On 14th February 2019, the supervisory board of electricity transmission system operator 50Hertz Transmission GmbH, Berlin/Germany, appointed Technical Manager Frank Golletz as Interim CEO in addition to his duties as CTO. On 1st March 2019, Golletz succeeded former Chairman of the Executive Board, Boris Schucht. Schucht left the company at the end of February to pursue new career opportunities. Decision-making ...

Alexander Medwedew and Valery Golubev have resigned from their offices as Deputy Chairs of Russian gas company Gazprom. Their successors have not yet been named.

At the start of this year, Michael Göge, who until the end of 2018 had been Manager of the Mining division at the Prosper-Haniel mine of RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, began his new role in the company’s Technical and Logistics Services division at the Pluto site in Herne. As Operational Director, he will be responsible for mine water drainage during the ...

Following the divestiture of RWE subsidiary Innogy and its merger with renewable energy company E.ON SE, Anja-Isabel Dotzenrath, currently CEO of E.ON Climate and Renewables, will lead the Renewable Energies division of RWE SE, Essen/Germany. Former head of the Renewables division of Innogy, Hans Bünting, will no longer be a member of the management team.

Since 1st January 2019, Thomas Billotet has been spokesperson for the Executive Board of STEAG New Energies (SNE), Saarbrücken/Germany. Since 2008, he has been responsible for Technology and Operations and will now also lead the Commercial section. Markus Laukamp, responsible for the sale of distributed energy systems and the development of wind energy projects, is now also responsible for managing ...

The Executive Board of Uniper SE, Düsseldorf/Germany, is set to be restructured. Current CEO Klaus Schäfer and CFO Christopher Delbrück will be leaving the company by the end of August 2019. Their successors have yet to be appointed.

At bauma, which will take place in Munich/Germany from 8th to 14th April 2019, BEUMER Group, Beckum/Germany, will provide information on their efficient transport solutions for the mining industry, among other areas. Overland conveyors and pipe conveyors transport various raw materials over long distances and often through rough terrain. This is generally faster, more cost-efficient and environmentally friendly than trucking. ...

Dillinger, Dillingen/Germany, together with its subsidiaries Ancofer Stahlhandel, AncoferWaldram Steelplates and Jebens, will be showing new additions to its comprehensive portfolio of products, supply potentials and services covering all facets of heavy plate, in Munich at the bauma, the world’s leading construction machinery and mining trade fair. Every year, Dillinger supplies around 2 Mt of heavy plate for highly stressed structures ...

The RopeCon® system which transports platinum ore from Booysendal South to the existing processing plant has recently gone into operation. The South African mining company Booysendal Platinum (Pty) Ltd., a subsidiary of Northam Platinum Ltd., is relying on technology by Doppelmayr for their expansion project at the Booysendal concession. The terrain between the new mining areas to the north of ...

How can problems like misalignment and material loss on conveyor belts be eliminated and avoided in the long term? Bauma 2019, scheduled to take place in Munich/Germany from 8th to 14th April 2019, will see Flexco Europe GmbH, Rosenfeld/Germany, present forward-looking solutions that enable operators to significantly increase the service life of these components – and the productivity of their ...