- Dciding Ansis will be different to impact really on HUMANETICS MANAGEMENT -
- In the future, we plan to examine whether competition is restricted when exercising the right to claim the purchase of the remaining stocks -
The Korea Fair Trade Commission approved the business combination on March 19, 2024, judging that it is difficult to see a controlling relationship between Ansis, Inc. acquiring 34.68% of shares of Safe Parent, Inc., which owns Humanetics.
* Ansis will pay about 1.9 trillion won (US$1.5 billion) to the UK's 'Bridgepoint Group', which owns Safe Parent and Humanetics
Ansis* is a multinational company headquartered in the United States and is a world leader in engineering simulation software. In particular, major automakers around the world, including Hyundai Motor, supply LS-DYNA**, a software used for vehicle collision simulation analysis.
* Synopsys, a global semiconductor design software company, announced a plan to acquire Ansys for approximately 45.4 trillion won (US$35 billion) on January 16, 2024, and no report of a business combination has yet been received
** LS-DYNA is a simulation software that virtually tests and analyzes the impact of a vehicle collision on the vehicle and passengers, and is used by major automakers around the world
Humanetics is also headquartered in the U.S. and is a global leader in the supply market for anthropomorphic test devices (ATD), known as crash test dolls, and ATD's virtual digital model supply market. Digital ATD is used for virtual crash tests through vehicle crash simulation software such as Ansys' LS-DYNA.
* Automakers are expanding the use of crash simulation software and digital ATD from the design stage to the post-vehicle improvement stage to reduce the development cost of physical vehicles during vehicle crash testing, and Humanetics is the No. 1 operator with more than 70% of the global digital ATD supply market