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Pump manufacturer Tsurumi is equipping several pump series with ultra-hard chromium impellers free of charge. A technical step forward for users, because with many manufacturers the critical component is only available as an expensive option – if at all. Once again, Tsurumi wants to define the standard in the market. The Japanese company with its European headquarters in Düsseldorf, Germany, ...

At its meeting on 25th January 2023, the Supervisory Board of STEAG GmbH, Essen/Germany, appointed Ralf Schiele (Figure 1) as a member of the Management Board of STEAG GmbH for a further three years. Schiele has been a member of the STEAG management since October 2020 and is responsible for the Market and Technology division. His appointment as Chief Operating ...

“It is irresponsible to talk about the end of hard coal without having reliable alternatives”. This is what Alexander Bethe, Chairman of the Board of the Coal Importers Association (VdKi), Berlin/Germany, said at the traditional New Year’s reception of his association in Hamburg. “Politics must be honest with itself. There is no way around coal as a mainstay in the ...

Germany’s Federal Chancellor Olaf Scholz travelled to Chile at the end of January 2023 accompanied by an economic policy delegation for an official visit (Figure 1). “In the global competition of the 21st century, it is not enough to simply transport raw materials away – without consideration for the environment, without reasonable working conditions, without creating value locally,” Scholz explained ...

Carbon is one of the most important building blocks of life. It serves as the basis of all natural materials and forms numerous bonds. When forests die, e. g., CO2 enters the atmosphere and is bound by plants or rivers somewhere else. As a result, carbon is simply everywhere. And there’s now more of it in the air than the natural ...

The Recycling Technology division at BHS-Sonthofen GmbH, Sonthofen/Germany, is reporting a personnel change. Daniel Zeiler has taken over as the head of the division. Alfred Weber, who had successfully managed sales for the company’s Recycling Technology division since 2007, retired at the end of last year (Figure 1). BHS offers complete plant solutions, including control and sorting technology, all from ...

DMT GmbH & Co. KG, a TÜV NORD GROUP company based in Essen/Germany, has acquired a 51 % stake in Prüfzentrum für Bauelemente GmbH & Co. KG (PfB), based in Stephans­kirchen near Rosenheim/Germany. The transaction took place on 1st December 2022. With the participation both companies deepen their cooperation of many years in the testing and certification of construction elements. In the ...

The Board of Trustees of the RAG-Stiftung, Essen/Germany, which has five ex officio members and eight additional members, met on 28th November 2022 in Berlin and elected Armin Laschet as its Chairman from among the additional trustees in accordance with the foundation’s statutes. Michael Vassiliadis remains Deputy Chairman. Prior to the meeting of the Board of Trustees, Thomas Kufen and ...

Currently, the final operating plan procedure for the termination of the mining supervision for the former Proper II shaft (Figure 1) of the former Prosper-Haniel mine in Bottrop/Germany is underway. Within the procedure, an “orienting hazard assessment” was carried out. The expert recommends prohibiting groundwater extraction there due to the sometimes significant groundwater contamination in some areas. The city of ...

STEAG GmbH’s Supervisory Board has a new Chairman: Ewald Woste, an experienced and accomplished industry expert who has worked in the energy sector for 30 years, was unanimously elected on 8th December 2022 by the 20 members of the board. Woste will take up the post in a landmark phase for the energy company: Following the division of the STEAG ...