Saint-Gobain PAM, the pipe network branch of the Saint-Gobain Group, is the world’s leading manufacturer of ductile iron pipeline systems.

The partner section of our newsletter has naturally been focused on highly visible partnerships between Siveco China and companies providing complementary solutions and services. There is however another category of partners, whose importance cannot be underestimated: Introductory Partners.

As some of our readers know, while I first came to China in the late 90s to work on a paper mill project in Suzhou, the rest of my career (after I moved here permanently in 1999, until the end of 2004, when we started the Siveco business) was dedicated to power utilities.

This article is based on an interview of our GM Bruno Lhopiteau, a leading figure in the Chinese utility maintenance market, by magazine Control Engineering China, in which Bruno shares his experience in the power industry and explains its relevance to other process plants.

In mid-2009, Ranhill started the construction of a new 190 MW combined-cycle gas turbine power plant (CCGT) in the state of Sabah in East Malaysia.

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