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voestalpine Executive Takes over as EUROFER President
10/02/2009 - voestalpine AG Managing Board Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Eder takes over presidency of the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries, effective October 1, 2009.
voestalpine AG Managing Board Chairman and CEO Wolfgang Eder took over the presidency of EUROFER, the European Confederation of Iron and Steel Industries, effective October 1, 2009.
Eder, who was elected unanimously by EUROFER’s Board and General Assembly, succeeds Karl-Ulrich Köhler of ThyssenKrupp Steel AG.
Eder joined voestalpine in 1978 to build up a new department “Corporate Law / Mergers and Acquisitions”. His career within the company led to his appointment as a Member of the Managing Board in 1995. In 2001, he became Deputy Chairman of voestalpine AG and its Chairman and CEO in 2004. Born in 1952, Eder studied law at the University of Salzburg, where he received his doctorate in 1976.
Represented by EUROFER, the European steel industry is a world leader in its sector with a turnover of EUR 190 billion and direct employment of 420 thousand people, producing 200 million tonnes of steel per year.
voestalpine is a globally active group with a number of specialized and flexible companies that produce, process and further develop high-quality steel products. The Group is represented by 360 production and sales companies in more than 60 countries. One of Europe's leading partners to the automotive, white goods and energy industries, voestalpine is also a world market leader in turnout technology, tool steel and special sections, as well as number one in Europe in the production of rails. The voestalpine Group generated revenues of EUR 11.6 billion in the business year 2008/09 and employs around 40,000 staff throughout the world.
