- Jun- 2020 -22 June
RAG-Stiftung and German Startups Association present the Ruhr innovation report
According to the results of the Ruhr innovation report, which was jointly published on 23rd April 2020 by the RAG-Stiftung, Essen/Germany, and the German Startups Association, Berlin, the Ruhr – Germany’s largest metropolitan area – offers huge opportunities for start-ups and innovative business models. However, the current COVID-19 crisis is…
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Haus Aden becomes one of the central mine water sites in the district
The Haus Aden 2 shaft from RAG Aktien-gesellschaft, Essen/Germany, in Bergkamen is currently being filled. In 2023, submersible pumps are to pump mine water at depth through cladding tubes. The filling work will be completed by the end of the year. RAG has submitted the planning notification to North Rhine-Westphalia’s…
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Lohberg central drainage facility feasibility study
The long-term optimisation of mine water drainage is a central issue regarding which RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, is facing up to its responsibility in the period after active coal mining has ended. The Ruhr region’s mine water plan envisages that mine water will only be raised at six central drainage sites.…
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Working Group on Energy Balances publishes report on energy consumption in 2019
Energy consumption in Germany fell to 12,832 PJ or 437.8 Mtce in 2019, 2.1 % below the level of the previous year (Figure 1). As the Working Group on Energy Balances, Berlin/Germany, states in its 2019 Annual Report, this reduction in consumption was due to additional improvements in energy efficiency, energy…
Learn more - 22 JuneNews In Brief 03_2020
Africa workshop for the network: “Do it better!”
After 400 participants – entrepreneurs from Germany and Africa – had achieved record attendance at the 6th German-African Economic Forum NRW on 18th February 2020 in Dortmund/Germany, which featured many interconnected issues, a specifically designed workshop was held on 4th March 2020 at EnergyAgency.NRW’s mining industry network, Düsseldorf, in Gelsenkirchen…
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Company marks a new milestone with another shaft sinking record in Belarus
In 2018 Redpath Deilmann (formerly Deilmann-Haniel), Dortmund/Germany, commenced work on a contract from Slavkaliy IOOO to construct two surface shafts for the new Nezhinsky potash mine in the Republic of Belarus. The project remit is to sink two 8.0 m diameter freeze shafts to a depth of some 700 m,…
Learn more - 22 JuneNews In Brief 03_2020
GHH “solid as a rock”
Three manufacturers are currently repositioning themselves, rebranding and building up the GHH Group, Gelsenkirchen/Germany: One of the largest suppliers of machines for mining, tunnelling and special civil engineering (Figure 1). This step is illustrated by a common logo consisting only of the letters GHH and a corresponding corporate design, which…
Learn more - 22 JuneIndustry News 03_2020
Question of costs
Companies often choose trucks to transport limestone, coal, ores and other raw materials as efficiently as possible to the factory and from there to the port, sometimes over distances spanning several kilometres. Most of the time, the vehicles drive on public roads, which are not always well-paved. And as the…
Learn more - 22 JuneIndustry News 03_2020
Largest mixer in the corporate history of BHS
After winning an international tender, BHS-Sonthofen GmbH, Sonthofen/Germany, was commissioned with constructing the largest mixer in the company’s history (Figure 1). An Indian zinc mine operator required a mixer with a very large filling capacity. The proven Combimix system with overflow was custom-built by BHS in this extraordinary size and…
Learn more - 22 JuneIndustry News 03_2020
New MK-42 to beat them all
Best of its kind: GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH, Gelsenkirchen/Germany, developed the new MK-42 dump truck with this claim in mind. In fact, in some areas it is the first in its class. The German manufacturer of heavy machinery for civil engineering, tunnelling and mining is considered a rock in the industry.…
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