Bureau Veritas installs to Singapore the own first Asian center of technological search



The society of classification and French certification Bureau Veritas (BV) has instituted the own first technological research center in the region of Asia/Oceania. The new Deepwater Technology Research Centre (DTRC) of the transalpine company is installed to Singapore with the support of the Maritime Cluster Fund (MCF), the organism of the Harbour Authority of Singapore dedicated to the promotion of the increase of the marine cluster of Singapore.

"Singapore - the Offshore vice president Marine & for southern Asia of Bureau Veritas has explained, Matthieu de Tugny - is chosen as center of the DTRC for its strategic geographic position and its current role of hub leader for the construction and conversion of offshore unit. Moreover it has been considered that it constitutes the ideal choice because of being served much good from institutions and institutes of quality formation and because it possesses infrastructural connections of world-wide level and a program of research & development from the solid bases and universal recognized. The search and the development are essential for the success of Bureau Veritas. Our technical innovations - it has emphasized de Tugny - anticipate the future requirements of our customers and allow to safeguard the pre-eminent position of Bureau Veritas in an international market in continuous increase".

"The scope of the DTRC - it has continued the manager of the French group - is that to strengthen the scientific and technical cooperation with the local university and the industry. Working with the university of Singapore and the leaders of the local industry Bureau Veritas it is disposed to create to projects of job common and to carry out activity of research & development based on a technical innovation of high level. The objective is to diffuse acquaintances and technical know-how-how, to institute a forum on the search and the development in order to share acquaintances and to generate industrial projects common and in order to create a forum that will constitute a platform of job for the encounter of technical staff, the argument and the identification of criticality, in order to propose appropriate technical solutions and in order to share the technical acquaintances".

While 23rd September the Bureau Veritas group has inaugurated the transfer of own center in China in the district Huangpu di Shanghai celebrating meanwhile the twentieth anniversary of the income of the French company in the Chinese market. Moreover next day BV has inaugurated in the Chinese city the Shanghai Inspectorate Metals & Minerals Technical Center that represent according to technical center of the group dedicated to the metals and minerals.