[Technical support for machinery] Ensuring the safety and performance of your machinery throughout its entire life cycle

Top NewsCorporate06/29/2026

Designing, operating, or maintaining industrial machinery involves a dual responsibility: guaranteeing personal safety and ensuring operational performance.

Through its “Technical Support for Machinery” offering, Apave—acting as a trusted third party—supports manufacturers, operators, and maintenance providers at every stage of the equipment life cycle: from design and commissioning to modification and maintenance phases.

Customers can call upon Apave as early as the definition of technical requirements, during manufacturing, before commissioning, or whenever equipment is modified to ensure compliance, safety and performance.

Focus

Managing machinery risks on a global scale

Each year, Apave carries out nearly 13,000 Technical Support for Machinery assignments for manufacturers, operators, and integrators. The Group's expertise is structured around four pillars.

Thanks to its international network, Apave manages these issues worldwide, notably by providing manufacturing monitoring and equipment acceptance directly at factories, regardless of their location. This approach guarantees operators a comprehensive overview of the project, a maximum level of safety, and optimal operational performance at every stage.

+13 000
Technical Support for Machinery assignments completed in France in 2025 and 600 machinery experts Group-wide.
Requirements definition
helping operators precisely define their technical requirements and objectives.
Risk analysis
identifying hazards and proposing solutions to reduce risks during manufacturing or modifications.
Performance analysis
suggesting improvements to optimise productivity while guaranteeing safety.
Compliance control
verifying that machinery meets regulatory obligations and industrial standards.
Norske Skog Golbey

A major transformation

Faced with a rapidly changing market, the Norske Skog Golbey paper mill—a news-print manufacturer—undertook a major transformation of one of its two paper lines into a corrugated paper line, requiring the assembly of components from different suppliers. To secure this asset and ensure commissioning in strict compliance with regulations, Norske Skog Golbey turned to Apave at several key stages:

• Manufacturer data analysis: verifying the consistency and theoreti-cal compliance of machine safeguards.
• Cross-border verification: aligning international supplier standards with French regulatory requirements.
• Comprehensive support: from design to final control, providing the essential overview needed to guar-antee compliance and safety.

We were able to follow the entire project, which gave us a complete view of equipment compli-ance and safety. We were looking for a reliable and recognised partner. Apave knows our facilities perfectly and enabled us to secure our industrial transformation.
Laurent GEORGEL Technical Director Norske Skog Golbey
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"Safety and performance are inseparable. Technical support for machinery makes it pos-sible to reconcile employee protection, regulatory compli-ance, industrial performance, and cost control. ”

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Stéphane
Technical Director Apave Exploitation France
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Worldwide presence

On-the-ground expertise
a presence in nearly 60 countries
and a global perspective on your risks

All over the world, Apave’s teams are on hand to support your projects.

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