On December 20, voestalpine Stahl GmbH, a company of the listed voestalpine AG, and the Polish company Zlomrex S.A. signed an agreement on the sale of the voestalpine Group's steel trading group. Zlomrex S.A. will initially take over 74.9% of voestalpine Stahlhandel GmbH. There are mutual purchase and sale rights for the remaining 25.1%, which can be exercised in two years at the earliest.

voestalpine AG listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange expands its automotive supplier business with the acquisition of three western European companies.

The Management Board of the listed voestalpine AG already decided at the beginning of the current business year 2006/07 to sell the Group's steel trading group, as this division no longer performs a strategic sales function for the voestalpine Group.

For already the fifth time in succession the voestalpine Group has presented an improved half-year result. With a noticeable increase in revenue and all relevant financial key figures as compared to the previous year, the first six months of the financial year 2006/07 were the most successful ones so far in the history of the Group.

For the fifth time in a row, the voestalpine Group presented an improved half-year result. The first six months of the 2006/07 business year were the best in the company's history, with significant increases in revenue and all financial data compared to the previous year.

Contrary to agency reports, voestalpine AG is not interested in the Serbian mining Group RTB Bor (Rudarsko-topionicarski bazen Bor). As Wolfgang Eder, Chairman of the Management Board of voestalpine AG, clarified, the reports have apparently confused voestalpine AG with VOEST-ALPINE Intertrading Aktiengesellschaft.

Around seven months after commencement of production and barely three months after the official opening, voestalpine confirms success of its new rail rolling mill in Leoben/Donawitz, Styria.

Successful start-up of the world's most modern rail rolling mill ahead of schedule - Investment of EUR 66 million.