China's largest maintenance consultancy Siveco China has announced the opening of its new office in Chengdu on April 16.

The operation is already up-and-running with a team of 5 consultants dedicated to growing the Siveco business in the West China, where the company has already enjoyed success in the chemical and oil & gas industries. The team will work in an integrated manner with Siveco's local partner Aoruo, operating from a joint office located in Chengdu Hi-Tech Industrial Development Zone.

According to Siveco China's General Manager Bruno Lhopiteau: "The choice of Chengdu to open our first office outside of Shanghai, our historical operation base in Asia, is a testimony of the vibrant dynamism of this region. Our local customers are among the most open to using innovative technologies for maintenance improvement and already become excellent showcases for us: our success with Sichuan Lutianhua in particular – an award-winning project – has proven to be a strong driver for our business in the process industry."

The new Chengdu team will spearhead marketing and sales activities in the western Chinese provinces of (Chongqing, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunan, Tibet, Shanxi, Gansu, Qinghai, Ningxia, and Guangxi) and deliver projects, with continuing support from the Siveco China head office and R&D teams in Shanghai. Target industries include manufacturing, infrastructures and facility management. Siveco already has a dozen customer sites in the Western China region. The local office may be contacted directly at with full contact details available here.

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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