Capvidia (www.capvidia.com) — a supplier of software for computer-aided design analysis and measurement — and IPG Photonics, which provides high-power fibre lasers, are the latest companies to join Coventry’s Manufacturing Technology Centre.

Founded in 1994, Capvidia specialises in CAD data translation and CAD quality assurance and validation, as well as simulation.

With its headquarters in Belgium and a US base in Minnesota, the company also has operations in Germany and Japan. IPG Photonics supplies its lasers and amplifiers to companies around the world for use in materials processing and micro-machining.

The company has its headquarters in the USA, with manufacturing operations in Germany and Italy. Its UK base is in London.

Capvidia CEO and founder Tomasz Luniewskir said: “We look forward to working with the MTC to give UK industry inter-operability solutions for CAD, CAM and metrology.

“Model-based engineering is an area where there will be a lot of growth in the coming years, and we believe that Capvidia’s technology will enable engineering and manufacturing organisations to realise the benefits of full inter-operability.”

MTC chief executive Clive Hickman said that attracting two distinguished international names to the MTC at the same time is a major achievement.

“We now have more than 80 industrial member companies across a wide range of sectors. We are working with the world’s elite engineers and manufacturers and growing at a rate that couldn’t have been envisaged when we were established in 2010.”