Eurometaal was one of the leading ammunition producing companies of the Netherlands.
[3] Eurometaal has developed weaponry for the Royal Netherlands Army from NR20 C1 hand grenades to tanks.
[4] In the nineties, an employee of the hand grenade factory in Liebenau revealed that their grenades were used in the Kurdish-Turkish conflict, which created a PR nightmare and led to the shutdown of the factory in Germany in 1993.
The arms created in Germany had transited through the Netherlands before being delivered to Turkey, amid a German ban on arm trades with Turkey.
[6] Following the European defense conversion program, Eurometaal successfully diversified its activities to gear to civilians, by laying off hundreds of employees and acquiring existing civil companies.