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On 23rd of March 2010, following a major extension, PT Bohler Welding Group South East Asia has inaugurated its production plant and regional sales centre in Cikarang, close to the Indonesian capital Jakarta. The production plant, which has been established in 1997, has undergone a substantial expansion over the last 6 months, the production area has been more than doubled to over 4.000 square metres. This is resulting in a substantial broadening of the product portfolio and in an increase in the production capacity for the manufacture of welding consumables to over 6.000 tonnes per year. The production plant services its customers in the Asia Pacific Region as well in the USA, Middle East and Africa. In the medium term, the workforce in this production and sales centre belonging to the Bohler Welding Group is set to increase to more than 100 employees.
PT Bohler Welding Group has also expanded its regional sales centre headquartered in Cikarang, Indonesia. Besides the extension of the sales office also a regional training and demonstration center has been errected. With the objective to further strengthen its presence in South East Asia, PT Bohler Welding Group South East Asia, is opening sales offices in all major cities (Jakarta, Singapore, Bangkok and Kuala Lumpur) to cater its customer with a broad range of high quality products and service-based solutions.
About Bohler Welding Group
Bohler Welding Group – part of the Austrian voestalpine Group listed on the Vienna Stock Exchange - is one of the world's largest universal providers of welding consumables, for example for joint welding, repair welding and hard facing (coating) and a world market leader in the field of high- and highest-alloy welding consumables. The most important applications for welding consumables are petrochemicals and chemicals, construction of power generation plant and other plant, offshore oil and natural gas extraction, liquid gas (LNG tanks), pipeline construction, automotive manufacture and shipbuilding, foodstuffs, sugar processing, steel construction and apparatus engineering. With a workforce of approximately 1800 in eleven production plants in Austria, Belgium, Brazil, China, Germany, Indonesia, Mexico and Sweden, sales for the business year 2008/09 amounted to approximately 530 million Euros.
About voestalpine Group
voestalpine is an industry leader in customized high-quality and high-tech steel products and solutions. The group is represented worldwide by more than 360 production and sales companies in more than 60 countries throughout the world. voestalpine is worldwide number one in switch technology and special steel (such as tool steel) and a leading partner in the energy sector with high-quality heavy plates and seamless tubes. The group is market leader in Europe in high-quality steel strip, rails, special tubes and high-quality wire and a leading European supplier of high-quality automotive components.
In the 2008/09 business year voestalpine Group had annual sales of 11.6 billion Euros and employs 39,000 people around the globe.
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