materialboerse.de was founded in 1999 as a division of  ecoservice - Company for the marketing of electronic commerce applications mbH The two managing directors, Uwe Böttcher and Falk Neubert, have set themselves the goal of establishing a secondary market for trading in residual and surplus stocks. Production companies can sell construction elements via materialboerse.de in an ecologically sensible way and at an economic profit.

Currently, over 2000 companies use the opportunity to minimize their inventories through this sales channel (as of December 2018). The B2B trading platform is used by companies from Europe, America and Asia.