Meet the companies that attended

10 companies and 8 stakeholders spanning government, academia and business from Northern Ireland visited Malaysia and Singapore to demonstrate their expertise, offerings and establish relationships with key in-market stakeholders. 

The goal was to foster connections and form partnerships between Northern Ireland, Malaysia and Singapore in the field of net zero technologies, particularly focusing on sustainable water management, decarbonisation, hydrogen and alternative fuels. This initiative helped to facilitate collaboration and knowledge exchange in the Southeast Asian region.

During the five-day visit, the group presented Northern Ireland's expertise in net zero technologies, engaged in knowledge sharing with local counterparts, and sought potential R&D collaborations, investment and trade prospects. This visit also served as a chance to utilise the Green Economy Framework with Singapore, supporting both the UK and Singapore in reaching their ambitious net zero goals.

Contributing to the ambitions set by the Climate Change Act and the 10X Vision, this exchange helped ensure Northern Ireland businesses and the local economy can benefit from the growth of a global green economy opportunities.

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Hear more from Northern Ireland’s key stakeholders, academics and business leaders who attended the Net Zero Exchange in Southeast Asia.

Meet the companies that attended

  • B9 is a leading developer of Power-to-X projects in the UK and Irish markets. It has three sites in the work plan with a total installed electrolyser capacity of 3.45GWe. These will allow offshore wind to be deployed without curtailment, green methanol to be supplied to ferries and large cities to be district heated. 

    Representatives 

    David Surplus OBE, Managing Director 

    Dr John Harrison, Chief Technical Officer

  • GES Group is an award-winning and industry-leading company that provides power and energy solutions for SMEs and large multinationals across a range of industries in the UK and internationally. The Group has a strong long-standing trading history extending in growth across a significant number of industry sectors in their drive to develop the renewable

    Representatives 

    David Moore, Group Chief Executive Officer 

    Richard Paul, Group Technical & Commercial Officer 

  • Lagan MEICA deliver innovative design and build MEICA solutions for the water and wastewater industry including deployment of hydrogen and oxygen technologies. 

    Representatives 

    Neil McKenzie, Director 

  • Lagan Energy Engineering Ltd are a leading supplier of low carbon energy solutions with global operating experience and reach. Specialising in the Renewable, Data Centre and Green Hydrogen sectors our world class technical services are the choice of industry leaders and companies worldwide.

  • Mannok Build is a leading manufacturer of a diverse range of premium building materials including bulk and bagged cement, concrete roof tiles, high performance PIR and EPS insulation, aircrete thermal blocks and bespoke designed precast concrete stairs and floors. 

    With a proud 50-year heritage, the company has grown into one of the most successful manufacturers of building solutions in the UK and Ireland, earning a reputation for developing industry-leading sustainable solutions. 

    Representatives 

    Kevin Lunney, Chief Operations Officer 

    Paul Monaghan, Group Head of Sustainability 

  • NovoGen provides a range of specialist capabilities and services including but not limited to hydrogen refuelling systems, medical oxygen generation systems, specialist electrical services on high voltage systems and energy optimisation. 

    Representatives 

    Karl Conlon, Technical Director 

  • Nuada is a pure-play carbon capture company poised to decarbonise heavy industries through its next-generation point-source capture technology. The company builds energy-efficient filtration machines that capture CO2 from industrial off-gases, empowering emitters in hard-to-abate sectors to reduce their carbon footprint with minimum impact on their bottom line. 

    Representatives 

    Jose Casaban, Co-CEO 

    Conor Hamill, Co-CEO 

  • Photonic Measurements is a water quality instrumentation manufacturer who design, build and assemble measurement and monitoring solutions for a range of applications. Their real-time IOT-enables aeration and dosing control to optimize energy consumption. Photonics Measurements range of water quality solutions ensure efficiency, reducing electricity usage in wastewater, drinking water and environmental monitoring. 

    Representative 

    Davy Simms, Head of Sales 

  • Purapipe’s revolutionary pipeline technology is a sophisticated combination of robustly tested technologies, transferred out of static manufacturing factories onto mobile pipeline production platforms, operating on construction sites across both onshore and offshore locations. 

    Representative 

    Dr Edward Archer, Senior Business Consultant 

  • The Electric Storage Company has built the PARIS software platform (providing predictability) to optimise battery storage (providing flexibility) to maximise savings and income against energy market opportunities. PARIS is offered to front of meter and behind the meter customers and on a white label basis. 

    Representative 

    Eddie McGoldrick, Chair 

Meet the stakeholders that attended

  • A £100m Belfast Region City Deal project led by Queen’s University Belfast, the Advanced Manufacturing Innovation Centre is a collaborative, innovative powerhouse of advanced manufacturing set to elevate our region globally. 

    It is supporting economic growth and prosperity in Northern Ireland by creating high quality jobs and increasing inward investment through high value manufacturing innovation clusters. 

    Representative

    Sam Turner, Chief Executive Officer

  • Arup is a global sustainable development consultancy with 18,000 designers, advisors and experts working across 140 countries. With a deep understanding of Northern Ireland, Arup works in partnership to support sustainable development, collaborating to create a more resilient future for the region.

    Representatives 

    Pete Gray, Associate Director 

    Melanie Thrush, Principal Engineer / Geothermal Consultant 

    Rob Duffin, Director 

  • CASE is an industry-led sustainable energy research centre based in Northern Ireland. CASE is a cross-institution organisation with Ulster University and Agri-Food and Biosciences Institute. Its work helps to position Northern Ireland at the forefront of the global sustainable energy market by integrating leading research into the local industrial base for the benefit of the business community and the wider economy. 

    Representative 

    Martin Doherty, Centre Director 

    David Rooney, Professor  

    Trevor Haslett CBE, Chair  

  • The Department for the Economy is a government department in the Northern Ireland Executive and its responsible for wider economic policy including specific areas like energy, tourism and telecoms.

    Representative 

    Jimmy Graham, Director for Business, Gas, Minerals and Renewable Electricity 

  • NIE Networks is the owner of the electricity transmission and distribution networks in Northern Ireland, transporting electricity to 910,000 customers including homes, businesses and farms. Its role is to maintain and extend the electricity infrastructure across Northern Ireland, connect customers to the network and ensure that our equipment is safe and reliable.

    Representatives 

    Derek Hynes, Managing Director  

    Roger Henderson, Network Asset and Investment Director 

    Edel Creery, Head of Communications and Stakeholder Engagement  

  • Queen’s University Belfast is a powerhouse of innovation and ranks as the highest performing UK University for commercialisation of research. The university's research is founded on excellence, integrity and partnership. The highly inter and cross-disciplinary research portfolios have recognised international strengths in cancer, chronic illness, epidemiology, environmental sustainability, healthcare technologies, infection biology, ophthalmology, population health and respiratory disease.

    Representative 

    David Rooney, Professor

  • The Strategic Investment Board helps government with investment planning and delivery. Areas of key responsibility include; preparing the Investment Strategy for Northern Ireland, helping the public sector develop and deliver major programmes and projects, and helping to champion reform.

    Representative

    John Green, Strategic Advisor

  • Ulster University is Northern Ireland’s largest public university with approximately 30,000 students and 2700 staff. It is a multi-campus university with extensive campus sites in Belfast, Coleraine and Derry/Londonderry. The university delivers globally significant research with over £45 million investment in research and innovation programmes each year.