At the beginning of June, our General Manager Bruno and Operation Director Guillaume went to Paris to join the annual meeting of all Siveco Group subsidiaries. In parallel to the main event, Siveco China held meetings with our various African partners to coordinate EPC projects won by Siveco China. The excellent collaboration between the various offices and partners, most of them part of the Siveco network for more than ten years, ensures great support for our customers.

It has never been so trendy to help animals in need in Shanghai but our Operations Director Guillaume Gimonet never misses an opportunity to look good! Apart from being very committed to his work and clients, he finds time in his daily life to support his soon-to-be wife in her struggle for the animal cause in Shanghai! Nanou, Guillaume’s fiancée, is a volunteer at Best Friends China (BFC), the biggest expat and Chinese run non-profit animal welfare group in Shanghai, promoting rescue, adoption and responsible pet ownership.

On January 7, we enjoyed our traditional celebration of the Epiphany at Siveco China Shanghai office and also held a small party in Chengdu. To celebrate the visit of the Three Magi to baby Jesus, French people eat the “galette”, a frangipani cake that contains a trinket. Whoever finds it is crowned King for the day. This year, Guillaume and Joanna were our King and Queen!

Thanks to the involvement and enthusiasm of all member of the Sephora-Siveco project team, leading cosmetic retailer went live last September. More than 140 stores are now using the system in locations as various as Shanghai, Guangzhou, Beijing, Qingdao, Urumqi, Inner Mongolia and Sichuan!

The Siveco Shanghai Christmas Party was a success on December 16th, with Yunnanese food and drinks and… costumes! Our theme this year was something like “trades” or “occupations”, so we had security guard, teacher, doctor, cook, painter, tennis player, sexy maid, priest and nun, maintenance worker, guerrilla soldier, old Shanghai businessman, yakuza playboy and a few other less convincing ones…

After go-live, the CMMS project of Sita Waste Services in Taiwan, at the Renwu Waste-to-Energy plant , entered its Enhance Maintenance Support phase. As part of the support scope, Siveco’s Customer Service Manager Sunny Wang visited the customer onsite and conducted the first yearly system assessment on September 10, 2014.