, 40 countries; maritime technology
photo: NL Chamber
Selection of trade fairs in the Netherlands.
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