Technological innovation in help of environmental sustainability: De Nora confirms partnership with Neom

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Milan, December 14, 2021 - A futuristic, fully sustainable city of about 26,500 km2, under construction in Saudi Arabia on the shores of the Red Sea, which will be powered by photovoltaic and wind systems, simultaneously exploiting the high potential of both renewable energies and taking care of all aspects of environmental impact and quality of life. The forthcoming smart city, Neom, is a highly avant-garde industrial, commercial, and residential hub and a state-of-the-art tourist destination, able to attract people worldwide, encouraged by the well-being brought by technological progress looking towards a 360° sustainable future.

A good part of the many investments poured into the new city is allocated to the hydrogen industry: Neom is the stage for the world's largest green hydrogen production plant on a gigawatt scale. De Nora, partnering with thyssenkrupp in its historic joint venture, "thyssenkrupp Uhde Chlorine Engineers (tkUCE)," is among the key players in this extensive scenario.

"The battle against climate change is on the agenda, and it is the responsibility of every company to contribute, to the best of its ability, with its skills and resources," comments Paolo Dellachà, CEO of De Nora, "Neom is the place to be."

De Nora looks towards a sustainable future and the energy transition to pursue the road to decarbonization and contribute to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals.

A key pillar of this giant visionary project is water electrolysis, with De Nora providing tkUCE the manufacturing capacity to supply all the cells and the electrodes required for the entire green hydrogen generation plant. tkUCE will engineer and fabricate the plant based on their large-scale 20-megawatt (MW) alkaline water electrolysis module. Every single module produces up to 9 tons of green hydrogen per day, to be used in a variety of areas within the city and, to a large extent, for synthesis into carbon-free ammonia for export to global markets. Engineering and procurement activities have begun, with production scheduled to start in 2026.

"Thanks to the long-standing partnership between De Nora and our Joint Venture tkUCE, we can grant all the requirements for large-scale production of green hydrogen," adds Paolo Dellachà. "Our alkaline water electrolysis is far superior to other technologies in terms of efficiency as well as safety, and green hydrogen produced from renewable sources has all the potential to be the 'zero impact' energy carrier."

In addition to manufacturing the cell electrolyzers, De Nora and tkUCE are called to establish a local maintenance and assembly workshop for the long-term maintenance of the electrolyzers and a local R&D center targeting the continuous enhancement of the plant performances. "We are working on continual improvement of the performances together with our partners: this project is a clear reward of our decisions to invest in R&D on advanced electrodes and make substantial investments in the expansion of our manufacturing capacity," closes Dellachà.

About De Nora
De Nora is an Italian multinational company, a global provider of innovative technologies and solutions, and is recognized as a partner of choice for significant industrial electrochemical processes. Since its foundation in 1923, De Nora has been driven by the philosophy of continual improvement. Today, it is the world's largest supplier of high-performing catalytic coatings and insoluble electrodes for electrochemical and industrial applications. It is also a leading supplier of equipment, systems, and water disinfection and filtration processes. De Nora's technologies are recognized as a high-value enabler that facilitates transformation processes for many industrial applications: chemistry, water purification, electronics, energy storage, infrastructural corrosion protection, and many others. De Nora is committed to developing unconventional solutions to achieve the energy transition to decarbonization, the green hydrogen economy, and clean water for everyone. In this context, one of the Company's current focuses is Alkaline Water Electrolysis (AWE) and advanced anodes and cathodes to produce green hydrogen.

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