About voestalpine BÖHLER Edelstahl

voestalpine BÖHLER Edelstahl is one of the world's leading suppliers of high-speed steels, tool steels and special materials. We have always driven developments and set metallurgical standards. The best proof of this are our more than 200 steel brands.

The voestalpine BÖHLER Edelstahl industrial complex with gray rooftops sits in a green valley, surrounded by hills, forests, and a small town. Majestic mountains rise in the background beneath a clear blue sky.

Mission & Vision

We develop, produce and supply high-speed steels, tool steels and special materials worldwide in order to provide optimum solutions for customers. We always aim to be the first supplier to our customers.

In our daily collaboration, commitment, trust, and initiative are particularly important to us. Our company’s compliance guidelines provide the framework for this.

Code of Conduct of voestalpine AG

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    2140 employees work for voestalpine BÖHLER Edelstahl. Plus around 130 apprentices in training.
    Assorted metal bars from voestalpine BÖHLER Edelstahl, in rectangular, square, and round profiles, are neatly arranged on a light gray surface against a plain background.
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    With around 200 steel brands, our company generates sales of €919.9 million per financial year.
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    Our plant produces up to 119,970 tons of high-performance steels per year.
    A large, automated warehouse with tall metal shelving units on both sides and a robotic system in the center for storing and retrieving voestalpine BÖHLER Edelstahl products, all under bright, industrial lighting.
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    We ship around 120,000 tons of steel in 8,000 transports per year – worldwide.
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    The result of intensive research and development work – 439 patents in 33 patent families to date.

Management of voestalpine BÖHLER Edelstahl

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DI Dr. Gerhard Lichtenegger

Technical Managing Director

  • Joined the company in 1996

  • Member of the Management Board since 2020

  • Steel mills

  • Rolling mills

  • Forging line

  • Powder technology

  • Technology and innovation, quality management

  • Marketing & Sales

  • Logistic

  • Production planning

  • Environmental protection and investments

  • Safety

  • Testing and Certification

  • Strategy & Planing

  • Company development

  • Technical center

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Mag. Gunther Prelog

Managing Director Finance

  • Joining the company in 2024

  • Member of the Management Board since 2024

  • Finances, Controlling

  • Central services

  • Legal, insurances

  • Digital technologies

  • Procurement

  • Private foundation

  • HR, training, health

BÖHLER History

A century of innovation – Medieval hammers driven by the power of rivers. Inventors, ideas, patents and company foundations in the pioneering era of European heavy industry. Revolutionary progress, restructuring, new technologies, growth.


We are the heirs of pioneering inventions and are aware of this responsibility. Where BÖHLER companies are located today, working with steel has a long tradition.

Milestones from history

  • 1446

    1st mill in Kapfenberg

  • 1870

    The brothers Albert and Emil BÖHLER found the trading company Gebr. Böhler & Co. in Vienna. Business purpose: trading in Styrian steel.

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  • 1886 – 1890

    Agencies in Paris, Tokyo, Shanghai and the USA

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  • 1894

    Acquisition of the steelworks in Kapfenberg

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  • 1900

    Development of the revolutionary BÖHLER high-speed steel “BÖHLER Rapid” by Fridolin Reiser

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  • 1975

    BÖHLER, Schoeller-Bleckmann and steirische Gussstahlwerke AG become the “Vereinigte Edelstahlwerke (VEW)” Group

  • 1988

    Re-establishment of the BÖHLER company by splitting VEW into BÖHLER GmbH and Schoeller-Beckmann GmbH

  • 1990

    Purchase of the Swedish company Uddeholm AB by voestalpine stahl AG

  • 1991

    Reorganization of the BÖHLER Group Austria within BÖHLER Uddeholm AG; IPO

  • 1995

    Partial privatization of BÖHLER Uddeholm AG

  • 1999

    Commissioning of a plant for the production of powder metallurgical high-speed and tool steels

  • 2000

    Commissioning of a vacuum induction melting furnace (VIM) for the production of materials with the highest degree of purity

  • 2003

    Commissioning of the AOD converter to improve capacity and quality, full privatization of BÖHLER Uddeholm AG

  • 2006/2007

    Expansion of the special steel plant

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  • 2008

    Takeover of BÖHLER Uddeholm AG by voestalpine AG

  • 2007/2010

    Expansion of a new forging line

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  • 2012/2013

    Expansion of BÖHLER Uddeholm Powder Metallurgy and construction of the Kapfenberg hub

  • 2014

    Expansion of bright steel capacities in Deuchendorf

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  • 2016

    Commissioning of the new pickling plant

  • 2016

    AMPO powder production for additive manufacturing

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  • 2017

    Opening of the chemical laboratory

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  • 2018

    Logistics Service Center Kapfenberg – new heavy-duty warehouse

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  • 2018

    New high-tech forge P44

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  • 2018

    Groundbreaking ceremony for the most modern special steel plant

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  • 2023

    Opening of the world’s most modern special steel plant

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