UTP Schweissmaterial GmbH is a traditional German company manufacturing welding consumables and based in Bad Krozingen.
The company supplies consumables both directly and via a sales network of 70 of its own and alliance partners in several countries.
Production facilities were built between 1956 and 1969 in Switzerland, France, Mexico and Brazil.
In 1977 UTP was the first European manufacturer of welding consumables to gain ASME and VdTüV approval.
In 1991, UTP was taken over by Böhler Schweißtechnik Austria GmbH (a subsidiary of Böhler-Uddeholm AG).