Tekla Corporation Press Release 27.11.2006 Tekla strengthens its leadership on the market: 10,000 TEKLA STRUCTURES LICENSES SOLD. Tekla Corporation announced the milestone of 10,000 sold Tekla Structures software licenses. The owner of the 10,000th license, DL Group, is an established metal construction group headquartered in Dax, France. Tekla Structures is the premium product in its niche market. The DL Group has six subsidiaries in South-West France. The Tekla Structures Steel Detailing license purchased recently is their 29th license and will be used by the DL Garonne (Toulouse) company. Cooperation between DL Group and Tekla France goes back a long way; the company has been a client for Tekla France for years and has grown along with the development of the software. This entails hundreds of successful projects in the field of steel fabrication and construction. The company utilizes Tekla's BIM (Building Information Modeling) solution widely, extending the use of model data to operate CNC machines in the workshop. Tekla rewarded DL Garonne on Thursday, 23rd November, as Global Steel Detailing Segment Director and Tekla France Country Manager André Corniere and Sales Engineer Jean-Yves Vetil of Tekla France met with DL Garonne's General Manager Laurent Burnichon in Toulouse. - To become Tekla's 10,000th license owner was a nice surprise and we are naturally very happy about it, says Bertrand Deyris, President of DL Group. - Our business is constantly expanding so we really need this new license, which in turn helps us to expand our operations even further, he notes. - We thank all our customers for reaching this milestone, says Risto Räty, Executive Vice President of Building & Construction at Tekla Corporation. The growing amount of sold licenses proves the fabrication industry is ready for a full-scale modeling solution. For additional information, please contact: Risto Räty, Executive Vice President, Tekla B&C, Tel. +358 30 661 1781, [email protected] André Corniere, Managing Director, Tekla France / Director B&C Steel Segment, Tel. + 33 1 46 87 51 75, [email protected] DISTRIBUTION: Industry media Web media Tekla website & extranet Tekla Structures in brief Tekla Structures is a fully integrated 3D solution that enables creation and management of complete 3D building models regardless of material or structural complexity. The Tekla Structures solution covers the whole structural design process from conceptual design to detailing, fabrication and erection. The exceptionally seamless collaboration and information management applications in Tekla Structures are based on Tekla's world leading building information modeling (BIM) solution. The same model can be utilized for producing analysis and design results, drawings, and reports. Therefore, steel, concrete and structural design professionals can work with the same shared, always up-to-date model in every stage of a building project. Tekla Structures minimizes overlapping work phases and errors, which translates into shorter project lead times, significant cost savings, and improvement in building quality. In other words, the software increases the competitiveness of the whole industry. Tekla Corporation in brief Tekla is the industry-leading international software company whose software solutions make customers' core businesses more effective in building and construction, energy distribution and in municipalities. The company's model-based software products and related services are used in more than 80 countries. Tekla Group's net sales for 2005 were approximately 38 million euros. International operations accounted for 75% of net sales. Tekla Group employs more than 300 people, of whom a third work outside Finland. This year is Tekla's 40th anniversary, making it one of the oldest software companies in Finland. For additional information on Tekla, please visit www.tekla.com