!!!RHI AG

RHI AG, industrial group with world-wide activities, founded in 1987 
(under the name of Radex-Heraklith Industriebeteiligungs AG until 
1998) with headquarters in Vienna; activities: refractory products, 
sealing and insulating materials, engineering. World leader in 
refractory products (supplier to the metal, cement and glass 
industries); engineering activities include the construction of lime 
kilns and smelting furnaces for the aluminium and copper industries 
and air heaters for the steel industry; RHI's Heraklith is one of the 
most important insulating materials in Europe; while Vedag-Villas 
makes the company the market leader for bituminous sealing materials. 
The group's most important Austrian subsidiary in the field of 
refractory products is   (see) Veitsch-Radex GmbH, which was fully 
integrated into RHI AG in 1999.  Its principal production sites are 
located at Fuernitz, Ferndorf (both in Carinthia) and Wels (Upper 
Austria); with a staff of 10,412 employees in more than 50 locations 
worldwide RHI AG reported sales in the order of ATS 22.1 billion 
in 1998. Listed as a public corporation on the stock exchanges of 
Vienna, Frankfurt am Main and Munich.


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