voestalpine Stahlwelt closes exhibition area for comprehensive redesign from July 1, 2024

2024-03-11 |

With around 750,000 visitors since it opened in 2009, voestalpine Stahlwelt is a popular destination for schoolchildren, students and individual visitors who want to experience innovation and technology in steel production and use at first hand. Starting in July 2024, voestalpine Stahlwelt will be fundamentally adapted and modernized over the next 1 ½ years. The costs amount to around EUR 20 million. The event area will continue to operate to a limited extent and the popular tours through the voestalpine plant site will also be possible during the renovation work.

After 15 years, space is also to be created in the Stahlwelt for the latest technologies and visions of voestalpine - such as greentec steel. The exhibition will also be significantly modernized in terms of the digital presentation of content.

As a leading international steel and technology group, we want to adapt the Stahlwelt to our requirements for a modern exhibition facility and give the technological and innovative diversity of the voestalpine world a modern home.

Herbert Eibensteiner, CEO of voestalpine AG

The conversion is being overseen by the internationally successful Stuttgart-based architectural firm ATELIER BRÜCKNER, which has designed the Tutankhamun Gallery in the Grand Egyptian Museum in Cairo, the BMW Museum in Munich and the Demokratikum in the Austrian Parliament in Vienna, among others.

The voestalpine Group

voestalpine is a globally leading steel and technology group with a unique combination of materials and processing expertise. voestalpine, which operates globally, has around 500 Group companies and locations in more than 50 countries on all five continents. It has been listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange since 1995. With its premium products and system solutions, voestalpine is a leading partner to the automotive and consumer goods industries, as well as to the aerospace and oil & natural gas industries. The company is also the global market leader in railway systems, tool steel, and special sections. voestalpine is committed to the global climate goals and has a clear plan for decarbonizing steel production with its greentec steel program. In the business year 2022/23, the Group generated revenue of EUR 18.2 billion, with an operating result (EBITDA) of EUR 2.5 billion; it has around 51,200 employees worldwide.

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