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Moldflow Corporation is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Autodesk, Inc. that produces produces high-end plastic injection molding computer-aided engineering software. Moldflow was founded in Melbourne, Australia as Moldflow Pty. Ltd. in 1978 by Colin Austin. It is now headquartered in Framingham, Massachusetts.

Products
Moldflow's two core products are Moldflow Plastics Insight and Moldflow Plastics Advisers. In addition, Moldflow also produces Moldflow Design Link, Moldflow CAD Doctor, Moldflow Magics STL Expert, and Moldflow Structural Alliance that serve as connectivity tools for CAD and other CAE software. They also have a free results viewer, Moldflow Communicator.

Acquisition by Autodesk
On May 1 2008, Autodesk, makers of Inventor and AutoCAD computer-aided design software, announced plans to acquire Moldflow for US$22 per share, or approximately US$297 million, less the amount in Moldflow's cash balance and proceeds from options exercises. On June 25 2008, Autodesk completed the acquisition of Moldflow for US$22 per share, or US$297 million.