De Ontdekfabriek, located in a former Philips building at the Strijp-S complex in Eindhoven, is an experience center, primarily aimed at the target group children aged 4-16. De Ontdekfabriek organizes and facilitates programs and events that contribute to raising awareness of technology design and innovation among children. Talented young (16 -24 years old) technicians and creatives play an active role to transfer their passion to children.

With some amazing feats at the start of her career, Monique Sommer (manager engineering at Demcon Advanced Mechatronics) charged into the field of electrical engineering and hasn’t stopped since. She has crafted a niche for herself in this industry, not only with her technical expertise but also by solving organizational problems and fostering mentorship for women in tech.

At the beginning of December, Dutch company Mellon Medical received a significant grant from the Eurostars Program. The grant was awarded to support further research into the continued development of an innovative suturing instrument, the Switch suturing device. During the official ceremony held on 20 December in The Hague, the spotlight was put on all recipients of a Eurostars grant. Jan Benschop, CEO Mellon Medical was among the recipients: “Thanks to this grant we can take the first steps towards clinical trials with the Switch. We will continue development and will manufacture multiple prototypes. We can then start with the initial pre-clinical studies at Erasmus MC this year. This will become the first ‘small bites’ suturing instrument in the world that will enable surgeons to place sutures faster and more precisely. This will allow them to reduce incisional hernias in the abdominal wall after operations by 50%. That means reduced inconvenience for patients and therefore a better quality of life. Furthermore, it helps drastically reduce care costs.”

That the Brainport region is of great strategic importance for the Netherlands, but also within Europe and internationally, has been known for years. So, for good reasons, the State and Brainport region will invest almost 1.6 billion euros in the accessibility of Brainport Eindhoven. A necessary step to create a nice environment for all current and future residents where they can live and work.

Trebbe is realizing the new Demcon headquarters in Enschede at Kennispark Twente. Work is carried out on the construction site in accordance with the ‘Bewuste Bouwers’ code of conduct. It was recently time for the periodic audit from the Bewuste Bouwers Foundation. This was successful because the construction site received an 8.1 as a rating.

Last week Dutch United Instruments (DUI) moved to a new location in Delft. The new location, located on the Kleveringweg in Delft, offers space to bring the production activities of DUI to Delft. Gerard van den Eijkel, managing director of DUI, is happy with the new location: “We are very happy with the new additional space, because we are growing out of our current production facilities on the Demcon Campus in Enschede. By expanding this with our own production location in Delft, we can serve our customers even better and we have room to grow. We have a number of new orders this year, some of which we will assemble in the new space.”