Fushun Mining Group, a large Chinese state-owned coal mining and oil shale company, has chosen Siveco for the implementation of a maintenance management system for its new ATP oil shale retorting plant currently under construction in Fushun, Liaoning province.

In addition to the maintenance system itself, Siveco will provide start-up assistance to ensure smooth handover from commissioning to operation: the scope of the contract includes the establishment of a plant database, maintenance engineering services and support during the early production phase to ensure the maintenance organization is operational from day one. Fushun engineers will be equipped with Siveco's mobile solution bluebee^® "for the worker of tomorrow" to support their daily work.

Fushun Mining Group (), one of the world's largest oil shale producer, owns geological reserve for high grade oil shale about 3.5 billion tons, of which exploitable reserve is 920 million tons. The company already operates the largest oil shale plant in the world consisting totaling 120 sets of Fushun-type retorts, with annual shale oil yields of 280,000 tons. The new ATP unit, designed to treat small size oil shale, which can't be processed in Fushun retort, with a capacity of 250 tons per hour.

According to Bruno Lhopiteau, General Manager of Siveco: "We are proud to work with such an major state-owned company as Fushun Mining Group for this important project. The result of this very formal selection process confirmed our strong position in the process industry in China, most particularly for technologically-complex plants preparing for the operation phase. Our unique combination of maintenance engineering services, mobile solutions for the technicians and traditional CMMS technologies is proving to be very attractive in the specific context of China, where maintenance expertise is still lacking. We are looking forward to a long and successful relationship with Fushun Mining Group and with the Chinese oil & gas industry in general."

Siveco is the largest maintenance consultancy in China. Based on a long experience of "maintenance with Chinese characteristics", Siveco has developed a unique approach to address the needs of plants, facilities and infrastructures owners in China through the utilization of technological tools. While the market has historically been plagued by IT suppliers without understanding of industrial reality, Siveco is run by maintenance people for maintenance people, focusing on obtaining rapid and sustainable improvement.

Siveco supports best practices in maintenance, facility management and risk prevention through a range of services including assessment, maintenance engineering, CMMS implementation, etc. Siveco provides a suite of very intuitive mobile solutions "for the worker of tomorrow", known as bluebee^®, running on its own cloud computing platform and compatible with any back-office maintenance system (COSWIN, Maximo, SAP PM, Datastream, etc.).

Siveco has over 60 customers across more than 500 sites in China, including ABB, Alstom, ArjoWiggins, Arkema, Beijing Oriental Plaza, Brose, Carrefour China, Changcheng Property Group, CNEEC, Danfoss, Expo 2010 pavilions, GDF Suez, IKEA, International Paper, Kerneos, Nokia, Saint-Gobain, Sichuan Lutianhua, Sogefi, State Grid, ZF, etc.

Siveco China is headquartered in Shanghai, where it also operates a R&D center, and has a branch office in Chengdu. The company is a subsidiary of Siveco Group, Europe's largest CMMS supplier with over 82,000 users worldwide.

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