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Following successful tests of the CL 75 AC, the logistics company has signed
several new cooperation contracts over the last few weeks with potential users
of the CargoLifter transportation aircraft.
Berlin – The market potential of the “Lighter-than-Air” transportation aircraft
has been taking on a more concrete form: parallel to the production start of the
CargoLifter CL 160 transportation airship and the CL 75 AC transportation
balloon on September 27, the logistics company has also closed several new
cooperation agreements with potential customers. In the beginning of October,
Unocal Corporation (Union Oil of California), the Austrian industrial plant
builder Voest-Alpine and SÜBA Cooperation, one of Germany’s largest construction
companies, all signed a Letter of Intent concerning future cooperation. In the
first phase of the Lead User program, the three companies will, together with
CargoLifter specialists, analyze the business potential of deploying the CL 160.
Ferrostaal AG, a subsidiary of the MAN Group which operates worldwide, which
constructs entire industrial plants and has been a Lead User since December,
1999, confirmed the second phase of the development partnership by signing a
Lead User Agreement on October 8, 2001.
Demand for the CL 75 AC is taking concrete form as well: On September 8,
Aviastar Asia Corporation, an aviation and logistics company, signed a
Memorandum of Understanding as a potential user of the transportation balloon.
In May, 2001 cooperation with the U.S. Lead User MAGLEV, Inc. was broadened to
include the CL 75 AC – expanding existing cooperation underway since June, 2000.
MAGLEV has plans to realize a maglev train project in the U.S.
“The successful signing of cooperation contracts confirms the potential of our
‘Lighter-than-Air’ transportation aircraft,” says Dirk Steffes, Managing
Director of CargoLifter Network GmbH.
Product development with 39 Lead Users
The CargoLifter Lead User concept consists of three phases. In the first phase
of cooperation, the partners – based on a Letter of Intent – analyze the
potential for this new type of transportation service for future customers, the
Lead Users. In the second phase, on the basis of a Lead User Agreement, the
details of further cooperation – price and distribution strategies as well as
the necessary network infrastructure – are examined, providing an outline for
the later customer relationship. The start of a “real” customer relationship
marks the end of both development phases. Since adopting the Lead User concept,
CargoLifter Network GmbH has won 39 companies as cooperation partners,
including sector giants such as Alstom Power, General Electric Power Systems,
Hochtief and Linde.
“Now that Ferrostaal has signed, we’ve reached the second phase of cooperation
with six of the Lead Users -three years before the start of serial production of
the CL 160,” says Steffes. Shortly before the successful load exchange
procedure and outdoor tests on the CL 75 AC in the beginning of October, demand
for deployment of the second CargoLifter product has spread to Taiwan.
“In the framework of our cooperation with Aviastar Asia, we will be able to
test the utilization possibilities of the CL 75 AC in the construction of a
hydro-electric plant in the northeast of Taiwan,” explains Steffes. If found
suitable for the project, the CL 75 AC will support the transport of 140,000
tons of cargo in the form of construction machinery and materials.
“If the tests are positive, the CL 75 AC could already be deployed to Taiwan
during the 2002/2003 financial year – a nice start for our first finished
product.”
end of message, (c)DGAP 26.10.2001
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