Our History

Sime was established in 1989 in Rosignano Solvay (Tuscany-Italy). Initially, it was a technical engineering office whose activity was mainly related to electricalinstrumentation detail engineering services, first for the Solvay company, in Rosignano, and then also for Nuovo Pignone, in Florence. In two years' time, along with the electricalinstrumentation engineering, Sime started to provide services for mechanical engineering too, and soon became aware of the need to develop a management system and a quality system, that have been finally implemented.

Ten years after its establishment, Sime was sufficiently organized to expand and satisfy many different Customers, therefore, in 1999, Sime made two crucial and qualifying decisions:

* Internationalization: by opening a new site in Romania and founding Simerom, whose purpose was to increase workloads reducing production costs;
* Diversification of its customers through the opening of a new site in S. Giuliano Milanese, with the purpose to enter the market of poly-disciplinary engineering for main contractors and develop projects in the Oil & Gas area, both onshore and offshore.

Customers gave Sime the input to grow from a qualitative and a quantitative point of view and for this reason, in 2005, a Process Engineering team was created in Rosignano.

In 2006, a department was created devoted to the development of new business and solutions with high content of innovation and technology in the panorama of industrial plants and auxiliaries. Since 2007, another process engineering team has also been consolidated in Milan.The new opportunities that were being offered to Sime implied the reorganization of the company, by strengthening the staff and by making investments to consolidate its position on the market in terms of spaces (new offices and rooms in all the sites) and in terms of software and hardware updating. In the meantime, in 2006, Sime made cooperation agreements with other General Electric suppliers, becoming their leader. In 2007, Sime signed an exclusive cooperation agreement with Belcan Corporation, a broad spectrum engineering and technical services company and main supplier of engineering services and consultancies of General Electric Infrastructures. Sime and Belcan constituted a Supercenter (Belcan-Sime) in which Sime plays the role of the Supercenter representative for the whole European Area with interests in GE Infrastructures.Today, Sime is oriented not only to the Engineering segment but also to the Procurement and Construction Management activities for general industrial plants and auxiliaries.
In order to support the growing business in the fields of procurement and construction management, a new dedicated structure named SPA (Solutions for Plants & Auxiliaries) has been recently created, taking the advantage of the most experienced and skilled resources available within Sime.