Configura wins Best of NeoCon Gold

Configura received top honors for CET Designer 2.0 at NeoCon 2008, winning a Best of NeoCon Gold Award. Two years ago, CET Designer received a Best of NeoCon Silver along with collaborator Haworth when the software launched in North America. CET Designer is design and specifying software for the office furniture industry and now also includes Steelcase and Teknion as clients.

A collaboration with ProjectMatrix offers an extension, ProjectSymbols, which has 80 percent of the industry’s products, making Configura CET Designer a complete design, specifying and rendering solution for designers and dealers.

Configura is at the NeoCon World’s Trade Fair 2008 at the Merchandise Mart in Chicago, June 9-11, demo’ing software and offering training sessions. The Sweden-based company with a U.S. office in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is in Booth 7-7046, Configura representatives from both Sweden and Grand Rapids will be attending, including CEO Johan Lyreborn and nationally known designer/trainer Cate Sword.

Photo: Configura Vice President Peter Brandinger  (left) and CEO Johan Lyreborn celebrate the Best of NeoCon Gold award the company received for CET Designer on June 9 at the NeoCon World's Trade Fair, Chicago.

Configura released Version 2.0 of its NeoCon-award-winning CET Designer software in May. The software enables users to work with large projects and big drawings, start to finish. A coming release will enable users to work in a fully rendered 3D environment and navigate fast through huge drawings.