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Former Federal Minister Wolfgang Cle-ment resigned from his position on the Supervisory Board at Daldrup & Söhne AG, Ascheberg/Germany, at the Annual General Meeting on 27th August 2020. The new member of the Supervisory Board is Heinrich Goßheger, a retired bank director. Josef Daldrup has left the Executive Board and been appointed a member of the Supervisory Board by Munich ...

At the request of the company, Fabiola Fernandez Grund, who had already been appointed as a further member of the Executive Board at K+S Aktiengesellschaft, Kassel/Germany, last December, will not be taking up her position at the start of next year. In reaching this decision, the Supervisory Board followed the process of redimensioning the management team at K+S and will ...

Jürgen Scharnewski is the new CEO and Employee Relations Director at RAG Anthrazit Ibbenbüren GmbH in Ibbenbüren/Germany. He is taking over from Jörg Buhren-Ortmann, who has taken retirement.

As usual, the AGM of STEAG Fernwärme GmbH, Essen/Germany, appointed the members of company‘s Advisory Council. There were three new appointments here: Alongside Arnd Fittkau, Director of real estate company Vonovia SE, the District Heating Advisory Council now also includes Martin Harter as alderman of the City of Essen for the areas of Urban Planning & Construction and Peter Schäfer, ...

Klaus Schäfer, the founding CEO of Uniper SE, Düsseldorf,/Germany sadly passed away on 26th August 2020 at the age of 53. Schäfer had been Chairman of the Executive Board at the company since Uniper was founded until mid-2019. He had already been forced to withdraw from his duties since August 2018 due to illness.

On 16th June 2020, the Board of Management of the German Association of Energy and Water Industries (BDEW), Berlin/Germany, unanimously approved Marie-Luise Wolff, Chair of the Board at ENTEGA AG, Darmstadt, as BDEW President. Nathalie Leroy, Spokeswoman for Management at HAMBURG WASSER, was elected as the new Vice President for Water/Wastewater of the BDEW. She succeeds Jörg Simon from the ...

Joseph Dzierzawski has been named President and CEO of BEUMER Corporation, the US subsidiary of BEUMER Group, Beckum/Germany, in Somerset, New Jersey/USA, effective 27th April 2020. He will be fully responsible for the business lines Conveying & Loading Systems, Palletizing and Packaging Technology, and Sortation and Distribution Systems in the North American market.

The Board of Directors of Metso Outotec Corp. convened after the registration of the demerger of Metso Corp.. The members of the Board of Directors of Metso Outotec are Mikael Lilius (Chair), Matti Alahuhta (Vice Chair), Klaus Cawén, Christer Gardell, Hanne de Mora, Antti Mäkinen, Ian W. Pearce, Emanuela Speranza, Kari Stadigh and Arja Talma. In its organizational meeting, Metso ...

In its inaugural meeting following this year’s annual general meeting on 29th May 2020, the Supervisory Board of Südwestdeutsche Salzwerke AG, Heilbronn/Germany, elected Harry Mergel, Mayor of the City of Heilbronn and former Deputy Chairman of the committee as its new chairman. Thomas Strobl, Minister of the Interior, Digitalisation and Migration of the State of Baden-Württemberg, took over the office ...

On 15th May 2020, the TH Georg Agricola University (THGA), Bochum/Germany, appointed Kai van de Loo as honorary professor. Prof. van de Loo has already been passing his knowledge on to budding industrial engineers at the THGA for many years in his role as lecturer. From 1992 to May 2020, he worked for the German Coal Association (GVSt), Essen/Germany, in ...