voestalpine feiert 150-jährige Erfolgsgeschichte im Ybbstal

The 150-year success story began with the acquisition of the "Bruckbacher Hütte" rolling and forging plant by the brothers Albert and Emil Böhler at today's voestalpine BÖHLER Profil site in Bruckbach. Together with other production sites, the Sophienhütte and the Gerstlwerk, Bruckbach formed the basis for the BÖHLER Ybbstalwerke for many years, from which today's voestalpine BÖHLER Profil and voestalpine Precision Strip emerged. The companies were integrated into the voestalpine Group in 2007.

voestalpine BÖHLER Profil, a company in the High Performance Metals Division of voestalpine, supplies around 5,000 different special sections from Bruckbach to the international aerospace, mechanical engineering, energy and textile industries. The company is also one of the leading producers of profiles for industrial knives, which are primarily used in the woodworking industry. Around 84 percent of products are exported, more than 50 percent outside Europe.

In the 2021/22 financial year, the company generated sales of around EUR 32 million with 145 employees.

voestalpine Precision Strip, a company of the Metal Forming Division of voestalpine, is a global leader in bimetal for metal saw production, saw band steel and cutting lines for the packaging industry. In the North American market, for example, nine out of ten saws are made of steel strip from the plant in Kematen an der Ybbs.

In addition to the Kematen and Böhlerwerk sites, voestalpine Precision Strip has production and sales companies in Sweden and the USA, as well as sales subsidiaries in China and Spain. With a total of around 1,300 employees, the group of companies and its subsidiaries generated over EUR 330 million in the business year 2021/22 and exported to more than 80 countries worldwide.

As an important employer in the region, voestalpine places a strong focus on training its own skilled workers in order to be ideally positioned for future challenges. From September, both companies will be training more than 100 apprentices in twelve different professions for the first time. The next generation of skilled workers will be prepared for the processes and procedures of a digitalized working world using state-of-the-art technologies. The voestalpine training center in Böhlerwerk is one of the trendsetters with a focus on metal, electronics, toolmaking and mechatronics. More than EUR 90,000 is invested in the training of each apprentice.