I had the great pleasure to visit Tunis last month for meeting with our African partners. My main theme was “Siveco China on the Silk Road”, as our EPC business is taking us from Korea in the East to as far as Algeria in the West! Siveco enjoys a very strong presence on the African continent, thanks to a network of local partners built in the past 30 years. At the same time in neighboring Algeria, our ongoing CMMS project at the Boufarik gas turbine power plant built by Turkish EPC GAMA is moving into final delivery phase.

Indeed, we observe our business has picked up during Q1 2016, as more companies finally start to pay attention to optimizing assets utilization and maintenance. More and more customers show interest in our ROI-driven approach, combining specialist maintenance consulting services and Maintenance 4.0 technology.

As of March 2016, Siveco Group has been in business for 30 years! 30 years helping customers optimize their maintenance, 30 years of innovation, 30 years building a unique know-how… and 12 of those years in China!

The entire Siveco China team wishes you and yours a happy and prosperous Year of the Monkey! This year, our team has produced a little movie, expressing our good wishes in a more personal manner! We hope you enjoy the video! May the New Year bring you and your families good health, happiness and prosperity in 2016!

This year the Siveco China team goes west for the holiday season! There are several reasons for us to walk in the legendary steps of Tang Seng and his disciples journeying to India. First of all, our business has expanded considerably outside of China in the past few years, into many Asian countries and as far as Africa. Second, traveling from Shanghai, west is the right way to go to celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ! Last but not least, this gave us a very exciting theme for our traditional costumed Christmas party!

Do you have leftover budgets for this year? Have you budgeted maintenance projects in 2016? Have you thought about using it to run a maintenance improvement project, in the form of an audit, Coswin 8i upgrade, the implementation of bluebee®, etc.? It is not too late! Make sure you did not forget to budget for your annual Siveco support contract (enhanced or not), for planned expansion of system usage or additional services, etc.