F4E informs Italian industry of business opportunities

Italian industry specialised in the engineering and nuclear area, mainly from the regions of Piedmont, Lombardy and Luguria, received information on the business opportunities that exist in collaboration with F4E.

The event, held in Turin on 17 May, brought together 70 companies, representatives from business associations from the region, a representative from ITER and F4E staff from the ITER, Financial and Business Intelligence teams. F4E presentations focused on technical requirements for the ITER machine, in particular remote handling, projects related to buildings and infrastructure on the ITER site, as well as procurement rules and business opportunities with F4E. Dr Ing. Aldo Pizzuto, F4E Governing Board Member and Head of Research Unit of Euratom-ENEA Association, presented the work of ENEA and presentations about Italian industry and the ITER project were held by the F4E Industrial Liaison Officer (ILO) Paola Batistoni and representatives from Italian industry associations.

In order to establish a more personal, interactive contact, four smaller groups were organised during the afternoon session of the event. Two of these groups were chaired by F4E staff and dealt in further details with remote handling and the rules of procedure concerning procurement for diagnostics. A third group, chaired by ENEA (the Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and Sustainable Economic Development), focused on facilitating partnerships for future tendering procedures. Ansaldo Nucleare S. p. A. , an Italian company which forms part of the European consortium AMW which is responsible for the supply of seven sectors of the ITER vacuum vessel, chaired the fourth group where they shared their experiences of working with F4E.

Feedback from event participants and co-hosts was positive and the event was deemed successful.