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With the appointment of Dr. Martin Thormann on 15th September 2025, the Executive Board of BAUER AG has now been completely restructured. Within just three months, the company has reorganized its management committee in order to position the company sustainably for the challenges of the future. The new three-member Executive Board consists of Lena Effinger, who is responsible for all ...

Epiroc Germany announced that Andrey Krikov took over as managing director of Epiroc Germany on 24th June 2025 and of Epiroc Austria with effect from 2nd July 2025. He succeeds Stephan Ketteler, who has decided to step down from his role as Managing Director at Epiroc. Andrey Krikov has been with Epiroc for more than 13 years. He started in ...

At its most recent meeting, the Supervisory Board of BAUER AG appointed two new members to the Executive Board. Prof. Dr.-Ing. Detlef Heck will be responsible for the Geotechnical Solutions segment from 15th August. Dr. Martin Thormann will join the Executive Board on 15th September and will then be responsible for the Equipment segment. A concrete division of responsibilities and ...

On 1st May 2025, Ivonne Arenz (Figure 1) took over as managing director of the Association for Mining, Geology and the Environment (VBGU), Berlin/Germany. She succeeded Olaf Alisch, who is now taking well-deserved retirement after almost 20 years of successful service to the VBGU. “Thanks to European regulations and in view of the global constraints, the topic of “domestic mining” ...

Following a meeting of the Supervisory Board of BAUER AG, Peter Hingott will be stepping down as a member of the Executive Board. Supervisory Board member Klaus Pöllath has been appointed to the Executive Board by the Supervisory Board – his position on the Supervisory Board is suspended. Klaus Pöllath has been a member of the Supervisory Board of BAUER ...

Since the beginning of the year, Kay Wieczorek (Figure 1) has headed the Center of Competence (CoC) Product Business as Divisional Director. CoC Product Business is responsible for the Cement, Building Materials, Chemicals and FMCG divisions. The 38-year-old studied Sales Engineering and Product Management at the Ruhr University in Bochum. He has been with the BEUMER Group since 2014. Until ...

On 1st November 2021, Univ.-Prof. Dr.-Ing. Rolf Dieter Stoll (Figure 1), director emeritus of the Institute of Mining Engineering III at RWTH Aachen University, Aachen/Germany, passed away at the age of 88. Prof. Stoll studied mining at RWTH from 1954 onwards, after graduating from high school, completing a period of practical training as a miner in the USA, and graduating ...

The Working Group on Energy Balances (AG Energiebilanzen) elected Michael Nickel as the new chair of the board of management and as a member of the management at this year’s general meeting in Berlin/Germany. Nickel has been deputy chair of the AG Energiebilanzen since 2004. Before that, he had worked for the Federal Association of German Energy and Water Management ...

BEUMER Maschinenfabrik GmbH & Co. KG, the German regional company of BEUMER Group in Beckum, has a new managing director since May: Jörn Fontius (Figure 1). He succeeds Norbert Stemich, who after eight years in this position is now focusing on the activities in the Product Business area. In 2013, Jörn Fontius joined BEUMER and was in charge of the ...

Ulrich Wessel (Figure 1) will become Managing Director of DMT-Gesellschaft für Lehre und Bildung mbH (DMT-LB) in Bochum/Germany, as we make the transition from 2021 to 2022. The German Industrial Union for Mining, Chemicals and Energy (IG BCE), chaired by Michael Vassiliadis, named him Director of Labour Relations in the executive committee in agreement with the company’s Advisory Council. As ...