Update

Update 88 - March 2026

Table of contents:

• Handover of leadership at Brütsch/Rüegger Metals AG
  and Walter Looser AG
• Market Situation
• Transition of delivery note dispatch
• Personal 
• Team
• Metals Puzzle
• Partner Platform: Berotec AG

Update 87 - Dezember 2025

Table of contents:

• Looser Product Range: NEW: LB 50 Lead-Free
• Market Situation
• Logistics: New Freight Forwarders
• Holiday Opening Hours
• Personal Notes
• Team
• Metals Puzzle
• Partner Platform: 40 Years of Pero-Press AG

Update 86 - May 2025

Table of contents:

• Produtct range expansion: Décolletage
• About us: Modernisation of Hall 5
• Market situation
• Personal
• Team
• Metals-crossword puzzle
• Partner platform: Tiefenbach Mechanik GmbH

Update 85 - October 2024

Table of contents:

• About us: Since August 15, we are also a solar power plant
• Market situation
• Worth knowing: Special machining processes
• Personal
• Team
• Metals puzzle
• Partner platform: OKEY AG

Update 84 - February 2024

Table of contents:

• Innovation: Introduction of robots in production
• Market situation
• Grüner steel
• Personal
• Team
• Metals puzzle
• Partner platform: ETSM SA

Update 83 -September 2023

Table of contents:

• Walter Looser AG
• Worth knowing: Which bronze for which application?
• Team
• Metals puzzle
• Partner platform: SACO Maschinenbau AG
  
  

Update 82 - June 2023

Table of Contents:

• Worth knowing: glühard of stählen
• Market development
• Starting shot conversion project 2023/24
• Persons
• Team
• Metals-Rätsel
• Partner platform:
• Herbert Wirz AG
  
  

Update 81 - February 2023

Table of Contents:

• Components – Manufacturing parts according to customer drawing
• Innoteq 2023
• Market development
• Persons
• Team
• Metal Rätsel
• Partner platform: projACIER SA

Update 80 - November 2022

Table of Contents:

• Assortment: shafts hardened/ground
• Metal at your service new on social media
• Knowledge: Incoterms® 2020
• Personal
• Team
• Metal Crossword puzzle
• Partner platform: MEBA AG

Update 79 - September 2022

Table of Contents:

• Assortment: Métafram sintered bearings
• New to Metalshop: bearing and short lengths
• Personally
• Team
• Market situation
• Metalshop Academy
• Partner platform: Rostan Suisse SA

Update 78 - February 2022

Table of Contents:

• Product range: Threaded rods
• Market situation
• 3D laser processing for tubes and profiles
• Personal
• Team
• Bargain
• Metalshop Academy
• Partner platform: ZW Hydraulik AG

Update 77 - November 2021

Table of Contents:

• Complete range of engineering steel
• Metalshop: new functions
• Personal
• Market situation: energy surcharge
• Team
• Metalshop Academy
• Partner platform: Premag

Update 76 - September 2021

Table of Contents:

• Extension of the product range: «Continuous casting»
• Personal
• Range extension: «Silver steel»
• Team
• Market situation
• New image film
• Metalshop Academy

Update 75 - April 2021

Table of Contents:

• Addition to product range: Inox line pipes 1.4404
• Metalshop SALE: New product category or filter option "Remaining stock".
• Price development: Rising steel prices
• Team
• Personal
• Metalshop Academy
• Partner platform: Mawatec AG

Update 74 - Decmeber 2020

Table of Contents:

• Expansion of product range: martensitic stainless steel
• In person: we would like to introduce ...
• know: Designation system for steels
• Team
• Metalshop-Academy
• know: Notched bar impact bending test

 

Update 73 - May 2020

Table of Contents:

• Assortment: new with lead-free automatic aluminium
• In person: we would like to introduce ...
• Market situation: availability & price development of steel
• Team
• Bargain
• Metalshop-Academy
• partner platform:
• "Super Connie" on the road

Update 72 - November 2019

Table of Contents:

• Assortment: New with Bronze
• Services: New catalogue ,,Metals''
• Worth knowing: Production and delivery tolerances for corrosionresistant steel pipes
• Team
• Metalshop Academy
• Partner platform: walter+bai ag

Update 71 - July 2019

Table of Contents:

• Assortment: new with fine grade structural steel normalised
• Worth knowing: Annealing process
• Services: Optimize logistics and ordering costs
• Review of the Swisstech '19 trade fair
• Team
• Metalshop Academy,
• Customer platform - Rheintal Härtetechnik

Update 70 - February 2019

Table of Contents:

• Milestone: new high-bay warehouse,
• Assortment: Extension with stainless steel, aluminium, brass,
• Metalshop - always one step ahead,
• Bargain,
• Swisstech 2019,
• Metalshop Academy,
• Customer platform - Tecnopinz SA

Update 69 - October 2018

Table of Contents:

• Components - Manufacturing parts according to customer drawings
• Assortment: Shafts hardened/ground, 
• Team
• Bargain 
• Metalshop Academy 
• Customer platform - Eckert AG

Update 68 - April 2018

Table of Contents:

• Tool steels from stock
• Price trend
• Worth knowing: Hardness of our bar steels 
• Quality first: Recertification according to ISO 9001:2015
• Team
• Bargain
• Metalshop Academy
• Customer Platform - MICAMATION AG

Update 67 - octobre 2017

Table of Contents:

• New Catalog Metals 2018 /19
• Price trend
• Extension of product range: screw conveyors and screw flights
• Efficiency / Environment: Clean washed pipes - delivered in boxes
• Team
• Bargain 
• Metalshop Academy
• Customer platform: Aficor SA

Update 66 - Juni 2017

Table of Contents:

• Components: Anodized / Anodized Aluminum Finished Parts
• price trend
• Bargain: remaining stock
• Expansion of product range
• Fine-grained structural steels
• Efficiency / Environment - Invoices in PDF format
• Team
• Daylight saving time - No company holidays
• Metalshop Academy
• Customer platform - Anox AG

Update 65 - Februar 2017

Table of Contents:

• Assortment: Hard chrome plated piston rods
• Bargain: remaining stock
• Price development / Adjustment of transport costs/LSVA
• Worth knowing - Piston rod qualities
• Review SWISSTECH '16
• Team,
• Customer Platform - ZylTec GmbH
• Metalshop Academy

Update 64 - Oktober 2016

Table of contents:

• Assortment: New with aluminium and brass
• Worth knowing: Bending HARDOX® tubes
• Takeover of customer and supplier base of Paul Gut Stahlberatung
• Re-stamping authorization
• SWISSTECH '16
• Team
• Customer platform - SUMEC AG 
• Metalshop Academy