DISTENE, the leading OEM provider of meshing technology on the CAD/CAE software developers market, is pleased to announce that DNV Software makes the choice to rely on Distene's technologies to provide its customers with better meshing capabilities for stress analysis of structural details.

Mark Loriot, CEO of Distene, comments "this kind of collaboration is a typical illustration of our business model: each of our partnerships is a win-win association of complementary expertise and technologies to be able to produce optimal and targeted solutions. DNV Software's expertise is to provide the maritime, offshore and process industries engineers with high-end software for managing their ships, offshore assets and industrial plants throughout the lifecycle. By relying on Distene's meshing technologies, DNV Software makes the choice to enhance its software capabilities in that field. The first winners of such a collaboration are obviously the DNV Software customers."

To quote Ole Jan Nekstad, DNV Software Sesam Product Manager: "Over the years DNV Software has gained valuable experience in developing a stable and robust meshing algorithm focusing offshore and maritime structures. We will continue to maintain this technology to ensure a best possible solution of our users. At the same time, there has been a significant growth in the demand for doing detailed analysis of complicated structural details without user intervention when making the finite element mesh. To meet this request, we decided to partner with a sub-contractor. We are pleased that we chose Distene; the implementation of their meshing algorithm has been a smooth process and the software delivered meets our current expectations. Having said that, another reason for selecting Distene was its visions and goals - and the organization to meet them - to further develop the product for the benefit of our own end-users. We look forward to receiving the next upgrade so that we can provide an even better analysis tool for complicated details. We are confident that our requirements for further enhancements will be adhered to."

More about DNV Software : www.dnvsoftware.com

Established in 1864, DNV is an independent foundation with the objective of safeguarding life, property and the environment. As a leading international provider of risk management services, it has a staff of 7 000 operating from 300 offices worldwide.

DNV Software is the commercial software house of DNV serving more than 3000 customers in the maritime, offshore, and process industries. DNV Software is a market leader in software development of design, strength assessment, risk, and information management.

More about Distene : www.distene.com

Distene (www.distene.com) provides integrated solutions, technology, products and consultancy services for pre- and post-processing. The company serves CAD/CAE vendors and industrial end users throughout the world. In addition to meshing components, Distene provides scientific and engineering visualization solutions based on CEI's EnSight, which the company distributes and supports in Southern Europe.

Contacts: Laurent Anné
Distene SAS
laurent.anne@distene.com; phone: +33 1 69 26 62 10

Contacts: Ole Jan Nekstad
DNV Software
ole.jan.nekstad@dnv.com; phone: +47 67 57 93 77