Our history

At CMS, more than 80 years of family history are watching you. We have to go back to 1936 to find the origins of our company. On that date, in the small town of Montréjeau, at the gates of Saint-Gaudens, Firmin Coma established a motley trade in scrap metal, skins, rags, old paper and other feathers. A case passed on three decades later to three of his fourteen children: René, Michel and Paul.

Together, the latter renamed the company SDF Coma Frères and launched the complementary activity of recycling end-of-life vehicles. The name quickly changed twice: SARL Coma Frères Métaux in 1976, then Coma Comminges Métaux in 1980 with the arrival of a new member of the family, Firmin-Marc.

Now is the time for development. In 1984, the Coma siblings bought the scrap dealer Cometa Aquitaine in Portet-sur-Garonne. One year later, the installation of a grinding unit should open up new perspectives at the Montréjeau site. Unfortunately, various constraints will quickly lead to the cessation of this new activity.

This does not prevent the company from continuing to write its already half-century-old history. As a nod to the past, Louise Coma, widow of the founder, also temporarily took over management in the mid-1980s, before Michel, Paul and Firmin-Marc created the Holding Coma Frères.

In 2005, at the dawn of its 70th anniversary, the company finally left the bosom of the Coma family. While Cometa Aquitaine had already been sold a few months earlier to Etablissements Decons, the Holding Coma Frères was taken over by Étienne and Jacques Chazelle.

The fields of intervention are then widened to the sale of second-hand vehicles, the trade in machine tools, the resale of new and second-hand furniture, or the recycling of industrial waste. And the structure is renamed CMS. The new managers also took the opportunity to set up a second site in Angos, not far from Tarbes, by taking over L’Épave. A car scrapyard created by Alain Vidou, then sold in 1996 to Jean-Louis Claverie, whom they renamed Bigorre Métaux Services (BMS).

The birth of the CMS ensemble as we know it today took place in 2013. That year, Étienne and Jacques Chazelle ceded their two locations to Groupe GB, one of the well-known construction companies in the Toulouse region. They thus join EcoRecuperation, a business created by André Bègue two years earlier in Bruguières, specializing in the purchase and resale of scrap metal, and which has just joined the GB Group. Now under the general management of Olivier Ponti, the three CMS sites have not finished writing their history, relying on Paul in Montréjeau, Véronique in Bruguières, and Marie in Angos.