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voestalpine Böhler Welding
Company typeGmbH
IndustryWelding
Founded1870
HeadquartersDüsseldorf, Germany
Key people
Günter Neureiter (CEO), Stefan Glanz (CFO), Bernhard Riegler (COO), Martin Peruzzi (CTO)
ProductsWelding consumables
Number of employees
2.300
Websitewww.voestalpine.com/welding

voestalpine Böhler Welding is a manufacturer of welding consumables for joint welding, maintenance, repair and overlay welding and branzing with a headquater based in Düsseldorf. The company owns over 40 subsidiaries in more than 25 countries. 2.300 employees cater customers in approx. 150 countries and more than 1.000 distribution partners.[1][2]

The company is a business segment of the voestalpine AG Metal Engineering Division.[3]

The company offers extensive technical consultation and individual solutions for industrial welding and soldering applications. It has three specialized and dedicated brands for joint welding, maintenance & cladding and brazing & soldering.


Brands

Böhler Welding - Lasting Connections
UTP Maintenance - Tailor-Made Protectivity™
Fontargen Brazing - In-Depth Know-How
  • Böhler Welding: 2.000 products for joint welding in all conventional arc welding processes
  • UTP Maintenance: Repair, wear and surface protection
  • Fontargen Brazing: Brazing and soldering solutions

History

1870 Founding of Böhler & CO in Vienna by the Böhler brothers Emil and Albert Böhler. 1991 Böhler Welding becomes a separate division in the newly formed Böhler-Uddeholm and acquires UTP. 1996 Böhler-Uddeholm and Thyssen merge their welding businesses into the joint venture Böhler Thyssen Welding (Böhler with UTP / Thyssen with Soudokay, Hilarius and Fontargen). 2003 Böhler-Uddeholm acquires 100% of joint venture Böhler Thyssen Welding. 2004 Thyssen Welding Consumables (Thermanit, Phoenix, Union) renamed into brand T-PUT. 2005 Böhler-Uddeholm acquires Avesta Welding. 2007 voestalpine acquires Böhler-Uddeholm and division Böhler Thyssen Welding renamed Böhler Welding Group. 2010 Böhler Welding Group switched from Böhler-Uddeholm to voestalpine Metal Engineering (formerly Railway Systems) as a separate division[4]. 2013 Integration into the voestalpine Group as part of the Metal Engineering Division. Renamed voestalpine Böhler Welding, and product brands simplified to: Böhler Welding, UTP Maintenance and Fontargen Brazing.[5]

Products

  • Stick electrodes
  • TIG rods
  • Cored wires
  • MIG/MAG solid wires
  • SAW fluxes
  • Finishing Chemicals
  • Brazing filler metals
  • Brazing pastes, preforms, foils
  • Thermal spraying powders, PTA powders[6]

Alloys

  • Unalloyed, low-alloyed
  • Aluminum
  • Nickel-base alloy
  • Special alloy (Nickel, Copper, Cobalt)
  • Stainless steel
  • High-strength steel
  • High/low temperature
  • Corrosion resistant
  • Heat resistant[6]

References