SinTec

What SinTec does

SinTec S.R.L. is a privately held Italian engineering services firm founded in 1988 and headquartered in Montecchio Emilia, in the Reggio Emilia province. The company provides mechanical design, technical documentation, and interactive spare parts management services to manufacturing clients concentrated in food processing, packaging, and industrial machinery sectors. Its named customer base includes large multinational enterprises such as Tetra Pak, Procter & Gamble, Sidel, GEA, SACMI, and Wittur, alongside mid-market Italian manufacturers. The firm operates with 11–50 employees and holds UNI EN ISO 9001:2015 and UNI EN ISO 14001:2015 certifications.

The company's service portfolio consists of three integrated offerings. Progettazione Meccanica delivers 2D and 3D mechanical design using industry-standard CAD tools (SolidWorks, Autodesk Inventor, Creo Parametric, AutoCAD) and the TactonWorks parametric configurator integrated with SolidWorks. Manualistica Tecnica produces CE marking-compliant technical documentation, illustrations, and multilingual manuals for machinery manufacturers. Net Spares is SinTec's proprietary software platform that generates interactive spare parts catalogs from ERP/PDM and 2D/3D CAD data, outputting web, interactive PDF, and tablet-formatted documentation with integrated helpdesk and multilingual support. The services are positioned as an end-to-end workflow from mechanical design through to aftermarket documentation.

SinTec operates a sales-led B22B go-to-market model, engaging directly with clients' engineering departments on customized projects. The company was a member of Calf Group from 2006 to 2020 and currently operates as an independent S.R.L. with no disclosed institutional investors. Revenue is generated through professional services fees for design and documentation work and through licensing of the Net Spares platform. Geographic operations are confined to Italy, though the firm's multinational client base implies cross-border project delivery.

Name

SinTec

Legal name

SINTEC S.R.L.

Website

https://sin-tec.it

Company type

Private

Founded year

1988

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SinTec S.R.L. is an Italian mechanical design and technical documentation services firm serving food processing, packaging, and industrial machinery manufacturers — including Tetra Pak, P&G, Sidel, and GEA — offering CAD-based design, CE-compliant manuals, and proprietary Net Spares software for spare parts management.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Montecchio

HQ country

Italy

HQ region

Europe

Offices1 record

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Mechanical Design Services: 2D and 3D mechanical engineering services including interventions on existing projects, completion of studies, plant layouts, and special mechanical equipment. Services are provided by expert technical staff using industry-standard CAD software.
2. Technical Documentation: Creation of illustrations and technical diagrams for corporate documents accompanying products, ensuring CE marking compliance and extreme clarity for end users.
3. Interactive Spare Parts Software (Net Spares): Proprietary software solution enabling efficient, precise, and economical management of company spare parts, with integrated helpdesk and multi-language support.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

SinTec provides mechanical design and 3D modeling services using industry-standard 2D/3D CAD software for manufacturing clients, alongside technical documentation creation compliant with European standards and CE marking. The company also develops and licenses Net Spares, a proprietary software that automates the creation of interactive spare parts catalogs from ERP/PDM data, delivering manuals in web, interactive PDF, and tablet formats with multi-language support.

Product overview

SinTec offers a portfolio of three integrated mechanical engineering and technical documentation services. The core offerings are: (1) Progettazione Meccanica — mechanical design and 3D modeling services using industry-standard CAD tools; (2) Manualistica Tecnica — technical documentation and CE marking compliance services; and (3) Net Spares — an interactive spare parts management software that streamlines creation of spare parts catalogs and manuals from ERP/PDM data. These services are designed to work together as an end-to-end solution for manufacturing companies, starting from mechanical design and drawing through to exploded views for spare parts, 3D animations, and interactive user manuals.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Net Spares: A software created by SinTec for managing company spare parts, making the process easy, precise, and economical while also helping the end customer.

Products and services

• Progettazione Meccanica (Mechanical Design) Mechanical design and 3D modeling services using industry-standard 2D/3D CAD software (SolidWorks, Inventor, Creo Parametric, AutoCAD, Tacton). Includes interventions on existing projects, feasibility studies, plant layouts, special mechanical equipment, structural calculations, 3D assemblies, machine surveys, prototype and semi-series building, and photorealistic visualization. Designed for manufacturers in the food processing, packaging, and industrial machinery sectors.
• Manualistica Tecnica (Technical Documentation) Creation of technical illustrations, diagrams, and manuals for corporate product documentation, including CE marking compliance solutions and translation services. Targets manufacturing companies needing compliant, multilingual technical documentation accompanying their products.
• Net Spares (Ricambi Interattivi) Proprietary software for managing spare parts documentation, automatically generating interactive catalogs and manuals from ERP/PDM data and 2D/3D technical drawings with minimal user intervention. Delivers outputs in web, interactive PDF, and tablet formats, with multilingual support and integrated helpdesk. Licensed to manufacturing companies.

Named customers15 records

Segments1 record

Ideal customer profiles2 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• Calf Groupformer partnerStrategic or Co-development Partner · 1 January 2006SinTec joined Calf Group in 2006 and maintained collaboration until 2020. This partnership provided strategic alignment and group membership for the company.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves7 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Akkodis: Global engineering services firm (part of Adecco Group) providing mechanical engineering, CAD design, and technical documentation to manufacturers. Larger incumbent with overlapping mechanical design and industrial documentation capabilities serving multinational manufacturers.
• Capgemini Engineering: Global engineering services division of Capgemini (formerly Altran), offering mechanical design, digital manufacturing, and product engineering at scale. Broader incumbent offering overlapping services to many of the same enterprise manufacturers SinTec serves, but at much larger scale and with broader service portfolio.
• Dassault Systèmes (SolidWorks): Global CAD/PLM software vendor whose SolidWorks product is SinTec's primary design tool. Not a direct competitor, but the dominant platform whose ecosystem SinTec operates within and whose broader portfolio (3DEXPERIENCE) competes with some integrated design-to-documentation workflows.

Others

• Tacton: Swedish product configurator software vendor whose TactonWorks tool SinTec integrates with SolidWorks for parametric design. Adjacent technology partner — represents the configurator software layer that SinTec deploys and customizes, but does not directly compete with SinTec's design services.

Direct peers

• AVL List GmbH: Austrian engineering services firm specializing in mechanical design, simulation, and prototype development for industrial and powertrain manufacturers. Comparable as a European specialty engineering services provider with deep CAD and documentation expertise.
• Segula Technologies: French-headquartered engineering services group with strong European presence in mechanical design, plant layout, and technical documentation for industrial clients (automotive, rail, energy). Directly comparable business model of providing outsourced mechanical engineering and CAD services to large manufacturers.
• Bertrandt AG: German engineering services provider specializing in mechanical design, CAD modeling, and technical documentation for automotive and industrial manufacturers. Comparable as a mid-sized European pure-play engineering services firm serving OEMs with custom mechanical design work.
• Teoresi Group: Italian engineering services firm providing mechanical design, embedded systems, and product development to manufacturers. Closest geographic and service-line peer to SinTec — same Italian mid-market engineering services model serving industrial clients with outsourced CAD and design work.
• Alten SA: French engineering and technology consulting firm providing outsourced mechanical design, CAD, and product development services to industrial clients across Europe. Directly comparable outsourced engineering services business serving manufacturers, though larger and more diversified than SinTec.

Emerging players

• TopSolid: French CAD/CAM software vendor offering integrated design-to-manufacturing solutions for industrial machinery. Niche competitor in the industrial CAD/CAM space with overlapping technical capabilities for mechanical design and parametric configuration that SinTec delivers via services.

Market position

Strengths1 record

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat3 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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