Zwijnaarde () is a village in the municipality of

Ghent Ghent ( nl, Gent ; french: Gand ; traditional English: Gaunt) is a city and a municipality in the Flemish Region of Belgium. It is the capital and largest city of the East Flanders province, and the third largest in the country, exceeded in ...

Belgium Belgium, ; french: Belgique ; german: Belgien officially the Kingdom of Belgium, is a country in Northwestern Europe. The country is bordered by the Netherlands to the north, Germany to the east, Luxembourg to the southeast, France to th ...

. It is known for its fair and its ''Zwijntjes''

beer Beer is one of the oldest and the most widely consumed type of alcoholic drink in the world, and the third most popular drink overall after water and tea. It is produced by the brewing and fermentation of starches, mainly derived from ce ...

. A cluster of biotech companies is located at the

Zwijnaarde science park The Zwijnaarde science park is a science park of Ghent University, located in Zwijnaarde near Ghent (Belgium). The science park has an area of 52 hectare (ha) and comprises the Ardoyen campus (30 ha) of the University of Ghent and the Ardoyen scien ...

, with biotech companies such as

Innogenetics Innogenetics N.V. (now Fujirebio Europe N.V.) was an international in vitro diagnostics (IVD) company, with headquarters in Ghent, Belgium. Founded in 1985, the company developed and marketed IVD testing solutions as well as OEM raw materials. The ...

, and

DevGen Devgen is a Belgium-based multinational agricultural biotechnology company. It uses biotechnology and molecular breeding technologies to develop varieties of food crops. Its technology is marketed by outlicensing or selling seeds in India and Sou ...

. In 2013 at Zwijnaarde, the Flemish Institute for Biotechnology was supervising a trial of 448 poplar trees genetically engineered to produce less

lignin Lignin is a class of complex organic polymers that form key structural materials in the support tissues of most plants. Lignins are particularly important in the formation of cell walls, especially in wood and bark, because they lend rigidity ...

so that they would be more suitable for conversion into

biofuels Biofuel is a fuel that is produced over a short time span from biomass, rather than by the very slow natural processes involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as oil. According to the United States Energy Information Administration (E ...

.Hope, Alan::
News in brief (03/04/2013)
, ''Flanders Today'', 3 April 2013, Page 2, Retrieved 27 April 2013 Different youth organisations are active in Zwijnaarde, such as '' Jeugdhuis Chaos'', ''

Chiro Ambo Chiro may refer to: * Chiro (town), a town in Ethiopia * Chiro (woreda), a former district of Ethiopia * ''chiro-'', a prefix referring to hands, or to chirality * Chiro Flanders, a Belgian Christian youth organisation * Chiro Philippines, a Phil ...

'' and ''

KLJ Zwijnaarde klj is the ISO 639 code for the Khalaj language KLJ may refer to a series of aircraft radars (see KLJ-5 and KLJ-7). {{Disambiguation ...

''.

Notable inhabitants

Karel van de Woestijne Carolus Petrus Eduardus Maria "Karel" van de Woestijne (; Ghent, 10 March 1878 – Zwijnaarde, 24 August 1929) was a Flemish writer and brother of the painter Gustave van de Woestijne. He went to highschool at the ''Koninklijk Athenaeum'' (E:Roya ...

(1878–1929), writer *

Gilbert Declercq Gilbert Declercq (born 1946 in Zwijnaarde, Belgium) is a Belgian freelance painter, illustrator, and comics artist. Declercq did his art-studies at The Royal Academy in Gent (Belgium). Publications Declercq began his career in '' Ons Volkske ...

(1946), painter, illustrator and comic-artist

Industry

DOMO Group DOMO Investment Group is a Belgian holding group. The holding consist of 3 parts, DOVESCO, DOMO Chemicals & Alinso Group. The company's head office is located in Zwijnaarde near Ghent. In 2006 the company had a turnover of 993 million euro an ...

, carpet manufacturer

References

Sub-municipalities of Ghent Populated places in East Flanders {{EastFlanders-geo-stub