{"id":1519,"date":"2020-08-17T13:31:37","date_gmt":"2020-08-17T13:31:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dsengineers.com\/?page_id=1519"},"modified":"2025-07-30T08:41:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T08:41:11","slug":"history","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.dsengineers.com\/en\/industrial-integrator\/history\/","title":{"rendered":"History"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpb-content-wrapper\"><p>[vc_row el_class=&#8221;box-shadow mb-5&#8243;][vc_column el_class=&#8221;bg-white above ht-11 pt-2 pl-3 pr-3&#8243;][vc_row_inner][vc_column_inner][vc_empty_space height=&#8221;22px&#8221;][vc_custom_heading text=&#8221;De Smet Engineers &amp; Contractors History&#8221; font_container=&#8221;tag:h4|text_align:left|color:%23027983&#8243; use_theme_fonts=&#8221;yes&#8221;][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]Eager to attend the growing demand from its clients for a larger involvement in project implementation, the De Smet Group, supplier for the <strong><a href=\"\/en\/industries\/vegoil-feed-protein-industries\/\">Edible Oils<\/a><\/strong> industry, created DSEC in 1990 with a view to provide the market with a dedicated organisation including multi disciplinary expert teams that are the key to the successful realisation of turnkey projects.<\/p>\n<p>The new company was joined at that time by a team of sugar experts coming from the well-known Abay Engineering Company, opening therefore the way to work on projects involving <a href=\"\/en\/industries\/sugar-plants-epc-construction\/\"><strong>Sugar &amp; Ethanol<\/strong><\/a> from basic engineering to complete factory implementation.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, DSEC has successfully executed more than 500 projects mainly large-scale, ranging from pure<a href=\"\/en\/services-and-execution\/turnkey-management-epcm\/\"><strong> management operation<\/strong><\/a> to <a href=\"\/en\/services-and-execution\/turnkey-construction-epc-full-or-partial\/\"><strong>full<\/strong><strong> turnkey<\/strong><\/a> contracts. Moreover it has also performed numerous <a href=\"\/en\/services-and-execution\/audits-engineering-studies-fel1-2-3-feed\/\"><strong>Technical<\/strong><strong> Audits<\/strong><\/a>, investment evaluation studies and\u00a0pre-engineering, from concept to <a href=\"\/en\/services-and-execution\/audits-engineering-studies-fel1-2-3-feed\/\"><strong>Front End Engineering Design<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0jobs (<strong>FEED<\/strong>).<\/p>\n<p>DSEC has then developed the <a href=\"\/en\/industries\/bio-based-industries\/\"><strong>Bio-based industries<\/strong><\/a> sector and currently diversifies its activities in two new sectors offering the same range of services that gave the company its strong reputation: the <a href=\"\/en\/solutions-for-industries\/alt-proteines-ingredients\/\"><strong>Alt Proteins &amp; Ingredients<\/strong><\/a> and the\u00a0 <a href=\"\/en\/industries\/agro-nutrients-industries\/\"><strong>Agro-Nutrients<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Controlled over fourteen years by the Moret Industries group with the support of Wallonie Entreprendre, DSEC is now majority owned by the PARLYM group since July 2025.<\/p>\n<p>DSEC is <strong>ISO &#8211; 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