In 1957, a group of traders decided to set-up a small silver plating workshop in Heliopolis, a district north of Cairo city.

This workshop had a dual purpose: first to silver plate stainless steel and brass items manufactured in Europe, and second, to offer hotels and restaurants after-sales service and maintenance.

Eventually, under the management of one of the owners, Mr. Maher Henein, the company became the representative of BEARD S.A. (Switzerland), and later WMF (Germany). With these two agencies, BEARD and WMF, the company controlled 60% of the hotels and restaurants market.

In 1984, under the management of Mr. Karim Henein, the company changed the strategy from importation to manufacturing, and the workshop was moved out of Cairo, in the Hykestep industrial zone.

With limited expansion, the company started small scale manufacturing under a new entity METALART SILVERWARE S.A.E.

The increasing demand for quality Stainless Steel and Silver plated helped the company to expand even further, and the small scale factory was moved to the industrial zone in Ramadan 10th City. Furthermore, In 1998, METALART acquired an even larger site in the same industrial city and a new larger factory was built.

In 2001, a new venture was established between METALART, AL-AHLY for DEV. & INV. (an investment company), BEARD S.A. (Switzerland) and other prominent Egyptian Investors. This new venture METALART S.A.E. First acquired all the manufacturing assets of BEARD S.A. in Montreux and then complemented its new Hollowware and Flatware production lines by buying most of the machines, tools and dies of the famous American tableware manufacturer "FORMAN & SONS" of Brooklyn, New York.

Today METALART S.A.E. is the largest tableware manufacturer in the Middle-East and Africa, and its quality products are exported to many countries worldwide including U.S.A., Switzerland, Canada, Mexico, Croatia, U.A.E., Saudi-Arabia, Mauritius, South-Africa, Ivory Coast, etc.