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Historic
TRANSVALOR, subsidiary of
ARMINES
, has been created in 1984 to transfer and value into the industry
the research results of the Ecoles des Mines laboratories.
At first, the activity was mostly trading research "know how",
from prototype conception to patent licensing. The development and
distribution of simulation software was, in these first years, limited
to the software package FORGE2, a result of research from the
CEMEF
, a Material Processing Research Center with 100+ staff which is
a joint research center of the
Ecole
des Mines de Paris and ARMINES.
Quickly achieving a dominant position on the French market, and constantly increasing the number of installed licences abroad, FORGE2 has become TRANSVALOR's main activity.
At the beginning of the nineties, because of the success of FORGE2 and thanks to the ever-increasing processing power of computers, TRANSVALOR started to market a 3D software package, FORGE3 also developed at the CEMEF. In 2005, FORGE2 and FORGE3 were merged under a common launcher, becoming FORGE. This software now leads the market and is becoming the reference in its category.
TRANSVALOR has approached the plastics market, with its REM3D software for the simulation of real 3D injection molding.
The company also develops and markets Thercast, a software for metal casting simulation.
Employees of TRANSVALOR software department, mainly Ph.D. holders from the Ecole des Mines de Paris, work regularly in close collaboration with the CEMEF, which backs the development of TRANSVALOR's software, thus ensuring its evolution and stability in time.
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