REG - Cordel Group PLC - New Contract wins in Mexico and Australia

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RNS Number : 4723R  Cordel Group PLC  27 October 2023

27 October 2023

Cordel Group PLC

("Cordel" or the "Company" or the "Group")

Cordel announces New Contract wins in Mexico and Australia

 

Cordel Group PLC (AIM: CRDL), the Artificial Intelligence platform for
transport corridor analytics, announces it has been awarded a contracts to
deliver a LiDAR-based solution in Mexico in partnership with Holland LP
("Holland") and a further project with the National Transport Research
Organisation ("NTRO") in Australia, in partnership with Ricardo PLC.

 

The contract in Mexico expands on the success of Cordel & Holland's
partnership announced on 23 February 2023 and is the Company's first contract
under the new commercial model between the companies. In this case, rather
than mounting a Cordel scanner on a Holland track vehicle for a single network
scan, the customer is purchasing one of Holland's industry leading inspection
vehicles with a permanently mounted Cordel LiDAR unit.

 

The LiDAR scanner will run autonomously while the railroad is conducting its
regular inspections. Cordel and Holland will provide the railroad with a
digital twin of the new network, along with reports for various engineering
use cases.

 

The second contract win is an AUD$500,000 project for Level Crossing Safety
Research, which is in addition to the agreement with NTRO announced on 4
September 2023. Cordel will provide technical competency in relation to data
capture at large scale and using automation to extract attributes of interest
from level crossings using multi-modal data sets. This has been awarded under
round 1 of the Regional Australia Level Crossing Safety Program, a AUD$180.1
million government program which aims to improve level crossing safety in
regional areas.

 

Cordel will create a web-based Level Crossing Data management Portal that will
expose critical information to the various stakeholders. Significant
contribution will be made by Ricardo to engage the compliance related
stakeholders, and from NTRO in relation to ongoing alignment with its other
research in this field. The feedback obtained from these initiatives will
complement future funding rounds which NTRO and Department of Transport (Vic)
are currently under discussion for FY24/25 and beyond.

 

Erik Curran, General Manager of Holland LP commented:

"Our important partnership with Cordel continues to strengthen and now enters
the Latin America market with this new contract. Not only is this a
significant project in the rail industry, but the contract introduces
continuous automated data capture and analysis for Holland clients."

 

John Davis, CEO of Cordel, commented:

"We are delighted to be delivering on our partnership strategy with these two
significant wins, both of which reflect the rail industry's acceptance of our
unique automated capture and analysis technology."

 

Enquiries:

 

 Cordel Group PLC                           c/o Zeus
 Ian Buddery, Chairman

 John Davis, Chief Executive Officer
 Zeus Capital Limited Broker                +44 (0)20 3829 5000
 Simon Johnson / Alexandra Campbell-Harris

 Strand Hanson Limited Nominated Adviser

 Richard Johnson / James Bellman            +44 (0)20 7409 3494

 

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About Cordel

Cordel produces specialist hardware and software for capturing, analysing and
reporting on large datasets within the transport sector, employing
sophisticated artificial intelligence algorithms.  Further information on the
Company is available at: www.cordel.ai (http://www.cordel.ai/)

 

About Holland LP

Holland LP is an industry leading provider of railroad engineering services.
The Company offers rail welding, track testing, rail car maintenance,
transloading, and rail car cleaning services. Holland also designs and
manufactures welding, rail handling, track testing, and product securing
equipment. Holland caters to the rail transportation industry in North
America.  Further information is available at: www.hollandco.com

 

About Ricardo PLC

Ricardo plc is a world-class environmental, engineering and strategic
consulting company listed on the London Stock Exchange. With over 100 years of
engineering excellence, they provide exceptional levels of expertise in
delivering leading edge and innovative cross sector sustainable products and
solutions, helping their global customers increase efficiencies, achieve
growth and create a clear and safer future.  For more information
visit www.ricardo.com (http://www.ricardo.com/)

 

About NTRO

NTRO is committed to ensuring that new knowledge is used to create world's
best practice across all modes of transport. NTRO pulls together multi-modal
transport solutions and helps the sector embrace new technologies and
materials, to tackle next generation issues across the sector. Whether it's
road, rail, airports or ports; public, private or active transport; and people
or freight, NTRO supports a better mobility future.

Further information is available at: www.ntro.org.au

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