- Dec- 2017 -15 December
Thyssengas
Thomas Gößmann replaced Axel Botzenhardt on 1st September 2017 as Chair of the Management Board of Thyssengas GmbH, Dortmund/Germany. He also holds the post of Commercial Director and is in charge of the company together with Bernd Dahmen.
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Vattenfall
Anna Borg succeeded Stefan Dohler on 1st November 2017 as the CFO of Vattenfall AB, Solna/Sweden. She was previously the director of the Markets business area.
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VDMA Mining
VDMA Mining elected its new board of directors at its general meeting on 23rd November 2017. Michael Schulte Strathaus, F. E. Schulte Strathaus GmbH & Co. KG, Werl/Germany, was endorsed as Chairman. The additional board members: Honorary Chairman Peter Jochums, Hauhinco Maschinenfabrik G. Hausherr, Jochums GmbH & Co. KG, Sprockhövel/Germany, Corinna…
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Voith GmbH & Co. KGaA
The Shareholders’ Committee of Voith Management GmbH, Heidenheim/Germany, has decided on a successor for long-standing President of the Corporate Board of Management, Hubert Lienhard. Stephan Schaller, currently a member of the Voith Shareholders’ Committee and head of the BMW Group’s global motorcycle division, has been appointed as his successor. Lienhard,…
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Wintershall
Oil and gas group Wintershall, Kassel/Germany, has appointed Hugo Dijkgraaf Managing Director of its Norwegian subsidiary. He succeeds Bernd Schrimpf, who has retired.
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Positive results for the RAG-Stiftung after two years of its „Glückauf Zukunft!“ project
Roughly two years ago, the Essen/Germany based RAG-Stiftung foundation, RAG AG and Evonik Industries AG collaborated with the IG BCE union, Hanover/Germany, to launch the “Glückauf Zukunft!” project, aiming to wind down the German coal mining industry by the end of 2018. The programme acknowledges the industry’s historical achievements while…
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New quarter on the Shamrockring
The RAG site on the Shamrockring is to be converted to a residential and business district over the next few years. Essen-based FAKT AG has acquired the plot and is planning a large amount of development within the existing buildings at the 10 ha site in Herne/Germany. FAKT AG CEO…
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STEAG subsidiary Mingas-Power forges ahead with its “Haldenwind” mine dump wind power project
A lunar landscape of boulders and craters as far as the eye can see – project partners Mingas-Power, ENNI Energie & Umwelt Niederrhein (ENNI) and RAG Montan Immobilien (RMI) have officially brought the Kohlenhuck wind farm on the plateau of the Kohlenhuck mine heap in the north of Moers/Germany online.…
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Agora‘s legal report on the transition away from coal is flawed, superficial and solely ideologically motivated
“Flawed, superficial and solely ideologically motivated” is how the DEBRIV association, Berlin/Germany, sees the legal report on the energy transition submitted by the Agora Energiewende thinktank. One particularly problematic aspect of the report is the ease with which Agora skates around constitutionally protected legal positions. In its assessment, DEBRIV lists…
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New management team plans greater working hours flexibility for employees
The management team of the Industriegewerkschaft Bergbau, Chemie, Energie (IG BCE), Hanover/Germany, reassesses its position following the vote on the managing Executive Committee. In future, the union will turn more of its attention to the challenges of digitalisation. This is reflected in a specific board division, which Francesco Grioli is…
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