Overview
voestalpine is an Austria-based steel and technology group, combining materials and processing expertise to supply products and system solutions to industries including automotive, machinery, aerospace, and energy. Its portfolio spans steel products and special materials, railway systems, welding solutions, metal processing, and automotive components.[1][2]
The company’s stated purpose is “We make things better” for customers, employees, nature, and society, through practical solutions and expertise in steel and metallic materials.[3]
For the 2025/26 reporting year, voestalpine reported revenue of €15.1 billion and had 48,010 employees as of March 31, 2026. The Group comprises about 500 companies and sites across more than 50 countries on five continents.[4][5] [1][2][3][4][5][3]
Products & services
voestalpine’s Steel Division offers hot- and cold-rolled strip steel, electrogalvanized and hot-dip galvanized strip, organically coated strip, electrical steel strip, heavy plate and foundry products. It also provides steel and service-center operations and logistics services.[6]
High Performance Metals products include tool and high-speed steels, valve and machine steels, special forgings, powder materials for uses including additive manufacturing, nickel-based alloys, titanium products, and copper and aluminum alloys. Related services include heat and surface treatment, machining and other processing.[7][8][2] Metal Engineering products include rails, switches and turnouts, fastening systems, signaling and digital monitoring, welding solutions, quality wire and seamless tubes; infrastructure services include logistics, rail treatment, welding, grinding and recycling.[9][10][11] Metal Forming supplies tubes and profiles, pressed, stamped and roll-formed automotive components and systems, precision strip steel, and warehousing technology and rack solutions.[2]
The cited FY 2025/26 performance figures are reported by division, not by individual product: Steel Division revenue was EUR 5,730.6 million and Metal Engineering Division revenue was EUR 4,054.7 million.[12][13] [6][7][8][2][9][10][11][12][13]
Geographic presence
In FY2025/26, voestalpine reported revenue of €15,063.1 million across six disclosed regions: EU excluding Austria, €8,784.5 million (about 58.3%); Austria, €1,074.4 million (7.1%); USMCA, €2,078.9 million (13.8%); Asia, €1,193.5 million (7.9%); South America, €447.3 million (3.0%); and Rest of World, €1,484.5 million (9.9%). Percentages are calculated from reported regional revenue; the disclosure does not break these figures down by individual country except for Austria.[14]
The company lists production sites in Austria, Brazil, Sweden, Poland, and Spain. The identified Austrian locations include voestalpine Stahl, Grobblech, BÖHLER Edelstahl, BÖHLER Bleche, Stahl Donawitz, and Rail Technology; the other listed sites are Villares Metals in Brazil, Uddeholms in Sweden, Steel Service Center Polska in Poland, and Railway Systems JEZ in Spain. These are sites identified as material in relation to environmental pollution, not a complete inventory of the group’s operations.[15]
The employee headcount-by-country disclosure covers only Austria and Germany and is described as limited; it does not provide a group-wide geographic workforce distribution.[16] [14][14][14][14][14][14][14][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][15][16]
Business segments
For FY2025/26, voestalpine reports four business divisions. Approximate shares below are calculated from each division’s third-party revenue as a proportion of Group third-party revenue.[17]
Steel Division (35.3%) focuses on sophisticated strip steel, electrical steel, heavy plate and foundry products, alongside steel services; its markets include automotive, white goods, mechanical engineering and energy.[6] High Performance Metals Division (18.1%) supplies high-alloy tool and high-speed steels, special alloys, and related processing and service-center capabilities.[18] Metal Engineering Division (26.6%) encompasses railway infrastructure systems, welding solutions, wire technology and tubulars.[19][20] Metal Forming Division (19.9%) comprises tubes and sections, automotive components, precision strip, and warehouse and rack solutions.[2]
The company also presents a business-unit/product breakdown: Strip, Heavy Plate and Foundry within Steel; Production/Value Added Services within High Performance Metals; Railway Systems, Welding, Wire Technology and Tubulars within Metal Engineering; and the four listed product areas within Metal Forming.[2] [17][17][17][17][17][6][18][19][20][2]
Company history
Construction of the Linz steelworks began in 1938 under Nazi rule; the works used forced laborers and prisoners during the war. Seized after the war, the site became VÖEST in 1945. In 1952, the first steel was produced using the Linz-Donawitz (LD) basic-oxygen process, developed at Linz and Donawitz and influential in modern steelmaking.[21][22][23] In 1973, VÖEST merged with Österreichisch-Alpine Montangesellschaft to form the VÖEST-ALPINE group. Following diversification and restructuring efforts in the 1980s and early 1990s, the company focused increasingly on specialized, higher-value products.[24][25][26][27]
Shares were first listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange in 1995, beginning privatization, which was completed in 2005. The company adopted the name voestalpine AG in 2001; acquisitions including Polynorm (2001) and Böhler-Uddeholm (2007–08) broadened its industrial and specialty-steel businesses.[28][29][30] Its Corpus Christi direct-reduction plant opened in 2016, expanding its raw-material operations. From 2021, the company began supplying CO₂-reduced steel, followed in 2023 by approval of a major investment in electric-arc furnaces at Linz and Donawitz as part of its staged steelmaking transition.[31][32][33] [21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]
Sources
- VOESTALPINE — Press release (2026 Y)[1]
- VOESTALPINE — Full financial report (2026 Y)
- www.voestalpine.com[3]
- www.voestalpine.com[21]
- www.voestalpine.com[22]
- www.voestalpine.com[23]
- www.voestalpine.com[24]
- www.voestalpine.com[25]
- www.voestalpine.com[26]
- www.voestalpine.com[27]
- www.voestalpine.com[28]
- www.voestalpine.com[29]
- www.voestalpine.com[30]
- www.voestalpine.com[31]
- www.voestalpine.com[32]
- www.voestalpine.com[33]
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