Steelgate Belgium Opening - French Press Release
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ENGLISH TRANSLATION:
La Meuse. 04/03/09
SART TILAM ECONOMY
Biologistic: Americans in Liege
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He loves chocolate, she loves beer. Her name is Kate, him it’s Barry. The Grayson couple was in Liege yesterday to announce the opening of their Belgium branch that they chose to set up in Sart-Tilman. An investment of half million dollars but the beginning of a promising sector for Liege: BioLogistics.
“We completely fell under the charm of Liege and its people, especially those from the Wallonia regional investment and economic development organizations led jointly by AWEX, SPI +, GRE, ULg, Liege Airport, BioLog Europe and the logistic hub.
Freezers for Health.
Created in 2002 in New-York, today headquartered in Florida, the company Steelgate is specialized in Biomedical Specimen Storage and Logistics.
“We are specialized in the preservation of all types of biomedical specimens. These (specimens) are blood, urine, cells, human tissues, vaccines etc…It all arrives to us by planes or trucks, in special frozen containers. Clients are hospitals, pharmaceutical laboratories, university researchers, etc…”
From 5 to 20 jobs.
In a temporary building located in Sart-Tilam, Steelgate will start with about five employees. “But we intend to invest rapidly in this essential platform for the European market. We could quickly exceed the number of 20 people that we employ in the US”.
Welcome in Liege, we then say!