We will close our business on August 15, 2026
Unfortunately, despite several years of intensive searching, we have been unable to find a suitable successor. Therefore, for age-related reasons, we have decided with a heavy heart to close our long-standing business in Tulln shortly before our 90th anniversary.
To ensure our customers continue to receive support, we sought out options and found a solution with our long-standing partner, OERTLI:
Starting July 1, 2026, OERTLI will take over field service and billing in Austria (we will continue to handle this ourselves for international customers).
We will provide advice and support during the transition period to ensure a smooth handover.
Also starting July 1, 2026, we will begin our warehouse clearance sale.
Our manufacturing operations will (expected) remain active until the end of July.
As of August 15, 2026, our sharpening service and manufacturing operations will be permanently closed, sale will continue.
Carbide Price Trends in 2026:
Currently carbide-prices are quite exploding due to tungsten-increase: In March 2026 we pay 5x the price of October 2025 for our raw carbide stripes and rods!
To partly compensate this, we introduced a “Raw material surcharge” that is adapted to the current situation. With 03/2026 we have +5% on TCT-tools (carbide tipped) and +20% on TC-cutters (made from massive carbide).
These percentages may rise or sink as the supply-situation changes.
Sorry for that and thank you for your understanding!
Our massive-carbide (TC) and Diamond (DP)-tipped router bits
Now online!
With direct order-possibility!
Non-standard-designs and dimensions are possible - please request!
Change of corporate form as of 1.10.2024
albinkraus gmbh will become
albinkraus OG as of Oct. 9th 2024.
The new company assumes all rights and obligations of the previous GmbH.
It has a new company register number (FN 637421i, LG St. Pölten) and a new UID: ATU81155134
Telephone, address, contact person and bank details remain unchanged.
In the years scince 1992 albinkraus developed to become Europe's leading supplier for companies fabricating Solid Surface Materials (Corian, Staron, HiMacs, Rauvisio etc). Therefore we iniciated the SolidSurfaceChallenge 2014 and 78 professionals from 12 countries followed our invitation. We all had an interesting day fullpacked with information in theory and practise, a nice trip to the newly buildt university of economy in Vienna, plenty of time for networking and an awesome gala-dinner in our therefore adapted production facility. Here you can find a Video-summary: