Overview
PrintHigh Performance Metals
High Performance Metals is the largest division in the BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Group. The special steels and special alloys such as nickel-based materials are manufactured by five companies: Böhler Edelstahl GmbH & Co. KG in Kapfenberg (Austria), Uddeholm Tooling AB in Hagfors (Sweden), Böhler Bleche GmbH in Mürzzuschlag (Austria), Böhler Ybbstal Profil GmbH in Bruckbach (Austria) and Böhler-Uddeholm Specialty Metals, Inc. in South Boston (USA). The Group also has hardening facilities in a number of countries.
All production sites are highly specialised plants. The most important segment in this division is tool steel (cold and hot work steels as well as plastics moulding steels), where the BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Group is world leader. The second largest segment is high-speed steel. Other major products include special grades, nickel-based alloys and high-alloy sheets, wire and profiles.
Key customers for high performance metals in Europe, America and Asia are the automotive and automotive supplier industries, tool and machine tool manufacturers, the energy industry, aircraft and aerospace industries, consumer goods and electronics companies and medical technology firms.
A major competitive advantage for BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM is the Group’s worldwide sales network. It enables the Company to react quickly and flexibly to the needs of customers on site and provide them not only with steel and materials but also services and technical know-how.
Companies of the High Performance Metals Division are:-
Production:
BÖHLER Bleche GmbH & Co KG
BÖHLER Edelstahl GmbH & Co KG
BÖHLER YBBSTAL Profil GmbH
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Specialty Metals Inc.
BUDERUS Edelstahl GmbH
EDRO Engineering, Inc.
EDRO Specialty Steels, Inc.
UDDEHOLM Machining AB
UDDEHOLM Tooling AB
VILLARES METALS S.A.
Sales:
Aceros Boehler Uddeholm S.A.
ACEROS BOHLER UDDEHOLM, S.A. DE C.V
AÇOS BOHLER-UDDEHOLM DO BRASIL LTDA.
ASSAB International AB
ASSAB Pacific Ltd.
BÖHLER International GmbH
Böhler Kereskedelmi KFT.
BOHLER UDDEHOLM Africa (Pty) Ltd.
BOHLER-UDDEHOLM (Australia) Pty Ltd.
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM (UK) Ltd.
BOHLER-UDDEHOLM Corporation
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM CZ s.r.o.
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Deutschland GmbH
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM France S.A.S.
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Iberica S.A.
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Italia SpA
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM LLC
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Ltd.
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Polska Sp.z o.o.
ESCHMANNSTAHL GmbH & Co KG
Villares Metals International B.V.
Villares Metals Suomi Oy
BOHLER
Product Range – BÖHLER EDELSTAHL GMBH & CO KG
BÖHLER EDELSTAHL GMBH & CO KG manufactures more than 250 different grades of PM steel, high speed steel, tool steel and special materials, available as rolled or forged bar in dimensions tailored to suit your needs, as bright steel in coils or bars or as polished, precision-drawn high speed and tool steel. The products are also available with a rough-machined, rough ground or precision ground surface finish. Alternatively, items are available as a semi-finished product or forged product with a piece weight of up to 40 tonnes.
Materials:-
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High speed steels
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Tool steels
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Cold work tool steels
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Hot work tool steels
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Plastic mould steels
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Special materials
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Special constructional steels
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Stainless steels
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Creep resisting steels
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Heat resisting steels
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Valve steels
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Steels with special physical properties
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Steels for particular applications
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Non-ferrous metal alloys (e.g. nickel-based alloys, cobalt-based alloys)
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Rolled bar
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Rolled wire
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Forged bar
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Premachined bar
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Bright steel
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Forgings: open-die forgings up to 45t, unmachined, premachined, machined ready for mounting, drop forgings. Machining of rolled, forged and cast components on state-of-the-art machines
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Extrusion tooling
Industries:-
Aviation, turbine construction, toolmaking, general mechanical engineering, extrusion, offshore, energy engineering, automotive, medical technology.
See www.bohler-edelstahl.com/ for further details.
Product Range – BÖHLER BLECHE GMBH
BÖHLER BLECHE GMBH, a pioneer in the production of cross-rolled sheets and plates, offers its customers a product of supreme uniformity in terms of mechanical and physical properties. As a result, our tool steels, high speed steels, specialities and press plates meet the most stringent demands. A powder metallurgy facility is also at our disposal for the production of high performance grades with outstanding properties.
Materials:-
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High speed steel
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Cold work tool steel
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Hot work tool steel
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Plastic mould steel
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Special materials
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Special constructional steels
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Stainless steels
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Creep resisting and high temperature steels
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Heat resisting steels
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Valve steels
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Steels with special physical properties
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Steels for particular applications
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Non-ferrous metal alloys (e.g. nickel-based alloys, cobalt-based alloys)
Aircraft material
Surface finish:-
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Hot rolled, not descaled
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Hot rolled, descaled (shotblasted / pickled)
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Cold rolled
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Premilled
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Ground
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Polished
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Matt finish
Edge finish:-
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Shear cut
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Cold sawn
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Laser cut
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Plasma cut
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Machined
Products:-
Hot or cold rolled sheet and plate
Discs -laser cut, plasma cut, machined
Blanks – laser cut, machined, shear cut, cold sawn, premilled
Press plates for the production of technical or decorative laminates
See http://www.bohler-bleche.com/ for further details.
Product Range – BÖHLER YBBSTAL PROFIL GMBH
Manufacturers of special profiles and bar. Using near-finished-shape, special profiles are the simplest and most effective way of permanently reducing product costs in many areas of manufacturing. Böhler-Ybbstal Profil is a competent partner for manufacturers competing for economy and quality. With over 5000 different special profiles, our company is amongst the world's most experienced producers of special profiles. Together with the technical melting possibilities of the Bohler-Uddeholm Group, we are able to offer our customers profiles that are "made to measure". Precision with a long tradition.
Materials:-
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Quality constructional steels
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Low and high alloy constructional steels
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Tool steels
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High speed steels
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Corrosion resistant steels
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Heat resistant steels
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High creep resistant and creep resistant steels
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Nickel-based alloys
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Titanium and Titanium-based alloys
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Cobalt-based alloys
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Special profiles and bars, as rolled, normalised, soft annealed, hardened and tempered or quenched, according to the steel grade chosen. Hot rolled, cold drawn, sandblasted and pickled.
Industries:
Railway, tool manufacturing and machine construction, leather and textiles, special machinery, woodworking, aviation, automotive
See BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Precision Strip GmbH & Co KG for further details.
UDDEHOLM
Product Range - UDDEHOLM TOOLING
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Cold work tool steel
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Plastic mould steel
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Hot work tool steel
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High performance steel
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Uddeholm offers an extensive range of tooling and HPS-materials in a wide variety of dimensions and executions. Welding consumables, pre-machined and customised sizes are also available.
Our four main manufacturing processes are:-
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Conventional
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Electro Slag Remelting (ESR)
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Powder Metallurgy
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Granshots
Throughout our entire history we have been among the first to develop and use new processes and technologies. Sophisticated techniques are used to control the entire production process. This ensures that all materials are produced in accordance with specifications, which guarantees that our customers will always receive the same high quality material.
Uddeholm offers solutions to virtually all industries and applications. We offer tooling materials and procedures to maximise your total tooling economy, regardless of whether you are considering quick and short, medium or very long production series and regardless of where you are in the tools chain. In addition, we recommend how to treat and machine the material so that its potential is fully utilised and the risk of tool failure minimised. The recommendations are flexible to suit your equipment and previous experience with similar materials. Thus, if you have had a specific problem with a certain process in the past, we could help you change the tool material and/or preparation to remedy that particular problem.
See http://www.uddeholm.com/ for further details.
Precision Strip
The Precision Strip Division manufactures its highly specialized niche products at three sites: BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Precision Strip GmbH & Co KG and Martin Miller GmbH in Austria as well as BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Precision Strip AB in Sweden. The product line comprises three major segments:
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM is the worldwide leader or largest continental player in nearly all these segments. The most important export markets for these niche products are the EU countries (approx. 60%), as well as the Americas and Asia. In most countries, customers are supplied by Group sales companies. In many other countries, the best way to reach the market is through local trading partners who exclusively sell BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM strip products. The division's strengths are individualized customer care and support through user-specific expertise on site. Main markets: EU countries, Eastern Europe, the Americas and South East Asia. Companies of the division: | ||
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In the U.K. we are also the agents for AkeBoose Graphic Products AB of Sweden, supplying Strip-Blade Doctoring Systems. See http://www.akeboose.com/ for further details.
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Precision Strip GmbH & Co KG
Products:-
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Bimetal Strip
We produce laser respectively electronically welded bimetal strip that is highly appreciated by the world leading manufacturers of saws. We are specialised in the production of high resistant cold rolled strip through lengthways welding of different metallic materials. -
Cutting, Creasing and Special Rules
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Rule Die Steel
Rule Die Steel - used to cut leather, textiles and plastic. This material offers the optimum solution for any cutting application. Cold rolled or cold profiled strip steel in different alloyed steel qualities and various surface finishes.
See BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Precision Strip GmbH & Co KG for further details.
Martin Miller GmbH
Martin Miller GmbH became a subsidiary of Böhler Uddeholm in 1997.
Products:-
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Strip Steel
for band and hand saw blades (wood industry)
for saw gang saw blades and circular saw blades (wood industry)
for gang saw blades and steel centres (stone industry)
for spring steel
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Rule-/ Die rule steel
for graphical rule steel
for die rule steel
See http://www.martin-miller.com/ for further details.
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Precision Strip AB
BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Precision Strip AB is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Böhler-Uddeholm AG. It is one of the world‘s leading manufacturers of high quality precision strip steel. We have been working with steels for more than 300 years. In 1670, a forging hammer was built in Munkfors. Since 1886 we have been making cold-rolled strip steel. In 1979 we formed Uddeholm Strip Steel AB.
Precision strip steel is a unique product for advanced applications. Few other materials show such a variety of property combinations. The following products are only a few examples of our product range:-
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Remko soft magnetic iron
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Saw Steel
A wood bandsaw steel must be capable of being swaged or spring set and stellitised tensioned. It must have high fatigue strength, high wear resistance, good elasticity and toughness. The purity of the raw material and the accurately controlled working and heat treatment ensure that a bandsaw steel from Uddeholm Strip Steel will have the right combination of hardness, toughness and formability.
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Flapper Valve Steel
The flatness and surface finish of the flapper valve which controls the gas flow in a compressor must be capable of withstanding millions of load cycles. Moreover, the steel must be extremely pure and free from harmful inclusions. Uddeholm Strip produces flapper valve steel with optimum properties in refrigeration and freezer equipment, in heat pumps and in air conditioning systems. -
Loom Reed Steel
The weaving of fine-meshed metal and synthetic fabrics demands reeds of extremely high quality. All properties of the strip steel must basically have the highest possible precision and be uniquely combined. -
Needle Steel
A knitting machine comprises thousands of latch needles. These needles are formed from a cold-rolled precision strip steel and then hardened. To ensure that the needles will run smoothly and accurately in the knitting machine, their thickness must meet very close tolerances. Our needle steels meet all the demands that can be put on a high-quality latch needle steel.
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Razor Blade Steel
A razor blade must be kind to the skin. To ensure comfortable shaving, our razor blade steel (AEB-L) is suitable for hardening and grinding to a sharp edge and it is hard enough to be durable. The razor blade must be free from harmful inclusions which could cause irregularity of the cutting edge. In addition to having all of these properties, the razor blade steel from Uddeholm Strip Steel is also made of martensitic stainless steel.
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Knife and Scalpel Steels
Knife- and scalpel blades made from AEB-L have a sharpness and edge retention that satisfy extremely exacting requirements. Uddeholm Stainless AEB-L gives a first class edge-tool.
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Other Strip Steels
Uddeholm Strip Steel also manufactures plain or alloyed carbon steels, martensitic stainless steels for springs, accordion reeds, wafer gang saws, lapping carriers and a variety of engineering parts. -
Coater, Crêping and Printing Doctor Blades
Uddeholm Strip Steel manufactures finished products for applications in the Paper and Printing industries. Accurate straightness and flatness are the two most essential criteria for optimum performance. By producing our own special steels for all of these blades, we are able to maintain a very high and consistent quality in carbon, stainless and tool-steels. Our blades meet today's exacting customer demands around the world. In particular, our new wear resistant long-life blades, developed from our tool steels, enable customers to enjoy increases in productivity, as well as better qualities of both paper and printing. Longer runs between blade changes means less down time. For the printers, the finely dispersed microstructure of the long-life grades enable less pressure to be used against the expensive engraved cylinder in order to remove surplus ink. Coater Blades and Crêping Blades made from these new long-life materials also very much benefit the paper making mills, by reducing down time and improving the consistency and quality of the paper in these very expensive to run plants.
See BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM Precision Strip AB for further details.