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UDDEHOLM Fine Machined AB in Sweden, focuses on fine-machined tool steel bars in VANADIS and other grades.
UDDEHOLM Tooling AB in Sweden, provides us with powder metal VANADIS grades in various profiles.
VILLARES METALS, located in Brazil, is the largest Latin American manufacturer of long products in high alloy steels. Internationally known for their quality, Villares is certified according to ISO 9001:2000 and ISO/TS 16949:2002. Villares became part of the Bohler Uddeholm AG group in March 2004. Bohler Uddeholm is currently making extensive investments in the Villares Mill which will further strengthen their position in the market.
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM at a glance
Worldwide market leader in tool steel (High Performance Metals Division), bimetallic strips, cutting and creasing rules, rule die steel (Precision Strip Division), and blades for gas and steam turbines (Special Forgings Division); worldwide number 2 in high speed steel (High Performance Metals Division) and worldwide number 3 in welding materials (Welding Consumables Division).
Approximately 100,000 customers throughout the world; key customers include the automotive and automotive supplier industries, tool and machine tool manufacturers, aircraft manufacturers, consumer goods and electronics industries, wood and saw industry, textile and paper industries, steel and apparatus construction, power station and plant construction.
Production sites located in Austria, Sweden, Brazil, Germany, Belgium, Italy, Turkey, USA and Mexico and heat treatment operations worldwide.
Products and services sold in roughly 100 countries on all continents, wholly owned sales subsidiaries in nearly 50 markets.
Primary sales markets: Europe, America and Asia. The Group is one of few European steel manufacturers with a presence on nearly all Asian markets, where it has been active for almost 60 years. The Company’s largest single market is Germany.
The strongest selling product is tool steel (High Performance Metals Division), which includes cold work steel, hot work steel and plastics moulding steel.
The Group is a classic niche supplier: the worldwide use of tool steel equals roughly 0.1% of total annual steel demand of roughly one billion tonnes.
Tool steel is not a mass product; important are quality features such as high wear and corrosion resistance, good toughness, dimensional stability during heat treatment as well as excellent machinability and polishing qualities.
The most important business driver for tool steel is the introduction of new models (autos, electronic equipment, household appliances, etc.). These changeovers require new moulds and tools which, in turn, are made of tool steel.
The BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM share was first listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange on 10 April 1995 in the key ATX segment.
On 25 November 2003, BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM became a fully privatized company. 79% of share capital is held in free float, 21% is owned by a group of private Austrian financial investors.
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The Austrian BÖHLER Group and Swedish UDDEHOLM Group merged to form the BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Group, creating the world’s largest tool steel manufacturer with an extensive sales network for specialty steel products. BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM AG, the parent company of the Group, was founded in Austria on 10 May 1991. The beginnings of the production sites of Böhler and Uddeholm date back a number of centuries.