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Founded in 2002, Astral designs performance footwear, life jackets, and outdoor gear for paddling, hiking, trail running, and life on the water. From whitewater to mountain trails, every product is built to move naturally, perform reliably, and reduce its environmental impact. We believe the best gear should help people connect more deeply with wild places while leaving the lightest footprint possible. Astral has been a pioneer in sustainable product design, introducing innovations like PVC-free life jackets, hemp-based footwear, and low-impact materials without compromising performance. Our products are trusted by professional athletes, guides, outdoor educators, and everyday adventurers around the world. At our core, we're a community of designers, paddlers, hikers, runners, and river stewards who believe that time spent outside inspires better products—and a better future. Whether we're developing new materials, supporting conservation efforts, or collaborating with athletes pushing the boundaries of their sports, our goal remains the same: design gear that elevates the human experience in Nature, made consciously to preserve clean soil and water. If you're passionate about thoughtful design, outdoor adventure, and protecting the places we all depend on, we'd love to hear from you.

Comet Solutions, Inc.'s mission is to deliver innovative technology that changes the landscape of how simulation can be used in the product development process. Product engineering organizations face increasing pressure to meet the dual challenges of reducing cost and improving quality in manufacturing and development. Early and frequent simulation is key to achieving these goals because it produces essential insights into which concepts best meet customer requirements in order to optimize the design PRIOR to significant time and cost investments. However, the barriers to early simulation have been formidable, including complex, independent tools, dependency on CAD geometry to get started, and expertise required to run simulation tools and processes. Other vendors have tried to provide solutions to the much desired goal of upfront simulation, but at best delivered watered down CAD-centric CAE tools which created yet another set of point tools and a further disconnected CAE environment. Comet's SimApps are the answer. These are web-deployed simulation applications, each targeted towards answering particular performance questions regarding the design of a family of products. Our customers are using these SimApps to significantly improve the efficiency and accuracy of simulations across global organizations - engineers, designers, & systems engineers, with no expertise in the underlying CAE tools, are performing complex simulations rapidly, easily and safely using these SimApps. Visit www.cometsolutions.com to learn more and to contact us.

OrbitSolutions provides leading strategy consulting and comprehensive Internet-based solutions to Fortune 1000 companies. Orbit helps businesses identify how the Internet can be used to their competitive advantage and uses its expertise in creative design and systems engineering to design, develop and deploy advanced Internet applications and solutions.