History

A modern enterprise full of tradition

Swiss Steel AG, a high-level centre of competence for quality, high-grade and free-cutting steel, is formed according to modern entrepreneurial principles. Our success is based on two important corner-pillars: qualified staff and modern equipment. Close cooperation with our customers helps us to exploit our innovation potential.

At the same time, we are looking back on more than 150 years of traditional and profound experience in steel production. In the last decades, besides the production of structural steel and concrete steel, we have continuously expanded in the range of engineering steel and free-cutting steel (QEA). Since the merger in 1996 of the von Moos group with the Steel activities of Von Roll in Switzerland to form Swiss Steel, we are concentrating entirely on the production of high quality QEA steels.

Some key data of our company history:

1842   Begin of the industrial production at von Moos (wire drawing plant) 
1853   First iron production plant with rolling mill in Emmenbrücke 
1889   First Siemens-Martin steel plant
1895   First wire rod mill with electric drive instead of steam drive
1939   Electric steel mill with two new furnaces
1955   Semi-continuous wire mill within the rolling mill  
1970   New electric furnace and worldwide first curved mould casting machine (4 strands)  
1973   Formation of the von Moos group with 35 group associations  
1980   New 3-strand hot rolling mill (investment: CHF 123 million  
1988   Foundation of von Moos Holding AG and issue of public shares quoted at the stock exchange  
1988   First quality certification to ISO 9001  
1996   Merger with Von Roll Steel and complete reorganisation. Foundation of Swiss Steel AG
2003   Acquisition of majority of shares of Swiss Steel AG by SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH AG
2006   Swiss Steel AG has changed the name to SCHMOLZ + BICKENBACH AG
2007   von Moos Stahl AG has changed the name to Swiss Steel AG