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Editorial

The restructured

Italian Engineering and

Contracting industry :

ready for a come-back

Claudio Andrea
Gemme
ANIMP President romoting growth, development, in- to improve the project delivery process, in order to
novation and international indus- accompany them in their quest to continue operat-
trial cooperation: these are the ing, to return to profitability and to grow in this
main goals of ANIMP, the associa- ‘new normal’ market situation.
tion of Italian Engineering and Con-
Ptracting companies, plant In addition, our industry inevitably faces numerous
component suppliers and academia, which in- new challenges: a big shift and a convergence to
cludes over 500 members, with the main focus on new energy sources, the continuing and major
designing and building large industrial plants, geopolitical threats, many uncertainties regarding
worldwide. We have strived for more than 44 years the implementation of new environmental and cli-
to develop a world-class supply chain competitive mate-change policies, to name just a few. At the
in any global industrial plant market. same time, we see very welcome and often disrup-
tive technology innovations, which are dramatically
I am therefore proud to introduce also this year IN- reshaping our industry.
DUSTRIAL PLANTS, our yearly publication for in-
ternational audiences, which highlights some of our Over these last two years the Italian industry
industry’s recent achievements, projects currently has restructured and significantly improved
under execution or recently completed, in interna- its competitive position
tional or domestic markets.

The last two years have been testing times: we Over these last two years the Italian industry has
have witnessed a collapse in oil and generally in restructured extensively and significantly improved
energy prices, with a proportional decline in new the competitive position of its supply chain. Firstly,
investments in many industries. Our clients have by leveraging on the traditional resilience of our in-
rightly pressured us, general contractors and sup- dustrial system and particularly on the expertise in
pliers alike, to reduce our costs significantly and project management of our companies, many of

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