A city that has changed its skin in twenty years
Charleroi has probably changed its skin more thoroughly than any other Belgian city in twenty years. Brussels South Charleroi Airport has grown a full ecosystem around Gosselies: airlines, ground handling, hotels, parking and subcontracting. None of it existed in the 1990s. On the same ground, the Gosselies Biopark has become Wallonia's leading biotech cluster, with laboratories, university spin-offs and advanced-therapy production units. Further on, A6K/E6K has turned former industrial halls into a centre for engineering, technical training and Industry 4.0.
Meanwhile, the Charleroi Digital City initiative gave the city a deliberate digital strategy. Yet the foundation remains industrial: glass, metal, energy and mechanical subcontracting. You hear it on the phone. Charleroi-based enterprises rarely call us for a pretty brochure site. Instead, they want a technical catalogue searchable by part number, a configurator, a reseller portal or a tool that talks to the shop floor. For these firms, a website first serves buyers who already know exactly which part they need.
How we work with Charleroi-based enterprises
We have no address in the city and we will not pretend otherwise: our offices are in Brussels (Molenbeek-Saint-Jean) and Lille. The drive takes around 55 minutes, or an hour by train. That is close enough to scope the project at your site, come back to present the designs and train your team. Everything else then runs smoothly at a distance.
We start by understanding your product before we talk about design. In a mechanical or materials business, the hard part is never the home page. It is the structure of the catalogue and how a buyer finds the right part. We then deliver in stages, with something live early rather than a grand launch six months later. Each stage ends with a demo on a staging environment that you can open at any time.
We are also happy to take over an existing site: redesign, migration, technical and SEO clean-up. Before any migration, we list the pages that bring in visitors and plan their redirects. We also check which languages matter, because Flemish or foreign buyers search for your part numbers in their own language. That way, Charleroi-based enterprises keep the search ranking they have earned while their site gets faster.
