Whether in a panoramic carriage through the Alps, in everyday life on the subway or working on a high-speed train – trains get people moving. This requires precise technology and a central, often underestimated component: the points.
11 Jun, 2025
Birgit set her course a long time ago: She is head of switch and frog production as well as butt welding in our Turnout profit center of the voestalpine Railway Systems Group at the Zeltweg site. She is responsible for ensuring that turnouts for mixed, local, freight and high-speed traffic function reliably worldwide – and […]
28 May, 2025
Railroads around the world should become more attractive, more efficient and competitive, more affordable and more sustainable. This is one of the golden sides of rail travel. The other is self-understanding and inclusive: traveling with a clear conscience, making interesting travel acquaintances, experiencing cities up close and personal. For example, on an inspiring city trip […]
23 May, 2025
greentec steel
The conversion to “green” steel production means that significantly more scrap will be needed in the future. However, this increasing demand cannot be fully covered by new scrap (pre-consumer scrap). In future, it will therefore be necessary to make greater use of old scrap (post-consumer scrap), which has to be processed and sorted at great […]
25 Jul, 2024
At voestalpine, we are building bridges and tunnels as part of greentec steel, our program for the conversion to steel production with net zero CO2-emissions. The new 800 meter-long conveyor belt bridge that will also supply the electric arc furnace with raw materials from 2027 onwards was recently completed.
14 Mar, 2024
We are joining the trend to decarbonize steel production by going the electric arc furnace route. The basis for green steel is the pioneering technological transition from the blast furnace route to the use of electric arc furnaces powered by green electricity. Here we explain what will stay the same, and what will change.
14 Feb, 2024
Practical training and studies at the same time? This is possible at the Railway Systems location in Sainerholz. With a dual study program, young talents start their professional life with two degrees at the same time.
05 May, 2025
Interrail is not “just” a long train journey. For many people from all over Europe, it is the sum of unforgettable moments and adventures. Every year 200,000 people, mainly young people, travel through Europe by Interrail, relying on the safety and comfort of the train. Few people are aware that they are traveling long distances […]
29 Apr, 2025
voestalpine news
21 May, 2025
Since March 1, 2025, our employees worldwide have collected digital “cares” through their sporting activities in the third voestalpine cares run. These were converted into donations and are now supporting international aid projects.
19 May, 2025
voestalpine Böhler Welding and Graz University of Technology (TU Graz) are intensifying their long-standing collaboration with a pioneering research project. Under the title “Spark Science Center”, joint research is being conducted into AI-supported solutions for optimizing the welding process.
15 May, 2025
The Vienna Museum of Science and Technology has a new permanent exhibition entitled “Material Worlds”, of which we the main sponsor. We are therefore taking the opportunity to take our employees and their families on a journey through the world of materials and offer them an exciting day at the Museum of Science and Technology […]
22 Apr, 2025
Favorite Moments – they are the ones that shape us, that remain in our memories, that make our lives simply beautiful. The magical marriage proposal on the bridge where we met for the first time, saying goodbye to our parents on the platform shortly before leaving on life’s greatest adventure, planting a tree in the […]
14 Apr, 2025
Over 300 voestalpine employees took part in the 23rd Linz Danube Marathon on April 13 – either in one of the 21 employee relay teams or in an individual discipline. However, we were not only strongly represented in terms of the number of participants in voestalpine T-shirts, but also as a strong partner of the […]
28 Mar, 2025
Our products form the basis of modern life, but they are often invisible in everyday life . Whether in the home, in sustainable energy generation, in private transport, when travelling comfortably by plane or on the world’s railways – our products are indispensable.
04 Dec, 2024
Once again this year, the #voestalpinetalks took place at the Montanuniversität in cooperation with the ÖH Leoben and all student representatives. In addition to exciting insights into our special steel plant in Kapfenberg and a varied presentation on the topic of communication, students were able to talk directly to our technicians about job opportunities with […]
03 Oct, 2024
Months before InnoTrans, which takes place every two years in Berlin, preparations for the most important international trade fair for transportation technology are already in full swing. Two of our four divisions in particular are very busy before and during InnoTrans: the voestalpine Railway Systems business unit of the Metal Engineering Division and the Steel […]
20 Jun, 2024
24 nations, a round leather ball and pure emotion: the first match of the European Men’s Football Championship kicked off last Friday. Sport-loving Europe and the world are looking to Germany via TV and stream. Reason enough for us to take a look at the soccer highlight of the year. Because some of our products […]
19 Apr, 2024
To achieve the goal of carbon neutrality by 2050, our greentec steel activities include actively researching new processes and investing in projects that offer new ways to produce steel. In doing so, our goal is to create a climate-neutral process chain: from the production of green hydrogen, to the conversion of CO2 into storable materials. […]