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Alcoa Engineered Products Extends Relationship with Granco Clark

Belding, Michigan — Alcoa Engineered Products has chosen Belding, Michigan-based Granco Clark to enhance one of its press lines. Granco Clark will provide a new saw gauge system and extend Alcoa’s current saw gauge system from 30 feet to 60 feet to maximize the billet cut length. Granco Clark will also extend the discharge and inspection belts as part of the improvements to the company’s Morris, Illinois facility. Granco Clark is a global aluminum extrusion equipment manufacturer and supplier.

Alcoa Engineered Products is a leading supplier of soft and hard alloy extruded aluminum products to the Distribution, Commercial Transportation, Industrial, Consumer, Aerospace, Automotive and Building & Construction markets. Its parent company, Alcoa, is the world’s leading producer of primary aluminum, fabricated aluminum, and alumina and is active in all major aspects of the industry.

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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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