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The recent CADMATIC Users’ Meeting 2018 held at the Joki Visitor and Innovation Centre in Turku, Finland was an outstanding success. Close to 250 participants from 24 countries took part in the two-day event from 12-13 September. The event included a get-together party, presentations by both CADMATIC staff and partner organizations, as well as workshops and a gala dinner.

Meyer is boosting and harmonizing the outfitting design and construction of its cruise vessels by taking CADMATIC software into expanded use at its shipyards in Finland and introducing it in Germany.

An ecological wastewater treatment plant is currently being constructed close to the Finnish capital of Helsinki in Blominmäki, Espoo. From 2021, it will treat the wastewater of around 400 000 of the city’s inhabitants. FCG Finnish Consulting Group Oy is the main contractor for the project. The multidisciplinary consulting company has diverse water know-how and makes use of state-of-the-art project management and design software.

With offices all around the globe, Goltens is one of the leading independent global providers of ship repair services. The company’s offices in Dubai, Korea, Shanghai and Singapore have already been using CADMATIC software for some time. Goltens Green Technologies B.V. in Groningen (Goltens Groningen), The Netherlands, is the latest company in the Goltens group to implement CADMATIC.

Almost 1,000 companies in 57 countries currently use CADMATIC Marine and Plant Design software. We have new customers from Northern America, Europe and Asia who have started using CADMATIC software. Current customers have also continued investing in additional licenses. The business news of the past few months is provided below.

We are pleased to inform you that the CADMATIC Madrid office is opened from the first of June. The address is c/ Jerez nº3, Bajo- Madrid, 28036. You can contact Verónica Alonso de Los Rios via veronica.alonso@cadmatic.com.

Grandweld Shipyards is one of the most recent shipyards to implement CADMATIC software. Stability, user-friendliness and customizability were some of the main reasons why Grandweld put their trust in CADMATIC. Since implementation in June 2017, the company has already started the design of a crew boat completely in CADMATIC, with a pilot boat to follow in early 2018.

In February 2017 CADMATIC announced the signing of a resale and support agreement for CADMATIC Plant Design Software in Spain, Austria, Poland, Chile, Peru and Colombia. As a part of developing the business in Spain and Austria, in particular, CADMATIC Senior Sales Manager Vesa-Matti Vaara spent 8 months on secondment in Barcelona from February to October 2017. The cooperation is beginning to bear fruit: several clients have been acquired and high levels of interest have been shown in CADMATIC solutions.

Shanghai Respect Marine Engineering Tech. Co., Ltd (Shanghai Respect) is one of the latest startup companies within marine engineering in Shanghai, China. In October 2017 they signed a contract to purchase their first set of CADMATIC licenses.

In April 2017 Metsä Board Husum announced the start-up of a new extrusion coating line at its Husum mill in Sweden. The new state-of the-art coating line has an annual capacity of about 100,000 tonnes and represented an investment of EUR 38 million. CADMATIC software was used extensively for the design of the project, which also saw the introduction of CADMATIC’s mobile model review tool eGo.

Our new Marine Magazine is here! The 1/2018 version includes many quality customer articles. Last years' business news and the release highlights of recent tertiaries are also included.

Last Wednesday, 28th of March, CADMATIC organized a webinar on the main user experience improvements added in versions 2017T3 and 2018T1. The webinar was very successful with over 150 attendees. The webinar has been recorded and can be found in the downloads section on our support portal.

Vishva Associates and Panorama Consulting Engineers, both from Navi Mumbai, India, have invested in CADMATIC Plant Design software. They joined the CADMATIC family in March 2018.

CADMATIC continued showing robust growth in 2017 with turnover increasing to 16 M€, an increase of 12.5%. In total, 78 new customers from 24 countries implemented CADMATIC Software during the 2017 fiscal year.

In 2013, H&D Engineering was invited to participate in the design of a concentrated solar power pilot plant in Australia. H&D cooperated with the R&D division of Skoda Doosan Power on the project, which aims to significantly change the energy market conditions and increase the ratio of renewable resources in Australia and other countries. The end client, Vast Solar, aims to re-engineer the future of large scale solar to transform world energy systems. It plans to do this by delivering efficient, modular Concentrated Solar Thermal Power (CSP) technology with affordable storage.

For the European research project SMARTYards, Conoship International B.V. investigated the possibilities of integrating CADMATIC Hull with PIAS stability software. During the project, Conoship became more familiar with CADMATIC Marine Design software. After successfully completing the SMARTYards project, Conoship started implementing CADMATIC software in their organization. Conoship currently has an experienced team of CADMATIC engineers that use both CADMATIC Hull and Outfitting software.

CADMATIC Marine and Plant Design software is currently used by more than 950 companies in 57 countries. We have new customers from Europe and Asia who have started using CADMATIC software. Current customers have also continued investing in additional licenses. The business news of the past few months is listed below.

Meru Industries LLP, located in Pune, India, has started using CADMATIC 3D Plant Design software for their detailed engineering.

One of our latest customers from Italy is Bonatti S.p.A. Their office in Parma has purchased CADMATIC eShare licenses.

CADMATIC welcomes a new Plant Design customer in Italy: Process Service S.r.l.