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- Danieli & C. Officine Meccaniche S.p.A. designs, constructs, installs, and services turnkey plants, machinery, and equipment for the ferrous and non-ferrous metals industries worldwide; its Plant Making segment encompasses iron ore processing, direct reduced iron production, electric arc furnace meltshops, continuous casting machines, rolling mills for long and flat products including bars, rods, billets, blooms, slabs, coils, seamless pipes, and downstream finishing lines such as slitting and cut-to-length systems; the Steel Making segment produces special steels including ingots, forged bars, blooms, rolled bars, and bar-in-coil for sectors like automotive, heavy vehicles, engineering, energy, oil and gas; Danieli Service provides lifecycle support from steelmaking through casting to rolling; the company operates globally with key markets in Europe, Russia, Middle East, Americas, South East Asia, and Far East from its headquarters in Buttrio, Italy, where it was founded in 1914, and employs over 10,000 people across subsidiaries including ABS, Fata SpA, Sund Birsta AB, Danieli Corus BV, ESW Roehrenwerke GmbH, and Telerobot Labs. Recent strategic developments include a 2025 cooperation agreement and 30% acquisition in Novastilmec SpA to expand downstream finishing lines and services for steel and non-ferrous flat products; the European Commission approval of a joint venture with Metinvest in 2025 for Metinvest Adria S.p.A., building a green steel plant in Piombino, Italy, using advanced sustainable technologies; and new orders such as advanced scrap yard cranes for voestalpine in Donawitz, a reheating furnace for El Marakby in Egypt, and cutting lines for Hengyang Valin in China as of late 2025.