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Editorial

Enhanced offering from

the Italian Engineering

and Contracting Industry

Claudio Andrea
I chains, and particularly on our companies’ expertise
Gemme
ANIMP President am pleased to introduce also this year Indu- xibility of our industrial system and related supply
strial Plants, ANIMP’s yearly publication for in-
ternational audiences, which highlights a in project management in complex environments
selection of our industry’s recently completed and generally under difficult conditions. The success
projects or of those currently under execution, of these turnaround programs is witnessed by the
recent surge of new big orders for mega-projects in
both in international and domestic markets.
Indeed, promoting growth, development, innovation key pivotal markets, onshore and offshore.
and international cooperation are the main goals of
ANIMP, the Italian Association of Industrial Plant En- Recent awards of pivotal mega-projects
gineering Companies, which includes Engineering witness the success of the turnaround and
and General Contractors, plant component manu- cost-cutting programs of Italian industrial
facturers, service suppliers as well as universities,
with the main focus on designing and building large players
industrial plants in every corner of the world. Today,
ANIMP has over 500 members and for more than 45 But, at the same time, our industry has also em-
years we have strived to develop a world-class sup- braced new trends, particularly in the energy mar-
ply chain, competitive globally in any industrial plant kets, where we see numerous ‘transitions’ under
market. way: our companies have scored significant new
Following the market contraction in 2014, a direct achievements in advanced projects aimed at pro-
consequence of the oil price collapse, our industry ducing energy from renewable energy sources on
has restructured extensively, significantly cut costs a very large scale, e.g. in Egypt o in the North
and improved the efficiency of the overall supply Sea, respectively for power production plants
chain and of the project delivery process, in order to from large photovoltaic or wind-offshore installa-
return to profitability and growth in today’s ‘New tions. In the domestic market, efforts are under
Normal’ market reality. This was done by leveraging way to build new solar power plants positioned on
on the traditional and well-known resilience and fle- old, decommissioned industrial sites; to produce

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