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1842 – The beginnings: In the beginning, there was cast steel
Bochumer Verein owes its existence to an invention by a native of Bochum, Jacob Mayer, who developed a method for casting steel as a finished workpiece and set up a company to market new products made by that method.
The company enjoyed initial fame on account of its cast steel bells. Since then, Bochumer Verein has had a long and checkered history, several owners, many expansions and divestments, as well as a range of different names. In 1998 it was lastly given back its own characteristic, historic name, thereby establishing a reference to the innovative history of previous decades.
1841-1859
- 1841
First successful steel casting trial by Jacob Mayer
- 1842
Establishment of Gußstahlfabrik Mayer & Kühne
- 1844
Commencement of cast steel production
- 1850
Patent application for steel casting invented by Jacob Mayer
- 1852
First exhibition of six cast steel bells at the Provincial Trade Exhibition in Düsseldorf
- 1853
Patent for Alfred Krupp to manufacture seamlessly forged wheel tyres from crucible cast steel
- 1854
Establishment of Bochumer Verein für Bergbau und Gußstahlfabrikation
- 1855
'Gold Medal' at the Paris World Exhibition for inventing steel casting
- 1857-1859
Heavy hammers, tyre rolling mill 1, wheelset and axle turning shop, first gas illumination
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