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4 October 2005

Product News

Technia Expands Offering With Solutions For Sales Configurations

Technia AB, a leading Nordic supplier of it-solutions for managing product information, has signed an agreement with 3Dfacto A/S, one of the leading suppliers of advanced software for product configuration. The agreement will give Technia the status of a reseller and system integrator for 3Dfacto´s product VirtuBUILDT in Sweden, Norway and Finland.

With this new partnership Technia will be able to offer existing customers, as well as new customers, a complete solution for visual product configuration of complex products. The solution will enable Technia customers to:

•  Reduce the lead-time in any quotation process

•  Use of Graphics and best in class object oriented modeling to manage the sellable variants of a product

•  Get and end-to-end solution for the management of configurable products, from concept, designs, sales, production and aftersales.

"The demand on the market for more advanced, configurable and flexible products has resulted in a need for a visual product configurator. Our partnership with 3Dfacto complements our MatrixOne and Autodesk offerings and is an important step forward in our strategy of becoming a total PLM solution partner, offering solutions for all phases of the products lifecycle, says Staffan Hanstorp, CEO and President, Technia AB.

"3Dfacto is growing fast and we are therefore delighted to bring Technia on board as a partner in Scandinavia. We see our alliance with Technia as a significant step in expanding our position as a leading supplier of configuration solution for the Manufacturing and Engineering industry in the Nordic market, says Francis Delafontaine, VP Sales and Operations, 3Dfacto A/S"

For more information, please contact:

Staffan Hanstorp, CEO and President, Technia AB.

Tel: +46 8 477 24 30, mob:   + 46 733 77 24 30, e-mail: staffan.hanstorp@technia.com .

Francis Delafontaine ,VP Sales and Operations, 3Dfacto A/S

Tel: +45 33 30 07 34 , mob:   + 45 20 23 33 69, e-mail: fdelafontaine@3dfacto.com .

Technia is the leading supplier of Product Lifecycle Management (PLM) Solutions for creating and managing product information throughout the entire product lifecycle to Nordic industry. Technia has about 90 employees and is a part of the AddNode group listed at the Stockholm Stock Exchange. The company is a strategic partner to more than 200 Nordic companies and has offices in Stockholm, Gothenburg, Helsinki and Oslo. Technia's customer list includes: Ericsson, Elcoteq, ESAB, GE Healthcare, Metso Paper, Mölnlycke Health Care, Nokia, Posten, Perkin Elmer LifeSciences, Scania, Schneider Electric, Seco Tools and SonyEricsson.

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