History

First hammer works in Kapfenberg

Gebrüder BÖHLER & CO is founded in Vienna

The 1870s. Reigning in Europe are Queen Victoria, Czar Alexander II, Emperor William I and his Chancellor Bismarck, and Emperor Franz Joseph in Austria.
Vienna, already a city of a million people, is a European economic magnet. The Böhler brothers from Frankfurt are also drawn to this aspiring city. As shrewd salesmen, they are attracted by the high quality of Styrian steel, for which they see great, and underutilized, market potential.
In 1870 they negotiate exclusive agency with the imperial chartered cast steel plant in Kapfenberg and found Gebrüder Böhler & Co Handelsgesellschaft company, with headquarters in Vienna, on April 15.

Development of the revolutionary BÖHLER high speed steel "BÖHLER RAPID"

Offices in Tokyo, Shanghai and the United States

BÖHLER, SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN and STEIRISCHE GUSSSTAHLWERKE AG are united to form a new enterprise of special steel makers VEREINIGTE EDELSTAHLWERKE AG (VEW)

The company BÖHLER was reconstructed from VEW into BÖHLER GmbH and SCHOELLER-BLECKMANN GmbH

VOEST ALPINE STAHL AG purchases the swedish company, UDDEHOLM AB

Re-organization within BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG of the BÖHLER group Austria

Partial-privatization of the BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG

Initial operation of a unit for the production of powder metallurgic high speed steel and tool steel

Initial operation of a VACUUM INDUCTION MELTING FURNACE (VIM) for the production of materials with the highest degree of purity

Commissioning of an AOD-Converter. To additioning of the capacity and also to charge optimizing at the steel production. Complete-privatization of the BÖHLER UDDEHOLM AG.

Extension of the special steel plant

BÖHLER UDDEHOLM AG takeover by voestalpine AG

New forging line

Extension of the BÖHLER UDDEHOLM powder metallurgy and construction of the HUB Kapfenberg

Expansion of bright steel capacities in Deuchendorf