On 31st March 2019, Ulrich Pröpper resigned from the Management Board of DMT GmbH & Co. KG, Essen/Germany, and retired. He had been a member of the Management Board since 2014 and was also the head of Human Resources at the company. As well as Human Resources, Pröpper was also responsible for finance and controlling, and for the Plant and ...

A number of changes have taken place in the composition and functions of PAO Gazprom, Moscow/Russia. Oleg Aksyutin has been appointed Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee in charge of strategic development, long-term planning, project planning, the shaping and monitoring of the investment program, and procurement activities of Gazprom. Vitaly Markelov, Deputy Chairman of the Management Committee, will oversee production ...

Since 1st April 2019 Ralf Petzold, until then member of the management of Komatsu Germany GmbH, Düsseldorf/Germany, took on the overall management of all three business areas, namely the Mining, Construction and Industries Divisions, as Chairman of the Board. He succeeded Taiichiro Kitatani, who took over a new leadership role in the group headquarters of Komatsu Ltd. in Tokyo/Japan. The ...

At its scheduled meeting on 1st April 2019, the RAG-Stiftung Board of Trustees appointed Jürgen-Johann Rupp as the new CFO of RAG-Stiftung, Essen. Rupp took over the position from Helmut Linssen on 5th April 2019. As announced at the start of December 2018, Linssen resigned from his position on account of his age. Rupp has already held various positions within ...

The new CFO at RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, is Michael Kalthoff. He succeeds Jürgen-Johann Rupp, who has been appointed CFO of the RAG-Stiftung. The RAG Aktiengesellschaft Supervisory Board decided on this appointment at its meeting on 4th April 2019. Kalthoff has been involved in mining and RAG for many years. After completing his studies, he held various positions at Ruhrkohle Bergbau ...

The Supervisory Board of Uniper SE, Düsseldorf/Germany, decided on 2nd May 2019 to appoint Andreas Schierenbeck as Chairman of the Board and Sascha Bibert as the new Uniper CFO. Prior to this role, Schierenbeck was the Chairman of the Executive Board of ThyssenKrupp Elevators. He is replacing Klaus Schäfer, whose departure on 31st May 2019 was announced by Uniper in ...

The Board of Management of Verband kommunaler Unternehmen (VKU), Berlin/Germany, elected Guntram Pehlke as honorary VKU Vice-President for the Energy Sector on 12th March 2019. Pehlke, who occupies a full-time position as Chairman of the Board of Management of DSW21 Dortmunder Stadtwerke AG, succeeds Andreas Feicht. Feicht had held this role since 2012; he became Permanent State Secretary for Energy ...

RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, has initiated a pilot study on the possible exposure of miners to PCB. The impetus for the study was the question as to whether exposure that took place many years ago, i.e. resulting from the use of liquids containing PCB in mining until the 1980s, can be reliably detected in the blood. A new detection method was ...

On 23rd January 2019, the Hard Coal -Association (GVSt), Essen/Germany, hosted “200 years of industrial coal mining in Germany”. Jürgen-Johann Rupp, President of the GVSt and Member of the Board at RAG Aktiengesellschaft, welcomed around 150 attendees to the Casino restaurant on the Zollverein former mining complex (Figure 1). In his opening speech, President of the German Industrial Union for ...

In India, a population of more than 1.3 bn combined with strong economic growth are creating a huge demand for goods, services and raw materials. Developing the infrastructure, in particular unlimited access to electricity in rural regions, continues to pose a significant challenge. On 4th February 2019, at the invitation of STEAG GmbH, Essen/Germany, Prof. Andreas Pinkwart, Minister for Economic ...