Italian company becomes a Firehole Certified Reseller of Helius:MCT™
Laramie, WY — May 27, 2009 — Firehole Technologies, Inc. (www.fireholetech.com), a leader in advanced composite analysis
and simulation, announced a partnership with SmartCAE (www.smartcae.com) to market and sell Firehole’s Helius brand
of advanced composites simulation software. The Prato, Italy based company is the
first company chosen as a Firehole Certified Reseller.
"We are very excited about expanding our reach into Europe, and specifically
into Italy with SmartCAE," said Jerad Stack, CEO of Firehole Technologies.
"In many respects, Europe is years ahead of the US in their use of composite
materials and SmartCAE is the perfect partner to help us capitalize on this market."
"The staff at SmartCAE has extensive experience in composites analysis and
they truly understand the value that improved simulation results can provide to
a wide variety of industries. We are looking forward to jointly solving the composites
design challenges of their Italian customers," added Emmett Nelson, Firehole’s
COO.
"We are proud to have been selected by Firehole to support their technology
in Italy. This new partnership confirms our focus and competence in the analysis
and simulation of composite materials," said Francesco Palloni, SmartCAE’s
Business Development Manager.
SmartCAE has a long history of quality customer support to a broad range of composite
users across Europe. Their dedication to composite analysis expertise led to their
selection as a Firehole Certified Reseller - tasked to provide the highest level
of service to the end users of Helius products.
"A simple, robust and predictive simulation tool, able to accurately identify
the failure and the post-failure behavior of general composite structure was an
analyst’s dream until now. The innovative Firehole multi-scale approach provides
an outstanding value to our customers because of its proven effectiveness and sound
physical basis," concluded Simone Ragionieri, SmartCAE’s General Manager.
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About Firehole Technologies Inc.
Firehole Technologies supplies innovative computer-aided simulation software and
services for composite materials to the aerospace, defense, automotive and energy
industries. Firehole’s Helius:MCT™ software enables the design of composite
structures without the numerous expensive testing cycles traditionally deployed,
allowing for a faster time-to-market and more reliable designs. The company’s mission
is to enable wide-spread use of composite materials leading to lighter, stronger
and more fuel efficient applications. For more information, visit
www.fireholetech.com.
About SmartCAE srl
SmartCAE supplies innovative CAE "solutions", by means of combining state-of-art
software products, training and consulting services. Today SmartCAE provides to
its customers over 40 man-years of expertise in the CAE, and a complete software
portfolio for the simulation of a wide range of engineering problems. In addition
to Firehole’s Helius products, SmartCAE is also a reseller of other Computer Aided
Engineering (CAE) packages such as NEi NASTRAN and Laminate Tools, as well as a
provider of consulting services for some of Italy’s top composites users like Formula
1 race cars and America’s Cup yachts.
Contacts:
Jason Gies
Firehole Technologies Inc.
+1-307-460-4763
Francesco Palloni
SmartCAE srl
+39-0574-404642