General Pattern Increases Rapid Tooling Offerings With Acquisition Of 3D Keltool License

Minneapolis, Minnesota -- General Pattern, an internationally based service bureau for Rapid Prototyping and Rapid Tooling services announces it's acquisition of the 3D Keltool license from Rapid Tooling Technologies, LLC of St. Paul, Minnesota.

"General Pattern is the right home for 3D Keltool," says Brad Fox, who managed Rapid Tooling Technologies and the 3D Keltool process for the past three years. "It is a natural addition to GP's existing rapid tooling technology offerings." With this acquisition, GP now offers four distinct rapid tooling technologies: 3D Keltool, Selective Laser Sintering, Deckel Maho laser based machining, and high speed CNC machining.

General Pattern's President, Dennis Reiland comments; "we are pleased to bring the 3D Keltool license in-house. GP is poised to begin the mass commercialization of 3D Keltool inserts and bridges the important gap of post finishing the inserts – never offered previously by RTT."

"Technology is just one part of the equation;" continues Fox, the new Vice-President of Business Development for GP, "this company has made a reputation of delivering quality injection molding tooling in dramatically short time frames at significantly lower costs." "This will remain the key objective for us – and now we have one more RT technology to choose from to meet these demanding needs of our customers."

The 3D Keltool installation at General Pattern makes it the sole practitioner of the technology in North America.

For more information about General Pattern, 3D Keltool or any of it's RT technologies, please call 763-780-3518 or visit the website at: www.generalpattern.com.

General Pattern Company, Inc., 3075 84th Ln., Blaine, MN 55449. Tel: 612-7803518; Fax: 612-780-3770.