FACTS & FIGURES - Tecnimont ICB

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RESEARCH,
TECHNOLOGY AND
INNOVATION
World-Scale Engineering and Contracting Based on
High Technology
The world-class references and reputation won by Maire Tecnimont
in executing large complex projects over several decades are due to
the Group’s strong technology orientation. Success in all our sectors
- Chemicals and Petrochemicals, Oil & Gas, Power, Infrastructure
and Civil Engineering – is closely linked to high added value
technological expertise.
Maire Tecnimont’s historical roots, going back to the engineering
skills developed by Montecatini, Edison, and Fiat in the early years
of twentieth century, have created a culture of technological
innovation in the Company. This has allowed it to consolidate a
leading position in polyolefin technologies, based on the pioneering
work of Nobel Prize winner Giulio Natta in the 1950s, and, at the
same time, to introduce new processes in the chemicals,
petrochemicals and oil & gas sectors, and to diversify into power
and infrastructure engineering.
This innovatory spirit is now an important driver for all the Group’s
business lines. In recognition of our technological expertise,
technology licensors regularly entrust us to perform studies
(feasibility studies, plant optimization, value engineering, etc.) to
support their process development activities.
Finally, the key to implementing technology innovations
successfully and to making them applicable to large industrial
complexes is advanced project management expertise - the proven
capability to manage large international projects. Project
management skills are crucial in realizing not only EPC plants but
every large project that involves technical complexity, limited
resources, and a stringent time schedule. To initiate, develop and
complete the whole EPC project life-cycle, especially under difficult
geographical and cultural conditions, is to deal with major
organizational challenges in which planning, coordination and
monitoring are the day-to-day essentials. To execute a project is to
create a mosaic of hundreds of parts that have to fit together.
Engineers, vendors, sub-contractors, thousands of on-site workers,
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