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NextChem’s technologies for the

production of low-carbon and renewable

hydrogen: Electric Blue Hydrogen ,
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Circular Hydrogen , Green Hydrogen
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Application of a unique business model to meet the needs
of the new developing hydrogen market, as project developer,
co-investor, industrializer and integrator of innovative
technologies, and as an EPC general contractor

Alberto Litta Modigliani, VP Hydrogen
NextChem, a subsidiary of MaireTecnimont Group

ydrogen is establishing itself as a key “By 2050 the demand for
element for the energy transition. Its renewable or low-carbon hydrogen
characteristics make hydrogen a could reach about 660 million tons,
fundamental energy carrier: it can be constituting 22% of the final energy
used as a fuel and as a feedstock in demand at global level
Hmany industrial processes, it is
storable and transportable over long distances. To face up to the global challenges of the industry’s
decarbonization through hydrogen, NextChem has
“Hydrogen is a fundamental adopted a unique business model able to meet the
energy carrier: it can be used as a needs of the new developing hydrogen market. Thanks
fuel and as a feedstock to the capabilities of Maire Tecnimont Group, NextChem
in many industrial processes, is positioned both as a project developer and
it is storable and transportable over co-investor in the project development, as industrializer
long distances and integrator of innovative technologies, and finally as
an EPC contractor in the realization steps. Maire
According to the forecasts published in November Tecnimont, with its strong technical expertise as a
2021 by the Hydrogen Council, by 2050 the demand leading engineering company, represents the ideal link
for renewable or low-carbon hydrogen could reach between the world of renewables and the world of the
about 660 million tons, constituting 22% of the final process industry, and is positioned through NextChem
energy demand at global level. Hydrogen will play a key as the optimal partner for any type of end-to-end
role in the decarbonization process. It can be used in project related to the decarbonization of industrial
the transport sector, as a raw material in several processes. NextChem can supply three technologies to
industrial sectors such as steel or chemical, or as a produce three different types of low carbon and
building block to produce different products, such as renewable hydrogen, which allow a significant
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fertilizers. emissions’ reduction: Electric Blue Hydrogen , Circular
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