Our history
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Steel for the future
With a long tradition
Committed entrepreneurship and a passion for steel production have shaped Buderus Edelstahl
and made it successful.
With a company history stretching back almost three hundred years, we are still one of the leading special steel producers.
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With the installation of a fully enclosed flame cutting system, large-sized scrap pieces can be cut for remelting and returned into new products
Construction of fully automatic sawing system for closed die forging
New heat treatment for closed die forging
Automation of closed die forging press 5 through robots
![Outside view of a dust removal facility.](/app/uploads/sites/186/2023/09/Entstaubungsanlage_8.jpg)
With the construction of a state-of-the-art dedusting plant for the steel mill, Buderus Edelstahl becomes one of the most environmentally friendly steel producers
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The new forging press with an upsetting force of 10,000 tons provides optimum
production conditions for largest ingots
The Austrian voestalpine AG takes over Böhler-Uddeholm AG
Sale of Edelstahlwerke Buderus AG to the Austrian Böhler-Uddeholm AG.
Name changed to Buderus Edelstahl GmbH
Crude steel production reaches an all-time high and Robert Bosch GmbH acquires the Edelstahlwerke Buderus AG
With the 1.2738 mod. TS-HH, later known as Thruhard Supreme, we invented another top grade for ever larger mold frames
The material 1.2738 developed by Buderus Edelstahl is included in the standards system
and subsequently becomes the worldwide standard for large mold frames
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Change of name to Edelstahlwerke Buderus AG and complete integration into the Flick Group
First Electric Arc Furnace built on-site
The company is renamed Stahlwerke Röchling Buderus
Buderus-Röchling AG steelworks founded on April 20, 1920
The company goes public and is now called Buderus’sche Eisenwerke AG
Johann Wilhelm Buderus II takes over the management of the charcoal blast furnace plant Friedrichshütte
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Company founded by Johann Wilhelm Buderus I on March 14, 1731