At the beginning of the millennium, after almost thirty years of growth and reinforcement of activities in several business areas, the industrial holding was created to add under the name Metalcon Investimentos SGPS, SA, a group of successful companies controlled by the Irmãos Silva family.

At that moment, and even in the first phase of its existence, the main reason for its constitution was precisely the management of family social shares.

With the growth of activities, the geographical and sectoral intervention base, the SGPS is assuming an increasingly important role in defining the Group’s overall strategy, whether due to the importance of centralized management of all corporate activity or through the definition of operational policies and management models that are transversal to all the investees.

It is in 2010, when the strategic plan of the holding dictates the formal and definitive start of the internationalization process, that the implemented management model increases its notoriety and relevance.

A model focused in increasing our operations value, materialized in business sustentability an overboard experiences sharing as a decisive factor for our investements evolution and available assets profitability.