TECHNOLOGICAL PORTFOLIO

WITH 1,857 PATENTS IN OUR TECHNOLOGICAL PORTFOLIO, OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY IS A KEY ASSET FOR THE GROUP. THAT’S WHY WE HAVE INVESTED AROUND 35 MILLION EUROS IN INNOVATION OVER THE PAST FIVE YEARS.

At Milan’s Polytechnic University, at the entrance to the Chemical Engineering faculty, a plaque reminds students that in 1927 Montecatini (Tecnimont’s forerunner) was among the first companies contributing to the purchase of equipment for the newly established laboratory. The Group’s long-standing collaboration with the Milan Polytechnic has been further strengthened with partnerships for research projects and the funding of a chair of “Engineering and Management of Chemical Projects”, launched in 2018 for 15 years, as well as an intense cooperation in the field of teaching, specialization and orientation of young people.

Our technological portfolio of over 1,850 patents involves 80 innovation projects, 30 partnerships for technological development, 6 innovation centers, and around 88 people involved in research. Important partnerships are underway with Rome’s La Sapienza University in the field of technologies for the energy transition and in the socio-economic area, as well as with the Bio-Medical Campus, in the context of the master’s degree course in Chemical Engineering for Sustainable Development. Other Italian academic partners include the University of Salerno and the University of Messina. In the international field, the Group started working with BHOS (Baku Higher Oil School) in Azerbaijan in 2018, supporting the university’s specialization course and its research equipment. In India, a collaboration has been underway since 2020 with the National Institute of Technology Karnataka, with the opening in March 2021 of an interdisciplinary research center, the Maire Tecnimont Centre for Research on Waste Recycling and Circular Economy. Further projects are underway with the Technical University of Eindhoven, the École des Mines in Paris and the Spanish research center Tecnalia.

NEXTCHEM PARTNERS WITH LA SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY FOR GREEN CHEMISTRY

NextChem and Rome’s Sapienza University have agreed to work together on a project called the GREEN CHEMISTRY AND MECHATRONICS OPEN INNOVATION LAB. A new innovative advanced research lab will be created inside NextChem’s headquarters in Rome, where a group of scientific researchers from the university and engineers from the Marie Tecnimont Group will work side by side. Two La Sapienza University departments - Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering (DIMA) and the Department of Chemical, Materials and Environmental Engineering (DICMA) – will have joint scientific responsibility for the project.

The first research project is Waste To Chemicals, looking in particular at both the optimization of the incoming waste during the feeding phase, and for the study of thermodynamic reactions inside the plant.

INNOVATION AND R&D

6

INNOVATION CENTERS

30

PARTNERSHIPS FOR TECHNOLOGICAL DEVELOPMENT

~80

INNOVATION PROJECTS

76

PEOPLE INVOLVED IN RESEARCH & DEVELOPMENT