voestalpine BÖHLER Bleche – Always on the Move!

A century of innovation - Medieval hammers, fuelled by the power of rivers. Inventors, ideas, patents and company foundations in the pioneering era of European heavy industry. Revolutionary progress, reorganisations, new technologies, growth. We are the heirs of pioneering inventions and are aware of this responsibility. Where the BÖHLER companies are today, there is a long tradition of working with steel.

  • 1496

    Foundation of a Brother-Hood of 10 forging shops

  • 1862

    Heinrich Bleckmann acquires the Mürz-Hammer named “PHÖNIX”

  • 1863 – 1874

    Extension of the forging shops to an integrated steel mill “H. Bleckmann Stahlwerke AG”

  • 1912

    Invention of the corrosion resistent stainless steel by Max Mauermann

  • 1924

    Merging of Schoeller and Bleckmann to Schoeller-Bleckmann AG

  • 1975

    Merging of the Austrian Fine Steel producers to “Vereinigten Edelstahlwerke AG” (VEW)

  • 1988

    Reetablishment of the BOHLER company by subdividing VEW into Bohler and Schoeller-Bleckmann GmbH

  • 1991

    Acquisition of the swedish company Uddeholm AG and Foundation of Bohler-Uddeholm AG

  • 1991

    Foundation of BÖHLER Bleche GmbH, a company of BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Group

  • 1995, 1996

    Privatization of BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG (75% private, 25% state owned)

  • 2003

    Full privatization of BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG

  • 2007

    Integration of BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG into voestalpine

  • 2011

    Change of the legal form and the name of BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG into voestalpine Edelstahl GmbH

  • 2013

    Start-Up of the new DUO rolling mill

    In 2013, the new DUO rolling mill was opened in Mürzzuschlag.

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  • 2017

    In 2017, the company’s name was changed from BÖHLER Bleche GmbH & Co KG to voestalpine BÖHLER Bleche GmbH & Co KG

  • 2017

    Implementation of new production facilities, such as levelling machine, creep levelling machine and a water jet unit

  • 2018

    Further investements are made in new production equipment. Launch of the new heat treatment line, DUO III rolling mill and grinding machine for rolls

  • 2018

    Erweiterung der Produktpalette. va BÖHLER Bleche goes Titanium sowie Inbetriebnahme der neuen Titanschleifkabine und automatisierten Titanschleifanlage.

  • 2021 – 2022

    The production plant was expanded with the construction of a new building for precision flat steel. Automatiziation: the new grinding robot comes into operation

  • 2022

    Start-Up of the new line precision flat steel and the new furnace for Titanium

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