Blume's History

Despite the fact that Blume has been acting on the steel market for decades, there has always been a constant - our good company name. Blume has established a brand name itself that nowadays stands for great competence in steel flat products.

1955	Walter Blume founds the "Walter Blume GmbH Eisengrosshandlung" based in Stuttgart.
1964	Opening of the branches in Frankfurt, Ludwigshafen, Muelheim, Muenchen and Weidenau as well as the Profiling Center Stuttgart.
1966	Opening of the branches in Dortmund and Lebach/Saar
1970	Opening of the branch in Hamburg
1977	The "Walter Blume GmbH" becomes part of British Steel and changes its name to "British Steel - Walter Blume Handels GmbH" based in Stuttgart.
1984	Merger with the "Württembergische Schrottgesellschaft mbH"
1986	Blume changes its firm name into "Walter Blume GmbH". Business activities expand into the direction of steel processings.
1988	Take-over of the companies "Vereinigte Eisenhandlungen Zahn & Cie." and "Friedrich Nopper, Zweigniederlassung Stahlhandel Zuffenhausen" and continuation of their businesses under the name of our branch in Stuttgart
1991	The branch in Lebach/Saar is being relocated to Saarbruecken
1992	Opening of the branch in Zwickau
1994	Our place of business is relocated to Duesseldorf. Blume keeps its brand name and signs with the firm name "British Steel Blume GmbH".
1999	British Steel merges with Koninklijke Hoogovens of the Netherlands and creates one of the largest steel producers in the world - the Corus plc. based in London/GB
2000	Blume changes its firm name into "Blume Stahlservice GmbH".
2003	Place of business is relocated from Duesseldorf to Muelheim.
2004	Opening of the first foreign branch in Zabrze / Poland.
2005	Our foreign branch in Zabrze / Poland transforms into a private limited company (Ltd.). The place of business is relocated from Zabrze to Gliwice and also includes warehousing.
2007	Corus merges with Tata Steel and creates the 6th largest steel producer in the world.
2009	Our foreign branch in Poland is relocated from Gliwice to Sosnowiec.
2010	Opening of the sales office in Regensburg
2010	Rebranding of Corus in Tata Steel Europe