Gibson Patterns and Southern Lanterns
Gibson Patterns is a long-established family-owned
engineering pattern making business – established in Christchurch,
Canterbury, New Zealand, in 1954.
With over 50 years experience in the pattern making industry it is our aim to continue to offer our customers a professional and confidential service at a cost effective rate.
With five qualified pattern makers we can offer a wide range of hands-on expertise from small one-off jobs to large production tooling.
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General engineering pattern making in wood, fibreglass and metal | |
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Specialist pattern making for vacuum-forming and roto-moulding industries | |
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Special plastics and polystyrene moulds, and models for one-off designs | |
We can provide sample castings of any patterns produced,
through to production runs of finished machined ferrous and non-ferrous
castings. We also produce high quality Aluminium castings for vacuum forming
tools and polystyrene moulds.
Patterns we have produced include:
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Water jet propulsion units: intakes,
tailpipes, reverse ducts, steering nozzles |
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Motorcycle racing engines: heads, barrels, crankcases, side covers | |
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Microlight aircraft engines: crankcases, heads | |
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Models for fibreglass industries: boats & buses | |
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Vacuum-form tooling | |
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Roto-mould tooling | |
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Large one-off and production patterns for iron foundries | |
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Counter weights for forklifts up to 12 tonne | |
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Large siphon pipes, sow moulds, ingote moulds for smelter industries | |
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Machine base castings | |
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Small production castings | |
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Turning jobs up to 2 metres in diameter | |
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Thin sheet forming: food packaging e.g. chocolate, biscuit and Easter-egg trays | |
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Thick sheet forming: sign pans, bus parts (trim), tooling in wood and metal | |
See our pattern gallery for samples of the above work.
For cost-effective, professional pattern making, contact Mark Gibson today.