In fiscal 2011 (October 1, 2010 – September 30, 2011), Siemens’ sales to customers in Peru amounted to EUR 222.3 million and new orders totaled EUR 228.4 million. Siemens currently has about 340 employees in Peru.

Siemens has been active in Peru since the early 1900s when, together with Germany’s J.M. Voith GmbH, the company won contracts to build three hydroelectric power plants for the state-owned power utility Empresa Eléctrica de Arequipa. Siemens S.A.C. was founded in Lima in 1968 and was merged with Siemens Building Technologies Peru in 2003.

The Bayóvar project being carried out by the Vale Group, one of the world’s biggest mining companies, is without a doubt one of the country’s most important mining projects. Miskimayo Mining Company (the local representation for Vale) chose Siemens to provide complete industrial automation solutions. Siemens will provide technical and engineering consultancy for different parts of the process, such as assembly and commissioning. The project’s technical solution included one video wall, two pairs of redundant servers, four controllers, six operating stations for clients, three maintenance stations and three engineering stations. Siemens will integrate the automated devices for communicating with the Process Field Bus - Decentralized Peripherals (Profibus DP) and use field integrated instrumentation with the Process Field Bus - Process Automation (Profibus PA).