Steel News

U.S. Ambassador to Austria Visits voestalpine Headquarters

20 March 2015 - United States Ambassador to Austria, Alexa Wesner, recently showed great interest in the activities technology and capital goods group voestalpine is driving forward in the US. During a visit to the Group’s headquarters in Linz she discussed current economic framework conditions in Europe and the USA with voestalpine CEO Wolfgang Eder, as well as voestalpine’s future prospects in the United States.

voestalpine Reports Significant Increase in Earnings After First Nine Months of the Business Year

11 February 2015 - Although the development of the global economy was very inconsistent in 2014 and, after a relatively optimistic start, was marked by an increasingly sober mood from the summer months onward, the steel-based technology and capital goods group voestalpine reported a significant increase in earnings in the first three quarters of the business year 2014/15 (April 1 to December 31, 2014).

voestalpine Securing Railway Infrastructure Orders Worldwide

27 January 2015 - Buoyed by the current global revival of the railway sector, the voestalpine Group’s Metal Engineering Division, which covers the railway infrastructure sector, is consistently winning major international orders.

voestalpine Fosters Innovative Ideas with the Steel Research Award 2015

19 January 2015 - voestalpine is seeking to foster young academics (up to the age of 35) in the fields of science and business, presenting the voestalpine Steel Research Award with prize money of € 12,000 for the first time in 2015.

voestalpine Expands Drawn Wire Business Segment

12 January 2015 - voestalpine is expanding its activities in the drawn wire business segment and has completed its acquisition of Italian company Trafilerie Industriali S.p.A. based in Nervesa della Battaglia (Treviso).

ANDRITZ to Supply New Furnace Plant for Railroad Track Production to voestalpine

24 December 2014 - International technology Group ANDRITZ has been awarded an order to supply a new walking beam furnace for the Donawitz plant of voestalpine Schiene GmbH, Austria, Europe’s leading supplier of railroad tracks.

voestalpine Acquires Railway Competence Center in Australia

23 December 2014 - The voestalpine Group continues to extend its global leadership in the railway infrastructure sector and has agreed to acquire the Bathurst Rail Fabrication Center (BRFC) located in Australia.

New Side Guide System from Siemens Reduces Hot Strip Mill Maintenance Costs

18 December 2014 - With the newly developed Eco Slide Disc Solution, Siemens Metals Technologies offers operators of hot strip mills a side guide system which can be adapted to nearly all existing entry guides and elongates the lifetime of wear parts up to 10 times compared to conventional wear plates.

voestalpine Opens Place of Remembrance: Historical Exhibit 1938–1945

11 November 2014 - In a new permanent exhibit, voestalpine considers the fate of laborers under the National Socialist regime, forced to work at the Reichswerke Hermann Göring in Linz, the site of today’s voestalpine Group headquarters.

voestalpine’s Earnings Jump in First Half of Business Year

05 November 2014 - As it reported its earnings results, voestalpine said signs of a stabilizing or strengthening economy have faded, at least for Europe.

voestalpine Expanding in China with New Plant in Special Steel Segment

05 November 2014 - voestalpine is again driving forward its activities in the promising Asian market. The Special Steel Division, the Group’s special steel sector, has signed a Letter of Intent to cooperate with Chinese foundry Kocel Machinery Co.

voestalpine Names New Head of Corporate Communications

31 October 2014 - From 1 January 2015, press spokesman Peter Felsbach will take over as head of corporate communications at the voestalpine Group.

voestalpine CEO Wolfgang Eder is New worldsteel Chairman

09 October 2014 - Wolfgang Eder, chairman of the Management Board of the voestalpine Group, has become the first Austrian chairman of the World Steel Association (worldsteel).

voestalpine Announces Expanded Management Board Team

03 October 2014 - In order to meet the demands of the Group’s consistent internationalization process and rapid growth, voestalpine AG is expanding its Management Board from five to six members as of 1 October 2014.

voestalpine Names Five New Department Heads

02 October 2014 - After enlarging the voestalpine AG Management Board and reducing the average age of its members, the Group is now completing its generational transfer with new first management level appointments to key functions.

voestalpine Group Divesting Plastics Solutions Business Unit

01 October 2014 - voestalpine has signed an agreement with the Polytec Group for the takeover of voestalpine Polynorm Van Niftrik and voestalpine Polynorm Plastics (Plastics Solutions business unit) by Polytec Netherlands Holding B.V.

voestalpine Adds New Head Office for Special Steel Activities in Turkey

24 September 2014 - voestalpine is continuing to expand its international market position in the special steel segment. In September, the voestalpine Special Steel Division is opening a new location in Gebze near Istanbul jointly with a Böhler Uddeholm sales company.