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voestalpine adds new head office in Turkey

The voestalpine Special Steel Division is opening a new location in Gebze near Istanbul jointly with a Böhler Uddeholm sales company this September.   For many years, the voestalpine Group has been operating successfully in Turkey; in the last business year alone, it generated revenue of EUR 160M in that country.

voestalpine plates for 2nd South Stream pipeline

The voestalpine Group secured its third major contract in the pipeline business. Following the first, now completed, contract for the Russian-European pipeline project South Stream, and for Rota 3, a pipeline project in Brazil, voestalpine will deliver 120,000 tons of sour-gas-resistant, high-strength linepipe plates for the second South Stream pipeline by spring 2015.

Pipeline project contract for voestalpine in Brazil

The voestalpine Group secured its second major pipeline contract this year after South Stream. voestalpine will deliver 120,000 tons of sour-gas-resistant, high-strength linepipe plates for the third Petrobras pipeline near Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, by March 2015.

voestalpine to sell off Flamco Group

voestalpine agreed to sell all of its shares (100%) in the Flamco Holding and Flamco Stag Behälterbau, headquartered in Bunschoten (NL) to Aalberts Industries, headquartered in Langbroek (NL).

Vienna University, voestalpine team up

newsitemA new Christian Doppler laboratory that was opened at the Vienna University of Technology in May will co-operate with voestalpine Stahl in research on control of production processes in the steel industry.

voestalpine builds direct reduction plant in U.S.

newsitemAfter about a year of preparation, Wolfgang Eder, CEO of voestalpine, broke ground today for the construction of a direct reduction plant in Texas (USA).

‘voestalpine wing’ at the Red Bull Ring

The technology and capital goods Group voestalpine and Projekt Spielberg have cemented their close collaboration that spans a number of years with the naming of the ‘voestalpine wing’, the emblematic hallmark of the Styrian Red Bull Ring, which is currently under construction.

New management generation at voestalpine

Seven of the ten positions on the Boards of the four divisions of voestalpine – Steel, Special Steel, Metal Engineering and Metal Forming – have been filled recently. Together with the existing divisional Board members, Robert Bauer and Reinhard Nöbauer (Special Steel Division) and Helmut Punz (Metal Forming Division), the new candidates constitute the second management level of the voestalpine Group.

voestalpine acquires welding company in India

The voestalpine Group is continuing to push forward with its internationalisation strategy by acquiring the Indian company Maruti Weld headquartered in New Delhi. The company, which specialises in manufacturing welding electrodes, currently has 180 employees and generated an annual revenue of EUR 6.

voestalpine plans new wire rolling mill in Leoben

voestalpine Austria Draht plans to complete the construction of what is expected to be Europe’s most modern wire rolling mill at its Leoben-Donawitz site by 2016. The mill is slated to produce around 550,000 tons of high-quality wire rods each year for the automotive and energy sector.