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17 March 2008
Implementation Investments
Babcock Selects AVEVA Marine solutions for UK CVF Carrier Project
AVEVA is proud to announce that Babcock Marine has selected the AVEVA Marine solutions for use during the build of the two new aircraft carriers for the UK's Royal Navy: HMS Queen Elizabeth and HMS Prince of Wales.
Babcock Marine has selected AVEVA Marine for use on the carrier project because of the proven track record of AVEVA technology on global projects both Naval and Commercial. Babcock Marine will execute their portion of the carrier project as part of a distributed engineering workforce across three locations.
Mike Pettigrew MD Babcock Design and Technology said:
"The CVF (Carrier Vessel Future) project presents UK industry with huge challenges in the delivery, detailed engineering and manufacture of the two largest ships ever to sail in the Royal Navy. Babcock has chosen to deploy AVEVA technology as this is the best fit for our overall business requirements with ready access to trained individuals, a significant network of potential sub-contractors and a proven ability to execute multi-site multi partner projects."
Martin Yeomans, Executive Vice President, AVEVA Western Europe, Middle East and Africa said: "We are extremely pleased with Babcock Marine's selection of AVEVA. Over recent months our team of engineers has been working with Babcock on an initial implementation of the AVEVA Marine solution into the Rosyth site where, once again, AVEVA's ability to support multi-site multi-partner working is the key to the success of our clients' projects."
About Babcock Marine
The new Babcock Marine Division is a business with annual revenue of almost £700m and over 7,000 permanent employees. Babcock Marine is a single integrated naval engineering and support business comprising its operations at Rosyth, Devonport and the Clyde.
About AVEVA Group plc
AVEVA Group plc is one of the world's foremost and fastest-growing lifecycle engineering IT solutions and services providers to the oil and gas, paper and pulp, power, chemical, pharmaceutical and shipbuilding industries. Listed on the London Stock Exchange (LSE:AVV), the Group reported pre-tax profits for the year ended March 2007 of GBP 24.7 million on revenues of GBP 94.9 million. The Group has grown consistently since 1967 on the strength of pioneering engineering technology that protects the information assets of its customers from the volatile nature of the IT industry.
The Group's history of innovation spans five decades and has produced most of today's major engineering IT technologies. Serving over 1600 clients, AVEVA has a dominant position in many market sectors both on and offshore. In May 2004, the Group acquired Tribon Solutions AB, the market-leading shipbuilding solution company and now serves 85% of the world's top 20 shipbuilders.
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