Dr Reinhold Festge has been elected President of the German Engineering Federation (VDMA). He succeeds Dr Thomas Lindner, who has served as President since 2010.
Dr Festge is a Managing Partner of Haver & Boecker, Germany. Previous to this position, he served as Managing Director of Haver + Beumer Latinoamericana, Brazil, and as Managing Director of Haver Filling Systems in the US. Festge sits on the board of the VDMA and is a member of the restricted board. He was Chairman of the VDMA Professional Association for Construction and Building Material Machinery in 1998 – 2004 and Chairman of the VDMA State Federation of North Rhine Westphalia in 2005 – 2011.
The VDMA’s Association for Construction Equipment and Building Material Machinery has provided an update on the performance of the industry, following its earlier 2013 forecast in February.
Haver & Boecker has launched a new subsidiary company in Australia to support its existing customer base and the burgeoning mining industry in Western Australia.
Paul Maxwell-Cook interviewed a selection of German equipment suppliers to find out how the long-standing ‘backbone to the cement industry’ is coping with Europe’s current financial climate. This article is an abridged version of the full article, which appeared in the September 2012 issue of World Cement.