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Contact: John Bugai
Granco Clark
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SAPA Chooses Granco Clark for Press Line Upgrades

Belding, Michigan—Sapa Extrusions, L.L.C., of Delhi, Louisiana has selected Granco Clark to provide equipment to upgrade the heating and handling systems on two existing press lines to make them more efficient, reduce handling, and reduce scrap.

One press will get a Model 69 Hot Jet Log Furnace and Model HBCS 69 Hot Log Saw; the other will receive an 812 Furnace/Hot Saw combination. In each case, the saw will permit accurate and consistent-length billets to be sent to the press, without the deformation caused by older log shear designs. Each system will also include a “no-scrap” cycle that will use the entire log by creating two-piece billets at log junctions.

Both lines will also be upgraded with Granco Clark Double Pullers with cut-on-the-fly capability. One will replace an outdated single-puller /dead cycle saw arrangement, increasing its productivity to the limits of its handling system.

The other Double Puller goes to a press line that previously had no puller; it will optimize the system capacity and gain the scrap reduction and process control benefits that are realized with the introduction of a puller.

Sapa Extrusions-Delhi produces soft alloy extruded aluminum products for a variety of aluminum applications, including automotive, construction, industrial, consumer, and specialty products.

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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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