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8 Industry News SolidCAM Presents DPS Software with Global Best Reseller Award for 2010 With more than 15,000 installed seats of its CAM software worldwide and a global network of more than 120 resellers in 50 countries, SolidCAM GmbH has enjoyed great success. The company’s biggest market is Germany, where some 2,000 users are working. The CAM Competence Centre of Husky Injection Molding Systems is expected to complete its acquisition of KTW, a global manufacturer of closure moulds that is headquartered in Waidhofen, Austria, in May 2011. The purchase represents a logical next step in a 14-year relationship between the companies. Husky and KTW have worked together to develop closure manufacturing systems that enhance customers’ productivity while eliminating waste and improving part quality, explains John Galt, Husky president and CEO. But even closer collaboration was seen to be necessary for meeting DPS Software GmbH has contributed nicely to this success in Germany, as was acknowledged during a recent ceremony at SolidCAM headquarters in Schramberg. There, Stephan Terhorst, the software developer’s German marketing director, presented the award for most successful worldwide SolidCAM reseller in 2010 to Jörg increasingly high expectations, particularly in developing the core elements of closure systems. Husky will offer KTW-branded closure moulds as part of its line of fully integrated turnkey systems when the deal is concluded, making it the closure industry’s only provider of complete injection moulding systems, including the mould, machine, hot runner and temperature controller, as well as consulting and after-sales services. KTW managing directors Anja and Claus Ziegler will continue to be involved at the top management level. Rudig (at right in photo), the manager of the DPS CAM Competence Centre, and his staff of 13. DPS Software has 13 subsidiaries and 145 employees, making it one of the biggest product lifecycle management project partners in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. An important growth engine for the company’s prowess in integrated CAD, CAE, CAM, PDM and ERP software solutions and related services is its CAM Competence Centre. Since the time the centre was founded in 2000, the competence centre team has provided an integrated SolidWorks/SolidCAM CAD/CAM solution for more than 1,500 CNC machines. As Jörg Rudig points out, a key part of DPS’s service offering is the provision of customeroriented training programmes to support its CAD/CAM products. » SolidCAM GmbH Schramberg, Germany www.solidcam.de Husky Solidifies Its Position in Closure-Mould Market through Acquisition of KTW KTW operations in Austria, the Czech Republic and Germany are to become Husky’s closure mould development and manufacturing centres of excellence. In addition, Husky plans to initiate a strategic review of KTW’s custom injection moulding division Injectoplast in order to ensure the division’s future success and avoid potential conflicts of interest with its own customers. » Husky Injection Molding Systems S.A. Dudelange, Luxembourg www.husky.ca European Tool & Mould Making | May 2011 | www.etmm-online.com
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