Five SolidWorks VARs in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia, and Latvia merge to become PLM Group

Roskilde, Denmark - MP Engineering AB, Solid Design House A/S, CadON Oy, SIA CadON and CadON Consulting Oü join to become PLM Group ApS in a merger between the five leading SolidWorks value added resellers in Sweden, Denmark, Finland, Estonia and Latvia.

The move creates the region’s largest provider of product development solutions and services with more than 100 employees and a turnover of around 20 million €. PLM Group’s software solutions and services help more than 3,500 small, medium and large product development and production companies to create innovative products.

PLM Group CEO Jess G. Frandsen says:”With the formation of PLM Group we can deliver even more comprehensive services by highly skilled support teams and specialists covering all products from Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation. Customers will now have access to our collective knowledge and experience in product development and lifecycle management gained from implementing thousands of PLM solutions in Nordic companies.”

Ken Manoff, Vice President, Western EMEA for Dassault Systèmes SolidWorks Corporation, is very enthusiastic about the merger: "We have had a very long and successful history together with MP Engineering, Solid Design House and CadON. That is why we are very pleased to now see the natural step of the formation of the PLM Group in the Nordics. Combining the many years of experience with technical competence across the Nordics will allow the PLM Group’s customers to continue to not only develop innovative products, but to also create some of the world’s most innovative product development processes.”

The advantages gained by the formation of the PLM Group allow customers to be more competitive and productive while also lowering their internal costs. The PLM Group provides premium product lifecycle management solutions and tools combined with leading edge knowledge about product development processes to secure better and more sustainable products.