Angela Wilkes
Senior Marketing Communications Manager Marketing Department
+1 (404) 214-0434 awilkes@gaccsouth.comGizil is a German industrial technology company developing Virtual Plant®, an Industrial Intelligence Platform that helps operators digitalize existing facilities. The company serves asset-intensive industries, including energy, chemicals, tank storage, and industrial infrastructure.
Gizil creates a digital memory for industrial facilities. Virtual Plant® allows users to virtually navigate entire plants, locate equipment, access technical documents, and plan work remotely, keeping decades of industrial knowledge accessible in one place.
Unlike traditional digital twin solutions that rely on detailed 3D CAD modeling, making implementation costly and difficult to scale, Virtual Plant® combines LiDAR-based reality capture with engineering expertise to digitalize existing facilities faster and more economically. Its focus goes beyond creating digital models by making industrial information useful and scalable across entire facility portfolios.
Virtual Plant® is Gizil's second entrepreneurial venture, built on more than a decade of industrial engineering experience. After repeatedly seeing how expensive and time-consuming traditional digitalization methods were, the founders transformed their engineering knowledge into software. Gizil GmbH was established in Düsseldorf in 2022 to make industrial digitalization more accessible and scalable.
The company operates with a lean, highly specialized, multidisciplinary team combining industrial engineering, software development, and digital technology expertise.
Gizil's U.S. expansion began with pilot projects designed as starting points for broader industrial deployments. These projects demonstrated significant scalability potential, leading to a framework agreement with an Illinois-based industrial company covering potential deployment across 22 terminals. Illinois and Texas are key markets as the company continues to expand its U.S. presence.
Over the next year, Gizil aims to turn successful industrial pilots into repeatable, multi-site deployments across the U.S., supported by strategic local partnerships. Its ambition is to establish Virtual Plant® as a scalable industrial intelligence solution for operators managing large facility portfolios.
Gizil's approach to transatlantic business combines German engineering discipline with American business agility. Technical reliability builds trust, while speed, measurable results, and scalability turn innovation into lasting business partnerships.
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