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The first-class training of the company’s own young professionals has a long tradition at voestalpine. With the opening of the new voestalpine BÖHLER CAMPUS at the Styrian location in Kapfenberg, the steel and technology group is now setting a strong example for the quality and future of teaching. The new campus combines state-of-the-art living with a future-oriented education. Located directly next to the new residential complex with 60 fully equipped apartments for apprentices, the voestalpine BÖHLER training center in Kapfenberg offers practical specialist training—currently in 12 future-oriented technical professions—at the highest level.
On December 14, 2025, the “Koralmbahn” between Graz and Klagenfurt will start full operation as a section of the new Southern Line. voestalpine Railway Systems, the world market leader for complete rail infrastructure systems based in Donawitz, Styria, equipped the entire line, including the tunnel, with around 290 kilometers of ultra-long premium rails and 235 high-tech turnouts, as well as locking and monitoring technologies. At its heart lies the 33-kilometer Koralm Tunnel—the longest railroad tunnel in Austria, and the sixth longest in the world.
On October 23, the European Council in Brussels will set the deciding course for European and Austrian industry. If free CO₂ allowances for industrial companies are not extended as currently planned, Europe could face severe economic and environmental disadvantages. In a cross-border alliance with almost 80 industrial companies, the steel and technology group voestalpine is therefore making an urgent appeal to European politicians today to extend the deadline for free CO2 allowances. voestalpine alone, which currently pays around EUR 200 million annually for CO₂ allowances into the budget of the Republic of Austria, would have to spend an additional EUR 1 – 2 billion between now and the end of 2030 to meet the increasing need for allowances. The consequences would be a massive loss of competitiveness and jobs, as well as a setback for the greentec steel transformation project.
voestalpine has been listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange since October 9, 1995. Over the past 30 years, Group turnover has increased more than six-fold and the number of employees has tripled. Today, the company is a leading global steel and technology group with around 500 companies and locations in more than 50 countries on all five continents. At the same time, voestalpine, as a leading domestic company, makes a significant contribution to economic performance, employment, and prosperity in Austria.
Primetals Technologies, a global plant engineering company, voestalpine, the international steel and technology group, and Rio Tinto, one of the world’s leading mining companies, are taking a completely new and promising approach to researching steel production with net zero CO2 emissions. Today’s groundbreaking ceremony at the voestalpine location in Linz marks the start of construction of Hy4Smelt—the world’s first industrial-scale demonstration plant capable of combining two innovative technologies: a hydrogen-based direct reduction process for ultra-fine iron ores and an electric smelting process. The industrial-scale demonstration plant is scheduled to commence first production by the end of the 2027 calendar year, with the research project ending in 2030. The total costs amount to around EUR 170 million. Hy4Smelt is therefore the largest climate action research project in Austria.
voestalpine relies on the success factor of its own specialist training. With the start of the new training year on September 1, 372 young people across Austria are beginning their apprenticeships at the international steel and technology group. 169 apprentices are starting in Upper Austria, 160 in Styria, and 43 in Lower Austria. voestalpine currently offers attractive career prospects to around 1,600 apprentices worldwide—1,070 of them in Austria. This makes the Group the largest industrial apprentice trainer in the country.
The third edition of the voestalpine cares run, the steel and technology group’s global exercise initiative, was once again a great success this year. Under the motto “Running together for a good cause,” employees worldwide were once again able to collect more than 1.1 million kilometers of “cares” in just under three months by running, walking, hiking, wheelchair riding, or hand biking. These “cares” were converted by voestalpine into donations for charitable purposes. Donations totaling EUR 700,000 were handed over to Doctors Without Borders, Hilfswerk International, the Austrian Red Cross, and UNICEF Austria for chosen national and international aid projects. For the first time, the voestalpine cares run was awarded first prize in the “Large Companies” category by “Wirtschaft hilft.”
voestalpine has produced the world’s first hydrogen-based rail at its Donawitz site as part of a pilot project. The “green” rail consists of a mix of scrap and hydrogen-reduced pure iron, which was produced in the HYFOR pilot plant in Donawitz. The raw material was melted down in the company’s own TechMet research steelworks in Donawitz and then processed into the finished rail in the neighboring rail rolling mill. Like all rails produced by voestalpine, the hydrogen-based rail is particularly hard and highly wear-resistant. The first rail of this type has now been laid at Linz Central Station.