Blue Ridge European Business Up 57% in 2006
Company targets global growth of 47% in 2007 and European growth of 75%
 CHARLOTTESVILLE,
Virginia, March 14, 2007 - Blue Ridge Numerics has announced that it grew
its business in Europe by 57 percent in 2006. The company has enjoyed
sustained year-on-year growth over the past five years with business growing
by a total of 390 percent. Blue Ridge Numerics has been listed on Deloitte’s
Technology Fast 500, a ranking of the 500 fastest growing technology
companies in America, for four consecutive years.
Founded in 1992, Blue Ridge Numerics was the first computational fluid
dynamics (CFD) company to develop upfront CFD software designed to meet the
needs of mechanical design engineers. With its flagship product, CFdesign,
Blue Ridge Numerics took a strategic decision to sidestep the CAD-embedded
approach in favor of a discrete software application that works
associatively with all major MCAD applications. Recognized for this
MCAD-driven paradigm and innovative automation techniques, CFdesign provides
a total product performance picture without the time and expense of building
and testing physical prototypes. The ability to conduct extensive trade-off
studies early on in the design process leads to substantial downstream
benefits such as increased quality and innovation and reduced
time-to-market.
“Our global business continues to grow at four times the industry
average,” says Blue Ridge president Ed Williams. “We built Blue Ridge
Numerics on a belief that there was a genuine need among multi-tasking
engineers for software that would allow them to solve complex fluid flow and
heat transfer problems. Our user profile is an engineer with reasonable MCAD
skill and strong knowledge of the products they engineer but who simply
doesn’t have time to be expert in fluid and thermal dynamics. The continued
success of our business proves that we were right.”
More than 1,500 engineers completed a CFdesign training course during
2006. The two-day course furnishes multi-tasking engineers with the
knowledge and skills to effectively use CFdesign upfront in the product
development process.
“It’s great to see the enthusiasm in a classroom of engineers as they
discover they can perform CFD analysis themselves,” says Williams. “At the
end of day two they have all the skills needed to solve complex fluid flow
and heat transfer problems.”
For every engineer trained in the CFdesign Fundamentals course, Blue
Ridge estimates there are at least four more using the software without the
benefit of formal training. “It’s gratifying to know CFdesign is simple
enough to learn and use without attending a course,” said Williams. “However
companies that invest in training certainly achieve the greatest
productivity and profit gains from the software.”
Blue Ridge Numerics is targeting global growth of 47 percent in 2007 and
European growth of 75 percent thanks to expanding direct sales operations in
the UK, France and Germany, and a maturing network of reseller partners in
Scandinavia, Benelux, Italy and other Southern European countries.
About Blue Ridge Numerics
Blue Ridge Numerics (www.cfdesign.com)
is the fastest growing CFD software company in the world and consistently
ranked among the fastest growing technology companies in America.
CFdesign puts comprehensive fluid flow and heat transfer simulation
upfront in the product development process, where it creates tremendous
value for companies of all sizes. The company’s rapidly growing customer
list includes leaders across every industry, with special emphasis on those
involving complex CAD assemblies and curvy components commonly found in
avionics, electronics, machinery, mechatronics, pumps and turbomachinery.
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