RPT is a small privately owned company located in central Pennsylvania.  Founded in 2011, RPT has the desire to see American manufacturing succeed.  Cuts to the manufacturing sector were severe in the past decade, so naturally starting a new company has not been easy.  RPT is committed to preserving American jobs and manufacturing by offering a professional quality product.

 

The owner, Noel Ehresman, graduated from Huntingdon Area High School in 1992 and received his BSME from Kettering Universtiy in 1997. He was part of an engineering co-op program at the Elco Corporation in his years at college.   After college, he was a Tool and Die Making Apprentice at Leech Industries and Accu-Mold Tool and Plastics in Pennsylvania.  He spent several years working as a moldmaker at Berg/FCI Electronics in central PA.  He has also worked as a design engineer/toolmaker at Sound Technology in State College, PA.