Pleuger Industries GmbH, the Hamburg-based quality manufacturer of submersible motor pumps, exhibited in the Germany Pavilion of Asia Pacific’s International Mining Exhibition 2019 (AIMEX) in Australia. In addition to the latest applications in the fields of mine drainage and process water pumping, the Pleuger management presented an energy-efficient synchronous motor with permanent magnet drive, which scores with low life cycle ...

The companies Halbach & Braun Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. (HB) and Wollbrecht Technische Innovationsgesellschaft mbH (TIG) have agreed on a takeover of TIG’s mining products by HB. TIG was active in the mining industry for more than 50 years. In the process, outstanding competence in the field of safe chain tensioning was developed, which was reflected in market leadership in ...

TOMRA’s advanced sensor-based sorting technologies offer mining operations the dual benefits of energy efficiency and the ability to recover valuable ore even from sub-economic deposits or dumps. This has become increasingly relevant as the mining industry – a very large consumer of energy – is shifting towards a Green Mining approach to reduce its environmental footprint in the face of ...

The German Working Group on Energy Balances (AG Energiebilanzen), Berlin/Germany, said farewell to Hans-Joachim Ziesing after many years on the board of executives and in the management team. Ziesing joined the working group shortly after it was founded in 1971 and has been a member of the association‘s management since 1994. Ziesing will be succeeded on the board of executives ...

Egbert Laege, member of the board of executives of the European Energy Exchange AG (EEX), Leipzig/Germany, is leaving the Group on 31st December 2019 for personal reasons. Laege will take on new challenges in the future.

On 20th May 2019, Magnus Hall, President and CEO of the Swedish-based electricity company Vattenfall, took over the presidency of the European electricity association Eurelectric, Brussels/Belgium.

At its meeting on 25th June 2019, the supervisory board of 50Hertz appointed Stefan Kapferer the new CEO of 50Hertz, Berlin/Germany. Kapferer, the current CEO and member of the committee of the Federal Association of the Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), will start his new role no later than 1st January 2020.

General Counsel of innogy SE, Claudia Mayfeld, will be leaving innogy SE, Essen/Germany, at her own wish. At the request of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of innogy SE, Mayfeld will remain with the company until 30th June 2020 in order to work with her team on providing legal support for the structural measures being taken within the ...

From 1st October 2019, Christian Hower-Knobloch will be the new managing director for the marketing and commercial division of MVV Umwelt GmbH, a subsidiary company of MVV Energie AG, Mannheim/Germany. The former head of corporate development at STEAG GmbH in Essen will manage the business of MVV Umwelt GmbH together with Joachim Manns and succeeds Martin Becker-Rethmann, who left the ...

The supervisory board of RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, is welcoming two new members. Lord Mayor of Herne Frank Dudda and Georg Maringer, vice-president for administration and economic management at the University of Applied Sciences (htw) in the Saar region, have now been appointed to the Supervisory Board. Dudda succeeds Joachim Poß as employee representative. Maringer is taking up the office of ...