Technical Maintenance & Facility Management

VINCI Energies acquired the SEVES company on 3 July. It is now part of the Pôle VINCI Energies France Facilities Nord-Ouest IDF (France), within the scope headed by Christophe Petit.

SEVES in a nutshell

SEVES specialises in marketing, installing and maintaining uninterrupted power supply units, central battery systems and chargers. UPS units are used to protect a wide variety of devices in the event of a power outage.

Since most VINCI Facilities contracts include UPS unit maintenance, acquiring SEVES’s expertise was a logical step. In discussing the acquisition, François Comble, Business Development Director at the Pôle, said, “Bringing the SEVES company’s expertise in-house boosts our image. In addition, its customer portfolio will open up opportunities for us in service sector and industrial activities in which we have not yet been operating.”

SEVES was set up as a small family-run company in 1980 by Pierre Connetable, who had previously headed the SATEL design office. Its workforce expanded from 4 to 40 employees within just a few years and in 2018 it generated €6.2 million in revenue.

Headquartered in Dracy le Fort in eastern France, SEVES has offices throughout the country in Bordeaux, Lyon, Nancy, Paris, Roye, Toulouse and Vichy.

SEVES has been integrated in Christophe Petit’s management scope and its former Managing Director, Etienne Connetable, will be supporting its development at VINCI Energies for two years.

Pierre RIOM, previously business unit manager within the Pôle VEF Industrie Nord Est, will now serve as SEVES Business Unit Manager.

A niche activity and broad-based expertise

SEVES, which is widely respected for its technical expertise, delivers maintenance and repair services for UPS units of all brands and power levels, at all its customer sites.

It operates across the full range of services:

• telephone advice and support;
• preventive maintenance inspections (together with thermographic inspection as appropriate);
• preventive maintenance with part replacement;
• repairs;
• remote monitoring.

“We can handle UPS units ranging from 600 Watts to 300 kVA and even 800 kVA for some customers. Data centres, hospitals, airports, industrial facilities, shops and emergency lighting in public buildings are just some of the many activity sectors in which we work,” says SEVES workshop manager Daniel Duhamel.