The CRONIMET Holding Group, headquartered in Karlsruhe, Germany, is a global specialist for stainless steel scrap and ferroalloys. The focus here is on returning metallic raw materials to the materials cycle through recycling and processing, thus contributing to the securing of raw materials and raw material efficiency. For more than four decades, the company has been supplying raw materials to the stainless steel producing industry. The CRONIMET Holding Group was founded in 1980 and is now present with around 1600 employees at 75 locations worldwide.

The CRONIMET Group was established in 1980 in Germany.
Initially it was a small, family-owned company, which sold scrap. However, from the very beginning it conducted its activity on the basis of own mission, the main goal of which was to focus on the needs of customers and suppliers. From year to year, the company expanded, entering new markets, purchasing existing businesses and opening branches in other European countries. In 1995, it founded the first company in Africa (South Africa), in 1997 – in the USA, and in 1990 in South America (Brazil).