Metec West Africa Limited was incorporated in November 2006 between the promoters of NigerianFoundries Limitedand Metec Italia. In 2002 the Nigerian National Petroleum Corporation (NNPC) embarked on a drive to make the Oil & Gas industry support local content manufacturing and capacity building with the aim of industrializing Nigeria. The promoters of Nigerian Foundries Ltd (NFL) where approached by the Oil industry requesting they enter into a joint venture with a technical partner and produce in Nigeria sacrificial anodes. The idea was that since NFL was already a local content company, already in the foundry industry by partnering with Metec Italia, an aluminium foundry, such a marriage would become a success.  So by December 2007, the Metec West Africa foundry was set up and the first trial production was done with the support of ExxonMobil and Deltafrik (a Worley Parsons Company).