- Aug- 2019 -16 August
50Hertz
At its meeting on 25th June 2019, the supervisory board of 50Hertz appointed Stefan Kapferer the new CEO of 50Hertz, Berlin/Germany. Kapferer, the current CEO and member of the committee of the Federal Association of the Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), will start his new role no later than 1st…
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innogy
General Counsel of innogy SE, Claudia Mayfeld, will be leaving innogy SE, Essen/Germany, at her own wish. At the request of the Executive Board and the Supervisory Board of innogy SE, Mayfeld will remain with the company until 30th June 2020 in order to work with her team on providing…
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MVV
From 1st October 2019, Christian Hower-Knobloch will be the new managing director for the marketing and commercial division of MVV Umwelt GmbH, a subsidiary company of MVV Energie AG, Mannheim/Germany. The former head of corporate development at STEAG GmbH in Essen will manage the business of MVV Umwelt GmbH together…
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RAG
The supervisory board of RAG Aktiengesellschaft, Essen/Germany, is welcoming two new members. Lord Mayor of Herne Frank Dudda and Georg Maringer, vice-president for administration and economic management at the University of Applied Sciences (htw) in the Saar region, have now been appointed to the Supervisory Board. Dudda succeeds Joachim Poß…
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ABEL received order for 14 diaphragm pumps
ABEL GmbH, Büchen/Germany, received a large order in March 2019 for the delivery of 14 diaphragm pumps (Figure 1). A Mexican mining company commissions the German pump manufacturer to supply 14 hydraulic diaphragm pumps to be used for the transport of sulfuric acid-containing jarosite sludge in the course of zinc…
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World record: Bauer trench cutter technology reached 228 m
On 17th June 2019, BAUER Maschinen GmbH, Schrobenhausen/Germany, together with a joint venture partner successfully completed the first 228 m cutter bulk sample on FalCon project in Canada. This depth has never been reached by a trench cutter in any commercial application worldwide before and proves that Bauer cutter technology…
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Building blocks for the future: Continental reinforces focus on digital solutions for the construction business
In tough conditions such as mining and construction sites, efficiency and safety are key. However, underinflated tires are still a major cause of breakdowns and service calls. On average, one third of fleet tires are underinflated. This not only has an effect on fuel consumption but also on the tire…
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Pleuger Industries supplies process water pumps to Chile’s leading copper mine
The Chilean Collahuasi Mine in the Pica district of the Tarapacá region produces more than 5,000 t/a of fine copper, making it one of the largest copper mines in the world. Two opencast mines, Rosario and Ujina, provide the necessary copper ores, which are smelted on site into copper concentrate and…
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At the heart of the process
Basalt production has increased by 20 % since Vogelsberger Basaltwerk modernized its processing plant by installing a new high-reduction secondary crusher. 60 km northeast of Frankfurt in south-western Germany, Vogelsberger Basaltwerk GmbH & Co. KG (VBW) extracts basalt from a 19 million year old formation beneath the Vogelsberg mountain range, Central…
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Following the end of the coal mining industry in Germany, RAG-Stiftung makes its first payment honouring perpetual obligations
The 2018 business year was another extremely successful one for RAG-Stiftung, Essen/Germany, as the Board of Executives reported at the Annual Press Conference at the Zollverein World Heritage Site on 6th June 2019 (Figure 1). The foundation reported a record profit of 912 M € in 2018. 458 M € of that came from…
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