SVTI consolidates its structures
The SVTI can look back on a successful 2015 financial year. Despite a difficult economic environment, all SVTI inspectorates achieved their targets, the group writes.
For the SVTI-Group, 2015 was a year of consolidation. Following restructuring in previous years, the Swiss Association for Technical Inspections consolidated its new structures. The company also pressed ahead with the project for the extension to the site in Wallisellen ZH. The new building is expected to be ready for occupancy in the summer of 2017, so that the SVTI Group will be conducting all training courses on site from the fall of 2017. Thanks to the new premises with state-of-the-art infrastructure, the Wallisellen site is developing into an important center for training in the field of safety of technical installations and risk management, the association emphasizes.
Positive result
SVTI and its subsidiaries also felt the effects of the difficult economic environment in 2015. In certain services, such as traditional non-destructive testing, and in the area of hazardous goods, sales were slightly down. Nevertheless, the inspectorates and most areas of the SVTI Group achieved their targets in 2015. The operating result was correspondingly pleasing, it says.
Change in the Board of Management
At the 147th association meeting on June 23 in Basel, SVTI members confirmed Udo M. Bäckert (president) and board member Patrice Voumard for another three years. Jean-Pierre Passerat, Managing Director of Leman Bio Energie and Chairman of the Board of Sappro SA, was newly elected to the Board. Robert Fasler has resigned from the board due to retirement, the association concludes.
