Dutch-MacedonianChamber of Commerce

c/o Netherlands Embassy Aminta III 69-71 1000 Skopje Republic of Macedonia

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NL Chamber was established in January 2012 as official Dutch-Macedonian Chamber of Commerce by 50 Macedonian companies, according to the Macedo nian Law on Chambers of Commerce.

One third 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.

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eventsJoining our German colleagues at OktoberFest SkopjeFashion Buyer Mission: 13-17 October 2014Back to Business BreakfastTEDxBinnenhof: Sasho Kocev introduced the WingmanTEDxBinnenhof: selected talksboardNew President: Wietse MuttersnetworkIntroducing new Macedonian Ambassador Igor PopovmembersKoro organic herbal tea on Dutch shelvesNew member: Nido Global Textile, table cover producerInterWorks celebrates 10 yearsHolmak HeatX moved into new facility in StaphorstNew member: Tehnokoop, now also known as TK-meubelsNew member: Vitezis, producer of slings and slide sheetsPivara Skopje introduced Amstel Premium PilsenerDutch architects exploring Macedonian quarriesVitalia opened a webshopservicePLMA: support by Invest in Macedonia requestedshort Short News / Calendar of Trade Fairs

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Joining our German colleagues at OktoberFest SkopjeNL Chamber will again join the OktoberFest in Skopje on Thursday 25 September.

While München (Munich, Ger-many) welcomes some 6 mil-lion people from around the globe at the traditional Okto-berFest, our German collea-gues in Macedonia will or-ganize a local OktoberFest in Skopje on Thursday 25 Sep-tember. This year’s location is

Vero Centar, opposite the Na-tional Bank.The world famous Oktober-Fest in München is an annual 16 day festival with its roots in October 1810 when the wed-ding of Crown Prince Ludwig and Crown Princess Therese was celebrated their wedding.

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Fashion Buyer Mission: 13-17 October 2014Swiss SIPPO is organizing a business mission to Macedonia for European fashion buyers. Dutch fashion companies are most welcome to join!

Five years ago, Dutch govern-mental agency CBI introduced the concept “Buyer Mission” in its export development pro-gramme for the Macedonian garment industry.

customized match-making

By the end of 2010 it had turned into a concentrated ef-fort by CBI, USAID, SIPPO and GIZ to attract European fashion buyers for a full week of cus-tomized match-making with Macedonian garment manufac-turers. All programmes have finished, but SIPPO is now re-introducing the Fashion Buyer Mission!

additional supportby NL Chamber

Additional to the efforts by SIP-PO, Dutch and Belgian fashion companies can also count on support by NL Chamber: in the preparation phase, during the mission and in aftercare.

Apply directly at:nl.mk/FashionMissionApply

Download the flyer at: nl.mk/FashionBuyerMission

Nadja KolbProject Manager Fashiont: +41 44 3655225e: fashion@s-ge.comw: www.s-ge.com/fashion

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Right after the summer holi-days, business life is starting again with fresh energy. That was an excellent moment for a gathering with breakfast, hosted by one of our members on Wednesday 10 September.

Bato & Divajn

Amost 30 people showed up at the breakfast meeting which was hosted by printing house Bato & Divajn on the green slopes behind their faci lity

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Back to Business BreakfastAlmost 30 NL Chamber members gathered to mark the start of the new business season with a Dutch breakfast at printing house Bato & Divajn in Skopje.

near Drachevo. General Mana-ger of Bato & Divajn, Novica Sotarovski and his staff turned the breakfast into a wonderful event in a fabulous entourage, complete with freshly squeezed juice and freshly baked bread from their own wood oven.

chocolate sprinkles

As suggested by Tikves’ export manager Katerina Kostovska, the table offered a wide variety of both sweet and salty typical

Dutch breakfast items as well as various types of bread and dairy products, with hagelslag (chocolate sprinkles) as the absolute favourite.

newborn

The welcome bite that was of-fered to the arriving guests, consisted of lokum and beschuit met muisjes (rusk with aniseed comfits), the lat-ter being the Dutch traditional

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snack to celebrate a newborn. Sotarovski expected to be-come father of his first child any moment. His daughter Ela Orea Sotarovska was born in perfect health the next mor-ning, Thursday 11 September.

As it was meant to be, the Back to Business Breakfast was not only about tasting the Dutch specialities, but also to get to know eachother and to catch up on current business after the long summer holi-days. Various appointments were made to follow-up on the pleasant conversations at this event, which according many should become a tradition.

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TEDxBinnenhof: Sasho Kocev introduced the Wingman

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“Global Challenges, Dutch So-lutions” was the theme of this edition of TEDxBinnenhof, a series of talks on various in-novative ideas, which took place at the heart of the Dutch democracy: Ridderzaal, The Hague.

live streaming in Skopje

NL Chamber and the Nether-lands Embassy invited the Macedonian actor and show-business personality Sashko Kocev to host the so-called “viewing party”: live strea ming of the event in The Hague, which took place at Cineplexx in Skopje City Mall.

mysterious tool

Additional to the live strea-ming, two Dutch engineers came to Skopje to reveil their mysterious, innovative tool to the audience. The red piece of plastic which was shown prominently on the invita-tions, posters and social me-dia, appeared to be an appli-cator for condoms. Paul Breur, CEO of Wingman Condoms BV, demon strated the Wingman to Sashko Kocev and pointed out the advantages: no air inside, no risk to apply the condom inside out, quicker application - even in darkness.

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During the preparations of the event NL Chamber direc-tor Bob Smit got the idea to invite Wingman Condoms for a presentation: “We were actu-ally looking for an appro priate gadget for the event: an inspi-ring, innovative present to give to the audience. Besides that, we planned to have our own

Prior to the streaming of TEDxBinnenhof, live from The Hague, Sashko Kocev introduced the Dutch inventors of Wingman Condoms at Cineplexx in Skopje.

guest in Skopje, as an addi-tion to the live streaming from The Hague.” On a Saturday mor ning Smit was watching the latest episode of the daily Dutch talkshow De Wereld Draait Door in which Paul Breur demonstrated the Wingman for which he just received the prestigious German iF Product Design Award 2014.“This product fully matched our ideal gadget: innovative, award winning and definitely very inspiring!” says Smit with a broad grin. “But what is more important is their story of great entrepreneurship, battle with global brands, perseve rance, venture capital and the fact that the other partner, Adnan

Cover of Macedonian daily newspaper Vest of 02.04.2014

Tunovic originates from Sara-jevo, Bosnia!”

iF president Ralph Wiegmann (r) with the Wingman team

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After graduating in mechanical engineering at Delft University of Technology, Breur and Tuno-vic ran an engineering compa-ny, mainly active in automa-tion solutions for horticulture.

easier, quicker, safer

Back in 2006 Tunovic came up with the idea to make using condoms easier, quicker and safer, in order to minimalize the interuption while making love. They started experimen-ting with copper wire until they had a fully functional prototype of plastic. “We got a lot of at-tention, but none of the major condom brands was interes-ted,” Tunovic told the audience gathered in Skopje. “The only way to introduce our invention to the market, was to offer an integrated product: we had to become condom producer our-selves. We choose to let it be and continued with our more ordinairy projects.”

four years

Four years later, in 2010, the partners presented a large project to a venture capital enterprise. “They declined our proposal, but said to believe in our capacities as entrepre-neurs and they asked whether we had shelved some other ideas.” With this investor, the

company Wingman Condoms was established to develop its own global brand of condoms, produced in Malaysia and rewar ded with the iF Award early 2014.

importer Macedonia

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Two-page interview in Macedonian daily newspaper Vest, 02.04.2014

Wingman Condoms BVt: +31 15 2682608e: info@wingmancondoms.comw: www.wingmancondoms.com

ranged a meeting with a po-tential importer for Macedonia, just a couple of hours before their appearance at Cineplexx.“We did not reach an agree-ment yet, but on our side we have been very occupied with many things,” Breur writes from Spain.

Thanks to the event sponsors Tikves Winery and Pivara Skopje

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On 31 March NL Chamber and the Netherlands Embassy organized streaming of all the Talks at TEDxBinnenhof, live from The Hague at Cineplexx Skopje.

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TEDxBinnenhof: selected talks

Following our special guests, the inventors of the mysteri-ous tool (see previous pages), TEDxBinnenhof started in The Hague, witnessed by the audi-ence at Cineplexx Skopje.All talks are available at this playlist on youtube:

http://nl.mk/TEDxBinnenhof

Three of these talks are sum-marized below, with relevant links in blue.

Prof. dr. ir. Bert Weckhuysen ( Utrecht University) reminded the public of acid rain, which used to be a major problem in the past. Chemists have re-moved sulphur from fuels and developed catalysts to break down nitrodioxide. Nowadays, farmers need to add sulphure to fertilizers. Weckhuysen be-lieves that chemists will also succeed to drastically reduce CO2 as main greenhouse gas.view: A city that runs on CO2

TEDxBinnenhof is licensed by TED, a world-wide move-ment showcasing talks to inspire entrepreneurs and policy makers to improve the world under the slogan Ideas worth spreading.Many people, like former IMF Representative to Macedonia Alexander Tieman “watch a couple of talks in free time or during a break” on www.TED.com. Already in 2012

Following the departure of Arjen Reijnierse, the Board of NL Chamber appointed his successor at Pivara, Wietse Mutters as new President until the next General Assembly.

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New President: Wietse Mutters

NL Chamber President Wietse Mutters

In April 2014 Arjen Reijnierse returned to the Netherlands to continue his career at Heineken in Amsterdam. In accordance with article 27 of the bylaws of NL Chamber, the Board has appointed Wietse Mutters as President until the next regular General Assembly.

Nigeria, Réunion

Mutters (32) is the succes-sor of Reijnierse as Commer-cial Dire ctor on behalf of

Heineken at Pivara Skopje. Prior to his current position, Mutters was National Trade Marketing Mana ger at Nige rian Brewe ries, a Heineken subsi-diary in Lagos, Nigeria. His career started already in his student days with an intern-ship at Brasseries de Bourbon, Heineken’s subsidiary at the French island of Réunion in the Indian Ocean. Mutters is mar-ried and has a daughter.

president@nlchamber.org.mk

ir. Heleen Herbert (Heijmans) introduced the Hydrea Therm-pipe, turning sewage pipes into heat exchangers. The ave-rage temperature of sewage water is 18°C, with 120 liters per person per day through a sewer system of 100,000 km.

view: Hydrea Thermpipe

the site reached 17 views per second.Great example is a talk from 2009 by Prof. dr. ir. Louise O. Fresco, currently President of the Board at Wageningen University, defending the need of science to produce the food to feed the world:

click to view

Rudi Dieleman (PectCof) ex-plains how to reduce the waste of the coffee production chain by extracting pectin from cof-fee cherries. Pectin is a gelling agent, usually extracted from citrus fruits and used in food and pharmaceutical industry.view: Pectin from coffee pulp

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On 7 May Ambassador Igor Popov presented his credentials to King Willem Alexander. Two weeks later NL Chamber met the ambassador at Schermerwijn in Hoorn.

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Introducing new Macedonian Ambassador Igor Popov

Following the 4.5 year man-date of Nikola Dimitrov, the new ambassador of Macedo-nia to the Netherlands is Igor Popov. On 7 May Popov pre-sented his credentials to King Willem Alexander at Palace Noordeinde in The Hague. The previous post of Popov was Ljubljana, where he was am-bassador since 2011.

Schermer Wijnkopers

Igor Popov was invited by Paul Robert Blom of Schermer

King Willem Alexander receives cre-dentials Ambassador Igor Popov

Wijnkopers & Distillateurs for a visit to the region of West-Friesland. Blom also invited NL Chamber director Bob Smit to join when they met at the pri-vate label fair PLMA in Amster-dam just the day before.

From left to right, first row: Paul Robert Blom, Ambassador Igor Popov, Esther Ophoff-Blom.Second row: Aart Ruppert, Bob Smit, Tanja Philipse-Blom, Nancy Boterblom

Schermer Wijnkopers was esta-blished as a jenever distillery in 1782 in Hoorn, some 40 km north of Amsterdam. In 2002 the company was awar ded the desig-nation “Purveyor to the Court”.Paul Robert Blom started working at Schermer Wijnkopers in 1965 and extended the wine trade business with wines from “the new old world”, as Blom refers to wines from the Balkans.After 6 generations of Schermer family members, Blom continued the family company under his family in 1982.Blom is Registered Wine Apprai-ser & Broker and a much respec-ted advocate of the Balkan wines.

Schermer Wijnkopers Geldelozeweg 47 1625 NW Hoorn The Netherlandst +31 229 217777f +31 229 218765e info@schermerwijn.nlw www.schermerwijn.nl

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Embassy of Macedonia in The Hague

Ambassador: H.E. Igor PopovLaan van Meerdervoort 50c2517 AM The Hague - Netherlands

t: +31 70 4274464f: +31 70 4274469e: hague@mfa.gov.mkw: www.missions.gov.mk/hague

Stobi Winery

After a tour through the newly extended production facility and warehouse of Schermer Wijnkopers, lunch was served with a glass of Aminta, a blend of Vranec, Merlot and Cabert-net Sauvignon by Stobi Winery from Gradsko, Macedonia.

Next to wines and spirits from various countries, Schermer Wijnkopers imports Stobi and Popova Kula wines, Traikovsky rakija and mastika as well as Hina ajvar. continued on p.9

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www.clusius.nl www.iribov.com www.seedvalley.nl

Blom also scheduled a visit to Clu sius College in Hoorn where students are educated in plant breeding in the laboratory and the greenhouse. Programme manager biotechno logy Nancy Boterblom guided the delega-tion through the seed labora-tory. Clusius College is closely co-operating with companies in the region in the seed sector and would also like to establish

student exchanges with Mace-donian partners.

Seed Valley: global leader

Former alderman of the munici pality of Hoorn, Aart Ruppert, explained why a clus-ter of 35 companies in plant seed business and other stake-holders join forces for further strengthe ning this key sector through the Foundation Seed Valley. “Our region accommo-dates five of the world’s lar-gest seed impro ving compa-nies, which implies a major influence on regional economic development,” Ruppert said.“Seed Valley” is not an under-statement: 50 to 60% of all the vegetables being cultiva-ted around globe, genetically originate from Northern Hol-land: that is global leadership.

Iribov SBW

The afternoon was reserved for a visit to one of the partners in Seed Valley: Iribov SBW in Heerhugowaard. Michiel van Bennekom and Martijn Hed-des welcomed the delegation at Iribov, a laboratory for plant tissue culture services and analyses.

laboratory Vinica

With the take-over of branch companion SBW from Roelof-arendsveen in 2011, Iribov became owner of two produc-tion laboratories: one in Ghana and one in Vinica, Macedonia. The latter was established in 2001 and is still known as SBW Romero Vitro. Van Benne kom is regularly flying to Macedo-nia: “In Vinica we employ 180 people for large scale multipli-cation of plant tissue cultures. It is a hospitable country and I love the good food!”

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Sponsors of Foundation NL Chamber

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By the end of May 2013, Viktor Kolovski, CEO of Konimeks from Skopje, made a last-minute visit to the Netherlands for the fair PLMA in Amster-dam. Additionally, NL Chamber arranged for a meeting with a potential importer. Mean-while that meeting has lead to the export of the entire line of organic teas under Koni-meks’ Koro brand. Konimeks arranged for Dutch-language packaging and since March 2014 the tea is sold through a health food retail chain. Koni-meks is also active in herbs, spices and essential oils.

Nine months after a meeting in Amsterdam arranged by NL Chamber, Konimeks started exporting its full range of organic herbal tea to the Netherlands.

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Nido Global Textile was re-cently established in Skopje as a subsidiary of Dutch Dena Textile at Work. The company employs some 65 people for the production of a wide range of covers for chairs and vari-ous types of tables as well as table and stage skirtings.

nearshoring

Where nearshoring is gai ning interest as an alternative to outsourcing production in the Far East, also Dena Textile started searching for opportu-nities closer to the European market. After a short period of production in a joint-venture with a Macedonian partner, Dena now runs its own opera-tion in Skopje. From Macedo-nia Dena supplies Western European bars, restaurants, hotels, caterers and event

New to NL Chamber’s network is the Macedonian subsidiary of Dutch Dena Textile at Work, supplier of coverings for horeca furniture.

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New member: Nido Global Textile, table cover producer

orga nizers through European wholes alers, including the Ger-man Metro Gruppe, active in the Netherlands as Makro.

Dena Textile at Work

Nudepark 142 6702 DX Wageningen The Netherlands

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On 19 March general manager Aleksandar Pop Ristov and business partner Aleksandar Memca celebrated the 10 years anniversary of Inter-Works in Bitola. Interworks is an IT company employing 60

With a celebration at restaurant Belvedere, InterWorks marked the tenth anniversary of the existence of the IT system integrator from Bitola.

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InterWorks celebrates 10 years

InterWorks DOOEL

Karpos b.b. (dir. Granit) 7000 Bitola Republic of Macedonia

t: +389 47 221914f: +389 47 240010e: interworks@interworks.com.mkw: www.interworks.com.mk fb.com/interworksmk

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specialists in system integra-tion with a.o. these services:

• Service Oriented Architecture TIBCO, BEA/Oracle, IBM

• Business Process Management TIBCO, BEA/Oracle, IBM

• Complex Event Processing TIBCO

• Master Data Management TIBCO, Oracle, IBM

• Content Management Sharepoint, Alfresco

• Software Development JEE, .NET/C#

• Web Applications Development JEE, ASP.NET

• Application Support/Maintenance• Enterprise Application Integration

Directly along highway A28 in Staphorst, in the eastern part of the Netherlands is the im-pressive new building of Brink Climate Systems, also the new home of Holmak HeatX, which operates a production facility in Bitola, Macedonia.On 8 July NL Chamber direc-tor Bob Smit met with Holmak

The parent company of Holmak in Bitola, part of Brink Climate systems, moved into a new building with factory, warehousing and offices.

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Holmak HeatX moved into new facility in Staphorst

director Mark Lammers and Brink Climate Systems CFO Anton Hans in the old premises in Staphorst.

living green wall

Production and assembly had already moved, whereas the of-fices would follow a few weeks later. Various modern sustain-ability standards were applied in the new building that also includes a living green wall in the entrance hall.

Holmak HeatX BV - StaphorstHolmak DOOEL - Bitola

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In the Dutch furniture business the town of Nieuwegein, close to Utrecht, is known for its business-to-business interior trade centre HTC, currently re-branding to De Woonindus-trie. Tehnokoop has signed a contract for renting a show-room for sofas that Tehno-koop produces in its factory in Skopje.

autumn trade fair

On 15 September, the first day of the autumn trade fair at this centre, Tehnokoop will

Furniture producer Tehnokoop decided to open a showroom for sofas in the Netherlands under the brand TK-meubels, reason for Tehnokoop to join NL Chamber.

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New member: Tehnokoop, now also known as TK-meubels

name: De Woonindustrie. The interior showroom complex has undergone a complete metamorphosis to a contem-porary inspiration centre for interior decoration on a total surface of 40,000 sqm.

After the fair, De Woonindustrie is also opened for consumers: Mondays from 10h00-17h00.

Tehnokoop DOO

Bul. Boris Trajkovski 95a 1000 Skopje Republic of Macedonia

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De Woonindustrie 2B068b Symfonielaan 1 3438 EW Nieuwegein The Netherlands

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nl.mk/TK-meubels

open showroom 2B068b under the brand TK-meubels. Next to sales of sofas, Tehnokoop will also focus on offering custom-made design and production of kitchens.

De Woonindustrie

At the autumn trade fair, the former Home Trade Center (HTC) re-opens under its new

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www.arjohuntleigh.com

Vitezis was established in 2009 by Wim Vinken, a Dutchman active in trade, engineering and service of sewing equip-ment. He had been in contact with a Swedish multinational in medical equipment, having their European warehouse close to Eindhoven and some 50 km from Vinken’s company. Arjo Huntleigh was interested in a new producer of slings for handling of disabled and/or heavy patients in a hoist.Vinken started to sew these slings - series and custom-made - in Stip in rented premi-ses. 80% of the final custo-mers are American health care organizations, which requires the highest standards in pro-duction. With the production of a new innovation, slide sheets to further ease patient hand-ling in hospital beds, Vinken invested in a new and larger production facility in the Indus-trial Zone North in Stip, sup-ported by the Dutch govern-mental programme PSI.

With the move into the brand-new facility for the production of slings and slide sheets in Stip, Dutch-owned Vitezis joined the network of NL Chamber.

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New member: Vitezis, producer of slings and slide sheets

Adrijana Kazandziska and Dragana Kazandziska-Taseva with a sling in front of the new production facility in Stip.

packed slide sheet

first sling testing for 272 kg

Following significant investments to comply with the highest standards of the global beer brand, Pivara Skopje became the proud producer of Amstel Premium Pilsener.

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Pivara Skopje introduced Amstel Premium Pilsener

Early April, when the nation-al media were occupied with presidential and parliamen-tary elections, Pivara Skopje launched a new beer on the Macedonian market: Amstel Premium Pilsener, brewed ac-cording to the original recipe from 1870.Pivara Skopje invested over 600,000 EUR to comply with the requirements of the world’s fifth strongest beer brand.

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Natuurgevelsteen brought a delegation of architects to Macedonia to show them the quarries that supply Natuurgevelsteen with natural stone for facades.

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Dutch architects exploring Macedonian quarries

Villa di Leva, Bloemendaal

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From 10 to 15 April the Dutch entrepreneurs of Natuurgevel-steen BV organized a mission to Macedonia for a group of 26 participants, mainly architects. Objective of this mission was to inspire the participants and stimulate them to apply the pure, rough look and feel of natural stone in their designs.

The delegation was received at the Netherlands Embassy by Deputy Head of Mission Pe-ter Verheyen and NL Chamber director Bob Smit on Friday afternoon. The weekend was reserved for visits to two quar-ries in remote areas: one near

Delegation at the quarry of Velmej

Wine-tasting and farewell dinner took place at Skovin Winery in Skopje

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Kriva Palanka, towards the Bulgarian border and the other near the village of Velmej, on the road to Ohrid.

villa Bloemendaal

The Kriva Palanka quarry pro-vided the stone for a villa in Bloemendaal, whereas the Velmej quarry supplied the en-tire facade of the Ambiq insti-tute in Hoogeveen. The dele-gation was also guided around in Skopje, Ohrid and Krushevo. On the evening before depar-ture, Skovin Winery in Skopje organized a wine-tasting and farewell dinner.

New building for Ambiq in Hoogeveen, an institute for remedial education. The entire facade is covered with natural stone from the Velmej quarry.

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Following again an edition of PLMA with exhibitors from Macedonia, NL Chamber pro-posed the Macedonian trade promotion agency to support a country pavilion in 2015.

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PLMA: support by Invest in Macedonia requested

Like in 2013, also this year Macedonian companies exhibi-ted at the trade fair World of Private Label in Amsterdam, often referred to as PLMA, after the organizing Private Label Manufacturers Association.

country pavilion

Since countries from all over the world establish country pavilions at PLMA, NL Chamber presented the fair to the Mace-

Brochure on World of Private Label trade fair in Amsterdam and its value for Macedonian exhibitors.Next edition: 19-20 May 2015. Download the brochure below at: nl.mk/PLMA-brochure

donian Agency for Foreign Invest ments and Export Pro-motion. A decision on the Agency’s support to participate in the 2015 edition of PLMA was announced for the end of August, but has been post-poned until the end of Octo ber, which is likely too late to ob-tain a proper spot at this high-ly popular trade fair.

www.plmainternational.comVitalia stand at private label fair PLMA, May 2014 in Amsterdam

The webshop of health food producer Vitalia got 20 customers on the first day.

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Vitalia opened a webshop

On 16 September Health Food producer Vitalia launched a webshop for the home mar-ket. Although online shopping in Macedonia is still in its early stages of development, Vita-lia received no less than 20 orders on the very first day, likely due to the fact that Vita-

lia has a very strong marketing machine, serving over 49,000 followers on Facebook.Payments are done with Visa or Master creditcards or debit-cards and timely delivery is or-ganized through GLS (Globko Logistics) from Skopje.

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Kings’ DayFollowing the abdication of Queen Beatrix last year, King Willem Alexander decided that Kings’ Day will be celebrated on 27 April. In Skopje, the Netherlands Embassy invited her guests to a performance by Dutch Introdans at the new National Theater.

source: www.introdans.nl

Urban wind turbineEnd of May at the Innovation Dock of Rotterdam RDM Cam-pus, the Liam F1 was launched. The Dutch company The Archi-medes BV has been working on this small and highly effi-cient wind turbine since 2006. With a diameter of only 1.5 m. and a weight of only 100 kg., the turbine is very suitable for urban areas. At a windspeed of 4.5 m/s, one turbine provides half of a households electricity need: up to 2.500 kW a year.

www.thearchimedes.com

Schuurman next NATO Special Rep-resentativeDuring the coming weeks Mar-riët Schuurman will leave her post as Netherlands Ambas-sador to Macedonia to become NATO’s Special Representative for Women, Peace and Secu-rity. Who will be her successor in Skopje is yet unknown.

www.nato.int

Eindhoven-Skopjeon Wednesday and SundayPer 1 April 2015 Wizzair will fly from Eindhoven to Skopje on Wednesdays and Sundays in the afternoon.

The new sche dule shows the following times on Wednes-days and Sundays and is valid until 21 October:EIN 15h10 SKP 17h50SKP 11h50 EIN 14h40

Project LibertyDutch DSM opened one of the world’s first cellulosic ethanol production facilities in the US,

a second generation biomass plant. After seven years of re-search in the field of enzyme and yeast technologies, the plant is ready to convert corn residue into 20 million gal-lons of ethanol. The plant was opened on 3 September by King Willem Alexander.view: youtu.be/1KztGncgTKM

www.wizzair.com

Bulk Wine fairThe sixth World Bulk Wine Ex-hibition is taking place on 24 and 25 November in Amster-dam.

www.worldbulkwine.com

Dutch-Macedonian trade statisticsThe latest statistics on Dutch-Macedonian trade are always available at: nl.mk/NLC-stat

Packaging from tomato leavesResearchers at Wageningen University succeeded to pro-duce tomato boxes out of pulp from leaves and stems of to-mato plants.

www.wageningenur.nl

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newsletter no. 5 / September 2014

Selection of trade fairs in the Netherlands and Mace donia.NB: All blue text is clickable!

The Netherlands

Major trade fairs take place at:

Jaarbeurs, Utrecht99,000 sqm, 13 hallswww.jaarbeurs.nlRAI, Amsterdam87,000 sqm, 11 hallswww.rai.nlAhoy, Rotterdam30,000 sqm, 6 hallswww.ahoy.nl

Regional locations for trade fairs:

Brabanthallen, ‘s-Hertogenb.29,500 sqm, 6 hallsIJsselhallen, Zwolle17,000 sqm, 4 hallsMECC, Maastricht29,500 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 Nether lands.

Macedonia

Major trade fairs take place at:

Skopje Fair, Skopje16.000 sqm, 6 hallswww.skopjefair.com.mk

photo impressions of the fairs:www.fb.com/SkopjeFair/

Entrance tickets can only be purchased at the spot; online registration is not possible.Please do not hesitate to con-tact NL Chamber when you plan to visit a fair in Macedo-nia.

The Netherlands

30.09.2014- World of Technology&Science, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht03.10.2014 Industrial Dairy Show, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht Macropak, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht Industrial Processing, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 338 exhibitors; automation, electronics, laboratory; dairy industry technology; packaging07-09.10.2014 Energie, Brabanthallen - ‘s-Hertogenbosch energy, solar, passive building, sustainability.11-13.11.2014 Transport & Logistics, Ahoy - Rotterdam 02-04.12.2014 Healt & Natural Ingredients, RAI - Amsterdam 230 exhibitors; health ingredients, natural ingredients12-15.01.2015 Horecava and Wine Professional, RAI - Amsterdam 400 food service exhibitors; 100 wine exhibitors12-15.01.2015 Ethnic Foods Europe, RAI - Amsterdam13-18.01.2015 Dutch Tourism Expo, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht 850 exhibitors; first day for professional visitors only14-16.01.2015 Vakbeurs Facilitair, Brabanthallen - ‘s- Hertogenbosch products and services involved in facility management i.e. maintenance, cleaning, catering, ict, reception etc.21-22.01.2015 Biovak, IJsselhallen - Zwolle 350 exhibitors in the sustainable organic food chain25-26.01.2015 Modefabriek, RAI - Amsterdam sales exhibition of the major fashion brands09-13.02.2015 Gevel and Material Xperience, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht products and technology for facade construction materials expo for architects, creative professionals Interior Innovations, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht new event for interior design, products and concepts BouwBeurs, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht bi-annual construction industry fair10-12.02.2015 Integrated Systems Europe, RAI - Amsterdam integrated electronic systems: audio, video, lighting17-19.03.2015 StocExpo, Ahoy - Rotterdam 180 exhibitors: pums, valves, pipes, tanks and related15-16.04.2015 Empack, Brabanthallen - ‘s-Hertogenbosch packaging materials, machines, coding, labelling etc.19-20.05.2015 World Private Label / PLMA, RAI - Amsterdam european private label producers in food and non-food 3,800 exhibitors, 68 countries, 42 regional pavilions30.09.2015- Pumps & Valves, Ahoy - Rotterdam01.10.2015 pumping equipment and industrial components15-18.03.2016 ESEF, Jaarbeurs - Utrecht engineering and subcontracting14-16.06.2016 GreenTech, RAI - Amsterdam 200 exhibitors in horticulture and floriculture industry

Macedonia

Note: All mentioned fairs in Macedonia are organized by the same or-ganizer and at the same place. Fair websites do not offer further info.

14-18.10.2014 Tehnoma Fair metallurgy, electronics, non-metals, security05-08.11.2014 AgroFood Fair food and beverages

Selection of upcoming trade fairs.

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Calendar of Trade Fairs