TraceParts Appoints GPL as its Exclusive Partner in Brazil to Boost 3D Catalog Business

GPL will Promote innovative 3D Marketing Solutions to the Fast Growing Brazilian Industry

Saint Romain, France and Belo Horizonte, Brazil – September 26, 2011 – TraceParts, a leading global provider of 3D Marketing solutions, today announce a strategic and exclusive business agreement with GPL, a leading Brazilian engineering company. According to the terms of the agreement, GPL will act as the master distributor of TraceParts products and services in all regions of Brazil.

TraceParts solutions include both desktop and online based component libraries containing more than 100 million native and neutral CAD models from hundreds of suppliers’ catalogs. The user interfaces of TraceParts DVD and TracePartsOnline.net are both fully localized in Brazilian Portuguese language while some part catalogs are also translated.

“Our strategic partnership with GPL greatly expands our capability to support the thousands of Brazilian engineers and designers who need 3D CAD models to boost their productivity,”, says Gabriel Guigue, TraceParts General Manager. “Brazil is a very dynamic B2B marketplace and we definitely wanted to find the best partner to develop our business here. We are extremely pleased about GPL joining our partner team: their CAD knowledge, exceptional support and sales capabilities combined with TraceParts leading edge technology will help us to continue to expand our global presence.”

“Brazilian engineering industry is growing rapidly and part manufacturers are now looking for innovative marketing services to promote their products and generate highly qualified sales leads.” explains Fábio Lúcio Del Rio, GPL Director. “We have found in TraceParts a very reliable partner with more than 20 years of experience in the catalog business. We share the same corporate values focused on continuous innovation and customer care.”

Under the terms of this agreement, GPL will closely work with TraceParts to model Brazilian 3D catalogs locally and to make them available for download to all Brazilian engineers and designers trough the exclusive web portal www.tracepartsonline.net/

About GPL

GPL is an engineering 3D company developing mechanical designs in Brazil since 1995. GPL is in charge to develop Brazilian content for TraceParts. GPL is in constant contact, through business partners with leading technology and always ready to participate in the process of technological upgrading so necessary to the sustainable development of Brazil.
For more information, please visit: http://www.gplpm.com.br.

About TraceParts

TraceParts is a leading digital engineering content company, offering customers progressive business solutions through powerful web based products and services. TraceParts helps customers improve marketing efficiencies by increasing the value of their existing digital product data. The tracepartsonline.net CAD portal is freely available to millions of CAD users worldwide.
For more information about TraceParts, please visit www.traceparts.com