What Danieli Systec does

Danieli Systec is a Croatian-headquartered industrial automation and process control engineering services firm founded in 1991 in Labin, operating as the largest affiliate within the Italy-based Danieli Group (12,000 employees globally, one of the three largest metals-industry plant suppliers worldwide). The company delivers turnkey automation solutions across Level 1 (PLC/PAC, HMI, SCADA, drives), Level 2 (process control, quality control systems, production tracking), and Level 3 (production cost control, MES/ERP integration) for steelmaking, long products, and flat products plants. Its core technology covers electric arc furnaces, ladle furnaces, vacuum degassing, continuous casting, rebar/profile/rail rolling mills, and hot/cold strip mills, supported by a 3,500 m2 in-house workshop for low-voltage electrical cabinet assembly. With 300+ employees (250+ engineers) across offices in Croatia, Slovenia, and Serbia, Danieli Systec executes direct enterprise field-sales projects in 30+ countries, monetizing through three streams: engineering services (design, software, hardware, commissioning, training), workshop manufacturing of electrical cabinets, and post-sale customer care including modernization. The firm's competitive position is structurally reinforced by its long-term partnership with Danieli Automation S.p.A., which guarantees technology transfer and process alignment with the broader Danieli Group's 400+ operating metals plants. Customer base is entirely enterprise — global steelmakers and metal producers — with no disclosed recurring-revenue model and project-based, scope-driven pricing. Recent strategic signals include a 2019 office opening in Niš, Serbia, a 2020 university-base designation with the University of Rijeka, and an active robotics R&D collaboration with FERIT Osijek.

Name

Danieli Systec

Legal name

Danieli-Systec d.o.o. za računalne i srodne aktivnosti

Website

https://danieli-systec.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

1991

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Danieli Systec is a Croatian engineering services firm and largest Danieli Group affiliate delivering turnkey L1/L2/L3 industrial automation and process control solutions for global steelmaking, long products, and flat products plants, with 300+ employees across Croatia, Serbia, and Slovenia.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Industrial Automation and Process Control Services

NAICS

Instruments and Related Products Manufacturing for Measuring, Displaying, and Controlling Industrial Process Variables (334513)

SIC

Industrial Instruments For Measurement, Display, And Control (3823), Electrical Industrial Apparatus (3620), Special Industry Machinery (No Metalworking Machinery) (3550)

akta.pro primary industry

Industrial Automation Software (SCADA, HMI, MES, Historian) (IMAHAHAJ)

akta.pro secondary industry

Industrial Control Cabinets & Power Distribution (Panels, Switchgear for Automation) (IMAHAHAK)

Keywords

• Industrial automation
• Process control systems
• Metal industry engineering
• PLC automation solutions
• Electrical drive systems

Headquarters

HQ city

Labin

HQ country

Croatia

HQ region

Europe

Offices11 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Technology or R&D, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales, Infrastructure

Revenue model

1. Engineering Services: Professional engineering services including design, software and hardware development, programming of automation devices, low-voltage assemblies fabrication, assembly, testing, commissioning, customer training and support. Provides complete turnkey solutions from small automation units to sophisticated complete plant automation.
2. Workshop Manufacturing: Assembly and manufacturing of low-voltage electrical cabinets in their workshop facility. Products delivered to clients worldwide including EU, USA, Canada, China, Korea, Mexico, Vietnam, Brazil, Turkey.
3. Customer Care / After-Sales Service: Technical support during warranty period and beyond. Fast and efficient response to customer requests, problem solving via phone, internet, or other technologies. Application development from small upgrades to complete plant modernization.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Danieli Systec delivers engineering and service solutions for metal industries worldwide, providing Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 industrial automation and process control for steelmaking, long products, and flat products plants. The offering covers the full lifecycle from hardware/electrical cabinet design and software development through on-site commissioning, start-up, training, and after-sales customer care. The company is the largest affiliate of Italy's Danieli Group, integrating its automation services with Danieli Automation's plant-level process technology.

Product overview

Danieli Systec provides engineering and service solutions for the metal industry worldwide. The company operates as a service-oriented organization offering a portfolio of industrial automation and process control services organized around six core offerings: Process Automation and Control Systems (with Level 1, Level 2, and Level 3 automation), Commissioning & Start-up Services, Mechanical Engineering, Software Engineering, Customer Care (post-sale service), and Workshop services for electrical cabinet assembly. The Process Automation offering includes specialized solutions for long products (rebar, profiles, rails), steelmaking (EAF, continuous casting), and flat products (hot/cold rolling). All offerings are delivered as engineering services rather than standalone software products, with turnkey solutions ranging from small automation units to sophisticated complete plant automation. The company is part of the Danieli Group, specializing in serving metal industry customers globally.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Process Automation and Control Systems Complete solutions for process management and automation of industrial plants covering L1 field-level automation, L2 process control and optimization with quality control systems, and L3 production cost control and management integrated with MES/ERP, for metal industry customers.
• Commissioning and Start-up Services Expert specialists and technical solutions for commissioning and start-up of steelmaking, rolling mills, and flat products facilities delivered on customer sites worldwide.
• Mechanical Engineering Services Mechanical engineering services covering assembly supervision, construction work monitoring, mechanical positioning of equipment, pipeline supervision, cleaning, and commissioning of all process elements for metal industry plants.
• Software Engineering Software development services including L1, L2, and L3 software implementation, system integration, IT outsourcing, and near-shore software development for business needs and process improvements in metal industry plants.
• Customer Care (Post-Sale Service) Technical support services during warranty period and beyond, with experts specializing in foundries, rolling mills, L1 and L2 automation, distribution, and electric drives, including application development from small upgrades to complete plant modernization.
• Workshop (Electrical Cabinet Assembly) Assembly and production workshop for low-voltage electrical cabinets, delivering products worldwide (EU, USA, Canada, China, Korea, Mexico, Vietnam, Brazil, Turkey) with complete service and expert technical support.
• Steelmaking Process Automation Process automation for steel production covering raw material and additive processing, ecological exhaust gas treatment, water treatment, mineral separation and grinding, steel production, arc furnaces, vacuum degassing systems, recycling systems, and continuous casting.
• Long Products Process Automation Process automation for long products including rebar rolling mills, profile rolling mills, rail rolling mills, reheating furnaces, and finishing lines with temperature control, rolling speed control, shear cut control, cooling control, and material tracking.
• Flat Products Process Automation Process automation for flat products including hot and cold rolling mills and finishing lines with automatic product thickness control, strip flatness control, elongation control, speed control, and cutting devices.

Quantifiable outcome

• Hundreds of industrial automation and process control projects completed worldwide
• +1 more outcomes

Named customers22 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature7 records

Partnerships

Four partnerships are on record, tiered minor and core.

• University of Rijeka (UNIRI)minorStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2020Based on long-term cooperation with the University of Rijeka, primarily the Faculty of Engineering, in 2020 the company was designated as a base of the University for conducting scientific and professional work in practice. Collaboration includes student projects and research activities.
• Danieli Automation S.p.A.coreStrategic or Co-development PartnerLong-term partnership with Italian company Danieli Automation S.p.A. Danieli Automation, through 40 years' experience and over 400 plants operating worldwide, assures perfect integration of different process units for totally efficient production plants. Danieli Automation is responsible for technology transfer from Danieli technological divisions to end users, supplying the interface between plant process and operator. Systec processes are aligned with Danieli Automation processes to offer expert and focused service to Danieli Group customers.
• Danieli GroupcoreStrategic or Co-development PartnerDanieli Automation is part of Danieli. Danieli Group business structure consists of number of affiliates within which Systec group is the biggest one. Danieli counts 12,000 employees and ranks among the three largest suppliers of plants and equipment to the metals industry, worldwide. 9,000 Danieli engineers and craftsmen operate in assembly and manufacturing workshops and technical offices throughout the world.
• FERIT Osijek (Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Computer Science and Information Technology Osijek)minorStrategic or Co-development PartnerCollaboration on robotics projects including 'Humans Detected by Robots' project. Danieli Systec and FERIT Osijek are working on integration of robotic vision methods, robots and cameras in ROS for human detection in robot workspace. Danieli Systec provides ABB IRB-2400 L industrial robot manipulator and financing. FERIT provides research facilities and students.

Scale indicators9 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights5 records

Broad incumbents

• Emerson Automation Solutions: Process control, instrumentation and software incumbent (DeltaV). Competes for L2/L3 process optimization scopes in metals and adjacent heavy-industry customers.
• Siemens Metals Technologies: Industrial automation and digitalization incumbent (SIMATIC, PCS 7) with a dedicated metals vertical. Competes for control systems, drives and digital plant software in the same customer base Systec serves.
• ABB Industrial Automation: Global automation incumbent with PLC, DCS, drives and process-control platforms used widely in metals plants. Competes with Systec's L1/L2 stacks (and the L3 software layer) while serving many adjacent process industries.
• Rockwell Automation: Global PLC, drives and industrial software vendor (Logix, FactoryTalk). Competes for L1 automation and modernization work in metals plants, particularly in North America.
• Honeywell Process Solutions: Major DCS, process control and asset performance vendor targeting metals, mining and adjacent heavy industries. Competes for L2/L3 process optimization mandates in steel and rolling customers.
• Yokogawa Electric: DCS, instrumentation and process automation incumbent competing for metals-plant control system and lifecycle service work, particularly across Asia where Systec has reference projects.

Direct peers

• Primetals Technologies: Joint venture of Mitsubishi Heavy Industries and Siemens supplying complete metallurgical plants and integrated automation/electrical systems for steelmaking, continuous casting and rolling. Directly competes with the Danieli Group/Systec offering on greenfield and revamp projects globally.
• SMS group: German plant maker for the metals industry offering mechanical equipment plus integrated electrical and automation systems. Competes with Danieli/Systec on turnkey steel, long-product and flat-product mill projects and lifecycle service.
• Danieli Automation S.p.A. Italian sister company within the Danieli Group that supplies automation and process control solutions to metal plants worldwide. The closest peer — covers overlapping L1/L2/L3 automation scope and shares customers and technology transfer with Danieli Systec.

Emerging players

• AVEVA: Industrial software vendor (PI System, AVEVA MES) increasingly targeting metals digitalization and L3/MES layer — directly adjacent to Systec's process-control and production cost management offerings.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles7 records

Subsidiaries2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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