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US: FLSmidth has held a ribbon-cutting ceremony for its new 11,000m² manufacturing and distribution facility near its main office in Allentown, Pennsylvania. The company is consolidating its US operations following the full separation of its mining and cement businesses. The facility will primarily serve as a distribution warehouse for replacement parts and a production site for pneumatic transfer lines, according to local media.

Head of manufacturing Leyla Mohamed-Folk said “We are bringing our cement products that started in the Lehigh Valley back here.”

Germany: KS-Engineering says that Klaus Schneider died on 14 September 2023, at the age of 71. Schneider had served as managing director of KS-Engineering since 1991. He first launched the business as an ‘engineering office for environmental process engineering.’ Schneider was an internationally recognised luminary in the field of pneumatic conveyor technology, and was well known around the professional world through his seminars, articles and specialist contributions on the topic.

KS-Engineering described Schneider as ‘Creative, with a lot of scientific curiosity, always imaginative and with enormous commitment.’ His family will hold a memorial service and funeral in Rudersdorf cemetery hall at 11AM on 20 September 2023.