Siveco signs new agreement to support Maintenance Best Practices at Sino French Water

On May 22, Siveco China and Sino French Water signed a "Framework agreement for CMMS to support the implementation of Maintenance Best Practices in Sino French Water joint ventures".

This comprehensive agreement is the result of a decade of cooperation between Siveco and Sino French Water in China. It draws on the previous Sino French framework agreement signed in 2012 (see announcement) and the current Suez Asia agreement signed on 2015.

As the Chinese economy evolves, Sino French Water has become increasingly aware of the need to optimize capacity and maintenance in order to reduce the life-cycle cost of their facilities.

The objective of the agreement is to support Sino French Water and its JVs in China to achieve their maintenance improvement goals.

To support this agreement, Siveco China has built and will maintain a team of maintenance CMMS specialists with extensive knowledge of Sino French Water group and its joint-ventures' operations, needs and working practices.

Sino French Water Development Company Limited ("Sino French Water") is a successful partnership between SUEZ ENVIRONNEMENT of France and NWS Holdings Limited of Hong Kong. Sino French Water has been active in the China water industry since its establishment in 1992. Its core businesses cover six segments: water production, full water services, industrial water treatment, sewage treatment, sludge treatment as well as investment holding company.These businesses can be found throughout China: from Changtu in the North to Sanya in the South; and from Chongqing in the West to Shanghai in the East.

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 850 customer sites, including ABB, Arkema, Baida Air, Brose, Carrefour China, CEPSA, Changcheng Property Group, CNEEC, CNOOC, Fushun Mining Group, Engie, GE, 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, CHaINA Supply Chain Excellence Award 2013, Engineers' Choice Award by PEC in 2013 and by Plant360 in 2015. 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 Siveco group, with 30 years of expertise in 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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