FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
April 6, 2004
Contact: Lonita McLean
Francis Marketing
(616) 235-1122

YKK AP America, Inc., Selects Granco Clark

Belding, MI — YKK Architectural Products has selected Granco Clark to supply a High-Pressure Spray Quench for its facility in Dublin, Georgia. A leading manufacturer of aluminum building products, YKK AP manufactures storefront, entrance, and curtainwall systems.

This quench is being installed on the handling system Granco Clark supplied in 2002. The quench will be used in producing new products not covered in the requirements for the initial press line installation.

The High-Pressure Spray Quench is the Granco Clark 450GPM design. It includes electrical control of the water volume settings for repeatability, and also features a traveling quench chamber that prevents the creation of a critical zone in the profile during the dead cycle.

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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 ISO-9001 certified company fabricates — from billet log furnaces and log shears to age ovens and stacking equipment.