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20.04.2021 (632 Clicks)

Strabag awarded major Motorway Contract in Poland

• 18.75 km section of the A2 between Siedlce West and Malinowiec
• Contract value: €153 million
• Completion: end of 2024

20.04.2021 (447 Clicks)

Overcoming Obstacles to find Opportunities in Climate Change

Climate change is one of the world’s toughest problems. On one side is how the drivers of greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions – whether they’re policy changes, technological advancements, or shifting access to capital – will affect our economic performance. The second is that, if these drivers aren’t successful in delivering the required level of emission reductions, we’re going to have increasingly erratic weather, which can also negatively affect the economy.

19.04.2021 (459 Clicks)

LKAB: Tests for heavier Transports on the Ore Railway

Trafikverket (the Swedish Transport Administration), together with LKAB and Bane Nor, is conducting tests on the Swedish and Norwegian sections of the Ore Railway to enable heavier transports in future. Therefore, the axle load for ore cars is being increased from 30 tonnes to 31 tonnes.

19.04.2021 (633 Clicks)

Petropavlovsk announces the Appointment of Mr. Mikhail Irzhevsky as a Director

The board of directors of Petropavlovsk PLC announces the appointment of Mr. Mikhail Irzhevsky as an independent non-executive director with effect from 16 April 2021.

Mr. Irzhevsky has over 25 years of commercial experience with significant expertise in internal controls, governance, corporate law and M&A transactions, including in the resources sector and in Russia. Mr. Irzhevsky has served as chair of the audit committee for Bank Trust in Moscow since August 2019 and is currently Deputy CEO for Legal Affairs at Russian Direct Investment Fund.

Mr. Irzhevsky is a Russian national and a fluent English speaker. Following his appointment to the Board, he has also become a member of the audit and remuneration committees.

Chairman, James W. Cameron Jr., said: 'I am delighted that Mikhail has joined the Board. His extensive commercial experience and understanding of financial, governance and regulabory matters will be of great benefit to the Company. His appointment brings the number of non-executive directors on the Board to five, of whom four are independent or, in my case as Chair, were independent on appointment.
We remain committed to expanding the Board further and look forward to making additional independent non-executive appointments in due course.'

About Mikhail Irzhevsky

Since 2018 Mr Irzhevsky has been the Deputy CEO for Legal Affairs of the Russian Direct Investment Fund. He joined the Board of Bank Trust in 2018 and has served as Chairman of the Audit Committee since 2019. From 2013 to 2018 Mr. Irzhevsky was the Vice-President for Legal Affairs at PJSC Rostelecom and in 2016 - 2017 served on its Board of Directors. From 1999 to 2013 Mr. Irzhevsky was practising law at the international law firm of Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, including as a partner from 2007.

Mr. Irzhevsky is a qualified lawyer, having studied at the Lomonosov Moscow State University, and is a former member of the Moscow Regional Bar Association.

Mr. Irzhevsky has no other disclosable appointments and there is no other information relating to him required to be disclosed pursuant to paragraph LR 9.6.13R of the Listing Rules of the Financial Conduct Authority.

About Petropavlovsk

Petropavlovsk PLC (LSE: POG. MOEX: POGR) is a major integrated Russian gold producer with JORC Resources of 21.03Moz Au which include Reserves of 8.46Moz Au. Following its IPO on the Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in 2002, Petropavlovsk was promoted to the London Stock Exchange in 2009, where today it is a Premium Listed company and a constituent of the FTSE 250, FTSE 350 and FTSE All Share indices.

The Company's key operating mines (Pioneer, Malomir and Albyn) are in the Amur Region in the Russian Far East. Petropavlovsk has produced a total of c.8.2Moz of gold since operations began in 1994 and has a strong track record of mine development, expansion and asset optimisation.

The Group recently entered a new era of growth following the successful commissioning and start-up of its flagship asset, the Pressure Oxidation (POX) Hub at Pokrovskiy, which enables the processing of the Company's abundant refractory reserves and resources.

Petropavlovsk is one of the region's largest employers and one of the largest contributors to the sustainable development of the local economy.

Source: Petropavlovsk

                     

16.04.2021 (669 Clicks)

H.C. Starck Tungsten Powders develops new Technology to recycle Cobalt

Innovation project subsidized by the German state of Lower Saxony

16.04.2021 (440 Clicks)

Fugro’s Vulnerability Assessment informs Port of San Francisco’s safe and sustainable Future

Fugro has completed a geotechnical site characterisation, earthquake hazard and geotechnical vulnerability assessment for the Port of San Francisco’s multi-year, multi-billion dollar Waterfront Resilience Program. The work was conducted over a period of 3 years as part of a multi-hazard risk assessment (MHRA) to identify immediate and long-term hazards, such as those associated with earthquakes, flooding and sea-level rise. As the port’s lead geotechnical engineer for future programme phases, Fugro will use the MHRA inputs to develop and design optimal retrofit solutions for the port’s ageing seawall.

15.04.2021 (410 Clicks)

How can the EU ensure its Green Deal is a Real Deal for Nature and People?

As the EU looks forward to the recovery from Covid 19, so too must it look to ensuring full alignment of all policies with the European Green Deal. But it is not all down to the EU Commission, the Member States must rise to the challenge to achieve a truly green recovery.

15.04.2021 (845 Clicks)

L.A. Metro Board awards Sepulveda Transit Corridor Partners

• Bechtel innovative pre-development contract to create rail transit solution for one of the Nation’s most congested freeway corridors
• $69.9 million contract to advance high-speed, high-capacity rail proposal to connect San Fernando Valley to West Los Angeles & relieve I-405

14.04.2021 (521 Clicks)

Eiffage and Kier receive Notice to proceed for HS2, with their new partners, Ferrovial Agroman and BAM Nuttall

Eiffage and Kier receive Notice to Proceed for HS2, with their new partners, Ferrovial Agroman and BAM Nuttall

The Eiffage Kier joint venture, recently joined by two new partners Ferrovial Agroman and BAM Nuttall, is pleased that, it has received Notice to Proceed (NTP) from HS2 Limited, enabling it to commence the full detailed design and construction of 80km of Phase 1 of the HS2 railway (the route from London – Birmingham).

13.04.2021 (504 Clicks)

China Huaneng Group and Glencore sign MOU on CCUS Project

On 10 April at the 6th China International Conference on CO2 Capture Utilization and Storage, China Huaneng Group Clean Energy Research Institute Co., Ltd. and Carbon Capture Transport and Storage Company of Glencore have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) for the cooperation on carbon capture utilisation and storage (CCUS) technology, commencing with the CTSCo Project in Millmerran power station in Australia.