The year started well for Philips. The healthcare company Philips reports €3.9 billion sales for the first quarter of 2018, with 5% comparable sales growth; net income from continuing operations amounts €94 million, and Adjusted EBITA margin increased 130 basis…
Fontys Centre of Expertise High-Tech Systems & Materials (CoE HTSM) will open the newly purchased metal printer to companies from outside the institution. Students, instructor researchers and employees of these companies will work together with the Trumpf TruPrint 1000. This…
In a weekly column, alternately written by Lucien Engelen, Mary Fiers, Maarten Steinbuch, Carlo van de Weijer, and Tessie Hartjes, E52 tries to find out what the future will look like. All five contributors – sometimes accompanied by guest bloggers…
For some time now Eindhoven’s mayor John Jorritsma has been arguing in favour of a pilot with electronic voting in the region, most recenty in an interview with FD (Dutch). In his plea, Jorritsma mentions VDL as a company that has a solution. VDL…
People from many different countries live, study and work in Eindhoven. Every week, E52 has a talk with an international about what brought them here and what life is like in Eindhoven. Name: Konstantin Asmanov Country of origin: Estonia Work: Program…
The Strijp-S Klokgebouw yesterday played host to the annual Holst Centre ‘Partnerday’, in which the Eindhoven based R&D institute showed off its latest high tech innovations. Present at the event were several hundred businesspeople and engineers from companies from all…
Arjan Paans, now chief editor of Metro, will be joining E52 on 1 May. For the Eindhoven journalistic platform, he will – for the time being on a part-time basis – lead the editorial and business process of internationalisation. The…
Smart mobility research seeks to ease traffic congestion by getting us where we need to be faster, safer, and with fewer negative impacts on the environment. To further this research, the province of North Brabant entered into an agreement with…
VDL is helping to build “the world’s biggest eye on the sky”. An amount of more than one billion euros has been made available for the realisation of the “Extremely Large Telescope” (ELT). Construction of the foundation of the ELT –…
Capital will go towards new pilot programs further enabling creators of all levels to ‘design, make, and sell’ their ideas via 3D printing Shapeways – the New York-based platform for services to ‘design, make and sell’ using 3D printing technologies…