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June 09, 2010

DIAB Launches Composites Consulting Group

At the beginning of June, 2010 the DIAB Group launched the operations of its new initiative – the Composites Consulting Group (CCG). CCG is an independent consulting company within the DIAB Group with the mission to deliver world class engineering and manufacturing services for composite materials to enable development of innovative products. CCG will be supported by its own sales force as well as all DIAB sales companies globally.

CCG builds on DIAB’s long term experience within sandwich composites, in various industries. CCG will be providing services within industrial design, engineering, testing, processing, training and customer specific composites consulting.

Customers are served in Marine (recreational, commercial, defence), Renewable Energy (wind, waves, solar), Civil Infrastructure (cladding, shelters), Transportation (rail, caravan, motor home, buses, trucks), Industrial (tanks, sculptures, containers, antennas), defence applications and more!

DIAB CEO Anders Paulsson explained: “We are very excited as we know that there is a big need for engineering services within composites - enquiries are increasing. Many companies would like to utilize the benefits of composites and sandwich structures. We are in a good position to serve those needs with all the expertise built over many years through our technical service and DIAB Technologies, with numerous projects successfully carried through on all continents. Creating an independent group will further improve our service worldwide, with the focus to create a power house of composite knowledge including a complete offering adding high value within many industries”.

Headed by recently appointed Lennart Thålin, CCG is expanding its capacity globally by recruiting experienced composites engineers. Lennart joins DIAB with extensive experience of engineering consulting industry Consulting/Engineering industry most recently with Epsilon – a leading technology and systems development consultancy.

DIAB CEO Anders Paulsson continued; “To meet the need in the market, we are recruiting to expand the organization. CCG welcomes applicants with composites engineering experience. More information is available on our website www.diabgroup.com.”

The DIAB Group is a world-leading supplier of solutions and core materials in sandwich technology primarily targeted towards windpower, the marine sector (commercial, military and pleasure), transportation, aerospace and industry (offshore, construction and LNG [Liquified Natural Gas]). DIAB's manufacturing and sales functions are global. The company had an average of 1,132 employees in 2009. DIAB Group AB’s majority owner is Ratos AB (publ).

For more information contact:
Anders Paulsson                                                                  
Chief Executive Officer                                                        
DIAB International AB                                                          
Tel: +46 (0)430-16300                                                                                
Mail: anders.paulsson@se.diabgroup.com