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Development and expansion
Bochumer Verein, like industry as a whole, benefited from the vigorous emergence of the railways in the last century. Very soon after being established, the company started to manufacture what it is famous for today: wheelsets, wheels, wheel tyres and rings, for which it used the most innovative techniques. Besides a breakneck technical development, the company showed responsibility for the personal interests of its employees and their families.
Chronology 1859-1938
- 1859-1860
First delivery of cast steel tyres, monobloc wheels and wheelsets
- 1862
Acquisition of Bessemer patent, London World Exhibition, demonstration of monobloc wheels
- 1863
Acquisition of patent for Siemens regenerative firing
- 1873
Construction of first blast furnace plant for metallurgical coke plant and open-hearth furnace plant 1 commenced
- 1880
Acquisition of Thomas steelmaking patent, construction of a monobloc wheel rolling mill, first electrical workshop
- 1898
Establishment of a training workshop
Manufacture of flat-bottom and grooved rail switches and crossings
- 1911-1912
Construction of open-hearth furnace plant 2, pig iron-ore process
- 1926
Establishment of Vereinigte Stahlwerke
Transfer of hitherto operated raw materials companies: hard coal pits "Engelsburg", "Carolinenglück" and "Teutoburgia", ore mines in the Siegerland region and Sweden, limestone and quartzite works
- 1933
Re-establishment of Bochumer Verein für Gußstahlfabrikation AG as part of the reorganisation of Vereinigte Stahlwerke
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