Home | De Smet Engineers & Contractors (DSEC)

BUILDING YOUR
AGRO-PROCESSING INDUSTRIAL PLANTS from Basic Engineering to Full Turnkey

MAKING
THE FUTURE Bio Based Industries

FROM FEED
TO EPC for the Agro-processing Industrial sectors

400+ PROJECTS IN
65+ COUNTRIES Reliability through Experience

350+ MEN
& WOMEN Dynamism, Creativity and Flexibility

What's new ?

TAFARAF Sugar Refinery – Successful Commissioning and Official Inauguration, Algeria

on 23 May 2025

Trends GAZELLES Awards 2025 – DSEC Nomination

on 23 May 2025

AFA Workshop Low Carbon Initiatives for Fertilizers Plants the 26 – 28 November 2024 in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

on 17 October 2024

ISSCT Joint Engineering and Processing Workshop 6th to 10th October 2024 in Berlin, Germany

on 02 September 2024

SUGAREX 2024 conference & exhibition the 12-13 September 2024 in Kice, Khonkaen, Thailand

on 12 August 2024

De Smet Engineers & Contractors India office (DSCI) in Chennai, India

on 03 July 2024

ESST-VDZ Conference & Exhibition the 5 to 8 May 2024 in Vienna, Austria

on 05 April 2024

BIOKET 2024 Global Biomass conference and exhibition from 19 to 21 March 2024 in Reims, France

on 23 February 2024

CARBIOS awarded DSEC the EPCM construction of the world’s 1st PET biorecycling plant in France

on 15 February 2024

Trends GAZELLES Awards 2024 – DSEC Nomination

on 17 January 2024

CRU Phosphates 2024 Conference & Exhibition the 26 to 28 Feb 2024 in Warsaw, Poland

on 15 January 2024

Best Wishes for 2024 from DSEC

on 22 December 2023

DSEC is proud to have participated in Fibenol’s successful completion of the Imavere biorefinery

on 22 August 2023

VH YEAST 2023 Conference, May 15 and 16 in Vienna, Austria

on 07 April 2023

CRU Phosphates 2023 Conference & Exhibition the 27 Feb to 1 Mar 2023 in Istanbul, Turkey

on 24 January 2023

CIRCA RESOLUTE bio-based high-performance alternatives to toxic fossil-based chemicals

on 24 October 2022

ANNA Conference 2022 the 03-06 October 2022 in Houston, Texas – USA

on 27 September 2022

FOOD CONNECTIONS 2022 conference the 29 September 2022 in Eghezée, Belgium

on 08 September 2022

TRIPLEW ClimateTech Food Waste Upcycling Process Goes Commercial

on 19 July 2022

ESST-VDZ Conference & Exhibition the 22 to 25 May 2022 in Reims, France

on 26 April 2022

BIOKET 2022 Global Biomass conference and exhibition from 15 to 17 March in Lille, France

on 17 February 2022

CRU Phosphates 2022 Conference & Exhibition the 7-9 March 2022 in Florida, USA

on 16 February 2022

Best Wishes for 2022 from DSEC

on 22 December 2021

BIOWANZE Biomass Cogeneration Boiler second key milestone ahead of schedule

on 01 December 2021

VERDANT MINERALS new Phosphoric Acid Plant Definitive Feasibility Study using Prayon’s Dihydrate technology in Australia

on 17 November 2021

CARGILL’s new Pectin production line implementation completed successfully in Redon, France

on 11 October 2021

METEX NØØVISTA Grand Opening of PDO Green Chemistry production unit in Carling-St-Avold, France

on 04 October 2021

EFIB 2021: European Forum for Industrial Biotechnology and Bioeconomy the 6-7 October 2021 in Vienna, Austria

on 14 September 2021

Plant Based Summit 2021 conference the 22 to 24 September 2021 in Reims, France

on 22 August 2021

ICS Phosphoric Acid concentration line engineering, site supervision services and commissioning in Senegal

on 06 August 2021

UBQ Materials’ new facility to convert MSW into the world’s most climate-positive thermoplastic

on 05 August 2021

PRAYON selected De Smet Agro for the Basic Design of its new 10 ktpy SHMP plant in Engis, Belgium

on 07 May 2021

Biomass Cogeneration Boiler construction for BIOWANZE in Belgium

on 01 April 2021

SWEETWOODS first High Purity Lignin and Wood Sugars production at the ton scale

on 19 February 2021

De Smet AGRO head office has changed address

on 16 February 2021

BIOKET 2021 Virtual Conference

on 01 February 2021

Best Wishes for 2021 from DSEC

on 19 December 2020

AZOMURES Granulation Plant Basic Design in Targu Mures, Romania

on 16 December 2020

Online World Ethanol & Biofuels 2020 from 3-5 November 2020

on 28 October 2020

21st October DSEC Bio refineries Webinar: ensuring successful process scale-up and CAPEX reliability

on 05 October 2020

DSEC purchased SNC-Lavalin Belgium, now called De Smet Agro

on 23 September 2020

BENEO’s Chicory Inulin and Oligofructose factory expansion in Chile

on 12 May 2020

Coronavirus COVID-19 communication: DSEC Home working & fully reachable

on 16 March 2020

METEX NØØVISTA plant construction progress with major equipment lifting operations

on 12 March 2020

BENEO Factory Energy Saving Project in Chile

on 17 January 2020

INA 2G-Ethanol Plant project Basic Engineering in Croatia

on 13 January 2020

EASTERN SUGAR & CANE Engineering, technical assistance & automation for energy savings of cane sugar factory in Thailand

on 10 December 2019

3F BIO Mycoprotein production line Basic Engineering contract

on 16 October 2019

GRAANUL INVEST Wood Fractionation Flagship Plant construction

on 04 October 2019

XXX ISSCT 2019 CONGRESS from the 2nd to the 5th of September 2019 in Tucumán, Argentina

on 10 July 2019

De Smet Engineers & Contractors selected to build PDO/AB plant for METabolic EXplorer in France

on 18 January 2019

ALCOGROUP new EPC contract with DSEC for the conversion of NCP Alcohols’ molasses distillery in South Africa

on 09 January 2019

DSEC's Solutions for Industries:

Sugars & Ethanol

ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND SUSTAINABILITY

OPTIMISING THE INDUSTRY PROCESSES CO2 VALORISATION & DECARBONIZATION

SUGARS
& ETHANOL

SUGAR PRODUCTION,
REFINING AND ETHANOL PLANTS

VEGOILS
& DERIVATIVES

OILSEED CRUSHING & REFINING,
PROTEIN, BIODIESEL & HVO

BIO-BASED
INDUSTRIES

FROM CELLULOSIC SUGAR
TO BIOREFINERIES

ALT PROTEINS
& INGREDIENTS

FROM MYCO TO SINGLE CELL
PLANT BASED PROTEINS
PRODUCTION PLANTS

AGRO-NUTRIENTS

FERTILIZERS BASE CHEMICALS
& DOWNSTREAM FERTILIZERS

ENERGY EFFICIENCY
AND SUSTAINABILITY

OPTIMISING THE INDUSTRY PROCESSES
CO2 VALORISATION & DECARBONIZATION

Energy Efficiency and Sustainability

From engineering
to full EPCM/EPC

From engineering to full EPCM/EPC

De Smet Engineers & Contractors (DSEC) is your partner for the implementation of your project from their early development stages to industrial operation.

Services & Execution

Agro industrial integrator
since 1990

Agro industrial integrator since 1990

De Smet Engineers & Contractors (DSEC) has an established reputation as agro industrial integrator, specialising in the agro-industrial fields such as Sugar, Edible Oil, Biofuels, Biochemicals and Fertilizers. It is a world-class provider of Engineering, Procurement and Construction services under a single point responsibility.

Company Profile

Success
stories

Success stories

De Smet Engineers & Contractors (DSEC) has successfully executed more than 500 projects over 65 countries.

REFERENCES

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
__cfduid	1	1 month	The cookie is used by cdn services like CloudFare to identify individual clients behind a shared IP address and apply security settings on a per-client basis. It does not correspond to any user ID in the web application and does not store any personally identifiable information.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	0	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Necessary".
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary	0	11 months	This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. The cookies is used to store the user consent for the cookies in the category "Non Necessary".
viewed_cookie_policy	0	11 months	The cookie is set by the GDPR Cookie Consent plugin and is used to store whether or not user has consented to the use of cookies. It does not store any personal data.

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
__cflb	1	23 hours	This cookie is used by Cloudfare for load balancing.
CONSENT	0	16 years 10 months 20 days 12 hours 21 minutes	No description
EMAIL	1	past	No description
LITE	0	past	No description
PRO	0	past	No description
VERIFY	1	past	No description

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
IDE	1	1 year 24 days	Used by Google DoubleClick and stores information about how the user uses the website and any other advertisement before visiting the website. This is used to present users with ads that are relevant to them according to the user profile.
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE	1	5 months 27 days	This cookie is set by Youtube. Used to track the information of the embedded YouTube videos on a website.

Cookie	Type	Duration	Description
_ga	1	2 years	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site''s analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assign a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors.
_gid	1	1 day	This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the wbsite is doing. The data collected including the number visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages viisted in an anonymous form.
GPS	1	30 minutes	This cookie is set by Youtube and registers a unique ID for tracking users based on their geographical location

What's new ?

DSEC's Solutions for Industries:

From engineering to full EPCM/EPC

From engineering to full EPCM/EPC

Agro industrial integrator since 1990

Agro industrial integrator since 1990

Success stories

Success stories

Key projects

From engineering
to full EPCM/EPC

Agro industrial integrator
since 1990

Success
stories