- Mar- 2020 -26 MarchNews In Brief 02_2020
WESTKALK plans own extraction system
With regards to work safety, health- and environmental protection the enterprise WESTKALK Vereinigte Warsteiner Kalksteinindustrie GmbH & Co. KG, Warstein/Germany, is planning to install an own extraction system for limestone spillage in their jet mill at the factory in Kallenhardt (Figure 1). This is supposed to improve the plant’s cleanliness…
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Atlas Copco
Florian Eckert has managed the industrial compressed air segment at Atlas Copco Kompressoren und Drucklufttechnik GmbH in Essen/Germany since 1st February 2020. Eckert previously worked as Marketing Manager for industrial compressed air.
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Bezirksregierung Arnsberg
Two heads of department retired from the district government on 31st January 2020: Bernd Müller, Head of Department 5 (Environment and Occupational Health and Safety), and Friedrich Wilhelm Wagner, Head of Department 6 (Mining and Energy in North Rhine-Westphalia).
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DVGW
Wolf Merkel started work as the full-time Member of the Board of Management responsible for water at the German Technical and Scientific Association for Gas and Water (DVGW) in Bonn on 3rd February 2020. Merkel had been unanimously appointed at a committee meeting in November 2019. His division of the…
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Epiroc
Epiroc Deutschland GmbH, Essen/Germany, has had a new General Manager since the start of the year: On 1st January 2020, Momcilo Maric succeeded Stephan Ketteler who in turn has taken up the post of Managing Director of Epiroc Southern Asia in Indonesia. With his appointment, Maric has assumed regional responsibility…
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EWE
EWE AG, Oldenburg/Germany, has appointed Georg Boie as the new Managing Director of EWE ERNEUERBARE ENERGIEN GmbH. He succeeded Alwin Schlörmann on 1st January 2020, who will now apply his experience to consulting and project management for strategic personnel projects in the EWE Group.
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LMBV
Bernd Sablotny, the new Technical Director of Lausitzer und Mitteldeutsche Bergbauverwaltungsgesellschaft mbH (LMBV) in Senftenberg/Germany who was appointed by the shareholders, started work on 2nd January 2020. He succeeded Klaus Zschiedrich, who retired at the end of 2019. Together with Managing Director Hans-Dieter Meyer, Sablotny now heads the restructuring specialist.
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The perfect amount
To reduce the use of expensive primary fuels like coal and oil in the energy-intensive cement production, operators focus increasingly on alternative fuels and raw materials. BEUMER Group, Beckum/Germany, offers tailor-made systems for the entire material flow chain – from receiving and unloading the delivery vehicle to storing, sampling and…
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Solution to backfill an exhausted quarry
Bardon Hill Quarry near Leicester in Leicester-shire is one of the United Kingdom’s oldest continuously operated quarries (Figure 3). Aggregate Industries have recently developed a new quarry extension at this strategically important site, extending mineral production for a further 27 years. During the initial 14 years of production, over 12…
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GHH and MacLean become partners
Two major manufacturers of construction machinery and equipment are now cooperating on the world market: GHH Fahrzeuge GmbH from Gelsenkirchen/Germany, and MacLean from Ontario/Canada, announced their cooperation at a plant inauguration in Mexico in February 2020 (Figure 1). MacLean intends to use the new production facility in Queretaro to reach customers…
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