In Frankfurt since 1876
We have been trading in metal for 150 years, since 1955 at the same address in Frankfurt’s Ostend. What began as a coal and bar iron trade is today a semi-finished products warehouse with its own sheet metal fabrication.
- 1876 Founded as C. A. Holl
The company C. A. Holl is founded in Allerheiligenstraße in Frankfurt am Main, initially trading in coal and bar iron.
- 1894 Metallgesellschaft comes on board
Metallgesellschaft AG and Joseph take a stake. The company trades as Holl, Joseph & Cie. KG at Moselstraße 43 and focuses on non-ferrous metals, the focus that still applies today.
- 1901 Registered as a GmbH
The limited partnership becomes a GmbH (limited company).
- 1930 Complete takeover
Metallgesellschaft takes over the company completely.
- 1937 Holl becomes Metallverkaufsgesellschaft
The renaming goes hand in hand with expanding the business into scrap metal trading.
- 1955 Move to Hanauer Landstraße 421
New offices and warehouse facilities are built at the address where we are still based today. The focus is on semi-finished products in aluminium, copper, stainless steel and brass.
- 1963 A visitor from Washington
On 25 June 1963, John F. Kennedy, President of the USA, drives along Hanauer Landstraße past MVG during his visit to Frankfurt.
- 1969 A hall of 2,700 square metres
The warehouse grows to the area that still supports the business today.
- 1990s MVG Metallverkaufsgesellschaft mbH & Co. KG
After several changes of name, today’s legal form is created.
- 2001 125 years
The company celebrates its 125th anniversary, as a metal trader in the third half-century at the same place.
- 2010 New administrative offices
The offices are modernised; the business switches to fully digital order processing.
- 2023 Our own laser
With the laser, production comes in-house: cutting, bending and deburring have since taken place at the same address as the trading business.
- 2026 Ordering in the browser
Configurators, instant prices from our own calculation and an order status every customer can follow online, developed in-house, because no standard software connects trading and production the way we work.
What still counts today
A company that has been selling metal for 150 years knows its materials. You notice that not in a brochure but on the phone: whoever calls us speaks to someone who knows why a material suits its purpose and when it does not. Since 2023 there has also been our own production: trading and manufacturing in one place, one contact, short distances.
The address has stayed the same too. Hanauer Landstraße 421, since 1955. Customers from the Rhine-Main region collect their parts instead of waiting for a parcel.
Machinery
- Fibre laser cutting system: Laser cutting of sheet metal parts with contours, holes and cut-outs.
- Punch-laser combination: Punching, laser cutting, thread forming, forming and marking in one set-up.
- CNC guillotine shear: Straight cuts from sheet metal plates.
- CNC press brake: Bending with angle measurement during the bend.
- Saw: Cutting bars, tubes and profiles to length.
- Tapping machine: Tapping threads in holes.
- Pillar drilling machine: Drilling and countersinking.
The tolerances that apply to your parts are listed under Tolerances.
