Zwevegem is a municipality

Municipality

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 located in the Belgian

Belgium

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 province of West Flanders. The municipality comprises the towns of Heestert, Moen, Otegem, Sint-Denijs and Zwevegem proper. On January 1, 2006 Zwevegem had a total population of 23,674. The total area is 63.24 km² which gives a population density

Population density

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 of 374 inhabitants per km².

The Bekaert

Bekaert

N.V. Bekaert S.A. is an industrial company, which is one of the BEL20 companies in the index for the Euronext Brussels stock exchange. The company specializes in advanced metal transformation and advanced materials and coatings...

 company was founded in Zwevegem by Baron Leon Leander Bekaert.

Notable people

• Léon Antoine Bekaert
  Léon Bekaert
  Léon Antoine Bekaert was a Belgian industrialist and politician. He was the son of Leo Leander Bekaert, who founded the family business in 1880....
  
   (1891–1961), businessman
• Christian Dumolin
  Christian Dumolin
  Christian Dumolin of Sint-Denijs is a Belgian businessman, President and CEO of Koramic Investment Group, President and CEO of Koramic-Koceram and Vice-Chairman of Wienerberger Supervisory Board....
  
  , businessman