Germany: Klaus Paul has been appointed as the Technical Managing Director of Schade Lagertechnik. His appointment is in response to the impending retirement of Karl-Heinz Fiegenbaum on 30 June 2017. Fiegenbaum has been Managing Director of the company since July 2011. He will be replaced by Christoph Seifert, who moves across to this position after having started with Schade as Technical Managing Director in February 2015.

Paul started his career in 1977 with Friedrich Uhde where he started working as a draughtsman at the age of 16. Following the competition of an engineering degree he stayed with the company, which eventually became part of ThyssenKrupp Group. From 2012, he was with Uhde OOO, a subsidiary of ThyssenKrupp in Russia, first as Director of Project and Site Management, and later as one of the Managing Directors of Uhde / OOO ThyssenKrupp Industrial Solutions Russia.

Mexico: Martha Soledad Rodríguez Rico, the chief financial officer of Grupo Cementos de Chihuahua (GCC) has died. The company is conducting a succession process that will appoint a replacement in due course.

Germany: Eliza Suk Ching Yuen has decided to step down from the position of Supervisory Board Member of KHD Humboldt Wedag International (KHD). The resignation will take effect from the end of the next Annual General Meeting on 23 May 2017. Yuen was elected to the board in 2012.

UK: Bunting Magnetics Europe has appointed Tom Higginbottom and Gordon Kerr to its sales team. Higginbottom joins Bunting’s external sales team and has an engineering background, with particular knowledge of hydraulics. Kerr will be responsible for business development in a new internal role. He previously held a sales and marketing position at Anglian Home Improvements before becoming a project manager at Ceramica & Stone.

Bunting Magnetics supplies magnetic separators and metal detectors. The European manufacturing headquarters are based in Berkhamsted, Hertfordshire. In January 2017, the company acquired Master Magnets.