Siveco, the largest maintenance consultancy in China and a leading provider of maintenance management solutions, has announced a tripling of its investment in the Chinese market during 2015. The formal announcement was made during Siveco Group's annual meeting in Paris on June 1, 2015.

Bruno Lhopiteau, General Manager of Siveco China, explained:

"After 10 years of operation in the Chinese market, our company has recently reached several milestones. We have obtained the ISO 9001 certification, our growing export business now takes us as far as Africa, and we are running the largest cloud-based maintenance management solutions in China with around 800 client sites. The new investment will help develop our operation even further."

"To be more specific, we plan to expand our Beijing operation with a new facility dedicated to building maintenance in partnership with a local university. The team will focus on the development of software solutions and related consulting services for ultra-high buildings and eco-cities, which are priorities for the Chinese government in the coming years. The new facility will showcase our application of Industry 4.0 principles to building maintenance and the convergence of cloud computing, mobility, Building Information Models (BIM) and energy management."

"Finally, this investment will also help speed up our growth in overseas markets. From China, we have already conducted projects in most Asian countries, working with Asian construction firms or with multisite clients having their regional headquarters in China. We have clients in Brunei, Indonesia, Korea, Laos, Malaysia, Singapore and new projects starting in India and Thailand this year. We are also involved in projects in Africa, namely Algeria and Sudan. We have just launched a project in Turkey and are looking at opportunities in Iran. Siveco is the only Chinese maintenance player with such a strong capability to deliver projects outside China. We plan to further strengthen our Shanghai engineering office in terms of technologies and resources, as well as developing relationship with new EPC companies, primarily for utilities and process plants."

The investment, in the form of direct capital injection, has already started and the new Beijing facility is expected to be operational during the summer. The existing Siveco project office in Beijing will merge with the new facility. The company, headquartered in Shanghai, also maintains offices in Chengdu and Hongkong. Siveco China is a company of Siveco Group, based in Paris.

Siveco China, founded in 2004, is the country's largest maintenance consultancy and a pioneer in the development of Maintenance 4.0 technologies, with a focus on mobile solutions "for the worker of tomorrow".

Based on a long experience of "maintenance with Chinese characteristics", Siveco has developed a unique approach combining maintenance consulting and software tools. While the Chinese 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 China has over 800 customer sites, including ABB, Alstom, Arkema, Baida Air, Brose, Carrefour China, CEPSA, Changcheng Property Group, CNEEC, Fushun Mining Group, Engie, Greenland Holdings, Hanwha Chemical, International Paper, Nokia, Saint-Gobain, Shanghai World Expo 2010 pavilions, Shell, Sichuan Lutianhua, Suez Environnement, etc. The company boasts a growing export business, working alongside Asian EPC companies in Southeast Asia, the Middle-East and Africa.

Siveco China has won multiple awards including the prestigious 2010 Motorola Enterprise Mobility Solutions Grand Prix, Plant Engineering Product of the Year 2012, Engineers' Choice Award 2013 and CHaINA Supply Chain Excellence Award 2013. Siveco is the only China-based maintenance consultancy to operate outside of China and the only company in Asia to have obtained the ISO9001:2008 certification for maintenance improvement services and CMMS development.

Siveco China is a subsidiary of Europe's leading supplier of computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS). The company is headquartered in Shanghai, where it also operates a R&D center, and also has offices in Beijing, Chengdu and Hong Kong.

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