Method for producing a cylindrical container, in particular a silo, in which method - a sheet-metal strip is drawn off from a reel, said sheet-metal strip being helically bent and profiled in the upper and/or lower peripheral region, and the peripheral regions of adjacent sheet-metal strips disposed on top of one another subsequently being connected to one another; - the sheet-metal strip is supplied to a profiling device for forming the profile of the upper and/or lower periphery; - the sheet-metal strip is supplied to a drive device; - the sheet-metal strip is supplied to a connecting device which connects the adjacent longitudinal peripheries of the supplied sheet-metal strips to one another so as to form a shell face of the container; - assembly frames, which at least in regions run cylindrically on the circumference and on which the sheet-metal strips connected to one another are mounted in a helical and rotationally displaceable manner and upon producing the connection are rotationally moved by means of the drive device, are used, - characterized in that - a profiling device, which does not perform any helical bending of the supplied sheet-metal strip and performs the profiling of the peripheral regions of the supplied sheet-metal strip only at least partially, is used between the reel and the drive device; - a supply device, which is connected to the drive device or to the profiling device, and which at the beginning of the production procedure of the container by way of a coupling device is releasably connectable to the sheet-metal strip that is able to be drawn off from the reel and supplies the latter to the drive device by way of the profiling device, is used, the connection between the supply device and the sheet-metal strip being released once the sheet-metal strip has been acquired by the drive device. - a sheet-metal strip is drawn off from a reel, said sheet-metal strip being helically bent and profiled in the upper and/or lower peripheral region, and the peripheral regions of adjacent sheet-metal strips disposed on top of one another subsequently being connected to one another; - the sheet-metal strip is supplied to a profiling device for forming the profile of the upper and/or lower periphery; - the sheet-metal strip is supplied to a drive device; - the sheet-metal strip is supplied to a connecting device which connects the adjacent longitudinal peripheries of the supplied sheet-metal strips to one another so as to form a shell face of the container; - assembly frames, which at least in regions run cylindrically on the circumference and on which the sheet-metal strips connected to one another are mounted in a helical and rotationally displaceable manner and upon producing the connection are rotationally moved by means of the drive device, are used, - characterized in that - a profiling device, which does not perform any helical bending of the supplied sheet-metal strip and performs the profiling of the peripheral regions of the supplied sheet-metal strip only at least partially, is used between the reel and the drive device; - a supply device, which is connected to the drive device or to the profiling device, and which at the beginning of the production procedure of the container by way of a coupling device is releasably connectable to the sheet-metal strip that is able to be drawn off from the reel and supplies the latter to the drive device by way of the profiling device, is used, the connection between the supply device and the sheet-metal strip being released once the sheet-metal strip has been acquired by the drive device.