Once the planned takeover of Innogy SE by E.ON SE, Essen/Germany, is complete, Johannes Teyssen will stay on at the helm of the new company. His current contract runs until the end of 2021.

Boris Schucht will be leaving electricity transmission grid operator 50Hertz, Berlin/Germany, on 28th February 2019 to take on new professional challenges. This was mutually agreed between Schucht, the 50Hertz supervisory board and shareholders Elia and Kreditanstalt für Wiederaufbau (KfW) on 4th December 2018.

Prof. Gerald Linke, CEO at Deutscher Verein des Gas- und Wasserfaches (DVGW), has been appointed as the new President of Marcogaz, the Technical Association of the European Natural Gas Industry, in Brussels/Belgium.

Jürgen Kroker, Works Manager at the Prosper-Haniel mine in Bottrop/Germany, departed the company on 31st December. Taking over from him, Thomas Telsemeyer, formerly Production Manager at Prosper-Haniel, has been in charge of the mine’s Shutdown team since 1st January 2019.

On 3rd December 2018, at the regular meeting of Essen-based RAG-Stiftung’s board of trustees, Helmut Linssen announced that he is resigning his post as CFO at RAG-Stiftung, effective as of 1st April 2019, due to his age. His successor will be chosen in the next meeting of the board of trustees on 1st April 2019.

On 1st January 2019, Lex Hartman stepped down from the board of management of Dutch/German electricity grid operator TenneT Holding BV, based in Arnheim/Netherlands. On this date, he also relinquished his responsibilities as Statutory Director of TenneT TSO B.V. in the Netherlands and TenneT TSO GmbH in Germany.

On 6th November 2018, BASF and LetterOne resolved to appoint Paul Smith as the future CFO and member of the board of management of Wintershall DEA. His appointment comes into effect on completion of the merger between Wintershall and DEA. Subject to obtaining the standard authorisations from the relevant government authorities, this is expected to take place within the first ...

BEUMER Groups’, Beckum/Germany, U.S. subsidiary, the BEUMER Corporation, has been awarded a contract to design, supply and install a nearly 6.5 km overland conveyor at Knight Hawk Coal’s Prairie Eagle Mine in Illinois (Figure 1). The Knight Hawk project is a strategic win for BEUMER, allowing the company to broaden its mining sector footprint, according to Brad Williams, Vice President ...

Epiroc now takes its successful Serpent ventilation system to the next level by launching automatic functionality. Serpent Automatic (Figure 1) optimizes air quality, air flow and energy expenditure automatically and can radically reduce energy consumption and ventilation costs. “This is more than an efficient ventilation system,” says Diana Baldeon, Global Product Manager for Serpent Ventilation at Epiroc. “With the launch ...

The SIM 2018 trade fair will take place from 17th to 19th October 2018 in Clermont-Ferrand/France – and in Booth F40, Flexco Europe GmbH, Rosenfeld/Germany, will be presenting future-oriented solutions that will make life much easier for conveyor system operators, because now material carryback, belt misalignment, material loss and belt slippage can be avoided from the outset. Among other products, the ...