Metall+Plastic

What Metall+Plastic does

Metall+Plastic is a privately held German specialty engineering firm headquartered in Radolfzell, Germany, founded in 1957. The company designs, manufactures, installs, qualifies, and validates custom-designed isolators — sealed, controlled-environment enclosures typically deployed in pharmaceutical, biotechnology, and other aseptic/containment-critical production settings. Its offering spans the full asset lifecycle: from engineering design and fabrication through on-site installation and regulatory qualification/validation, indicating the firm operates as an integrated project-based supplier rather than a component vendor.

The company operates with a workforce of 51-100 employees and is led by Managing Director Stefan Knellwolf. Metall+Plastic is positioned within the German Mittelstand — a long-tenured, privately controlled specialty manufacturer serving regulated industrial end markets. Its product surface is narrow and deep: custom isolators require engineered-to-order configuration per customer line, regulatory familiarity, and after-sales validation services, all of which are bundled into the firm's scope.

The business model is project-based and services-intensive. Revenue mechanics are driven by engineered equipment sales combined with installation and qualification/validation service contracts, typical of niche containment-system suppliers to pharmaceutical and life-sciences customers. The firm maintains a corporate website at metall-plastic.com. No public revenue, funding history, customer disclosures, or ownership details are available in the input data, and the company's own web-presence data was largely inaccessible during data collection, limiting visibility into specific customers, contract values, pricing structure, and geographic reach.

Name

Metall+Plastic

Website

https://metall-plastic.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1957

Headcount range

51–100 employees

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Radolfzell

HQ country

Germany

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Hardware or Manufacturing

Cost components

Supply Chain, Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Metall+Plastic designs, manufactures, installs, qualifies, and validates custom-engineered isolators for industrial customers. The company delivers both the physical isolator hardware and the associated lifecycle services required to deploy and certify the equipment in customer facilities.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Custom-designed isolators

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Recent moves2 records

Direct peers

• Fedegari Group: Italian manufacturer of sterilization and aseptic processing equipment including isolators for pharma/biotech. Competes with Metall+Plastic in custom isolator design, manufacture and validation.
• Bioquell (Ecolab Life Sciences): UK-based provider of bio-decontamination and isolator-based solutions for life sciences, now part of Ecolab. Comparable product range (isolators + decontamination) and similar customer base in pharma manufacturing.
• SKAN AG: Swiss manufacturer of isolators, decontamination systems and cleanroom equipment for the pharmaceutical and biotech industries. Closest direct competitor to Metall+Plastic's custom isolator offering with similar validation/qualification capabilities.
• ILC Dover: US-based engineered solutions provider of flexible containment, isolators and powder handling systems for pharma/biotech. Direct competitor in custom containment isolator design and validation.
• Comecer Group: Italian producer of isolators, RABS and containment/sterile processing solutions for radiopharmacy, pharma and nuclear medicine. Directly comparable to Metall+Plastic in custom isolator design and regulatory qualification.
• Jacomex: French specialist in glove boxes, isolators and containment enclosures for nuclear, pharmaceutical and research labs. Comparable custom-build capability and regulatory validation focus.
• Telstar (Grupo Azbil): Spanish-based supplier of integrated aseptic processing solutions including isolators and containment systems. Direct competitor serving similar pharma/biotech customers with comparable qualification services.

Broad incumbents

• Getinge: Large Swedish medical-tech and life-science equipment group whose portfolio includes pharmaceutical isolators and sterility solutions. Overlaps with Metall+Plastic's offering but as part of a much broader portfolio spanning operating rooms and ICU.
• Bosch Packaging Technology (Syntegon): Large German packaging/process equipment supplier whose aseptic processing line includes isolator-based fill-finish solutions. Broader portfolio but directly serves the same pharma containment buyers as Metall+Plastic.

Regional players

• Ziemann Holvrieka: European (German-headquartered) fabricator of stainless steel process and containment vessels for pharma/food. Adjacent custom stainless fabrication peer, useful for engineering benchmark though not a direct isolator competitor.

Market position

Strengths3 records

Weaknesses3 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks4 records

Key highlights4 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/MetallundPlastic
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/metall-plastic

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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