Brussels, Belgium, May 2004

NUMECA International S.A. recently added two new distributors to its worldwide representation: NUMIBERICA based in Madrid, Spain, and NUMECA South America, based in Sao Paolo, Brazil.

NUMIBERICA and NUMECA South America are engineering firms that offer consulting and support services and distribute NUMECA CFD software systems (FINE/Turbo, FINE/Hexa), hexahedral mesh generators (HEXPRESS and AUTOGRID) and turbomachinery design and optimisation packages (AUTOBLADE and FINE/Design3D) to a variety of industries, including aerospace, defence, HVAC, mechanical, power generation.

NUMIBERICA is located in Madrid, Spain, is managed by former co-worker of NUMECA Rémi Lestriez who has been working many years in NUMECA as a Sales and Consulting Engineer, and will serve both the Spanish and Portuguese markets.

NUMECA South America is based in São Paulo, South America’s industrial and economic hub. NUMECA South America will serve all South American countries. NUMECA South America is managed by Adrian Stefanescu who previously held a position as an Advanced Engineer with Siemens-Westinghouse, a world-wide provider of industrial gas turbines based in Florida/USA.

About NUMECA – NUMECA is a leading, highly innovative provider of computational fluid dynamics (CFD) software and consulting services. NUMECA software is used for simulation, visualization and analysis of fluid flow, heat and mass transfer, and shape optimisation based on artificial intelligence techniques. NUMECA products are particularly renowned worldwide for the design, simulation, and optimisation of turbomachinery applications, and for its automatic full-hexahedral mesh generation solutions. NUMECA headquarters are located in Brussels, Belgium, with offices and distributors in Brazil, China, Germany, Italy, Japan, Korea and Spain.

For more information, please contact: Bruno Gouverneur at +32 2 647 83 11 or info@numeca.be Rémi Lestriez at +34 91 501 59 76 or info@numiberica.com Adrian Stefanescu at +55 (11) 3081.6676 or info@numecasouthamerica.com

Or see our web sites: www.numeca.com www.numiberica.com www.numecasouthamerica.com