data M Software GmbH with headquarters south of Munich, Germany, is expanding again after moving to their new and larger facilities 2 years ago and has founded data M Corporation in the US: 700 Commerce Drive, Suite 500, Oak Brook, IL 60523, Phone: 630 288-3585, Fax: 630 762 9922, email: b.francisco@data-m.com. data M Software GmbH is a market leader in the development of CAD solutions. It specializes in software solutions for the rollforming and sheet metal bending industry, the well-known COPRA Rollforming and COPRA MetalBender. data M Software GmbH also produces machinery for quality control such as the COPRA RollScanner. The COPRA LaserCheck is used as a sensor for in-line measurement and for angle-profile and force detection in press brakes. In terms of rollforming the American market has got a key position worldwide. Therefore, data M Software of Germany has started the data M Corporation in Wayne, Pennsylvania, early this year. The key issues the new company focuses on are - according to Vice President Mr Budi Francisco - to increase sales activities and to offer competent technical support and advice on the spot to the US American and South American customers. Synergy effects resulting from data Ms presence in the American market will also be beneficial for data Ms customers in other countries. Mr Budi Francisco has previously been data M Softwares sales director for South-East Asia and Asia/Pacific before taking up his new post as data M Corporations Vice President.

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