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The vision was crystal clear. We built our way there piece by piece, some small, some decidedly less so. The ellipse and the circles drawn on the office whiteboard. The shift from a place to a system of places, of synapses. A name that could only ever be #NODE. Colours, phrases, bold signage that, as it turns out, couldn't be any bolder. A space taking shape that feels more like Berlin than Roma Tiburtina. Pilot plants arriving from elsewhere, laboratories coming to life. The numbers, the serious ones: investment and returns. A vision becoming a real, sound, scalable business. Spaces where we celebrate the past to make the future feel all the more tangible. And people. We always come back to people. Moving in a perfect waltz, making real what, even to us, had seemed like a dream at first. A waltz that is beautiful to watch. And makes you proud. NODE is ON. Welcome, NODE Roma. This is only the beginning.

The horizon is a useful reference but it should never become a limit. Today, with the opening of NODE Roma, we are creating the conditions to explore what lies beyond it and to turn what we discover into industrial reality. We are living through a profound and exiting discontinuity and three frontiers are moving rapidly. Materials: critical, circular and innovative materials that can serve the new technological possibilities across industries. Energy: new carriers and a changing mix, bringing renewables together with the continuous, reliable supply industry requires, including the potential of next-generation nuclear. Intelligence: computational power that allows us to explore more possibilities, accelerate experimentation and shorten the journey from an idea to an industrial solution. But being at the frontier is not only about advancing each field. It is about connecting the dots, combining complementary expertise and scaling technologies from research, through pilot validation, to industrial deployment. And it is about keeping those technologies competitive, reliable and relevant over time. This is how I see #NODE: an incubator for frontier energy, frontier materials and frontier intelligence and, above all, a bridge between invention and industry. A connected network that advances NEXTCHEM's technologies while opening space for complementary expertise and ideas from outside the Group. AI can accelerate the process, but the ambition, the questions, and the imagination to envision what does not yet exist remain ours. That is the real value of a place like #NODE: bringing people, capabilities and technologies together to turn ideas into solutions that can scale. NODE Roma is ON. Let’s move the horizon.

A ribbon takes a moment to cut. Bringing people to the same side of it takes rather longer. Yesterday’s opening of NODE Roma was one significant step, made possible by thousands of smaller ones. Individual efforts, collective decisions, conversations that became commitments. And the patient work of following them through. Looking around the room, it was a pleasure to see people whose paths we had helped bring together. Different responsibilities and perspectives, each with a reason to care about what this place could become. Projects like NODE grow out of a company’s relationship with the community it belongs to. Knowing the territory, earning trust, understanding where an industrial ambition meets a public interest. These relationships take time. Yesterday gave them a very tangible expression. For MAIRE, Rome is where the story began. Investing here means contributing to a city that has shaped us, while opening it to new ideas, expertise and opportunities. Through NEXTCHEM’s research and development network, that connection reaches other communities across Europe. Each brings its own knowledge, industrial experience and ways of doing things. Finding a common purpose does not require everyone to become alike. Fortunately. There is something deeply EUROPEAN in this: the possibility of building more together while retaining what makes each contribution distinctive. It depends on people willing to understand one another, and to turn that understanding into work. A particular thank you to my team, and to our counterparts in the institutions, for the care and persistence behind yesterday’s gathering. So much of our work happens before any ribbon can appear. It was a pleasure to see what we had helped bring together! #NODERoma #energytransition #institutionalaffairs #growing together

📢 MAIRE has inaugurated NODE in Rome, NEXTCHEM's new center dedicated to applied research, development and demonstration of proprietary technologies in support of the energy transition. The ribbon was cut by the Minister of the Interior, Matteo Piantedosi, the Minister of Enterprises and Made in Italy, Adolfo Urso, the President of the Lazio Region, Francesco Rocca, and the Mayor of Rome, Roberto Gualtieri, together with other authorities, alongside the Founder and Chairman of MAIRE, Eng. Cav. Lav. Fabrizio Di Amato, and the Managing Director of Nextchem, Fabio Fritelli. The new Rome center is part of the NODE ecosystem – Nextchem Operating Research & Development Excellence – Nextchem's international applied research network, which connects specialized and complementary centers to accompany technologies from experimentation to validation at pilot scale and then to industrial scale-up. 🔗 https://lnkd.in/eB4HCcHU

Ready to switch ON? NODE Roma. October 22. A new connection between research and industrial innovation. Stay tuned. 💡 ⏩ https://lnkd.in/eXcgPT8j 🙌 NEXTCHEM

Energy is evolving. We’re engineering what comes next. MAIRE is heading back to Abu Dhabi for ADIPEC Exhibition and Conference from November 2 to 5 to connect, exchange perspectives and explore what’s next for energy, bringing our cutting-edge technologies and engineering expertise straight into the conversation. From strategic insights to technical deep dives, we’ll share how we turn innovation into projects that help meet tomorrow’s energy needs. 👀 Keep your eyes peeled for our full agenda and speaker line-up. Save the date. Join the conversation. Let’s shape the future of energy, together. MAIRE | TECNIMONT | NEXTCHEM