The automation business completed a quality control project along with Voest-Alpine Stahl. In 2003, VAI subsidiary Voest-Alpine Services & Technologies Corp. became majority owner of Steel Related Technology of Blytheville, Arkansas. After the Siemens purchase of VA Technologie AG completed in July 2005, VAI became Siemens VAI, a part of the Siemens Industrial Solutions and Services Group. Siemens VAI was later named Siemens VAI Metals Technologies GmbH & Co. and also referred to as VAI Group, which was created from VAI and Siemens electrical engineering and automation businesses. Siemens Group Industrial Solutions and Services also included Voest-Alpine Services and Technologies (VAST). Both Siemens units operated from the Pittsburgh area. VAST provided mill maintenance services to steel and aluminum manufacturers from eleven locations: Baltimore, Maryland; North East, Maryland; New London, Ohio; Milan, Ohio; Benton Harbor, Michigan; Bethel Park, Pennsylvania; Blytheville, Arkansas; Charleston, South Carolina; Decatur, Alabama; and Erie, Pennsylvania in the United States and Sault Ste. Marie, Ontario in Canada. Creation of Primetals Technologies was announced in 2014. Mitsubishi acquired 51% of Siemens VAI. Primetals Technologies became operational in January 2015. In 2019, Primetals together with Mitsubishi Heavy Industries acquired ABP Induction Systems. The global headquarters are located in London, with the Sheffield operations in England run from Japan. Liquid metal operations are based in Linz. On September 30, 2019, Mitsubishi-Hitachi Metals Machinery (MHMM) and Siemens AG reached the agreement that MHMM will acquire Siemens’ 49 percent stake in Primetals Technologies. The transaction was completed at the end of January 2020. Primetals Technologies is now a joint venture of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and partners. The company has some 7,000 employees worldwide. 1,600 of those work in Linz.