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Editorial

The Italian industry is embracing

new challenges and opportunities

s the President of ANIMP, the Italian petrochemical industries, particularly in natural gas and
Association of Industrial Plant LNG, all markets in which our companies are playing a
Engineering Companies, I am pleased substantial role. r modernization is also a significant com-
to introduce the latest number of ponent of the growing overall investment scenario.
Industrial Plants, our yearly publication “We are quite optimistic regarding the future of our indus-
Marco Villa
Chief Business Officer, A for international audiences. trial plants industry, as we see a growth in demand of
Technip Energies Our Association includes energy providers, engineering energy products driving a significant increase in the global
President of ANIMP firms and general contractors, plant component manufac- investments in the traditional oil&gas and petrochemical
turers, service suppliers as well as universities and consult- industries
ing firms, with the main focus on designing and building
large industrial plants in every corner of the world. “We welcome the evident increase
With more than 500 current members, ANIMP strives to of ‘clean’ solutions, where the
develop a world-class supply chain, competitive globally in overall investments and employment
any industrial plant market, in order to promote growth,
development, innovation and international cooperation. are fast outpacing the traditional
In our world, there is no shortage of uncertainties and dra- sectors, worldwide: decarbonization,
matic events! Just as we thought that we have put the emissions control, new transportation
pandemic behind us, wars have exploded in Ukraine and systems, etc. open huge new
more recently in the Middle East. At the time of writing, both opportunities for our industries
of these are affecting our markets significantly, although
fortunately they are still regional and have not run out of
control on the global basis. Secondly, we welcome the evident increase in “clean solu-
We hope also to have a “soft landing” in world markets, to tions”, where the overall investments and employment have
exit gradually but softly out of the recession and inflationary already quickly outpaced the traditional sectors, worldwide.
pressures, with prices stabilization and a good balance Decarbonization, emissions control, new fuels and new
between energy accessibility, availability and sustainability. transportation systems, etc. open huge new opportunities
Overall, today our Associates are quite optimistic regarding to our industries.
the future of our industrial plants industry. Firstly, we see a The majority of our companies are not only ready, but
renewed growth in demand of energy products, after the indeed already very active in meeting the new challenges to
pandemic-induced recession, with a significant increase in design and build these “green” solutions for global markets:
global investments in building and modernizing oil&gas and from offshore wind-farms to green hydrogen production,

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