On top of the world ... from the Mont Blanc

To conquer the Mont Blanc  ... if that is not a challenge. That is what it ment for RINO MAES, 39 year old manager of Textiles MAES A. N.V. (www.maestextiles.com), from Anzegem.

Rino decided to head direction Chamonix on the 13th of August ’06 together with 4 friends – after months of preparation and planning.

An initiation with “crampons” and a “piolet”, meaning climbing irons under the mountain shoes and an ice axe, made them realise what was awaiting them up there. The two scheduled nights on 2,500 and 4,000 m also were unique events.

On the 17th of Augustus, finally the big job went on. During 3 consecutive days several attempts were made to conquer the 4,807 m high giant.  Unfortunately, extremely severe weather conditions withheld them from reaching the top safely.

Allthough the top was not reached, INSIDE COMMUNICATIONS is proud to have sponsored this expedition! After this great adventure, we wish them all the best with all other challenges they will come across.

As a company, Maes A. Textiles is doing well. By the globalisation, a new orientation was necessary, and this was implemented succesfully.  By the expansive dynamic, the head office was moved to new modern offices, and a production unit in Vichte was taken over.

Rino Maes: "Our decisions have been supported very well by the INTEX textiles ERP software.  Clear and correct information allow us to offer our customers optimal service and to operate with a cost efficiënt organisation".

Bart Maes: "By investing in a “Bilan” network from Belgacom, we make high saves in telephone costs and we can monitor the production units from the head office. The remote sites work realtime via a Terminal Server with our ERP software Intex through a performant private line. All internal communication (i.e. all VOIP voice-over-ip phone calls) are secured by the Bilan network. These are the savings. All IT is concentrated in the head office, in a separate server room, where one Hewlett-Packard server rack provides the necessary infrastructure e-mail, communication and security. This streamlines the control over the IT story and allows Inside Communications to manage the whole network via remote control throughout the various sites".

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