Enterprise Pattern & Prototype

Full Service Pattern Tool Manufacturing TMI specializes in the production of pattern tooling used in the Aerospace and Commercial Industries. Our tooling is built for both production and prototype applications using the latest in CAD/CAM technology. Our highly skilled and experienced employees are devoted to designing and manufacturing high quality, competitively priced tooling. We are proud of our on-time delivery record. Foundry support is available and beneficial to our customers: supplying gating and rigging to their specifications or solidification model. Core assembly, qualification/target, heat-treat, straightening, machining, and pressure test fixtures can also be built depending on your needs.

About Nielsen Enterprises, Inc In the mid 1970's NEI's founders had a vision. To create a pattern and mold shop based on the highest level of quality possible at the lowest possible cost with on-time delivery using state of the art equipment. In 1979 their vision became reality when Nielsen Enterprises was founded. Today, Nielsen Enterprises is a manufacturing service provider, providing premier patterns, molds, impellers, and prototype manufacturing. In 1988 after Nielsen Enterprises purchased their new CNC mill they were forced to find a method of programming it. Nielsen Enterprises discovered SURFCAM, a CAD/CAM system that was just starting out. They immediately became the first SURFCAM dealer and have now received numerous SURFCAM awards for their sales, such as the prestigious Dealer of the year award. 28 years later Nielsen Enterprises both uses and sells SURFCAM, which is now the world's premier CAD/CAM system.

General Pattern Company is a full-service provider of rapid prototyping, rapid tooling and rapid manufacturing for the automotive, medical, industrial and consumer products industries throughout the world. The company is a privately held, fourth generation, global company that was founded in 1922. It employs approximately 200 employees with a diverse array of technical and administrative capabilities. The company also designs and manufactures injection mold tools from component designs. General Pattern Company maintains its headquarters in Minneapolis, with additional engineering and manufacturing facilities in Ham Lake and Duluth, Minn., Detroit and London.