CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
11 November 2004
Company News
Logtronics and Eurostep Commercial Solutions Announce Partnership
Logtronics, a South African company jointly owned by Grintek (South Africa) and Saab (Sweden), and Eurostep have entered into a partnership to provide services and solutions in the area of exchanging and sharing product life cycle data for the defense industry, as well as other industries dealing with complex product life cycle information. The agreement is focused on the African market but is also applicable globally.
"This partnership has great potential," says Mr. Gordon Ishammar, Sales Director for Eurostep Commercial Solutions.
"Logtronics has impressive knowledge in the domains that our software, Share-A-spaceT, targets and together we will offer state of the art solutions. South Africa is increasing its presence in global markets and there is significant interest from international companies to do business in South Africa. We are very pleased to be part of this development," ends Gordon Ishammar.
"Our partnership with Eurostep gives us additional, important capabilities," says André Landsberg, Chief Executive Officer, Logtronics. "With our aggressive goals for business growth in South Africa as well as in other regions, we need partners that provide products and services aimed at international markets.
Eurostep is targeting global business, with solutions based on international standards such as STEP and PLCS, so this is a perfect match.
"The agreement and its implementation puts us in an even stronger position to support our local customers as well as high tech joint efforts where South African companies are involved," ends André Landsberg.
Eurostep Commercial Solutions is a subsidiary of Eurostep Group. Eurostep Group, ( http://www.eurostep.com/ ), delivers software and consulting services for product life-cycle management with a particular focus on the exchange and sharing of data within and between enterprises. Services range from pre-studies to the implementation of customized systems. The flagship product, Share-A-space, ( http://www.share-a-space. com/ ), is a software that supports collaborative engineering across the life cycle of products. Eurostep has subsidiaries in Sweden, the UK, Finland, and the US and has blue-chip customers in a variety of industries including automotive, aerospace, defense, building & construction, process industries and infrastructure (GIS).
Logtronics is a supplier of integrated logistic support services and products to systems owners and suppliers of high technology systems and equipment. The division is 51 percent owned by Grintek Limited and 49 percent by Saab AB. Grintek Limited employs some 1400 people, most of whom are engineers and technicians. The group specializes in three main market segments, namely telecommunications and selected niche opportunities within industrial and defense electronics.
For more information, please contact:
Gordon Ishammar, Sales Director, Eurostep Commercial Solutions,
Phone: +46 (0) 8-20 04 50, Mobile: +46 (0) 708-20 44 40,
e-mail: gordon.ishammar@share-a-space.com
André Landsberg, Chief Executive Officer, LOGTRONICS,
Phone: +27 12 678 8002, Mobile: +27 82 579 1632,
e-mail : aklandsberg@grintek.com
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