CIMdata PLM Industry Summary Online Archive
25 August 2009
Company News
Zuken Expands CADSTAR Network in Italy and Spain
Zuken is continuing to extend the distribution network for their modular EDA solution CADSTAR, with an important new Value Added Reseller (VAR) in Italy and Spain. An agreement has just been signed with Elco Engineering to provide sales and support of CADSTAR throughout these two territories on behalf of Zuken.
Part of the renowned Elco Group, Elco Engineering is a recently formed company following the merger of two previously existing companies - CAD Italia and SKY DATA. Elco Engineering is a full service company and offers a designer center focused in FPGA development with significant experience in design methodology, and hardware engineering - they also offer in-house tool and function specific training.
"Elco Engineering is pleased to include CADSTAR in the diverse portfolio of software solutions on offer to Spain and Italy’s important manufacturing sectors.” said Paolo Rinaldi, Managing Director, Elco Group. “Zuken’s products represent the best and most reliable CAD solutions in the market place and we are proud to be associated with them. With the recession biting deep in both Spain and Italy companies are looking to design innovation technology to help bring productivity gains and kick-start growth."
Zuken has been gradually extending their market share of the lucrative Spanish EDA tool market and Elco Engineering has a strong market presence in Spain to continue this process. Also, with five dedicated sales staff operating out of Italy CADSTAR will now be reaching many more of the small to medium sized industries operating in the manufacturing sectors of precision machinery, motor vehicles (specialized utility vehicles, luxury vehicles, motorcycles, scooters), chemicals and electric goods which are crucial to Italy’s export trade and will prove vital in restarting economic growth.
Jeroen Leinders, CADSTAR Distribution Manager said, "Elco Engineering is a natural partner for CADSTAR – they have the experience and the contacts to promote CADSTAR electronic design technology to the next level in both Spain and Italy. We release the latest CADSTAR upgrade in autumn 2009 so it is especially important to have a new distribution partner on board as we introduce exciting new features including breakthrough design re-use functionality, to help designers meet their tight deadlines and companies respond to the global economic downturn."
Existing CADSTAR customers in Italy will be pleased to note that the current CADSTAR representative for Italy, Mr. Massimo Lupi, will remain as the CADSTAR representative in both Sales and Technical Support, but will now also bring his considerable expertise in CADSTAR post and pre-sales support to future customers of Elco.
To find out more about CADSTAR go to www.zuken.com/cadstar or for further details on Elco Engineering please visit www.elco-group.com
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