In the summer of 2018, Prof. Martin Junker will be leaving RAG AG in Essen/Germany. As of May 2018, Manfred Müller has been appointed Managing Director of RAG Mining Solutions, while also upholding his managerial duties at RAG Verkauf GmbH.

At the regular meeting of the RAG-Stiftung, Essen/Germany, board of trustees on 9th May 2018, Bernd Tönjes was, as expected, unanimously elected as the new Chairman of the Board of Executives for RAG-Stiftung for a five-year term. He succeeds Werner Müller, who, as he announced on 28th February 2018, on 24th May 2018 stepped down from this role and from ...

At the start of April, Hartmut Frank, who has been managing the Ibbenbüren coal power station since 2004, took on the additional role of manager of Lingen gas power station. Both power stations belong to RWE Generation SE, Essen/Germany. The previous manager of the Lingen power station, Hans-Peter Fricke, is transferring to a new position within the RWE Group.

On 1st May 2018, Gretchen Watkins, former CEO of Maersk Oil, made the move to Royal Dutch Shell. At the company’s base in The Hague/Netherlands, she will take over the duties of Greg Guidry, current Executive Vice President of Unconventionals, on 1st July 2018. At the end of this year, Watkins will succeed Bruce Culpepper, President and US Country Chair ...

Pipeline network operator Thyssengas GmbH, Dortmund/Germany, has appointed Jörg Kamphaus as its Commercial Director with effect from 1st July 2018. He succeeds Bernd Dahmen, who will enter into retirement on 30th June 2018.

Günter Hilken, Chairman of the Executive Board of Currenta GmbH & Co. OHG, was elected to the Chair of the Executive Board of the Verband der Industriellen Energie- und Kraftwirtschaft e.V. (VIK), Berlin/Germany, at a meeting of the association’s board on 27th April 2018. He succeeds Roland Mohr in the role, who is leaving office after three and a half ...

Whether for large-scale infrastructure projects such as metro stations, or for the sealing and strengthening of large dams, Bauer cutters are used around the world for complex specialist foundation engineering projects. In Saskatchewan/Canada a Bauer cutter will soon be used for a special task as part of diamond exploration – and will set a new depth record there. The BAUER ...

The Cooperativa La Cruz Azul S.C.L, third-largest cement manufacturer in Mexico, required an entire packaging line for the flexible and fully automated filling, palletising and packaging of different types of a new tile mortar. The solution of BEUMER Group, Beckum/Germany, won out over the competition, providing everything from one single source. This included the BEUMER fillpac R filling system that was ...

ENGINEERING DOBERSEK GmbH (ED) – private-owned company from Moenchen-gladbach/Germany and specialist for plant engineering – presented a representative cross-section of their services at the Mining World Russia 2018 (Figure 1). Especially the models of the patented separation plant ContiClass®System and the copper smelting plant ContiSmelt attracted attention to numerous visitors und emphasized the high-level competence of the engineers from Germany. Additionally reference ...