Early 2000,

US-based private equity fund Safeguard International has acquired all the shares of Sudamin Investment through a newly-established company, Sudamin Holding.
Safeguard International has made a number of investments in metallurgical and chemical industries in Europe and North Americain the past couple of years, including ALD vacuum Technologies of Hanau, Germany, Metallurg Inc in New York and Becancour Silicon in Canada.

End of June 2000,

Sudamin has acquired all shares of Metal Chimie Environnement (MCE) based in Paris (France) and renamed Sudamin France.

Sudamin became a subsidiary of Metallurg Inc. on June 30th, 2006.
Metallurg Inc. is part of the group AMG NV since late 2006.
AMG NV has been listed on the Euronext stock excange on July 11th, 2007.
Safeguard fund remains the main shareholder of AMG NV.

In June 2008,

SUDAMIN IT sarl has been launched.
Its three fields of activities are :

1. Adapt the home ERP to the production needs.
2. Trade of hardware/software covering all NITC needs
3. IT audit, Surveys, Training in all NITC field

Website : http://www.sudaminIT.com

Early 2009,

SUDAMIN became the official worldwide marketing agent of the Chinese producer "Tangshan Tianhe Titanium Co Ltd" for the sale of titanium sponge.
This agency is fully integrated in our group's existing titanium alloys and ferro-titanium production.

The second quarter of 2009,

China being a strategic source of raw materials and a rapidly growing market, SUDAMIN has opened a Representative Office in Beijing / China. (->http://www.sudamin.com/contact.htm)