What we bring you
Sales
Access to the group's client portfolio across all safety & quality services. The ability to bid on multi-site and multi-country tenders. Your sales teams benefit from shared CRM tooling and centralised referencing with major industrial buyers.
Quality & Accreditations
Centralised regulatory monitoring across ISO/IEC 17020, ISO/IEC 17025, EN ISO 9001 and sector-specific frameworks (EN 9100, IATF 16949, ISO 13485, GMP, ATEX, PED). Sharing of procedures and best practices between companies and support on audits.
Technology
Access to the group's modern technology stack for all applications (e.g. LIMS, inspection management software, field-service apps, customer portals, etc.)
Operations
Pooling of standards, heavy equipment and specialist capabilities between companies. Cross-deployment of inspectors and technicians to meet specific client requests. The group's network allows for a broader scope of services and accreditations without duplicating investments.
Back office
We take on the support functions: accounting, payroll, legal, IT, indirect procurement, financial control. We also provide consolidated reporting and a common financial framework, without forcing an ERP migration or rewriting your local processes.
HR
Coordinated recruitment of technical profiles (technicians, engineers, quality managers), pooled training plans, and inter-company mobility.
What doesn't change
Joining Metrallia is not an industrial takeover. Your business keeps what makes it valuable.
Your brand, your identity and your story are preserved. Your teams stay in place. Your clients keep working with the same people they always have, with full continuity of service. You stay in charge of day-to-day operations.
The group brings resources and a framework — not a centralised approval chain.
Why Metrallia, why now?
The European Quality & Safety services market is built on tens of thousands of independent operators, the vast majority of which are run by founders nearing succession or looking to accelerate their growth. Two options currently dominate for these companies: acquisition by a large international group that absorbs the brand and restructures the service, or sale to a fund that plans to resell the business five years later.
We built Metrallia as a third way: a patient shareholder, with no exit strategy, that provides the resources of a large group without imposing centralisation. So that the businesses that have taken thirty years to build their reputation can continue to do so, under their own name, for the next thirty years.
The steps to join us
1. Initial exchange: A confidential, no-obligation conversation between us. The objective: to understand your company, your history, your ambitions, and to explain to you in concrete terms how Metrallia works.
2. Letter of intent: If the exchange is positive on both sides, we quickly formalise a letter of intent with a valuation and the main principles of the operation (governance, reinvestment methods, etc.).
3. Targeted audit: Our due diligence is intentionally brief and focused on the issues that matter: the quality of your customer base, accreditation scope, upcoming capital expenditures, and key personnel. Financial, legal, and technical work is conducted in parallel, in close collaboration with your advisors.
4. Closing & Integration: Welcome to the group!
Indicative timeframe: between 2 and 6 months between the first exchange and the closing.
We are committed to respecting your constraints and guaranteeing complete visibility at every stage.