Thermo-Calc Software AB, Stockholm, and QuesTek International LLC, Evanston, Ill., have partnered to establish a joint company, QuesTek Europe AB, which will offer Integrated Computational Materials Engineering modeling services and novel materials design and development to the European market.
The new company brings together two global leaders in ICME and combines the proven Materials by Design® methodology developed in the United States by QuesTek’s wholly-owned subsidiary, QuesTek Innovations LLC, with the powerful software and databases contained in the Thermo-Calc platform.
QuesTek sees significant potential for ICME-themed projects and growth of materials sales in Europe. ASM Fellow and CEO Aziz Asphahani explains that “In recent years, we have seen an increase in funding from the European market to design novel advanced alloys and to optimize existing alloys. We also see a demand for applying our Ferrium steels to existing platforms, indicating that now is the ideal time to expand our unique services into Europe. A partnership with Thermo-Calc Software will allow us to accelerate the adoption of ICME technologies in a market that is eager for these services.”
Thermo-Calc Software has long considered offering design and development services, but has heretofore maintained a focus on developing their own software and databases.
According to Thermo-Calc Software’s CEO Dr. Anders Engström, “Over the years we have been approached by many companies that are interested in Thermo-Calc from a service based approach, but our focus has always been with our products. By partnering with QuesTek, we can now offer these highly sought-after services without detracting from our main priority of developing powerful, relevant, high-quality software and databases for materials engineering applications.”
This is not the first time the two companies have worked together. In fact, Thermo-Calc Software and QuesTek Innovations have a long-lasting collaborative relationship, most notably highlighted by a joint development in 2012 of the Precipitation module (TC-PRISMA), an add-on module to Thermo-Calc that is used for the prediction of precipitation kinetics.
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