ECOTRE Valente, ranked first in Europe as a Simulation-Casting distributor, is the exclusive distributor for Italy of the simulation software QuikCAST Light, QuikCAST and ProCAST owned by ESI-GROUP, the only company in the world to have two technologies for the foundry and the steel mill. ProCAST uses Finite Element Technology (FEM), the most efficient and reliable method. QuikCAST Light and QuikCAST use Finite Difference Technology (FDM), a good compromise between cost and performance. Another successful brand is DEFORM, from the US SFTC. The software DEFORM is dedicated to the simulation of metal deformation processes, such as forging, drawing, molding, extrusion, rolling, mechanical processing and heat treatment. ECOTRE is also supplier of service applications of foundry vacuum, the most effective technology for the evacuation of air and gases.