United against COVID-19, sending masks to nursing homes in France

As COVID-19 spread across the world, the supply of masks and other medical material has become a hot and sometimes highly controversial topic. In March, French people living in Shanghai throughout the crisis, such as our Managing Director, discovered that nursing homes in France, hosting the most vulnerable population of elderly people, were not given priority amidst a massive shortage of masks.

Siveco joined a group of 7 French enterprises in Shanghai to purchase and donate FFP2 masks to selected nursing homes ran by non-for-profit organizations. The donations aimed at keeping their staff equipped for around 2 months, a time long enough to hopefully offer protection until the pandemic slows to a halt. Ensuring that the masks could reach their final recipients proved to be the biggest challenge… The first batch of masks finally reached the first retirement home at the beginning of May and more are still on the way.

The Siveco team is thankful to all involved in this and similar initiatives! The 7 companies are Abacare, Coster Associates, Epermarket, Expatrimo, French Dentists, SAE Asia and Siveco China. Thanks to all who have demonstrated the strong friendship between the people of China and France, from the early says of the Wuhan epidemic to the current crisis in France and elsewhere in the world.

About Siveco China
 
Siveco China (www.sivecochina.com), founded in 2004, is a pioneer in the development of Smart Technologies for the Operation & Maintenance of infrastructures and industrial plants, with a focus on mobile solutions "for the worker of tomorrow".
 
Long before the terms "smart" and "4.0" were coined, Siveco has been helping clients optimize the lifecycle of their assets and ensure regulatory compliance using IT. Based on a long experience of "maintenance with Chinese characteristics", the company has designed a unique approach combining expert maintenance consulting and technological innovation. Smart O&M solutions developed in Siveco`s R&D center in Shanghai cover Asset Management, Maintenance 4.0, Risk Prevention and HSE, utilizing Mobility, IoT, BIM, AR and AI technologies.
 
Siveco China has over 900 customer sites all over Greater China and on the Belt & Road, including ABB, Baosteel Metal, Beijing Environment, Capital Water, Carrefour China, CEPSA, CNEEC, CNOOC, COSCO, Fushun Mining, Engie, Everbright, GE, New World Development, Saint-Gobain, Shell, Suez NWS, Yingde Gases, Zhongshan Water etc. The company boasts a growing export business, working alongside Asian EPC companies and with international clients in Southeast Asia, the Middle-East and Africa.
 
Siveco China has won numerous awards, most recently the prestigious Brilliant 40 Years prize by the China Electric Power Equipment Management Association, Top Ten Enterprise for Asset Informatization Service by the and the China Association of Machinery Equipment Maintenance and Renovation (CAMER) and Best Industrial Software 2017 by Control Engineering China. Previous awards include CHaINA Supply Chain Excellence Award 2013 and Engineers` Choice Awards by Plant360 in three categories in 2015.
 
Siveco is ISO 9001-certified by Bureau Veritas for its entire scope of business. The company is headquartered in Shanghai, where it also operates its R&D center, and has offices in Hong Kong. Siveco China is a subsidiary of Siveco Group, a European pioneer in computerized maintenance management systems (CMMS).

Siveco China publishes the monthly Smart Operation & Maintenance – for the worker of tomorrow newsletter (newsletter.sivecochina.com), available to subscribers and online for free.