The local business fabric
Few Belgian cities have had to reinvent their economy as sharply as Genk. After the coal mines came the closure of Ford Genk in 2014, which left an entire supplier chain looking for a new purpose. What has been rebuilt since is strikingly concrete: on Thor Park, on top of the former Waterschei mining site, EnergyVille runs research into energy systems and smart grids; the Winterslag pithead became C-Mine, home to design, training and creative businesses; and the Genk-Zuid and Genk-Noord industrial zones remain one of Limburg's largest concentrations of manufacturing and logistics, next to the Albert Canal terminal. For those companies, digitalisation is rarely about a pretty homepage: it is about order tracking, planning, quality control on the shop floor, and connections to customers who already run a system of their own. That is exactly our ground — business software, ERP and CRM integrations, APIs, and a website that actually brings in new customers.