Sightseeing and Tours
This time, BIR is not organizing special visits or sightseeing tours for delegates and spouses, but we are suggesting a choice of tours that you may want to consider.
The tickets can be purchased directly from the concierge of the Sheraton Brussels Hotel upon arrival or by phone (+32 2 224 3111).
- All tours start and end at the Sheraton Brussels Hotel.
- Pick-up 30 minutes before the beginning of each tour (meeting point: concierge)
Brussels
Grand City Tour
Daily at 10.00
Duration: 2 ½ hours
Price per person: € 24
The visit begins with a short stroll in the old city centre. An experienced guide provides information about the world-famous Grand’Place with its unique city hall and splendid guild houses. The adventure trail through the capital continues by coach. We pass the magnificent St. Michaels cathedral, the Congress Column, the Heysel district with the renowned Atomium, the remarkable Chinese Pavilion and the Japanese Tower. Via the Palace of Laken we will drive back to the centre and visit the Sablon district with its many antique stores. After the impressive Court of Justice and the elegant Louise Square, we will drive to the stately Royal Square, the Royal Palace and the old Palace of the Nations, which is now the home of Parliament. Around the Cinquantenaire Parc with its grand Triumphal Arch and exceptional museums we can see some excellent examples of Art Nouveau houses. Around the corner, the heart of Europe beats: the buildings of the Commission, the Council of Ministers and the European Parliament house the main institutions of the EU.
Ghent and Bruges
Venice of the North!
Daily at 9.00
Duration: 9 ½ hours (You might miss the bus transportation to the Welcome Evening on Monday at 19.30)
Price per person: € 42
After an hour's drive, arrival in Ghent and visit of the St. Bavo's Cathedral, home of the world famous 'Mystic Lamb' painting (optional, closed on Sundays). During the city tour you will see all the important buildings from the Middle Age, such as the Belfry, the St. Nicholas Church and the Castle of the Counts of Flanders. Upon arrival in Bruges, visit of the Lake of Love (Minnewater) and the Beguinage (convent). Time for lunch. Afterwards, walking tour discovering: Our Lady Church, with the statue by Michelangelo, the Market Square with the Belfry and the Holy Blood Chapel. After the walking tour you can take an optional boat tour along the canals.
Antwerp
The city of Rubens and Diamonds
Monday, Friday & Saturday at 13.15
Duration: 5 ½ hours (You might miss the bus transportation to the Welcome Evening on Monday at 19.30)
Price per person: € 42
Antwerp, Belgium's second largest city and Europe's second largest harbour has kept many memories of its rich past. Above all, it is the city of the painter Peter Paul Rubens, world-famous master of the 17th century. We drive to the centre and leave the bus to visit the Market Square with its ancient houses and Our Lady Cathedral (entrance fee included). This cathedral contains, amongst other treasures, two of Rubens' masterworks: "The Erection of and the Descent from the Cross".
In Antwerp, which is also the world's diamond centre, we will also visit a diamond workshop. The tour will end with a drive through the oldest part of the harbour.
(Diamond Sponsor - Rental of the plenary meeting room)
“Metalriciclo Recomat 2011” organized by Edimet
http://www.metalriciclo.com/ENG/home.asp
Edimet is an informative global network about the world of metals, dedicated to technical information on aluminium and the main metals through books, periodicals, directories, the international portal aluplanet.com, the organization of events such as exhibitions and conferences. Edimet publishes the magazines “AL-Aluminium & its alloys”, “P&TF Diecasting and Foundry Techniques” and “Metalriciclo Recomat News”, the official publication of Metalriciclo & Recomat, that in addition to constant updating on the innovations of the trade show, publishes interviews, reports and news regarding the complex recovery and recycling industry and its protagonists.
The publication is sent to car wreckers, collectors and recorverers of metals, plastic, rubber, compisites, paper, glass and wood; scrap users, traders, steel mills, foundries, and to suppliers of machinery, systems, equipment and products for the collection, separation and treatment of scrap.
Since 2006 Edimet organises Metalriciclo, International Exhibition on Technologies for the Recovery and Recycling of ferrous and non ferrous Metals, dedicated to plants, machinery, equipment and products for the recovery, recycling and processing of ferrous and non-ferrous metal scrap, that will be held in 2011 in parallel with Recomat, International Exhibition on Technologies for the Recovery and Recycling of industrial material, environmental quality, energy efficiency.
Diamond (Welcome Evening)
The Comet Group is a leading industrial group involved in steel, ferrous and non-ferrous scrap as well as in derivatives trade and processing, with subsidiaries in Belgium, other European countries and worldwide.
It is the largest industrial supplier group in Belgium and also the largest steel industry client in Belgium, Turkey, Europe and Asia.
Its technological expertise in end-of-life metal recycling, its strategic geographical location, its processing capabilities and the wide variety of activities undertaken by the Comet Group make it an excellent environmental resource on its reference markets ferrous and non-ferrous scrap metal, end-of-life vehicles, electrical and electronic equipment waste, household and industrial packaging, tyres, plastic, shredding waste, etc.
www.groupecomet.com
(Platinum Sponsor - Lanyards)
Oryx Stainless is one of the world's leading companies in the trade and processing of raw materials for the stainless steel industry. Oryx's clients include the most renowned stainless steel producers in the world.
Oryx Stainless offers its business partners the ideal combination of various fortes: continuity, competence and individual service on the one hand, a strong financial basis and an international network on the other.
Emerald (Divisional luncheon on Tuesday 26)
Gemini Corporation NV was established in 1989. We have reinvented trading. We are one of the largest (some people say “the largest”) exporter of plastic scrap in the world. We are also very strong in metal scrap, last year we exported 250000 MT which is about 180 containers every week.
In total we do more than 1000 containers every month.
COMMITMENT – INTEGRITY – TRUST: 3 words to describe the way we do business.
www.geminicorp.be
Ruby (Young Traders’ Networking Dinner)
Uzimet BV - established in Rijswijk in 1906 - is an innovative, environmentally aware company that recycles old lead into ingots or new sheet lead through a refining process. One of the many uses of this new sheet lead is for radiation shielding.
Uzimet is part of the Calder Group since 1994, which operates internationally with production companies in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Ireland and the Netherlands. Co-operation within the Calder Group ranges from mutual support in the field of production to the purchasing of raw materials to setting up delivery programs with regard to their international clients.
www.uzimet.nl
