As inflation increases and an energy shortage threatens, the Sulzer company, which manufactures and maintains pumps, tanks and pipes for fluid engineering, is doing well. Interview with Sulzer Board Chair Suzanne Thoma in Forum.
For Suzanne Thoma, if the company with its 13,800 employees and 180 factories around the world is doing well, it is thanks to investments in the production of gas, oil or even nuclear energy.
“The energy transition is not a question of a few years, but rather of decades and our customers have started to invest in a little more traditional energy production”, she explains at the microphone of Forum.
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Fossil fuels needed for the transition?
Faced with the possible shortage of energy, several countries are turning to fossil fuels. In Switzerland, for example, the Confederation urgently purchased eight mobile gas turbines in order to strengthen the energy supply.
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“In Switzerland, we haven’t asked ourselves enough about the security of energy supply”, analyzes Suzanne Thoma. Thus, for her, “it is not directly a return to fossil fuels. It is rather an awareness of the fact that the energy transition takes time”.
Although the majority of Sulzer’s investments come from oil or gas companies, it also has investments in cleaner industrial technologies. The return of fossil fuels “will give us the means to invest in these greener industrial technologies”, emphasizes Suzanne Thoma.
Interview by Pietro Bugnon
Adaptation web: Andreia Portinha Saraiva