FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Michael Marn
Francis Marketing
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Extrudex Chooses Granco Clark

Belding, Michigan— Extrudex Aluminum has chosen Granco Clark to upgrade the handling equipment for the 4000 ton press in its North Jackson, Ohio facility.

The new handling system will be “double length” allowing for two press cycles of air cooling while the profile is under control of the puller heads. The Granco Clark Double Puller (already in place) is capable of operating in either the double length mode or “cut-on-the-fly” operation that allows the system to extrude multiple profile lengths from a single billet without stopping the press.

Undertable and overhead Air Cooling Systems provide balanced cooling to the top and bottom of the profile.

Extrudex says that Granco Clark continues to be its supplier of choice because of the company’s performance on several Extrudex installations in North Jackson and Woodbridge, ON.

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Founded in 1947, Granco Clark began manufacturing billet furnaces and has evolved into a global, single-source supplier and leading equipment manufacturer to the aluminum extrusion industry.  Quality is a key component in every extrusion system the company fabricates—from billet log furnaces and log shears to age ovens and stacking equipment.  In 1986, the company introduced the Granco Clark Supervisory Computer System (SCS) to enhance efficiency by developing schedules, loading equipment parameters, tracking faults, and logging production and downtime data.  This integrated control system has since developed into SCSExtrude—the next generation nerve center for automated extrusion lines.  SCSExtrude helps Granco Clark customers improve extrusion line management and reduces equipment downtime.

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