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Our Core Business
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM is a leading international specialty steel and materials company and 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 highspeed steel (High Performance Metals Division) and worldwide number 3 in welding materials (Welding Consumables Division).
The Group is one of the largest corporations in Austria with production sites in Austria, Germany, Sweden, Brazil, Belgium,
Turkey, USA and Mexico and heat treatment operations worldwide.
The BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Group is a classic niche supplier. The worldwide use of tool steels equals roughly 0.1% of total annual steel demand of roughly 1.2 billion tonnes. BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM is therefore clearly separate from the mass steel industry.
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM operates in four core business areas:
Further information is available in the Annual Report 2006 in chapter "Segment Reporting".
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