type wholly owned subsidiary industry steel founded 1991 headquarters vienna austria key people franz rotter ceo products steel products tool steel revenue 4.6 billion 2007 owner voestalpine number of employees 15 453 2007 website www.bohler uddeholm.com b hler uddeholm is a large austrian company specialised in producing tool steel and special forgings . it was formed in 1991 as a result of a merger between the austrian parastatal b hler and of uddeholms ab of sweden . the company has production sites in austria germany sweden brazil belgium turkey china united states and mexico . as of september 2008 it is a wholly owned subsidiary of voestalpine . history edit b hler uddeholm was listed on the vienna stock exchange between 10 april 1995 and 5 september 2008 . in april 2007 voestalpine ag made a takeover offer for b hler uddeholm the bid was accepted by a majority of shareholders in june of that year . voestalpine completed a squeeze out of b hler uddeholm s remaining shareholders in september 2008 to gain complete control . the former b hler uddeholm divisions precision strip and welding consumables were transferred to other divisions within the voestalpine group . the remaining high performance metals forging divisions were merged and became the fifth division special steel of voestalpine ag . external links edit official site b hler edelstahl gmbh & co kg uddeholms ab villares metals s.a. buderus edelstahl gmbh eschmannstahl gmbh & co kg b hler schmiedetechnik gmbh & cokg buderus edelstahl schmiedetechnik gmbh see also b hler former b hler uddeholm ag companies edit division welding consumables b hler thyssen schwei technik gmbh buderus edelstahl schmiedetechnik gmbh division precision strip b hler uddeholm precision strip gmbh & co kg b hler uddeholm precision strip ab buderus edelstahl band gmbh retrieved from https en.wikipedia.org w index.php title b hler uddeholm & oldid 729634944 categories manufacturing companies based in vienna navigation menu personal tools not logged intalkcontributionscreate accountlog in namespaces article talk variants views read edit view history more search navigation main pagecontentsfeatured contentcurrent eventsrandom articledonate to wikipediawikipedia store interaction helpabout wikipediacommunity portalrecent changescontact page tools what links hererelated changesupload filespecial pagespermanent linkpage informationwikidata itemcite this page print export create a bookdownload as pdfprintable version in other projects wikimedia commons languages deutschfran aisportugu ssvenska edit links this page was last modified on 13 july 2016 at 15 21 . text is available under the creative commons attribution sharealike license ; additional terms may apply . by using this site you agree to the terms of use and privacy policy . wikipedia is a registered trademark of the wikimedia foundation inc. a non profit organization . privacy policy about wikipedia disclaimers contact wikipedia developers cookie statement mobile view