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Taiwan Hodaka Orders Hot Jet Furnace, More from Granco Clark

Belding, Michigan— Taiwan Hodaka Technology Company, located in Tainan County, Taiwan, R.O.C. has called upon Granco Clark to provide two “Hot Jet Billet Furnaces” for extrusion facilities in Taiwan. One is to be placed in service in October 2008, with the other following in November.

The company also honored Granco Clark with an order to build a “Cold Billet Sawing System” and a “Billet Stacking System” for their cast house facility in Taiwan, to be placed in service in late summer of 2008.

Taiwan Hodaka Technology provides cutting edge casting and extrusion technology for high-strength aluminum, with cleanliness suitable for applications including storage media, bicycle frames, sporting goods, and defense related structures.

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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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