Bart Alfons Jean Ghislain Meekers

Ellimetal NV manufactures pressure vessels, storage tanks and silos for the gas, oil and petrochemicals and chemical industries. The company's clients include Atofina, Bayer, Degussa, BP and Technip. It was founded in 1964 and is headquartered in Meeuwen, Belgium.

Nikon Metrology NV develops metrology solutions. It offer services for automotive, aerospace, telecommunication/satellites, energy, consumer goods/white goods/household, medical, electronics, universities/research, and manufacturing markets. The firm’s products include laser scanners; coordinate measuring machines; portable measuring solutions; and in-process measurement, video and microscope measuring, X-ray and computed tomography (CT) inspection, large scale measurement, microscope and semiconductor systems. The company was founded in 1995 and is headquartered in Leuven, Belgium.