What links Liege to the 1996 Olympic Games? :
EVS together with Panasonic.
Osaka, September 29th 1995, EVS Broadcast Equipment, a company from Liege specialized in digital video recorder development, signs a contract with the electronic Japanese giant Panasonic, which has been selected by the Olympic committee to provide the 1996 games broadcasting equipment.
EVS will provide twenty Super Live Slow Motion (Super LSM) recorders, a hardware tapeless video recorder unique in the world, compatible with Sony Super Motion and Panasonic fast cameras, which will be used for television broadcasting during the Olympic Games.
LSM is a tapeless system that makes it possible to see instant replays of each and every action as soon as it is over. The LSM was already operational during the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona in its previous form. The company has improved the design and developed the Super Live Slow Motion the capacity of which is a hundred times larger and the cost of which has decreased by 50%.
EVS is a pioneer of the tapeless digital system and the multi camera which enables an operator using one system to have total control over up to four cameras.
A strong entrepreneurial spirit as well as the fiber of innovation have led this SME to the broadcasting world market. Its products, entirely designed and developed in Liege, are also distributed in France, Germany, the Netherlands, Great Britain, the United States, Brazil, Hong Kong, Singapore and so on.
Cargo Air Lines lands in Liege Airport with a 20-year
European hub agreement
The Israeli Cargo Air Lines company (CAL) which carries more than 45,000 tons of perishable and general cargo a year has signed a 20-year agreement with Liege Airport to make it its continental hub. If Liege has been chosen by the cargo carrier over competing candidates it is due to:
- its geographical location, in the center of Europe and the golden cargo air
triangle Amsterdam-Paris-Frankfurt. They will be able to guarantee short
airport-to-airport and airport-to-door delivery times, from Liege to Austria,
Switzerland, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, and many other countries all over
Europe.
- the cargo oriented development strategy of the airport in accordance with the
airport's main characteristics i.e. a very long landing strip, its proximity to
an extensive highway network, connection to the rail network and the fact that
there are few populated areas around the airport so that night and day traffic
is possible.
- friendly rates
- extension capacity
- quality of service and strict fuel control
Cockerill to invest 4.5 billion Bef in Liege
In response to a growing demand from the car industry, Cockerill Sambre, the iron and steel group, one of the European industry leaders, will invest 4.5 billion Belgian francs - about 150 million US$ - in Liege over the next few years.
The company will thereby increase its coated sheet steel production capacity (production will jump from 100,000 tons to 320,000 tons within two years). The production plant will be completed in 1997.
