Orange Belgium
covers 100%
of all cabled
homes with
convergent offer
Burke Porter Group expands
European presence with Van
Hoecke Automation
O
range Belgium has announced that it
will make its convergent mobile, Internet
& TV offer Love available for all cabled
homes in the Brussels region, Wemmel and
Drogenbos as well as the ‘botte du Hainaut’
area, now covering all cabled Belgian homes.
Orange Belgium progressively expands its
convergence customer base as more and
more Belgians find the way to Orange Love:
Internet + TV combined with an attractive
mobile subscription that meets their needs.
Since the launch in May 2016, Orange
Belgium activated its convergent services on
the Telenet and VOO footprint. Now, two years
later Orange Belgium can eventually propose
its Internet and TV services to all cabled
Belgian homes by adding its convergent
services on the SFR footprint as well. This
footprint corresponds with the Brussels
region and the ‘botte du Hainaut’ area. Also,
Diegem, Wemmel and Drogenbos are now
covered. That makes Orange Love available for
every cabled household in Belgium.
Michaël Trabbia, CEO of Orange Belgium,
commented: “By extending the reach of
our mobile, Internet and TV offer Love, we
now make it possible for close to 250,000
additional households in the Brussels region,
Diegem, Wemmel and Drogenbos and the
‘botte du Hainaut’ to opt for an alternative
convergent offer that gives them great
quality at the best price. With Orange Love,
customers can save up to €20 per month.
Love combines an abundance of mobile
data, over 70 TV channels and very high
speed unlimited Internet for a very fair price.
And we will continue to enrich our Love
package in functionalities and content as we
invest where it counts for our customers.”
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B
urke Porter Group (BPG), a leading
global manufacturer of intelligent
machines, has announced that it has
completed its purchase of Van Hoecke
Automation (VHA), a Belgium-based global
supplier of production automation and
product manipulation and control in the
food processing and automotive industries.
“The pace of technology advancement
in manufacturing utilising sensing and
autonomous machines and equipment
(‘intelligent machines’) has created
significant opportunities for us to address
customer demands of today and well
into the future,” said David DeBoer, CEO
of BPG. “The addition of Van Hoecke
Automation brings an innovative group
of highly skilled engineers enabling BPG
to pursue and support more diverse
products with an expanded global scale.
It’s an exciting time for the industry and
for our company.”
Established in 1990, VHA not only
provides a complementary product
portfolio to BPG, but also strengthens
its manufacturing presence in Belgium,
which includes BEP Europe NV in Bruges.
VHA will remain at its current location in
Gavere, near the city of Ghent.
The acquisition agreement provides
for management continuity over the
company’s business activities with no
change in day-to-day business or contacts.
BPG serves the global automotive,
advanced manufacturing and life
science markets, maintaining more
than 30 locations in Europe, Asia and
the Americas. As the newest member
of BPG, VHA joins Titan, Kleinknecht,
Lismar, Universal Balancing, Cimat, Epic
Equipment & Engineering, XL Machine Co
Inc, Korvis, Primatics and Burke E Porter
Machinery Co.
The combination of BPG and VHA
delivers a unique complement of
solutions in products, engineering
and scale that will provide customers
added technologies, greater service and
extended global support.
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