Team spirit as strong as steel
We aim to always offer our steel and metal-working customers the best solutions – tailored to their needs. In order to achieve this, we constantly look ahead and continuously develop ourselves and our work. We place enormous value on working together as partners with mutual appreciation and trust, not only in our dealings with customers and suppliers, but also as a team.
This drive has made us a market leader in the steel and metal trading sector; leading in terms of product variety, the technical equipment used in our operations, and last but not least in the quality and innovativeness of our services.
Our quality standards are regularly checked by external bodies – the EHG Group is certified in accordance with DIN ISO 9001. Mobile spectral analysis, ultrasonic testing, restamping and uninterrupted batch tracking complete the scope of our quality assurance efforts.
The EHG Executive Board: Dr Markus Lutz (left) and Stefan Girardi (right)
Facts and figures
Milestones
2023
2023
Pader-Stahl becomes part of the EHG Group
2022
2022
Start construction of new building EHG in Heubach, Germany
2020
2020
Completion of the largest construction project in the company's history encompassing 12,500 square metres: new office building, staff restaurant and two high-bay warehouses. Expansion of the sawing centres and basement car park.
2018
2018
Acquisition of Lingemann Stahlgroßhandel GmbH and Stahlkontor GmbH in Bad Oeynhausen.
2015
2015
Opening of the sites in Waldstetten, Germany and the associated cutting centre in Göppingen. Opening of the site in Bucharest, Romania.
2006 to 2010
2006 to 2010
2006: Acquisition of Aluson-Stahl AG in Altstätten, Switzerland.
2008: New high-bay warehouse for bar steel and pipe quality steel with 4,000 cassette spaces. New fully automatic sawing centre.
2001 to 2005
2001 to 2005
2001: Work starts with our first industrial customer (Doppelmayr). New logo (EHG Stahl.Metall).
2002: New sales office in Kirchham, Upper Austria. Takeover of Thommel; foundation of Thommel-EHG Stahlhandels GmbH in Baienfurt, Germany.
2003: New construction of the administration wing and erection of two automatic high-bay warehouses for non-ferrous metals (bar stock and sheet metal) - a total of 6,500 cassette spaces.
2004: New sales office in Vienna.
2005: Acquisition of the steel and pipe trading company SRH in Odelzhausen, Germany.
1990 to 2000
1990 to 2000
1994: Certification of EHG quality management in accordance with ISO.
1996: First sales activities in southern Germany with internal field sales force.
1998: Construction of the first fully automatic high-bay warehouse (UNITOP) with around 1,550 cassette spaces.
1999: Expansion of the beam and hollow section hall.
2000: New sheet metal storage hall. Acquisition of the most high-tech fully automatic sawing centre in Europe, as well as two large automatic sawing machines.
1964 to 1990
1964 to 1990
1964: Planning and construction of the company's first two warehouses with approx. 2,500 m² of storage space.
1966: Operations start with the sale of concrete and rolled steel and completion of the first warehouses.
1977: First sawing, laser and corrosion protection system.
1984: New stainless steel warehouse.
1988-1989: Expansion of the stock range to include bright steel, quality steel and non-ferrous metals. Construction of the first high-bay warehouse. New beam hall. Extension of the administration building.
1963
1963
Four Vorarlberg ironmongers (the Ulmer brothers in Dornbirn, Josef Pircher in Bregenz, Josef Schmidt's successors in Bludenz and Paul v. Furtenbach in Feldkirch) jointly spin off the trade in rolled steel products and establish the iron trading company OHG.
