Zuken Announces UK Market Up-Turn with Sales of it’s Popular Desktop PCB Design Solution, CADSTAR

May 15th, 2007 - Munich, Germany and Westford, MA, USA – The uptake of CADSTAR within the UK has recently rocketed according to Zuken, the engineering consulting company. Much of this achievement can be attributable to the success of Quadra Solutions Ltd, their European CADSTAR distributor of the year.

During the last financial year, Quadra has seen a rapid increase in CADSTAR sales. Having recognized the potential of CADSTAR’s latest technology to serve the UK market, Zuken and distributor Quadra Solutions invested heavily in serving the existing loyal users and expanding the reach of the solution with record sales into new customers.

“After evaluating all of the options available on the market, we chose CADSTAR and Quadra Solutions to support us with our increasing design requirements. This was down to the excellent functionality of the software and unrivalled levels of support," stated Chris Deighton, Senior Project Engineer at Carallon Ltd - a London based Design company.

“The fact that CADSTAR is easy and ready to use, competitively priced, and provides Zuken’s cutting edge design methodologies - makes it so attractive to the UK market,” said Simon Dobson, Managing Director of Quadra Solutions. “We only see this upward trend in sales continuing.”

The annual CADSTAR European distributor of the year award represents Zuken’s acknowledgment of the important role of the CADSTAR distributor network. In announcing Quadra Solutions as the winner for 2006, Zuken recognises the outstanding level of service that Quadra provide; with a high level product of knowledge, advanced training capabilities and excellent first line support.

CADSTAR is Zuken’s Window’s-based desktop PCB design solution, combining signal integrity analysis, 3D, powerful interactive and high-speed routing capabilities, variant management and more…

For more information about CADSTAR or the distributor in your country, visit www.cadstarworld.com and for further details about Quadra Solutions call +44 (0) 1254 301888 or visit www.quadrasol.co.uk

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About Zuken

Zuken is trusted globally by leading companies to optimize their electrical and electronic engineering design and related manufacturing processes. Our unique combination of proven experience, technological expertise and agility, creates electronic design automation (EDA) solutions as well as computer aided engineering (CAE) solutions that are innovative, dynamic and powerful.

With over 30 years experience, Zuken has grown to become the world’s leading provider of EDA software and electronic product lifecycle management (e-PLM). Our solutions optimize the efficiency of electronics and electrical R&D, engineering, manufacturing, new product introduction (NPI), component purchasing and component engineering in the PCB/MCM/HIC market. Listed on Level 1 of the Tokyo Stock Exchange, Zuken improves product quality and profitability for electrical and electronics manufacturers globally, from automotive to aerospace, communications to consumer electronics, power to heavy machinery and medical to military markets. With headquarters in Japan, we have development and support centers in 10 countries – including the US, Germany, UK, France, Italy, China and Taiwan – and are a trusted partner of more than 4,800 organizations, with over 45,000 individual licenses, worldwide.

About Quadra Solutions:

Established in 1999, Quadra Solutions Ltd has steadily developed its position within the UK Manufacturing Design community. Quadra Solutions offers experience within the electronic design automation (EDA) and the manufacturing arena. With qualified engineers from a variety of industries Quadra offer expert advice to the mechanical and electrical engineering design sectors. As both a PCB Design bureau and training centre, Quadra is able to ensure that their customers maximize on their investment, this has ensured Quadra’s place as the UK’s largest CADSTAR supplier. Software development is a continuation of the role fulfilled by Quadra’s Information Technology Solutions team. Quadra Solutions customers range from sub sea to aerospace projects, medical to military, and communications to consumer electronics. For Further information please visit our website: www.quadrasol.co.uk