Wedoany.com Report-Sept. 15, Baker Hughes, Inc. (Houston) has announced a plan to invest about €300 million in its facilities and plants in Italy over the next five years. The investment is intended to meet increasing global demand for Baker Hughes’ technology solutions that support safe, reliable, and sustainable energy production.

With worldwide energy needs rising due to population growth and expansion in areas such as data centers, this program represents one of Baker Hughes’ largest recent commitments in Italy. It will strengthen production infrastructure, expand manufacturing capacity, and accelerate development of technologies including turbine compressors for data centers, LNG, and hydrogen. These measures aim to support both energy growth and the broader transition toward sustainable solutions.

The plan will create new specialized jobs in Italy, mainly within production and engineering, and will involve nearly all Baker Hughes’ Italian sites under its Industrial & Energy Technology (IET) business.

“We are very pleased to announce this important investment in our Italian facilities to ensure our global customers may continue addressing growing energy demand,” said Baker Hughes Chairman and CEO Lorenzo Simonelli. “With this increased capacity, we will be able to further accelerate the development and delivery of key technologies to help ensure energy is affordable, secure and sustainable for the long term.”

Alessandro Bresciani, senior vice president of Energy Equipment at Baker Hughes, added: “This investment plan not only strengthens our production capacity and creates highly differentiated jobs but also reaffirms the strategic importance of our facilities and people in delivering the advanced technology solutions the world needs. We are proud to continue investing and growing here in Italy, contributing to the country’s development and addressing today’s and tomorrow’s global energy challenges.”

The announcement follows recent awards, including a contract from Fervo Energy to supply power generation equipment for the world’s largest next-generation geothermal plant at Cape Station in Utah. Baker Hughes has also been selected to provide NovaLT™ turbines, developed and manufactured in Italy, for data center projects in Wyoming and Texas with Frontier Infrastructure, and for Aramco’s Master Gas Services III project in Saudi Arabia.

In Florence, Massa, and Avenza, the focus will be on boosting NovaLT™ turbine production, acquiring advanced machinery, expanding test benches, and introducing robotics and artificial intelligence. Research will continue to support turbine technologies. In Bari and Talamona, the company will upgrade production lines, enhance sustainability, and broaden research and development. The Apulian pump center of excellence will transform into a multimodal plant, adding compressor component manufacturing, while the Lombard center will diversify operations to improve efficiency.

At the Vibo Valentia plant in Calabria, ongoing investments will expand production capacity, improve energy efficiency, and create a research and development center for advanced technologies and digital solutions.

Baker Hughes currently employs over 6,600 people across eight sites in Italy.