Expansions: Technip Energies opens new office/research centre in India; Syntegon reopens expanded site in Netherlands

Tech/engineering firm Technip Energies has expanded in India with the opening of a new office near Ahmedabad in Gujarat International Finance Tec-City and set up a Research and Innovation Centre within the Indian Institute of Technology Madras (IITM) Research Park in Chennai.

The new office in Ahmedabad is Technip Energies' fourth operating centre in India. Strategically located between Ahmedabad and Gandhinagar in GIFT City India’s first operational Smart city, it has access to Gujarat’s skilled talent pool and robust infrastructure. The new office will employ around 300 people in 2025.

Meanwhile, the research centre at IITM Research Park, hosting Technip Energies' fourth global lab, joins the company’s existing technology hubs in Europe and the US. This facility will focus on research and technology development in critical areas that align with Technip Energies’ key markets: low carbon energy derivatives, industrial decarbonisation and circularity.

The IITM Research Park, India's first university-based research park, brings together academia, industry, government and start-ups. It grants access to top talent, advanced technologies and centres of excellence. These resources will enable Technip Energies to scale up and commercialise technologies, it adds.

The company has established a strong foothold in the country with offices in key locations like Chennai, Delhi, and Mumbai and an employee base of 4,600. This extensive presence, coupled with a dedicated manufacturing unit in Dahej, Gujarat, allows Technip Energies to serve the expanding Indian market, it says.

In other news, German packaging firm Syntegon says it has reopened its expanded site in Weert, Netherlands, with the inauguration of a new office building and additional production space. The conversion of the site began in mid-March 2023 and has now been officially completed.

Syntegon says it will manufacture, assemble as well as test and ship packaging equipment under one roof. To this effect, the company has invested in new warehouse and production facilities with a total surface area of 4,000 sq m, with part of the new production space to be used either for testing or manufacture of packaging solutions, thereby enabling a substantial increase in output. The production facility’s increased height of 11 m offers ample space for large constructions.

Syntegon previously maintained three buildings for a variety of purposes in Weert. Two of them housed mechanical publication, a Customer Experience and Innovation Centre, and office spaces in the north-west part of the site, near Weert’s main canal. A third building served as a final-assembly unit and warehouse in the south-east part of the site, close to a main transport route.

Another important aspect of the redesign is the site’s energy usage. Syntegon aims to reduce its overall carbon footprint by 50% over the period from 2019 to 2030.

The pharma packaging firm says it has also invested in new offices totalling a further 1,500 sq m. The new office building will also help foster further interaction with customers, as it is connected to the existing Customer Experience and Innovation centre, it adds.

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