Ringmetall SE was founded in 1997 under the former name H.P.I. Holding AG. The company, which operated as an investment company, acquired, founded and sold numerous companies from 1998 onwards. In 2007, the company went public on the open market of the German Stock Exchange, followed by a switch to the Entry Standard of the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in 2012.

Following changes to the company’s Management Board in 2011 and 2014, the company increasingly focused on expanding its business with industrial packaging and the handling of industrial goods. In 2015, the company repositioned itself as a specialist provider in the packaging industry and changed its name to Ringmetall AG. Ringmetall underpinned this approach with the acquisition of Berger US, formerly Self Industries (2015), Nittel (2018), Tesseraux (2019), Rhein-Plast (2022), Protective Lining (2023) and Liner Factory (2023).

Due to the dynamic international growth strategy, the holding company was transformed from a German stock corporation into a European company (SE) in 2021. In view of the subsequent company integrations and further planned acquisitions, this was one of the cornerstones on the path to becoming a serial acquirer and global player.

The sale of HSM GmbH & Co. KG in 2023 marked the separation of the Industrial Handling division. Since then, the Ringmetall Group has focused on its core business as a pure specialist for industrial packaging in the two divisions Industrial Packaging Rings and Industrial Packaging Liner. The latter subsequently recorded three further company acquisitions in Poland, the Netherlands and Finland, with the takeover of Peak Packaging (2024), FIB Beer (2024) and Hutek (2025).