Timeline

From three separate companies to one

1. 1992.

   Feromihin founded

   On the Martinac family farm in Obedišće, 19 February 1992. It later moved to Novoselec.⁶⁴⁹⁵²

2. 2002.

   Macel plin founded

   20 December 2002 in Zagreb, for maintaining and installing gas systems. From 2010 it is owned by Miroslav Dombrovski and Pavle Grđan.⁹¹⁰

3. 2014.

   PICO FLOW CONTROLS founded

   17 October 2014. Founders: Pavle Grđan, Miroslav Dombrovski and Dubravko Kamenečki.²

4. 2015.

   PFC takes over Macel plin

   From 2 January 2015 PFC is the sole owner of Macel plin. Kamenečki becomes PFC's director on 30 January 2015.¹⁰²

5. 2016.

   PFC buys Feromihin

   Owner Stjepan Martinac exits the business, and PFC owns the company from 1 August 2016.⁷⁴⁹

6. 2020.

   MRS Magadenovac for Plinacro

   Final commissioning of a measuring and reducing station; investor Plinacro.⁴²

7. 2021.

   AYMO, first self-service CNG station, MEGC

   The pipeline software is renamed AYMO. Macel plin builds Croatia's first self-service CNG station (Slavonski Brod) and delivers the first gas containers to the Brod Oil Refinery.⁵⁰⁴⁰³⁸

8. 2022.

   EU project and exports

   A €1.29m project to commercialise Feromihin's innovations, with €0.36m of EU funding. Feromihin has 40 employees and exports to eight countries.¹⁹⁴⁹

9. 2023.

   Feromihin doubles revenue

   Revenue grows from €6.25m to €13.75m and headcount from 40 to 54.⁸⁶

10. 2024.

    Merger

    At the end of 2024 Macel plin and Feromihin were formally merged into PFC. They were removed from the register on 11 March 2025.²⁰⁶⁹

11. 2025.

    First year as one company

    Revenue €39.37m, net profit €11.30m and 116 employees.¹³

12. 2026.

    KPPP, ptc Berlin, successful appeal

    PFC presents the KPPP mobile compressor at HSUP and HUNIG, and with a Turkish partner wins an appeal against a Plinacro tender decision.⁴⁵⁴⁶⁵⁴

Locations

• Zagreb, Samoborska cesta 15: head office, previously also Macel plin's head office¹⁷⁹
• Novoselec, Moslavačka 22: former Feromihin head office¹⁷⁶
• Sv. Križ Začretje, Pustodol Začretski 19B and 19K: workplace for electronics development (job ad)¹⁷⁴⁷

The website does not say what happens at each site beyond the above.

Certificates and accreditations

ISO 29001 is the oil and gas industry standard. Accreditation under ISO/IEC 17020 (HAA) means PFC may test safety valves as a Type C inspection body.¹⁸³⁵

• eLBC: an electronic device that closes the valve when a pipeline breaks, also in a solar version. “1000 eLBC installed”.²¹⁴⁹
• RIKI: a calibration device for LBC units.²²
• Printed circuit boards: two SMT lines, 71,600 components per hour in total; also for outside customers.²³
• Pressure equipment: filters, separators, vessels and heat exchangers (ASME VIII, EN 13445, PED).²⁵
• AEGIS: plastic mesh for pipe protection, geogrids and fencing, made entirely in Croatia; shown at K 2025.²⁴⁶⁰
• Pipe segments and steel structures (EN 13480, EN 1090-2), CNC machining and control cabinets (DCS/ESD).⁵⁹

• KPPP: a mobile recompression unit that pumps gas out of a pipeline section instead of venting it; inlet up to 250 bar, up to 9,000 Sm³/h, 400 kW engine.²⁸
• Virtual pipeline: compressed gas containers (MEGC) on semi-trailers, 5,700 Nm³ per container; 14 delivered.²⁹
• Measuring and reducing stations: 30 stations, up to 250 bar.³⁰
• CNG, LPG, LNG and H2: six CNG stations and one self-service station.³¹
• GRIZO synthetic gas stations, gas dehydration (5,000–100,000 Sm³/h), odorisation and analysers (15 chromatographs).⁵⁸³³³²

• Valve testing up to 650 bar (API 6A, 6D, 598) and safety valves up to 400 bar as an accredited inspection body.³⁴³⁵
• Ballooning and hot tapping: work on a pipeline without interrupting supply, DN 80–200.³⁷
• Corrosion protection: exclusive Stopaq distributor for Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Slovenia, Serbia, Montenegro and Kosovo.³⁶
• Pipeline inspections (ILI and non-ILI), electrical works, process instrumentation and civil works.⁵⁷

• AYMO: a pipeline integrity management system with seven modules. Developed with Async Labs and shown in Kazakhstan, the UAE, Saudi Arabia, Brazil and Berlin.²⁶⁵⁰⁴⁸
• AMS: an asset management system; 46,013 assets entered and 3,857 tasks, also used by the LNG terminal.²⁷

Customers and projects

Projects the company has published

Business partners on the website (logos, no contracts stated): INA · Plinacro · HEP · LNG Hrvatska · Plinara Zagreb · Petrokemija · ZET · Petrol (Crodux) · Vetropack · Monter SM · Montmontaža · Monting · Optima grupa · Zarubezhneft.⁵⁷

Markets

• Croatia is the main market. In 2022 Feromihin exported to Slovenia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Serbia, Turkey, Kazakhstan, the UAE, Algeria and Nigeria.⁴⁹
• Trade fairs and conferences: ptc Berlin (2021–2026), ADIPEC Abu Dhabi and KIOGE Kazakhstan (2021), Rio Oil & Gas and SPICONX Saudi Arabia (2022), Namibia and Kenya (2024), K Düsseldorf (2025).^48555653
• Feromihin was an authorised distributor for Seal for Life (Stopaq), 3X Engineering, Bernard Controls and Quam.⁴⁹

Public procurement

In August 2026 the State Commission upheld an appeal by a bidding consortium of PFC and the Turkish manufacturer Kurvalf Vana against Plinacro's choice of valve suppliers. The decision was annulled because the selected bidders' certificates were not in their own names.⁵⁴

This shows PFC also bids foreign manufacturers' equipment in Plinacro tenders. The tender value is not stated.

First conclusions

My assessment based on the research, not the company's plan