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Contact: Michael Marn
Francis Marketing
(616) 235-1122

YKK AP Chooses Granco Clark

Belding, Michigan — YKK AP America is adding a 3000-ton press to its Dublin, Georgia facility, and has chosen Granco Clark to provide the handling system, which will be optimized for automotive products. Equipment includes a “one-of-a-kind” High Pressure Spray Quench to meet necessary process requirements.

YKK cites its positive experience with the handling system provided by Granco Clark  for another press in the facility in 2001 as the reason for choosing the company for the new order.

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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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