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Elixir Industries Selects Granco Clark for Another Efficient Technology

Belding, Michigan — Elixir Industries has once again selected Belding, Michigan-based Granco Clark to provide a SST Hot-Jet furnace, but this time for the company’s Mishawaka, Indiana facility. Elixir Industries recently purchased a SST Hot-Jet furnace, log shear, and a chest-type die oven for the company’s Douglas, Georgia facility. Granco Clark is a global aluminum extrusion equipment manufacturer and supplier.

The Hot-Jet Furnace delivers an average thermal efficiency of 55 percent, which is often the peak performance level of other billet furnaces.

Elixir Industries is one of the largest independent suppliers to the factory-built housing and recreational vehicle industries, with seventeen operating divisions throughout the United States. Two of these are aluminum extrusion divisions supplying their customers with linear and fabricated components.

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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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