Voestalpine has landed the largest-ever order in the group’s high bay warehouse segment, executives announced on Wednesday.
From the end of this year, the Austrian group will implement a major project for a logistics service provider in Turkey, it says without naming the customer. “This will be a hall of 200 metres length, 60m wide, 40m high, using 10,000 tonnes of beams,” chief executive Herbert Eibensteiner said during a virtual conference monitored by Kallanish.
He also announced the completion of a project by the Metal Forming division in the USA – the expansion of a production hall for the manufacture of longitudinal truck beams in Jeffersonville, Indiana. Production here is scheduled to start in July 2026, and 100 of the 110 new employees have already been recruited.
A milestone for the Railway Systems business unit in Austria is the impending opening of the “Koralmbahn” railway in December. The Koralm Tunnel – the world’s sixth-longest railroad tunnel – represents a role model for further rail infrastructure projects, and a flagship achievement for Austria, Eibensteiner said. Voestalpine equipped the project with premium rails and high-tech turnouts, fastening systems, as well as signalling and safety technology.
For its railways activities, the group remains optimistic for the near future. The more problematic sectors, mechanical engineering, construction, and consumer goods, are expected to remain at least stable at their current level, the group says.
In terms of regions, low economic growth is expected to continue in Europe throughout the rest of the group’s business year – to March 2026. In North America, most economists expect economic growth to continue over the course of the business year, which will benefit voestalpine’s sites in the USA. In Brazil, industry has been weighed down by high interest rates, US tariff policy, and an influx of Chinese-origin imports.
China, on the other hand, has maintained its growth trend, particularly in the industrial sector, and this is unlikely to change significantly in the remainder of the business year, voestalpine says.
Christian Koehl Germany
