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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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