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voestalpine plans thoroughly modern mill

The contract to build the new rolling mill was awarded to the Italian constructor Danieli, and the new walking beam furnace will be supplied by Styria’s Andritz AG.

voestalpine Austria Draht is set to have completed an ambitious newmill project by 2016 – the construction of what could be Europe’s most modern wire rolling mill at voestalpine’s Leoben-Donawitz site. On start-up, the mill will produce around 550,000 tons of wire rods each year for the automotive and energy sector. The investment will secure the long-term future of the Donawitz site, headquarters of the voestalpine Group’s metal engineering division. In recent years, the group has invested over one billion euros in its eight sites in Styria. During the last business year, around 8,000 employees in the metal engineering and special steel divisions in Styria generated revenue of €3.3 billion. 800 new jobs were created and 360 apprentices trained in the region.

“In future, voestalpine will primarily e x p a n d in regions o u t s i d e

Europe, in growing markets such as Asia or North and South America. At the same time, however, investments such as this also secure existing Austrian sites over the long term,” explained Franz Kainersdorfer, member of the management board of voestalpine AG and head of the metal engineering division to which voestalpine Austria Draht belongs.

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