Trend Telecommunications Ltd the High Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK-based maker of the Opal telex collection system has won approval for the product from the French telephone and telex network and the Bundespost in West Germany: it now intends to launch an assault on the European market and has appointed Technnova 2000 SA of Paris, France and its German subsidiary Technnova 2000 GmbH as its distributors.