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- Swiss Steel Holding AG, headquartered in Emmenbrücke, Switzerland and founded in 1887, manufactures and sells specialty long steel products including engineering steel such as cold upsetting and cold extrusion, free-cutting, quenched and tempered, high-strength special, precipitation-hardening ferritic-perlitic, bearing, nitriding, bainitic, and case-hardening steels; stainless steel encompassing austenitic, austenitic-ferritic and duplex, ferritic, martensitic, precipitation hardening, heat resistant, and non-magnetic steels; and tool steel comprising cold and hot work, plastic moulding, high-speed, ferro-titanit, and hard alloys steels, along with custom forgings, mold steel, fluid ends, additive manufacturing powder and wire, melting of scrap, hot forming, and heat treatment services. The company operates through Production and Sales & Services segments, serving industries such as automotive, agriculture and construction, mechanical engineering, energy, oil, gas and mining, aerospace, medical technology, additive manufacturing, and tool making, with geographic presence in Switzerland, Germany, France, Italy, other Europe, the United States, Canada, other Americas, China, India, Asia Pacific, and Africa. Formerly known as Schmolz + Bickenbach AG until its renaming in September 2020, Swiss Steel Holding AG employs approximately 7,450 to 10,000 people and focuses on sustainable steel production using electric arc furnaces and hydrogen initiatives like the EU-funded HYDREAMS project; recent developments include board changes announced in June 2025, an annual general meeting approving all proposals in June 2025, a planned reverse stock split detailed in May 2024, decisions by the Swiss Takeover Board on an opting-out clause in March 2024, divestitures of distribution subsidiaries such as those in Germany, Austria, Benelux to Jacquet Metals previously and Eastern Europe entities approved by the EU, and prior acquisitions like Ascometal in 2018.