- Feb- 2016 -5 February
GVSt
Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Wodopia is to leave his position as Managing Director and Chief Executive of Gesamtverband Steinkohle e. V. (GVSt) in Herne on 31st December 2015. The company’s new Chief Executive will be lawyer Michael Weberink, who has been a Member of the Management Board at GVSt since March 2015.
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IWO
The new Chairman of the Board at the Institute for Heat and Oil Technology (IWO), Hamburg, is Jörg Debus, Head of the Heating Oil and Fuel Department of Shell Deutschland Oil GmbH in Hamburg. He succeeds Stefan Brok, who left his post of Chairman of the Board at Aral AG…
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MWV
Christoph Bender, the former Head of Energy Policy at the Mineral Oil Trade Association (MWV), Hamburg, has been a Member of the Management Board since January.
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STEAG New Energies
On 1st January 2016 Dirk Klingen became Managing Director of the STEAG New Energies GmbH, Saarbrücken. He follows to Stephan Nahrath, who changed to Westfalen Weser Energy GmbH & Co. KG in Paderborn/Germany at the end of 2015.
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VDKi
Prof. Dr. Franz-Josef Wodopia became Managing Director of the Association of Coal Importers (VDKI), Hamburg, on 1st January 2016. He therefore succeeds lawyer Dr. Erich Schmitz, who has retired.
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VIK
Annette Loske, Managing Director of the Association of the Energy and Power Industry (VIK) e. V., Essen, has left the organization at the end of 2015. Barbara Minderjahn, who has been a member of the board too, will lead the association for the time being.
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Wintershall
Wintershall Holding GmbH, based in Kassel, has expanded its Board of Management and also appointed Thilo Wieland from the Department of Exploration & Production in Russia, North Africa and South America to the Supervisory Board.
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World Steel Association
Wolfgang Eder, Chairman of the Board at voestalpine AG in Linz (Austria), was re-elected Head of the World Steel Association at its annual conference in October 2015 in Chicago. Also voted into the Board of Management of the World Steel Association were John Ferriola, CEO and President of the Nucor…
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When joints must not come apart
FLEXCO mechanical connectors: Rivet Hinged System achieves high tensile strength and distributes loads uniformly over the conveyor belt. With the Rivet Hinged mechanical connectors for use in surface and underground mining, rivets penetrate the fabric inlays in the conveyor belt without damaging the fibres. They are fitted from the top…
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Houghton-Fluid HYDROCOR CV 50 DF – operating the shield support at the German Mining Museum Bochum
The German Mining Museum (Deutsches Bergbau-Museum Bochum – DBM) is the most important mining museum in the world and one of the most visited museums in Germany, with around 365,700 visitors per year. In the underground visitors’ mine, the world of coal mining is described in detail and amongst other…
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