Bohler-Uddeholm.BOHLER-UDDEHOLM, an Austrian specialty-steel maker, acquired 100% of Brazil's Villares Metals, a manufacturer of tool steel, high-speed steel high-speed steel Alloy of steel introduced in 1900. It doubled or trebled the capacities of machine shops by permitting the operation of machine tools at twice or three times the speeds possible with carbon steel (which loses its cutting edge when the temperature produced by and valve steel, for US$74 million. Bohler-Uddeholm consolidated con·sol·i·date v. con·sol·i·dat·ed, con·sol·i·dat·ing, con·sol·i·dates v.tr. 1. To unite into one system or whole; combine: Villares Metals at the beginning of April. |
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