The local business fabric
Aalst has always owed its economy to the road and the river: the city sits squarely on the Brussels-Ghent axis, along the E40 and the Dender, which explains why both heavy food industry and logistics settled here. The Aalst area is one of the historic cores of Belgian food processing — sugar, starch and plant-based food have plants and suppliers here, with names such as Tereos and Alpro in the immediate vicinity — and around them lives a whole layer of smaller producers, packers and wholesalers. Aalst is also, historically, a city of printers and graphic arts, a sector that has had to reinvent itself over the past twenty years towards digital printing, personalisation and online ordering. The Wijngaardveld, Zuid III and Siesegemkouter business parks hold most of that activity. For a food or print business, digital is almost never a shop-window question: it is a question of orders, quotes, specifications and traceability — and that is precisely what we build.