The 13th Mining Forum took place on 18th and 19th June 2015 in the Kongress Palais, Kassel. Almost 250 specialists and decision-makers from the coal mining, raw materials and energy sectors gathered together to discuss current issues in industry and research. Presentations on a mixture of classical and pioneering subjects, given by international speakers proved, as did the exhibition, that ...

On the occasion of its annual review for the press on 2nd June 2015, the Board of Executives of the RAG-Stiftung drew on the most important highlights of the first half of their current term in office, presented the key points of the 2014 financial year and explained the targets for the current year. Since the current Board of Executives ...

Mario Mehren, former Head of Exploration and Production in Russia, North Africa and South America, succeeded Rainer Seele as Chairman of the Board of Management at Wintershall Holding GmbH, Kassel (Germany), on 1st June 2015.

On 1st April 2015, Cornelius Weitzmann succeeded Matthias Grawe as Director of Power, Oil & Gas at Voith Turbo GmbH & Co. KG, Heidenheim (Germany).

At its last meeting, the Board of Management of the Verband kommunaler Unternehmen (VKU) in Berlin elected Guntram Pehlke, Chairman of the Board of Management at DSW 21 Dortmunder Stadtwerke, and Achim Közle, Managing Director at Stadtwerke Tübingen, to its committee.

The new spokesman for VDMA Arbeitsge­meinschaft Großanlagenbau is Rainer Hauenschild, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Energy Solutions at Siemens AG. His deputies will be Jürgen Nowicki, Member of the Board of Management for the Engineering Division at Linde AG, and Dieter Rosenthal, Member of the Board of Management at SMS SIEMAG AG.

Former Chief Financial Officer of E.ON SE, Klaus Schäfer, is to become Chairman of the Board of Management at what will now be Uniper, the company branch responsible for the coal, gas and nuclear power production divisions that was formerly E.ON SE in Düsseldorf. Christopher Delbrück will take over the financial division as CFO. Eckhardt Rümmler has been appointed Chief ...

Günter Vogelsang, Chairman of the Supervisory Board between 1984 and 1996 at Thyssen AG, Düsseldorf, and Honorary Chairman of the Supervisory Board at ThyssenKrupp AG until 2013, died in mid-March 2015 in Düsseldorf at the age of 95.

Susanna Schneeberger was appointed Terex Corporation‘s Head of Material Handling in Wetter, starting on 16th March 2015.

Annette Loske, Managing Director of the Verband der Industriellen Energie- und Kraftwirtschaft e. V. (VIK), Essen (Germany), has been elected as the new president of the International Federation of Industrial Energy Consumers Europe (IFIEC). IFIEC is the European umbrella organisation of the VIK.