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Voestalpine AG is an international steel company based in Linz, Austria. The company is active in steel, automotive, railway systems, profilform and Tool Steel industries.

Sixty per cent of its employment is in Austria. In addition to Linz the most important plants are in Leoben in Styria and in Krems in Lower Austria. It had a large plant at Liezen in Styria which closed in the 1990s.

In 1941, the voestalpine was founded as Eisenwerke Oberdonau (Ironworks of Upper Austria), a core component of the Reichswerke Hermann Göring AG cartel, serving as the main supplier of steel and iron for the German war industry during World War II. Following the war, it was nationalized by the Austrian government, primarily to prevent its confiscation by the occupying Allies, allowing the company to be controlled by powerful political interests. In 1952 voestalpine developed the LD process, the first basic oxygen steelmaking process.

From 1985 until 1995, steps were taken towards privatizing the corporation. Finally, in 2003, the name was changed to voestalpine AG in order to fit the standard naming pattern of Austrian public corporations.

In April 2007, voestalpine made a bid for the Austrian Tool Steel producer Böhler-Uddeholm. The bid was accepted by a majority of shareholders in June.

奥钢联集团公司(voestalpine AG)目前是奥地利最大的工业企业之一，按钢铁生产和用途下属四家分公司：钢铁冶炼分公司(Division Steel)、铁轨系统分公司(Division Railway Systems)、汽车用钢分公司(Division Motion)、管材分公司(Division Profilform)。

奥地利联合钢铁公司和阿尔宾纳矿冶公司原是奥地利两大主要钢铁联合企业。20世纪70年代初，世界钢铁工业危机加剧，为了摆脱危机，两家公司于1973年合并为奥钢联，成为奥地利最大的国营钢铁公司。

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