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Planit Holdings acquires CAM provider
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Planit Holdings product story
Edited by the Manufacturingtalk editorial team
Jan 20, 2006
Pathtrace Planit Holdings has acquired CAM software specialist, Pathtrace - a move, which makes the manufacturing and design software group a dominant player worldwide.
Leading manufacturing and design software group, Planit Holdings continues its strategy of CAM consolidation with its acquisition of CAM software specialist, Pathtrace.
This acquisition is another significant step in Planit's CAM consolidation strategy and, with market leadership already achieved in wood, stone and sheet metal, the addition of Pathtrace to the group provides a major development in the engineering arena making Planit a dominant player with over 50,000 customers worldwide.
The group's leading brands already include alphacam, cabinet vision and radan.
"This is a further reinforcement of our commitment to this market sector," says Planit's chief operating officer, Bryan Pryce.
"Pathtrace's principal product line, EdgeCAM is a well respected and highly capable off-line programming system, which complements our existing strengths in the engineering sector.
But just as importantly, with offices in the UK, US, China and Japan and a global distribution network - Pathtrace provides important additional routes to market for all our group's CAM products.
In addition, Pathtrace are Autodesk's global preferred CAM partner and a certified SolidWorks CAM partner." Pryce adds: "Overall, Pathtrace provides an excellent fit with existing group companies, which will enable us to significantly increase our share of the $1.2 billion global manufacturing software market." * About Planit Holdings - Planit Holdings is listed on the London AIM Stock Market and is the holding company for a range of software businesses in the CAD and CAM markets across the world.
Brands include alphacam, radan, fusion, cabinet vision and cabnetware.
The Planit group's strategy is built on providing world class software for design and manufacturing (CAD/CAM) and by providing end to end solutions from manufacture through to the point of sale.
Their target markets encompass the engineering, woodworking, stone, cabinet and retailing industries.
The group operates on a global basis with a turnover of GBP 28.1m.
* About Pathtrace - Pathtrace is the developer of EdgeCAM, an extremely powerful, but easy to use software solution devoted to automating the process of NC programming for metal cutting machine tools.
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