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Texas ranks among best states to start a business
For years, Texas has been lauded for its business climate being welcoming for new businesses and startups. This year's study shows that the Lone...
Houston Ranks Among Top Cities for Sustainability Startup Funding
Houston is once again proving it’s a city where green businesses can thrive. A recent report found Houston ranks fourth in the nation for average...
NBSO Americas Strategic Days 2022
From December 11 – 16, 2022, Chief Representative Bee Kothuis and Deputy Representative Maria Alamo participated in the second annual NBSO Americas...
Sinterklaas 2022
Saturday, December 3, was definitely a day to remember: Sinterklaas visited Houston! Everybody, young and old got overly excited when an old “steam...
Dutch company OCI N.V. breaks ground on a new facility in Beaumont, Texas
Largest blue ammonia facility of its kind in Texas, enabling the capture and sequestration of up to 1.7 million metric tons per year of CO2 Total...
EU Leadership Forum in Energy Transition
Our NBSO representatives Bee Kothuis and Maria Alamo were honored to be part of the Texas EU - Texas Economic Leadership Forum in Houston, presented...
Engineering with Nature on the Texas Coast
Our Chief Representative, Baukje "Bee" Kothuis, participated in the panel “Engineering with Nature on the Texas Coast”, at the Annual Conference...
NBSO Texas launches Energy Transition network series
On Friday, Nov 4th, 2022 NBSO Texas hosted the first “Energy & Transition Dutch networking lunch”, a series of meetings organized in...
Her Majesty Queen Máxima of the Netherlands visits Texas
NBSO Texas is proud to have been part of this special visit, which celebrated and strengthened the economic and cultural ties between the...
4 Texan cities among the Top 100 World’s Most Innovative Cities
Since 2007, 2THINKNOW publishes the Innovation Cities™ Index, which ranks more than 500 cities around the world. On this year 2021, four Texan...
Texas wins Ninth Gold Shovel Award for job creation and business investments
Governor Greg Abbott announced that Texas is again recognized with a Gold Shovel Award by Area Development magazine for leading among the most...
2026 FIFA Soccer World Cup Coming to Texas
WORLD CUP EXCITEMENT GROWS IN TEXAS! The Soccer World Cup is coming to Dallas and Houston. FIFA, soccer’s global governing body, chose Dallas and...
Texas delegation visits the Netherlands to learn about Dutch flood protection
This week a delegation from Texas is visiting the Netherlands to learn about traditional and innovative Dutch approaches to flood protection. The...
Texas Leads the Nation as Home to The Most Fortune 500 Companies
Texas is the state with the most Fortune 500 companies, according to the 68th Fortune 500 annual list of the largest U.S. corporations, with 53...
Texas flood risk research exchange in the Netherlands
From May 16th to 20th, 2022, our Chief Representative Bee Kothuis led a field trip to the Netherlands with 15 students and 5 professors from Texas...
Successful Dutch participation at OTC 2022
The Offshore Technology Conference (OTC) is one the most important energy events around the world and takes part in Houston, Texas. After 2 years of...
A Dutch Perspective on coastal protection
On April 28-29, our Chief Representative, Bee Kothuis participated as a speaker for the 10th SSPEED Conference “Post-Harvey Climate & Flood...
Dutch King and Queen to visit Texas and California
From Tuesday 6 to Friday 9 September, Their Majesties King Willem-Alexander and Queen Máxima will be conducting an economic working visit to...