Leading candy manufacturer selects Siveco for its Guangzhou plant

A world-leading international candy manufacturer has selected Siveco for the implementation of a maintenance improvement system at its Guangzhou factory, which produces candies for local and export markets.

This project marks Siveco's entry into the Chinese Food & Beverage production market, an industry facing strong regulatory requirements and increasing government and public scrutiny. Siveco China already has significant experience with parts of the food chain in China: upstream with ingredient manufacturers, downstream with food retailers. Siveco Group has a long history in the highly developed European food & beverage industry, with historical customers such as Danone, Kraft-Lu, Nestle and United Biscuits.

This latest contract also adds to the growing list of Siveco customers in South China's Guangdong province, which includes Carrefour (retail, 20+ sites), Changcheng Property Group (facilities management, 30+ sites), International Paper (packaging) and Magneti Marelli (automotive supplier).

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.). bluebee^® has won several awards including the prestigious Plant Engineering Product of the Year 2012.

Siveco has over 60 customers across more than 600 sites in China, including ABB, Alstom, Arkema, Brose, Carrefour China, Changcheng Property Group, CNEEC, Fushun Mining Group, Shanghai World Expo 2010 pavilions, GDF Suez, Greenland Holdings, IKEA, International Paper, Nokia, Saint-Gobain, Sichuan Lutianhua, Sogefi, 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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