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Our Journey

It all began in the industrial heart of North Rhine-Westphalia — where steel, metals and commodity trade are not abstract concepts, but lived practice. Long before we formulated strategies, we traded: physical goods, real markets, tangible supply chains. That foundation built on actual transactions — not textbooks — is the core of everything Global Met GmbH is today.

 

Over time, our network grew beyond Germany's borders. The first international trade relationships did not emerge from marketing campaigns, but from the daily exchange with suppliers, buyers and partners across multiple continents. We learned what truly moves markets: trust, reliability, and the understanding that every border has its own rules.

 

Trading experience became strategic knowledge. Contacts became lasting partnerships. And a regional company with a global outlook became Global Met GmbH — a consultancy that does not sell theory, but delivers results, because we have walked the markets we now guide our clients into.

 

Today we accompany companies from Germany into the world — and from the world into Germany. Across four continents. With twenty years of real-world experience. And with the same principle that has guided us from the very beginning: precision, reliability, and a handshake that holds.

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Our Team

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Eduard Paffenrot

Founder & CEO

Over 30 years of hands-on experience in international business, cross-border projects and industrial trade across Europe, Asia, the Middle East and Africa. Eduard founded Global Met on one conviction: the best advisors are those who have personally done what they ask their clients to do.

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Michelle

Co-Founder & Director of Operations

The operational backbone of Global Met. Michelle's expertise in business administration and compliance ensures that every strategy we develop is executed with the precision and documentation standards our clients depend on.

Thomas Brenner

Co-Founder & Head of Investment Advisory

A corporate finance and M&A specialist with deal experience across more than 20 countries. Thomas bridges the gap between capital and industrial opportunity — connecting investors with high-value projects in the sectors and markets where Global Met operates.

Our values

Precision over promises. We say what we mean and deliver what we say. Every recommendation we make is backed by evidence, experience and accountability — not optimism.

Trust is built in the field, not on paper. Our relationships are earned through decades of real transactions, real markets and real risk. We do not sell access — we share it.

German standards, global perspective. We bring the rigour, structure and reliability that German business culture is known for — and apply it across every market, culture and time zone we operate in.

We walk the path with you. We do not hand over a report and move on. We stay engaged from first analysis through to final result, because your success is the only measure of ours.

  • Integrity

  • People

  • Velocity

  • Flexibility

  • Vision

This Is Us In Numbers

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Continents We are Represent

30+

Business Partners in Over 20 Countries

23

Years of Experience

5

Industry Areas. Core and Growing.

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