Lantek opens offices in Poland and Czech Rep.

With the purpose to increase its presence in Central Europe, Lantek, a supplier of CAD/CAM software for the sheet metal industry, opened two new branch offices in Katowice (Poland) and Prague (Czech Rep.).

With the purpose to increase its presence in Central Europe countries, Lantek opened two new branch offices in the Poland city of Katowice and in Prague (Czech Rep.) in September 2006.

The opening of these new branch offices is the consequence of the significant growth experienced by Lantek in central Europe in the last two years, as well as the promising expectations of sheet metal machine tool consumption in these countries, which is seen as an important growth opportunity for CAD/CAM sales by the Spanish company.
Lantek`s offices in Poland and Czech Rep. is made up by a team of 10 people, 3 of them dedicated to commercial activities and 7 dedicated to technical support to customers, distributors and OEMs.

Joseba Pagaldai, Commercial Director of Lantek, highlights that ""up till now, we had approached the Central Europe market through a network of distributors and agents but due to the growth we have experienced lately, we noticed that this market was demanding our direct presence in the country.
By having our own office, with our own staff exclusively trained for the commercialization and support of our products, we can guarantee a high quality service for our Indian customers and machine tool manufacturers.""

""With these new offices in Poland and Czech Rep., Lantek reached the number of 11 branch offices abroad.
Since 1991, when we opened our first branch in France, we have developed an important internationalization process that has allowed us to gain an important market share in countries as technologically advanced as Germany, Italy, United Kingdom, United States, India, Japan and Korea.
This has made it possible for Lantek to sell more than 70% of its production in foreign countries and to reach the historical figure of more than 5000 customers in 83 countries all over the world.
We have the strongest international direct presence among our competitors. We are, no doubt, a world-wide reference in the CAD/CAM software for the sheet metal industry,"" points out Pagaldai.