Month: April 2024
- Industry News 02_2024
Digitalisation and sustainability were the focal points of the Wirtgen Group Technology Days 2024
Kleemann plays host to the international industry get-together 2,700 guests from more than 100 countries responded to the invitation to visit the Wirtgen Group Technology Days 2024 in Göppingen. The overarching themes of the two-day event at the headquarters site of Kleemann GmbH were digitalisation and sustainability. True to the…
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“Schrobenhausener Tage” 2024: New horizons in specialist foundation engineering
Schrobenhausen/Germany – A long-established tradition continues: For more than 35 years, BAUER Spezialtiefbau GmbH has been hosting the “Schrobenhausener Tage” lecture series. In April it was time again. This year’s motto: Focus Construction Site – stay tuned to Geotechnical Solutions. A total of roughly 300 guests attended from Germany and…
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STEAG reorganizes management team
Continuity and change go hand in hand at STEAG GmbH, Essen/Germany (Figure 1): Andreas Reichel, Chairman of the Board of Management and Labor Relations Director since 2022, will continue to lead the energy company. Nicole Hildebrand and Dieter Dehlke are new members of the Board of Management. This was decided…
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Iqony’s hydrogen project in Völklingen-Fenne in Saarland, classified as Important Project of Common European Interest
HydroHub Fenne (Figure 1), an electrolysis project for the production of green, i. e. climate-neutral, hydrogen in Völklingen-Fenne in Saarland/Germany has been classified by the EU as an “Important Project of Common European Interest” (IPCEI). This decision means that the EU approval required under German state aid law has now been…
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WaterSense: New THGA project aims to improve the blue-green infrastructure in the Ruhr region
Water and green spaces not only improve the urban climate, they also offer people in the Ruhr metropolis recreation on their doorstep. Against this backdrop, an intact blue-green infrastructure is becoming increasingly important. In a new project entitled “WaterSense”, the Research Center of Post-Mining (FZN) at the TH Georg Agricola…
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Ulrich Paschedag bids farewell to retirement
Ulrich Paschedag (Figure 1) retired from the TH Georg Agricola University (THGA), Bochum/Germany, at the end of February 2024. He studied mining engineering at the RWTH Aachen University where he achieved his diploma. He then decided to join the central institution for research and development in the hard coal industry,…
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Hard Coal: Guardian angel of energy supply
The year 2023 demanded a lot from the German economy and the energy sector. It was not a good year! Economic output and industrial production fell. Germany hit the headlines as the “sick man of Europe”. With the shutdown of the last nuclear power plants, Germany went from being a…
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Kick-off for ground-breaking research project to develop a climate-neutral drive concept for specialist foundation equipment based on a fuel cell system
On 16th October 2023, the headquarter of BAUER Maschinen GmbH in Schrobenhausen/Germany, hosted the kick-off event for a research project with the potential to catapult the carbon footprint of specialist foundation equipment to a whole new level. The goal: climate-neutral operation based on a fuel cell system. The consortium partners…
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GFZ and DMT GROUP agree on cooperation for geoenergy research
DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Essen/Germany, part of the Energy & Resources business unit of TÜV NORD GROUP, and the Helmholtz Centre Potsdam GFZ German Research Centre for Geosciences, Germany’s national centre for research into the solid earth, have joined forces to research geo-energy. The GFZ is solving key problems…
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Mineral resource estimate increased by 445 %
Zinnwald Lithium GmbH, Freiberg/Germany, has announced the new results of the drilling campaign in the Altenberg-Zinnwald area and published them in a press release on the London Stock Exchange. The results show that the deposit is several times more productive than previously assumed. “Due to the immense amount of data…
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