the Italian group Coeclerici has acquired 100% of Dako Coal, society with center to Witten (Dortmund) specialized in the trading and in the implementation of innovative techniques for I use it of solid fuels, mainly pet coke and coal. Last year the German company has realized a advanced turnover to 17,5 million euros of which 71% generated from sales in favor of operating head physicians industrial Germans, in particular steel mills and cementifici, while the remaining drift from the question of the industries of Holland, United Kingdom, France, China, Austria, Belgium and Denmark.

"the acquisition of Dako Coal in Germany - it has declared the president and managing director of Coeclerici, Paolo Clerici - represents an important result from the strategic point of view because it allows with the group to strengthen own presence in Europe and to garrison the German market that in the field of solid fuels still offers to margins of increase and development".

Coeclerici has emphasized that from the strategic point of view the operation allows with the group to enter in the German market where the government and the European Union are anticipated perspective of increase important thanks to the agreement which signed between that the closing previews, within 2018, of the last still productive carboniferous mines in the country and that this will be able to determine an increase of the coal imports in Germany pairs to approximately 14 million tons the year. Moreover the acquisition will afford to the Coeclerici group of to have approached the new technologies developed from Dako for the employment of pet the pulverized coke and the coal and to benefit of the potentialities of development of this field of niche. In fact, besides the activity of trading, Dako Coal has recently deposited near German Patent Office the licence for a vanguard technology that affords to replace approximately 25% of the traditional coke from foundry used in the industrial dome furnaces with pet which blended pulverized coke with oxygen that guarantees a saving of costs and a minor environmental impact.

As a result of the operation, the position of CEO in Dako will continue to being covered from Jan Van den Bosch, current managing director.

Founded in 1949 from the entrepreneur Rudolf Damm, Dako Coal operated initially in the mining field through 19 coalmines of property situated in the vicinities of Dortmund. Successively, as a result of the closing of the mines between the late 1970s and the beginnings of years '80, the activity of the society has been concentrated mostly in the trading of solid fuels. In more recent times, Dako Coal has been specialized in trading of pet pulverized coke and the coal, used from German and European steel mills and cementifici mainly, besides most common trading than pet traditional coke, anthracite and coal to high heat of combustion.

the Coeclerici group, founded to Genoa in 1895, carries out own activity through the Mining division that takes care of the energetic coal extraction from property mines, operating the Trading division mainly in the commercialization of raw materials which iron coal, anthracite, coke, mineral; the Logistic division that work in the field of the logistics integrated, from the activity of cabotage to that of transport and transfer, and the Shipowning division that work to service of the division trading through ships in contract of Time-charter and property. In the exercise the 2012 Italian group has reached a turnover of approximately 600 million euros, 1,000 dependent and offices in Europe, Asia, Australia and Americhe.