ICEM expands its software sales and support operations in Scandinavia with signing of Nanco Data as new business partner

Scandinavian automotive industry OEMs and suppliers will benefit from locally-based design and visualisation software solutions expertise.

Southampton, UK. 1 December, 2003. � ICEM Ltd., the leading surface modelling, analysis and visualisation software developer, announced today that it has recently signed a business partner agreement with Nanco Data AB of Gothenburg, Sweden. Under the terms of the agreement, Nanco Data becomes a distributor of the ICEM Surf software suite to the automotive vehicle design industry in Sweden, Norway, Finland and Denmark.

�The automotive design and manufacturing industry in the Scandinavian countries is a well-established industry�, said Tim Norman, director, global operations, ICEM Ltd. �We were therefore looking for a partner with a demonstrable record of providing and supporting advanced computer graphics solutions for automotive product design and development companies and who could help us extend our reach into this sector. Nanco Data fits that requirement perfectly.�

Nanco Data is based in Askim, near Gothenburg, with offices in Stockholm and Copenhagen, Denmark. The company will provide ICEM Surf software consulting, sales, implementation, training and support services to automotive industry OEMs and their Tier 1 and 2 suppliers in Scandinavia, as well as to automotive and industrial design houses in the region. It will also continue to offer its expertise and existing solutions for industrial design, reverse engineering, animation, visualisation and real-time simulation applications.

�The addition of ICEM Surf to our product offerings enables Nanco to be a total provider of creative tools for product design and strengthens our position as the leading provider in Scandinavia of high-end tools for surface modelling, design and visualisation,� said Patric Nilson, president and chief executive officer, Nanco Data AB. �It also makes Nanco the ideal partner to companies that need to feed their MCAD process with Class-A surface models�.

About Nanco Data AB.

Founded in 1985 and based in Gothenburg, Sweden and with offices near Stockholm and in Denmark near Copenhagen, Nanco Data specializes in providing and supporting computer graphics software, hardware and turnkey solutions for companies� product design needs. With customers in the automotive, defence, medical and other product development and manufacturing industries, the company offers solutions and expertise, as well as user training and on-going technical support, in the areas of industrial design, reverse engineering, animation, visualisation and real-time simulation.

About ICEM Ltd.

With its headquarters in the UK, ICEM Ltd. is the leading worldwide developer and supplier of advanced, surface-based modelling software for use in the design and development of automotive vehicle bodies and interiors and consumer durable products. The company has a worldwide network of sales and support offices and specialist distributors covering continental Europe, the USA, Australia and the Asia Pacific region.

ICEM�s principal market sector is the worldwide automotive industry, where it includes most of the leading manufacturers among its customers, including the Ford Motor Company, DaimlerChrysler Group, Volkswagen Audi Group, Porsche, BMW, PSA Peugeot Citro�n, Nissan, Subaru and Harley Davidson among others, as well as leading automotive industry companies such as Volke, EDAG, Pininfarina, Bertone and Bertrandt, among many others. The company also has a significant presence in the consumer durable products design market.