SD-Scicon Plc’s West German subsidiary, SCS GmbH – one of the company’s major inheritances when it bought Scicon Ltd, has won several new contracts totalling UKP8m in the manufacturing, energy, banking, and telecommunications sectors: its PS production planning and control system has been installed in five Michelin Reifenwerke and eight Continental AG factories, and it will be installed in the tool production sectors of Adam Opel AG; the company is designing and implementing a data processing system for the gas utilities company, Ruhrgas AG, and installing file transfer and credit transaction systems for Landesgirokasse, a regional bank in Southern Germany; SCS has also signed a UKP4m agreement with IBM Deutschland GmbH for work on large volume telecommunication projects.