FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
October 25, 2006
Contact: Mike Marn
Francis Marketing
(616) 235-1122

Hydro Aluminum Upgrades with Granco Clark

Belding, Michigan — Hydro Aluminum is upgrading their production processes in their Ellenville, New York facility. As part of the upgrade they have chosen Belding, Michigan-based Granco Clark to supply an enhanced air-cooling system. This includes a high-velocity cooling system under the runout conveyor and an array of cooling fans under the cooling table.

The runout cooling system provides high cooling rates with relatively small blower systems. This makes it energy efficient while providing excellent profile cooling.

Hydro Aluminum provides aluminum solutions including supply sourcing, extrusion, finishing, and fabrication of components, as well as engineering and contract manufacturing services, for a variety of industries.

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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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