On October 17-19, the Siveco team visited Urumqi, capital of the Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region, China's westernmost province and hinterland of the Eurasia continent. The team visited several customers and joined a conference organized by the French Government in cooperation with China's Ministry of Commerce (MOFCOM) and the China International Council for the Promotion of Multinational Corporations (CICPMC).

According to Siveco China's General Manager Bruno Lhopiteau:

"Western China is a priority for Siveco, as the region offers enormous potential for maintenance in infrastructure projects and petrochemical plants. Our company has already built a significant customer base in the western provinces and we have setup a regional office in Chengdu, Sichuan province, in 2011.

In Xinjiang, we already have three customer sites, with retailer Carrefour, as part of a nationwide project. This visit to Urumqi marks the launch of a marketing program covering the entire West China region, with future stops in Xian, Lanzhou, Kunming, as well as, of course, our home base of Chengdu and its neighbor Chongqing.

We are looking forward to a successful cooperation with Xinjiang industrial players and government officials, who have all proven very friendly and welcoming during this visit."

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 600 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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