Danieli

1914
Danieli’s origins date back to 1914 when two brothers, Mario and Timo Danieli, founded the Angelini Steelworks in Brescia, Italy. This was one of the first Italian companies to use Electric Arc Furnaces in steelmaking.

1929
Part of the Angelini Steelworks was transferred to Buttrio, Italy. In those days the Company manufactured tools for forging plants and auxiliary machines for rolling mills.

1955
Luigi Danieli took over the family business which, at that time employed 50 people, and started designing and manufacturing equipment for the steel industry. Mr. Danieli’s idea was to manufacture more competitive equipment, simplify layouts and maximize the use of automation. 
One of the concepts developed, namely the "EAF - conticaster - rolling mill" production route, has characterized and contributed to the successful development of the minimill process that is widely adopted today.

1964
The first minimill was installed in Germany and the first continuous casting plant was installed in Italy with the Riva Group.
The success of the minimill concept spread to Spain, the USA and the Far East.

1977
The first large turnkey order was placed with Danieli for a complete steel mill in the former GDR.
Company turnover was 25 million Euro with 1,700 people employed

1980
Mrs. Cecilia Danieli, who had managed the financial and administrative departments of the Group since 1977, was appointed Managing Director, and Mr. Gianpietro Benedetti, who had been Group Sales Director since 1977, was nominated Director of Engineering.

1981_1985
Numerous plants were supplied by Danieli on a turnkey basis in the USA, the Far East, the former Soviet Union and North Africa, considerably increasing the Group's turnover. The large-scale investments made in research enabled the company to achieve a leading position worldwide in plants for commercial long products.

1986_1990
The first direct casting-rolling plant for long products was built in Italy. In the USA, Danieli conquered 80% of the market for long product plants. Morgårdshammar in Sweden was acquired. This company, founded in 1856, had been world leader in the supply of rolling mills for long products in special steels. Centro Met in Sweden was founded as a specialized team in steel melting and refining processes for quality steel production.
The orders from major steel producers like Krupp, Cogne, Ovako, Teledyne, and Uddeholm made Danieli an international leader in specialty steels. Futhermore, an industrialscale prototype of the Thin Slab Caster was created for research purposes.
Group turnover, which in 1980 was 67 M Euro, increased to 396 M Euro; the number of employees reached 1,870 people.

2010-2013
In 2010, with the takeover of the UK-based Lynxs, Danieli consolidates its technology in scrap treating. RH2 technology for extended rail life is developed.
Deacero Mexico orders its fourth minimill from Danieli.

In 2011, with the establishment of Danieli Linz Technology, Danieli also enters the field of oxygen steelmaking. The final full acceptance of the Jesco hot and cold pipe complex (first in the Middle East) highlights the Danieli leadership in seamless pipe plant technology.
At Tokyo Steel the FAC of the world’s largest EAF is reached in only three months from startup. One-meter-high beam blanks are cast at Emirates Steel minimill #2. The most modern flat and cold product complex in the Mediterranean area is started up at MMK, Turkey.

In 2012, a benchmark 4+ Mtpy hot strip mill is started up at Baosteel Meishan in China. In the USA, a seamless pipe mill is started up at Vallourec & Mannesmann, and a new order is received from Austria’s Benteler Group. Olivotto Ferrè, a leading specialist in industrial heat treatment facilities for ferrous and non-ferrous metals, becomes part of the Danieli Team.
Orders for aluminium hot and cold strip mills and plate stretchers are acquired from Kumz (Russia) and Amag (Austria), leading suppliers of aircraft, aerospace and car industries.

In 2013 the first 6-high Diamond cold mill for aluminium strip for Wide Automotive Body Sheet is started up at Aleris, Belgium.
A 2-Mtpy Direct Reduction plant -the world’s largest- is started up at Suez Steel, Egypt. The first order for a BOF converter (350-t capacity) is acquired from ArcelorMittal Poland.

AUTOMATION:
. Direct reduction plants
. Continuous casting plants
. Continuous slab casters
. Conditioning plants
. Flat products aluminium plants

SERVICE:
. Integrated steelmaking plants
. Long products rolling mills
. Flat products hot rolling mills
. Extrusion and forging plants
. Long products aluminium plants

HYDRAULICS:
. Electric steelmaking plants
. Tube and pipe mills
. Cold rolling mills
. Heating systems
. Non-ferrous plants

TURNKEY PROJECTS:
. Environment 
. Cranes
. Strip processing lines
. Heat treating systems

Danieli is a leading company in the manufacture of steelmaking plants and operates in an international context characterized by high competitiveness that requires increasingly higher quality standards.

We feel that one of the keys to our success can be found in the continuous professional training process that we are pursuing with perseverance and determination.

We are looking for dynamic people with an open mentality, competent and motivated, interested in developing their skills and potential through specialized targeted training and development courses. We are looking for tenacious people able to convert into facts the principles of “velocity” and “innovaction”, that inspire the work of each of us.

We are certain that we can offer brilliant career opportunities to this type of person.