The 1870s. Reigning in Europe are Queen Victoria, Czar Alexander II, Emperor William I and his Chancellor Bismarck, and Emperor Franz Joseph in Austria.
Vienna, already a city of a million people, is a European economic magnet. The Böhler brothers from Frankfurt are also drawn to this aspiring city. As shrewd salesmen, they are attracted by the high quality of Styrian steel, for which they see great, and underutilized, market potential.
In 1870 they negotiate exclusive agency with the imperial chartered cast steel plant in Kapfenberg and found Gebrüder Böhler & Co Handelsgesellschaft company, with headquarters in Vienna, on April 15.
BÖHLER arrived to Spain by the early 1900s through an agency located in Bilbao. Later, in 1932, the company decided to establish its own Spanish delegation in Barcelona.
Nowadays BÖHLER is a division of BÖHLER-UDDEHOLM IBÉRICA, whose headquarters are in Barcelona. Thanks to our warehouses and service centers in Barcelona and Bilbao we can reach our customers with proximity and deliver the best technical and logistic support to the whole Spanish territory.
