On October 23 and 24, the Siveco Chengdu office received an engineer from Cofely Gient Energy Management (Chongqing) for joint testing of the latest release of our mobile solution bluebee®. As our GM Bruno was also in town at that time, we treated our customer to nice local food and had a good time.

Siveco China’s General Manager Bruno Lhopiteau paid a visit to our customer Saint-Gobain Proppants in Guanghan, Sichuan province. The plant, producing ceramic proppants for the oil & gas drilling market, started production in 2006. It employs 50 people in the maintenance team.

On September 24, the Siveco West China team celebrated the company’s 10 years anniversary at the Chengdu office. Although half of the team was busy on projects in Chongqing, we still enjoyed French champagne and a birthday cake.

The Siveco team held its now traditional party to celebrate the French National Day on July 14, 2014 at Siveco Shanghai office. The team enjoyed French Champagne and desserts, while General Manager Bruno led the company’s French citizens to sing revolutionary songs.

Siveco China held its half-year board meeting on July 21 at the Kokuyo Showroom in Shanghai. During the morning sessions, the progress of the ongoing ISO 9001 certification were reviewed with board members, department managers and internal auditors. During the afternoon session, the board meeting took place, with review of company performance and decisions for the second half of the year, including further investment in R&D in Shanghai and Chengdu.

In February 2014, Siveco China project manager Remi Armand relocated to Nanning to spearhead our business development effort in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. He is developing local partners, with support from the Siveco teams at the West China office in Chengdu and the head office in Shanghai.