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of this new and ever-changing puzzle, to ensure that all
“ANIMP has emphasized industrial sectors of our supply chain can provide new,
decarbonisation, circular economy valid and competitive solutions.
projects, the increasingly widespread
adoption of ESG concepts and the In addition to putting together the technical and human
preparation of many ‘green’ projects resources and experiences among all our players in
order to satisfy the future needs of our Clients’, ANIMP
can also leverage on the financial resources which our
sition projects, following commitments and pledges stake holders and institutions such as CDP, SACE and
from the recent COP 26 symposium, which offer SIMEST can make available to stimulate the innovation
considerable hope that the global warming can be and reduce the risk for new products and services in
limited – but which will require significant invest- support of the Italian businesses.
ments in the ‘new’ energy industry;
Our Italian plant industry has firmly embraced the “ANIMP has started to put together all
opportunities posed by these new trends, as wit-
nessed by our general activities globally - and by the the pieces of the new decarbonization
articles in this edition of our magazine; puzzle, to ensure that all industrial
3 Top attention to new industry investment programs, sectors of our supply chain provide new
which are appearing on the drawing boards of and competitive solutions
Government and Energy companies alike, even in
the more traditional energy fields, in order to fight the
shortages, present and on the horizon: e.g. new Therefore, in spite of the current difficulties, risk and
gas plants, new pipelines, new LNG production and uncertainties, we look at this ‘new future’ with consider-
regasification plants, etc. able optimism. We trust our skills, capabilities, flexibility
4 The structured and collaborative JIP (Joint Industry and imagination. Historically, the Italian industry has
Program) among many players, large and small, for always excelled in entrepreneurship, in inventiveness, in
the creation of industry-shared guidelines on quan- its capacity to adapt to new and unpredictable circum-
titative metrics to assess the environmental, social stances, in the speed of adoption and optimization of
and governance (ESG) sustainability of the supply new breakthrough technologies. Indeed, in the industrial
chains in our plant engineering sectors, with particu- plants sector, we are one of the world leaders, with
lar attention to equipment suppliers and suppliers’ more than 5,000 companies, large and small, employ-
services, including subcontractors and international ing more than 400,000 people.
financial institutions This is an increasingly manda- We are therefore ready for new challenges. In ANIMP,
tory framework in large project tendering around the we also remain always grateful to the Italian and other
world. partner industries for their strong and continuing sup-
port.
Naturally, all these transformations cannot be imple-
mented overnight, so we need patience and resilience. Antonio Careddu
ANIMP continues to try to put together all these pieces

Antonio Careddu

Antonio Careddu graduated at Politecnico di Milano University and joined Algérie and in 2012 Chairman and CEO of Saipem France.
Saipem as an electrical engineer. In 2013 he returned to Italy and was appointed Director of the Saipem’s
From 1991 to 1998 he was assigned various roles in Saudi Arabia, Mexico, Innovation, Systems and Corporate Marketing Unit.
Malaysia, Republic of South Korea, Oman. In 1999 he came back to Italy to In August 2018 he was appointed Head of Onshore Business
take the responsibility as Department Manager and later as Project Director. Development, Commercial and Tendering.
In 2010 he became Country Manager and CEO of Saipem Contracting ANIMP President since mid-2018

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