Klaus Schäfer, the founding CEO of Uniper SE, Düsseldorf,/Germany sadly passed away on 26th August 2020 at the age of 53. Schäfer had been Chairman of the Executive Board at the company since Uniper was founded until mid-2019. He had already been forced to withdraw from his duties since August 2018 due to illness.

On 16th June 2020, the Board of Management of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), Berlin/Germany, unanimously approved Marie-Luise Wolff, Chair of the Board at ENTEGA AG, Darmstadt, as BDEW President. Nathalie Leroy, Spokeswoman for Management at HAMBURG WASSER, was elected as the new Vice President for Water/Wastewater of the BDEW. She succeeds Jörg Simon from the ...

Joseph Dzierzawski has been named President and CEO of BEUMER Corporation, the US subsidiary of BEUMER Group, Beckum/Germany, in Somerset, New Jersey/USA, effective 27th April 2020. He will be fully responsible for the business lines Conveying & Loading Systems, Palletizing and Packaging Technology, and Sortation and Distribution Systems in the North American market.

The Board of Directors of Metso Outotec Corp. convened after the registration of the demerger of Metso Corp.. The members of the Board of Directors of Metso Outotec are Mikael Lilius (Chair), Matti Alahuhta (Vice Chair), Klaus Cawén, Christer Gardell, Hanne de Mora, Antti Mäkinen, Ian W. Pearce, Emanuela Speranza, Kari Stadigh and Arja Talma. In its organizational meeting, Metso ...

In its inaugural meeting following this year’s annual general meeting on 29th May 2020, the Supervisory Board of Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG, Heilbronn/Germany, elected Harry Mergel, Mayor of the City of Heilbronn and former Deputy Chairman of the committee as its new chairman. Thomas Strobl, Minister of the Interior, Digitalisation and Migration of the State of Baden-Württemberg, took over the office ...

On 15th May 2020, the TH Georg Agricola University (THGA), Bochum/Germany, appointed Kai van de Loo as honorary professor. Prof. van de Loo has already been passing his knowledge on to budding industrial engineers at the THGA for many years in his role as lecturer. From 1992 to May 2020, he worked for the German Coal Association (GVSt), Essen/Germany, in ...

With its digital marketplace, the start-up Sparrow Networks ensures that the participants are supplied with the appropriate spare part as quickly as possible in the event a component in their systems fails. Sparrow connects the stock of the system operators with each other. Thanks to the network, a suitable supplier can always be found quickly. This prevents long downtimes and ...

Sand manufacturer Kasprs Build Mate inaugurated a new plant for processing off-spec particles in Pune/India, in mid-2019. The centerpiece of the plant is the rotor impact mill from BHS-Sonthofen GmbH, Sonthofen/Germany, which, in contrast to conventional VSI rotor crushers, even further reduces fine grain sizes (Figure 1). Kasprs can thus make use of off-spec material of other companies to produce ...

GHH Vehicles GmbH, Gelsenkirchen/Germany, the manufacturer of heavy machinery for rock logistics, announces the launch of the Stage V engine range in their load haul dumpers (LHD). It starts with the new LF-14, a vehicle that is more than just a technical highlight. It marks nothing less than the current spearhead of a strategy designed to make GHH the “cleanest” ...

Exactly one year after the launch of the Metso Truck Body at the BAUMA 2019 fair, the first two Komatsu HD605-8 dump trucks equipped with Metso Truck Bodies have been delivered to a porphyry quarry in Brabant Wallon/Belgium, by Metso distributor BIA Group (Figure 1). These are the first Metso Truck Bodies taken into operation in Central Europe and a ...