10/23/13

"Made in Belgium" 3D Printed Titanium Spectacles.



Mario Fleurinck, CEO Melotte, combines sustainable state-of-the-art technology with creativity for producing customized spectacles for the optician market. This is the basis of a succesful collaboration between the industrial company Melotte and the famous Belgian designer and optician Patrick Hoet.

Patrick Hoet and his design team developed the first 3D printed spectacles in titanium which are unmakeable using existing conventional manufacturing methods.
 

Congratulations Patrick, Mario and your teams for this great achievement!
 
At the launch of these unique glasses Patrick Hoet and Mario Fleurinck invited the Belgian press to present 3D physic titanium models which are available in the market in seven different combinations of specific lens and nose measurement.
 
Both companies say goodbye to product own tooling and use one 3D file for printing no matter which unique pair of spectacles in titanium!
 
No more stock risks, less use of raw material and energy, less waste and less transport result in an environmental impact reduction of factor 8. 100% local added value "Made in Belgium" with a world wide exposure on different continents.
 

6/6/13

Melotte: National Energy Globe Award Winner, most prestigious sustainability price!

 
Goal of the ENERGY GLOBE AWARD is to present successful sustainable projects focusing on energy efficiency, which conserve and protect planet's resources or that employ renewable energy, to a broad audience.
 
Melotte is proud to be awarded for the Belgian national level of the Energy Globe Award, the most prestigious environmental award worldwide.


An international jury, chaired by Maneka Gandhi, has evaluated all 1.051 submissions from 161 participating countries and selected the national winners which are also still running for the international award, Energy Globe World Award for Sustainability.



Mario Fleurinck, CEO Melotte, transforms contemporary disruptive industrial activities into innovative business models based on a sustainable process called Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM). "We create local prosperity using a process with an international leverage". Meaning customized state-of-the-art technologies to reduce dramatically the amount of natural resources and energy necessary for production based on Additive Manu-facturing in metals (also called 3D Printing) in a full digital process without using molds.
 
Melotte's outstanding project "Manufacturing without Molds" represents an environmental damage reduction of factor 8 through design optimization, DDM and shorter supply chain focusing on the increase of social, economic as well as ecological added value.
 
"The future economy will rather be driven by welfare than financial prosperity."
 
 
For more information on our project please visit 
 
  

5/23/13

Melotte, finalist Grote Prijs voor Toekomstige Generaties!


"De Stichting voor Toekomstige Generaties" has nominated Melotte as Winner for the Belgian province Limburg to be awarded the  "Grote Prijs 2013" of their organisation. Who the Ambassador of the Future Generations 2013  will become, shall be announced in Brussels on 11 June next.
 
Are you convinced that Melotte with Direct Digital Manufacturing puts the principles of sustainable development into practice daily? Then please do not hesitate to vote here and now via online voting http://gp-toekomstigegeneraties.be/category/kandidaten/
 
and make Melotte the most favourable candidate to win the Price of the Public 
 

Creation and knowledge sharing are two fundamental pillars of our society which allow individuals to develop his or her talents fully and turn them into value.  The result of creation is mainly consumer products – analogue and digital – of which the cradle-to-cradle process has an impact on our society and the planet’s own capacity and health. Keeping both in check and balance will be the major challenge of the  21st century. Melotte translates these challenges into sustainable yet competitive business models and production ecosystems evaluating systematically the impact of manufacturing based on optimal energy and raw material efficiency. Today Melotte realizes an environmental impact decrease of factor 8 in line with the recommandations of the EU Agenda 2020.

Your vote can make the difference as well!

5/21/13

The Aftermarket in 2023: How 3D/4D printing could change the Aftermarket Manufacturing landscape of the future


EPP Conference Frankfurt, June 20t.


Practitioner Point of View:

Mario is a passionate serial entrepreneur with focus on the development of sustainable manufacturing technologies.  With these innovations he aims to create business models that go far beyond the economic globalisation.  He believes that technology and manufacturing are playing a significant role in redesigning our social economic models.  Inspired by his holistic view and in the light of the growing global economic and geopolitical unbalance, Mario emphasizes a decentralised manufacturing approach with focus on optimal energy and material resources management.  

"What if our aftermarket needs would be filled in and materialized by cloud connected 3D-printers using a minimum on energy & raw materials? Will on demand products printed next to the user become reality?

Today we are at the dawn of an evolution in manufacturing that will change the value chain step-by-step. First by integrating digitized product data in cloud based designs and assemblies, followed by a fully digitized manufacturing supply chain; products, at the end of their lifecycle, fully reusable, dematerialized and transformed into new physic parts. Pricing is based on time-of-demand and its impact on the planet’s ecosystems; to be paid in euro’s or carbon credits?"

This is an example of the circular economy as practiced by the Belgian company Melotte and based on Mario Fleurinck’s vision, CEO Melotte and founder of InnoCrowd. 

The combination of digital manufacturing, cradle-to-cradle digital processes and cloud based product management moves after-sales services towards a new paradigm without even mentioning the next wave, 4D printing! 

Do not miss his presentation on 20 June in Frankfurt at the EPP Aftermarket Forum.  Mario will close the conference on a futuristic note... What could the Aftermarket Manufacturing landscape look like in the year 2023.  Looking forward to some interesting discussions on the topic.

1/9/13

How to create sustainable economic growth?

At the beginning of December 2012 Melotte attended several interactive events with focus on shaping the green economic thinking from the base in a creative manner.  
It was a pleasure for Mr Mario Fleurinck, CEO Melotte NV, to meet keynote speaker Mr. José Manuel Barroso (current President of the European Union) at the Voka Congress 2012, Flanders’ Chamber of Commerce and Industry, in Brussels. "Time for extra growth" was the topic of the congress emphasizing the significant role of the enterprises.
 
Together with other experts like Mr Koen Dejonckheere (Gimv) and Mr Ignace Van Doorselaere (Van de Velde) Mario Fleurinck represented the company Melotte during the debate about the Power of Growth and Live Voting by the audience.
That same week in GreenVille (Houthalen, Belgium), the monumental main building of the ancient coalmine, a ZERI (°) training took place within the vision of the Bleu Economy. The main objective was to select and analyse 8 concrete business models and implement them rapidly in 2013.
Mr. Gunter Pauli (Founder of ZERI) explains: “ It is mainly a method or way of thinking for shaping an idea into a business that both serves the needs of our society and is able to be competitive due to the use of local resources." 
(°) ZERI is a global network of creative minds seeking solutions to world challenges
It is no coincidence that Mr Pauli chose GreenVille as training location since it is playing a significant role in the roll out of Limburg as an important European Cleantech (*) region where trainings are organised with experts to initiate people into all aspects of CleanTech giving them insight how transition to CleanTech can lead to a sustainable community.
 
(*) Cleantech is a famous abbreviation of “Clean Technologies” which is a collective noun of products, services and processes based on technologies that optimize the use of natural sources and minimize the environmntal impact.


Today Melotte is proud to announce that Mr Dirk Vandereyt (Melotte Outsourcing and R&D Engineer) was one of the trainees who succeeded in becoming a CleanTech Ambassador (CTA) with expertise in explaining and inspiring others the importance of transition of manufacturing as well as consumption patterns.  

"Congratulations, Dirk!"  
 

6/18/12

Factories of the Future - Towards a New Industrial Revolution



From the 19th till the 21st of June next over 160 high profile international speakers from industry, government and research will meet at Industrial Technologies 2012 (Aarhus, Denmark)* to discuss visions for European Research and Industry in 2020. They will reveal the economic and technological impact of industrial technologies with topics including low emission transportation, integrated systems, resource efficiency as opportunity, innovations inspired by nature, improving the environment, energy generation and storage, printing goes 3-D, healthcare and construction.


Amongst the speakers are also some recognized people from Belgian companies such as Umicore, Solvay, Materialise and Melotte. All sessions aim to discuss the drivers, conditions, opportunities and activities in specific industrial areas to strive in global competition.

The session Reducing Time to Market: From Prototype to Production reviews some examples of prototype and pilot facilities that are helping companies to speed the deployment of advanced technologies. A challenge inherent in industrial technologies is the requirement to take a research breakthrough and scale this up to large scale, cost effective mass production.

Mario Fleurinck CEO of Melotte and Founder of InnoCrowd (BE) has been asked to address the EU High Level Group, a selected club of European opinion and policy leaders. Mario will explain how Direct Digital Manufacturing allows creating objects with minimal waste “growing” them layer-by-layer and the impact on our environment by means of an extended Life Cycle Analysis input. He will also pay attention to the leverage on local employment and business organization of the new eco system called InnoCrowd.   

*The “Industrial Technologies 2012” event is supported by the European Commission Directorate for Research and Innovation and takes place during the Danish Presidency of the European Council.


4/23/12

Mario Fleurinck, CEO Melotte, inspires as KEYNOTE

From the 18th till the 20th of April the Materialise World Conference 2012 took place at Leuven. Experts from all over the world were brought together to experience and discuss the technology and solutions needed to prepare what many are calling the "Industrial Revolution 2.0".

I am pleased to announce that Mario Fleurinck, CEO Melotte, was one of the Keynote speakers at this conference with 600 participants from over 15 countries.
During his presentation Mario focused on the role of Direct Digital Manufacturing in the area of entrepeneur creativity, sustainability and local anchoring of the manufacturing industry.
Mario is known as an inspiring speaker with a clear message for his audience. In this context he is asked to give a lecture at the upcoming GDF-Suez Management Executives Meeting with 800 participants from 22 countries.


GDF-Suez is one of the largest energy companies in the world and during this meeting they will search for business models with impact on their business strategy. They are eager to understand and support Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) new business models. Mario will give advise directly from the field and will point out how DDM technologies will change GDF-Suez business model in the future.

            
Also This week the 5th world conference on Appreciative Inquiry is held in Ghent (Belgium).

David Cooperrider is the Fairmount Minerals Professor of Entrepreneurship at the Weatherhead School of Management, Case Western Reserve University and author of "A positive Revolution in Change: Appreciative Inquiry". (Appreciative Inquiry - sometimes shortened to "AI" - is primarily an organizational development method which focuses on increasing what an organization does well rather than on eliminating what it does badly. AI focuses on the positive aspects of our lives and leverages them to correct the negative which is the opposite of "Problem-solving". )

Mr Cooperrider has served as an advisor to senior executives in business and societal leadership roles, including projects with five Presidents and Nobel Laureates. He will be one of the keynotes at the World Appreciative Inquiry Conference 2012.

From April 25-28 2012 the summit expects 1.250 participants from 35 countries.



Mario Fleurinck will explain how his vision is brought into practice and how significant and rapidly growing results are.


As a keynote speaker Mario Fleurinck presents a breakthrough business case, in the area of Direct Digital Manufacturing. He will nurture the audience, with his vision on business and society change, and how these two should interact. His vision of a blue economy (vs. green) is the baseline, in which social and financial profit must go hand in hand.


3/14/12

Mario Fleurinck, CEO Melotte, Keynote Speaker @ DDMC Berlin

Since Fraunhofer (Germany) knows Mario Fleurinck as a competent user of Additive Manufacturing he was invited to be one of the keynote speakers at the FRAUNHOFER DIRECT DIGITAL MANUFACTURING CONFERENCE (DDMC) 2012.

From March 14-15, 2012 DDMC will bring together researchers, educators and practitioners from around the world and foster an atmosphere conducive to developing new ideas and refining already existing research developments.

Topics of DDMC are:
-       Design, virtual environments and simulation
-       Laser based Additive Manufacturing technologies
-       Micro technologies, printing and deposition
-       Novel materies and compounds
-       Application toward manufacturing
-       Quality methods for Additive Manufacturing
-       Sustainable manufacturing and carbon foot print

Together with Prof. Hans-Jörg Bullinger (Fraunhofer President, Germany), Prof. Frank Piller (RWTH Aachen, Germany) and Frank Wöllecke (BMW), Mario Fleurinck will be one of the Keynote Speakers of the Congress.

Mario’s lecture will be about

“Direct Digital Manufacturing in every day business practice – today’s opportunities and tomorrow’s challenges.”

For further information please visit http://www.ddmc2012.org



11/17/11

And the Winner is...


MELOTTE


My colleagues and I are very proud to announce that, today at the Creativity World Forum 2011 in Hasselt (Belgium), in the presence of Mr. Johann Leten (CEO Voka Limburg) Mario received the ALL STAR INNOVATION AWARD out of the hands of Mr. Anthony Parkes, Director of the World Chamber Federation.

We thank the international jury of Managing Directors of Chambers of Commerce worldwide for giving this precious honour to our company meaning that Mario and his team have inspired them.

It encourages Melotte to build out the international network of DDM organisations based on its own mission and thus changing the manufacturing paradigm while reducing the impact of manufacturing on our generation and future generation to.   

Mario and his team also congratulate the other nominees Mr. Frank Zwerts (Visys) and Mr. Matty Zadnikar (Z-Group) for their outstanding performance. Keep up the good work!  


 

11/14/11

Melotte DDM at Creativity World Forum 2011

CREATIVITY WORLD FORUM,16 & 17.11.2011 (Ethias Arena Hasselt, Belgium)

Flanders DC aims to get you to start a creative spring in your organisation. Next Wednesday they will kick off with inspiring speakers and workshops.

I am proud to announce that Mario will be one of them.
Are you also eager to blow your mind and get inspired by Mario? Please visit the link below to find out more about his seven minute session "HOW DIRECT DIGITAL MANUFACTURING ALLOWS CREATING OBJECTS WITH MINIMAL WASTE".

www.flandersdc.be/en/events/cwf11/speakers/7-min.-speakers/mario-fleurinck
 


10/28/11

Nomination "All Star Innovation Award"


Today I am pleased to announce that Melotte has been nominated for the ALL STAR INNOVATION AWARDAn international jury of Managing Directors of Chambers of Commerce worldwide will decide which Belgian company will receive this precious honour.

The jury is asked to watch an online company movie and is invited for an online voting afterwards by answering questions such as: “Which of these innovative companies inspires you the most?” and “Which company has the biggest economic potential”?

 In 1950 the World Chamber Federation (WCF) was first established by ICC as the international Bureau of Chambers of Commerce with today more than 12 000 Chamber of Commerce member organisations worldwide. Together they represent over 40 million companies. WCF is a non-political, non-governmental body representing interests of local, national, regional, bilateral and transnational chambers of commerce and industry. WCF strengthens links between chambers, enabling them to improve performance as well as discover new products and services to offer their members.
Melotte (together with the two other nominees Visys and Z-Group) will be presented at the Creativity World Forum on the 16th and 17th of November next offering a great opportunity to show the world how innovative our business is.

The VOKA – KvK Limburg has invited the Australian Mr Anthony Parkes, Director of the WCF, to present the ALL STAR INNOVATION AWARD personally on the mainstage of the Creativity World Forum in the Ethias Arena (Hasselt, Belgium) on 17.11.2011.

Let's cross our fingers that Melotte will be rewarded as innovative company with a huge worldwide potential.

  

10/25/11

Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) at a glance

Mario, CEO Melotte, is a passionate serial entrepreneur who believes that technology and manufacturing are playing a significant role in redesigning social economic models. Following the success of Melotte’s Direct Digital Manufacturing (http://www.melotte.be/) Mario is asked frequently to share his vision with a various public of entrepeneurs, politicians, influentials and students. Melotte is pleased to announce on his blog upcoming events where Mario is invited as one of the selected keynote speakers. He starts next month at the

BLUE ECONOMY CONFERENCE, 03.11.2011 (Brussels’ Heizel, Belgium)





JCI will present an Expert Day based on the Blue economy, Green Energy and Corporate Social Responsibility.

The aim of this Expert Day is to provide examples of how to ensure the change is positive and bring out the strengths we are all capable of. Our goal is to give every attendee the inspiration to think creatively and to act innovatively within their own personal and professional environment.”


At this event Mario will give a unique combined presentation “Direct Digital Manufacturing for Growth” together with Juul Vanleysen (founder of Holistic Architecture 50 │ 5 and CVO – founder of MaterialSource) and Serge de Gheldere (Design Engineer and Founder/CEO of Futureproofed. Together they will link their personal experiences with the ‘new’ world of the blue economy and green technology.

Please have a look at http://www.blueeconomy.be for more information.

2/8/11

Symbiosis of DDM and Conventional Processes

A few years ago Melotte announced Direct Digital Manufacturing (DDM) as part of its strategic diversification and innovative complement to the existing high precision manufacturing methods.
Today Melotte's co-workers are proud to highlight the symbiosis of DDM and high-end NC machining.

You will find out more about Melotte's Digital Factory by clicking below.

At Melotte we move step-by-step towards fully integrated digital manufacturing. Last year we ran a lot of manufacturing batches based on the combination of additive manufacturing processes and high-end NC machining. Both on economics and environmental impact we score excellent figures. Nevertheless we aim at using the best suitable technology for each project. Some are specific for DDM while others still remain conventional tracks.

For your information, a complete set of aluminum housing (5 parts) was delivered in five working days at a cost of about 1.600 €.

Enjoy the movie!

8/17/10

Invitation: Motorola Solar Tour at ZONHOVEN on 20/08/10


Next Friday (20/08/10) the Belgian Solar Team will visit Zonhoven to promote the Motorola Solar Tour 2010.

WHERE? Centre of Zonhoven, church square, near the offices of "Toeristische Dienst"
WHEN? Friday, 20 August 2010 at 15:00

A television crew filmed the Solar Team as well as their sponsors, including the Belgian high tech company Melotte.

You will see live images of Melotte's development, design and manufacturing of the mono-block full titanium lightweight steering wheel of the Belgian Solar car, edition 2009:


Melotte invites you to join this fantastic event on 20/08/10 at Zonhoven.

7/16/10

DDM News: FORMING PIPE ASSEMBLY

As innovative partner, Melotte has significant expertise on developing solutions within the scope of Direct Digital Manufacturing.
Herewith we are presenting you such a state-of-the-art project, called “Forming Pipe Assembly” which Melotte just finished for one of its customers. It is a fantastic example to prove how Additive Manufacturing helps to reduce waste, weight and emissions during the production process.

This assembly of high quality material Inconel 718 components is thin (only 1 mm) and has free form transport channels inside. Due to its geometrical complexity it is impossible to cast.

In comparison to the conventional part equivalent we profit material savings as well as savings on production cost and time. To be continued...

On the picture (from left to right): Mario Fleurinck, CEO Melotte NV & Bram and John, two members of the Melotte DDM Team.




6/2/10

"Let the Chefs meet the Chiefs", Burgundian Futurism.

Belgian gastronomy is world-wide promoted by the Flanders Taste Foundation. When they organized the Flemish Primitives event last February, chefs and scientists gathered in Belgium to unveil new kitchen technology and set culinary standards for the future.
Former prime minister Yves Leterme's idea to have entrepreneurs (Chiefs) and chefs de cuisine (Chefs) build the strong brand "Belgium", was caught by Mr. Kris Sierens (BeforeTheHype).
He created an image book called Belgian CHEFS bringing 25 tasteful success stories together."This book clearly demonstrates that we Belgians are second to no one in the world when it comes to entrepeneurship and gastronomy". Each story is related to a large, medium or small innovative company in a particular business sector and to the CEOs who lead them. Some of the participating chefs are already top chefs and others are relatively unknown talents.

The company Melotte has been chosen to represent the new business sector "Direct Digital Manufacturing".
"By giving up its identity as just another toolmaker that provided precision components, Melotte has turned itself into the world's first direct digital manufacturer" ... "Melotte uses cutting edge laser technology to "grow" machine parts from powdered metals."
Mario Fleurinck (CEO Melotte, Zonhoven) and Dimitry Lysens (Magis, Tongeren) were brought together: "both have the knowledge of how to bring the right ingredients together to create the highest possible quality. The interaction between two creative leaders is used to create a unique gourmet recipe as well as a recipe for business success."
"It is remarkable how two people who look and act so differently at their first meeting, can rapidly discover that what they do and what drives them is very similar."

"They both exhibit a kind of permanent introspective criticism when performing their primary task. No result is ever entirely good enough, or in Dimitry's case, even close to good enough. Before a new product is finished at Melotte or a new dish is served in Magis, they are already thinking of ways to improve it. "Both have a similar view on being a chef and a sharp vision of their role. "They describe it as a constant search for equilibrium between steering and cooperating. It means leading a team and - as much as possible - being a part of it a the same time. Both agree that this is only possible when you have a clear vision of where you intend to go and are able to communicate it."...
Among other fine stories in the book "CHEFS", Imec and The Chocolate Line caught my attention. Imec is an independant research centre - regularly working together with Melotte on cutting edge technology projects - specializing in nanoelectronics and nanotechnology. Chef Jeroen Meus sees a similar evolution in gastronomy with a growing trend to cook on a more detailed level: "Products developed in the molecular cuisine laboratories can help." "The Belgian chocolate story is one of an ongoing success and the reason for that are inventive people like Dominique Persoone (The Chocolate Line)."

These days it becomes more and more clear that being successful is equal to being innovative, creative and above all changing ideas with inspiring people. May the cross exchange project Belgian CHEFS be inspiring to all of you, inside as well as outside the kitchen.

3/2/10

Melotte CLEANTECH AMBASSADOR

After winning the ITM Award in the category "Best Practice in Manufacturing" last year and the Voka Chamber of Commerce Innovation Award 2009, Melotte was selected by the Belgian Cleantechplatform to become a Cleantech Ambassador.

Cleantechplatform.be is a project of the University of Hasselt (Belgium) together with the investment company LRM who started a project for stimulating and extending Cleantech activities in the province of Limburg and the region of Flanders (Belgium) by corroborating interaction and co-operation between companies, investors, the authorities, consumers and knowledge centers. The platform is looking for durable innovation to optimally use economic opportunities and possibilities of environment as well as energy technology.

Melotte is a Belgian company worldwide active in development and manufacturing of high-precision parts for the biomedical, petrochemical and nuclear industry, aeronautics and tooling. Besides this business Melotte acts as an incubation center for new technology and is a pioneer in Direct Digital Manufacturing. Starting from powder metals the company produces parts by laser technology in its digital factory.

Cleantechplatform recognizes the foundation of Melotte’s successful future, meaning a well-considered combination of advanced conventional production methods, Digital Design, Additive Manufacturing Processes and state-of-the-art finishing technologies within the frame of Melotte’s company vision “Technologies to prevent Global Warming”.
Melotte’s contribution to fight global warming is the maximum reduction of energy consumption by means of manufacture efficiency rather than investments in the production of green energy. The company has put this into practice since the recent renovation of the office building according to the principles of Passiv House. Optimization of the building envelope with recyclable materials, balanced ventilation and heat recuperation of the laser machines to warm the meeting rooms and offices proof this every day.

12/23/09

Melotte on CANVAS - 29/12 at 10.10 pm

In August Melotte published "Light weight solutions based on DDM Technology" and "The revolutionary e-Texturing in Digital Manufacturing" on this blog.
Today we are proud to present live images of the development, design and manufacturing of the mono-block full titanium lightweight steering wheel of the Belgian "Umicar Inspire" Solar car. Now Melotte Direct Digital Manufacturing is in the picture thanks to a documentary on Belgian television about 14 students' adventure participating in the World Solar Challenge for Solar Cars in Australia.

During the last 6 months a television crew filmed these students as well as their sponsors which are all Belgian high tech companies.
On
http://video.canvas.be/solar-race-australie-afl-1-innovatief-stuur you will see the fragment where the project highlights Melotte's DDM participation.

Melotte's CEO, Mr Mario Fleurinck, and his team take this opportunity to wish all blog readers a MERRY CHRISTMAS and CREATIVE & INSPIRING 2010.

12/9/09

Melotte wins VOKA INNOVATION AWARD 2009

On the 8th of December last, during the successful and crowded Open Innovation Forum, the Voka - Chamber of Commerce Limburg - presented the Voka Innovation Award to Melotte.

Last year Voka started this new tradition of awarding an innovative company in Limburg calling attention to innovative products, services and processes developed in Limburg. On the other hand the organisation wants to inspire trade and industry by good real practice and encourage to innovate efficiently.

A jury of 7 experts analysed the 17 candidates thoroughly based on some well-considered questions: “Is it an innovative organisation?”, “Is the project well defined, surprising and inspiring?”,”Does the project have market potential?”, “Will the project or company support the image intensification of Limburg as innovative and creative region, nationally as well as internationally?”

After an intensive deliberation the jury selected 6 nominees of which the company Melotte received the highest score at the end.

The jury was impressed by Melotte’s international innovation approach of products and processes. Besides conventional production methods the company’s focus is on manufacturing high-precision parts by means of a complete digital process based on Additive Manufacturing* technologies (* using metal powder Melotte builds products through laser technology).

All positive aspects of Additive Manufacturing i.e. freedom of form, precision, micro dimensions, speed and environment together with the international roll out of Melotte’s new business model in promising markets were tasted well by the jury.

It was a great honour for Mario Fleurinck, CEO of Melotte NV, to receive the award (designed by PHL-student Lore Langendries) from Ms. Ingrid Lieten, Vice-Minister-President of the Flemish Government, Flemish Minister for Innovation, Public Investment, Media and Poverty Reduction.