General Production Services Inc

General Production Services was started in 1972 by several design engineers with the intent to develop new products. One of the founders, Mr. C K Reh had 12 years previous experience as Chief Engineer developing airline movie projectors for Technicolor, and the other key personnel had similar experience. Due to their combined backgrounds the initial emphasis of GPS included the design and building of the entire lens system that went into the Trans Com Sundstrand airline movie projectors. Having developed what they considered to be the finest multi-coated optical lens system in the industry, this product needed a superior cleaning system. Having gone through the frustrations of not finding an adequate cleaning solution, General Production Services formulated several professional grade optical cleaners to satisfy their own demanding requirements. Out of this development came Lens Clens #1, designed for coated or multi-coated surfaces, Lens Clens #2 specifically designed for cleaning front surface mirrors, Lens Clens #3 for uncoated optics (used in the manufacturing process prior to coating, and eventually Lens Clens #4 which was created for plastics. Initially General Production Services developed these formulations for internal use and airline movie projector customer use, and soon these superior optical cleaning solutions became known by professionals and industrial users who eventually tried them after hearing of their superior cleaning properties. Shortly after developing Lens Clens, General Production Services started selling these solutions under the Lens Clens brand name, because users with critical cleaning needs continued to ask the question – Where can I buy some?

Since day one Lens Clens usage has grown through word of mouth endorsements from satisfied customers who found that Lens Clens was the most effective optical cleaner commercially available. Lens Clens has been widely used by manufactures and users of a wide variety of optics including general optics, laser optics, fibre optics, glass manufactures, as well as hospitals, schools, universities, and a wide variety research facilities, laboratories, museums, and institutions. Repair centers for cameras, business machines, scientific equipment, as well as field service repair men use Lens Clens for cleaning optical surfaces, and although it is not otherwise sold directly to consumers we get many calls from professional and amateur photographers who use Lens Clens #1 on their personall camera equipment. One of the earliest users of Lens Clens #1 for photography use was Moose Peterson, a well-known professional wildlife photographer. Moose states in his article "I couldn't imagine using anything else to get the great outdoors off my equipment (it's cleaned everything from sap off the front element to sticky adhesive off a lens barrel)." Moose goes on to state "The high evaporation rate and zero residue of Lens Clens makes it the perfect lens cleaning fluid. More importantly, it's perfectly safe for the multi coatings of our precious lenses. The other lens cleaning fluids I've tried tend to either just move the mess around the glass or worse leave their own film to be wiped off by some other means. I've tried many different lens cleaning fluids in a pinch, but for the past ten years Lens Clens has been the one I depend on." Other well-known wildlife photographers such as John W. Herbst (Grizzly Bear Nature Photography), and Arthur Morris (Birds As Art) endorse Lens Clens as well. Industrial and professional users of optical equipment state that Lens Clens is simply the best optical cleaner they have ever found, and several industrial manufacturer's of laser machines purchase Lens Clens to give away with each machine they sell and other manufacturers of equipment with optical surfaces do the same thing. Manufactures would not endorse Lens Clens for use with their own product in this way if they did not fully believe that Lens Clens was beneficial to use with their product. As John Herbst states following his endorsement for Lens Clens "I do not get paid for this product review. I just know a good product when I see (and use) one."

We owe our success and 30 years in business to you, our good customers, for telling your friends about Lens Clens, and asking the question – Where can I buy some?

JERRY TOCHILIN
PREISDENT, GPS