ZCS: Strategies and Investments for the Future

The year 2025 closes for the Zucchetti Centro Sistemi Group with a focus on stabilization and structural strengthening, with a forecast consolidated revenue of around €240 million. This result reflects a deliberate strategy of consolidation, process optimization, and value creation in the medium to long term.

This path is part of a story of solid, steady, and sustainable growth that the Group has pursued for over 40 years, since its foundation. After a particularly favorable decade, marked by strong expansion also driven by the ecobonus incentive in the renewable energy sector, Zucchetti Centro Sistemi achieved positive economic and financial results, laying the foundations for an important development plan.

In the 2024–2025 biennium, in fact, strategic investments exceeding €31 million were launched, aimed at further strengthening the Group’s structure and competitiveness.

Strengthening Strategic Positioning through Research, Acquisitions, Infrastructure Investments, and Managerial Governance

ZCS continues to consolidate its role in the technological innovation sector, characterized by steady growth and continuous evolution, particularly in the IT field. This development path is primarily based on research and innovation activities, now focused on the integration of AI across various business and product areas, alongside a structured plan of investments and acquisitions in Italy and abroad, supported by highly specialized technical management.

Acquisitions

During 2024 and the first half of 2025, the Group implemented a significant program of corporate equity acquisitions aimed at strengthening its presence in strategic areas such as human resources management and digital healthcare.

Among the main completed transactions is the acquisition of a majority stake in Terasoft, a Rome-based company specializing in software solutions for personnel management and administration. Terasoft is part of the ZCS People intercompany group, which also includes HRZ, Alphasistemi, HRS, as well as the HR team of the Software Division (Zucchetti HR Top Partners).

At the same time, Zucchetti Centro Sistemi entered the share capital of Afea and acquired DEC Centro Sistemi, two leading companies in the digital healthcare technology sector. In particular, the strategic partnership with Afea makes it possible to offer the market an advanced ecosystem of digital solutions supporting innovation processes for both public and accredited private healthcare organizations.

Within the framework of initiatives focused on sustainable innovation, Zucchetti Centro Sistemi also promoted the establishment of Sostenibile.Cloud, a joint venture with Santa Chiara Next, dedicated to the design, development, and commercialization of digital services to support companies in sustainability development, reporting, and monitoring processes (ESG parameters).

Important developments have also involved the robotics and green innovation sectors, through targeted investments supporting the respective Business Units, with the aim of accelerating penetration into key international markets such as Spain and Germany. In this context, the Group also acquired stakes in companies operating in Poland and Denmark, with a specific focus on garden robotics.

To date, Zucchetti Centro Sistemi can rely on an ecosystem comprising 19 controlled and affiliated companies, including 4 foreign subsidiaries, confirming a solid, diversified growth strategy strongly oriented toward innovation.

Human Capital: Assets and Managerial Excellence

At the heart of the company is a strong focus on human capital. Significant investments have been made in key top management positions and in technical and commercial skills. As a result, the organizational structure has been strengthened both in Tuscany and in other Italian districts where the company operates.

The Group employs approximately 850 people, marking a +26% increase compared to 2024 (which had already shown a +27% increase over 2023). Since 2022, in just three years, the workforce has nearly doubled. In 2025 alone, 74 new hires were recorded (60% of whom are under 30). Employees under 30 (Generation Z) account for 25% of the workforce, while the overall average age is under 39. More than 75% of employees are under 50 years old. Technical training in STEM disciplines reaches 58%, with a growing number of young hires coming from ITS and Academy programs. The share of women in managerial positions is also growing significantly.

Real Estate: Garden Robotics & Collaborative Robotics

In addition, the new Robotics Building will be inaugurated in 2026: a modern headquarters and production center to be built next to the current Logistic Hub of the Zucchetti Centro Sistemi Group. The building will host all key functions of the Robotics Division—design, development, production, sales, and administration. The complex will cover a total area of 5,000 square meters, of which 2,300 will be dedicated to laboratories and the remainder to offices. The project also includes urban redevelopment works totaling 4,600 square meters, including parking areas, sidewalks, green spaces, and a cycle path. In line with the Group’s commitment to environmental sustainability, the building will be equipped with a 200 kW photovoltaic system.

The building will also host the new ZCS Amico brand, the new professional line of collaborative robots developed in partnership with Keenon Robotics for restaurants, hospitality, healthcare, and industry, offering solutions that support staff and improve the efficiency of daily processes.

Reshoring – Made in Production

A strategic investment project also concerns the renewable energy sector: bringing back to Tuscany, in the first months of 2026, some production and assembly lines of the Azzurro photovoltaic inverter range.

Producing electronic equipment in Italy may at first appear anachronistic. However, in light of the most recent European regulations, new opportunities are emerging to bring at least part of manufacturing activities back to the country.

From this vision arises the Made in Europe project for the Azzurro brand—a journey that will lead to the expansion of our expertise, the evolution of production cycles, the optimization of industrial processes, and a further enhancement of quality standards, while ensuring high levels of digital and economic security. The objective is to consolidate our position as a major European player in the renewable energy market.

ZCS Park

With the fifth “Building of the Future,” Zucchetti Centro Sistemi Park, and the Azzurro Made in Europe production, the Group reaffirms its commitment to creating technological and employment value in the local area, with a constant focus on the future.