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Holmer Kleist, a project manager at SMS Meer, is dwarfed by this cylinder crosshead for the 150 MN extrusion press built by the German press builder to be supplied to Shandong Nanshan Aluminium Co. Ltd., located in the Nanshan Industry Region of Longkou City, in Shandong province, PRC. The completed twin of this press, which is to be supplied to Shandong Yankuang Light Alloy Company in Jining, also in Shandong province, was recently on display at the assembly shop of SMS Meer in Mönchengladbach and is the subject of this issues’ feature article.
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World’s Strongest (150 MN) Aluminum Extrusion Press Presented in Germany
By Joseph C. Benedyk
Page 6
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7th Aluminium Two Thousand International Congress: Helping Extruders Meet the Challenge of the Third Millennium
By Joseph C. Benedyk
Page 12
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Characteristics of Dispersoid Precipitation in AlMgSi Automotive Body Sheet Ingot during Homogenization Treatment
By Ni Tian, Gang Zhao, Liang Zuo, Chun-ming Liu, and Bo Nie
Page 22
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Company Profile: Foy Continues to Lead with Powerful Management Software for Extruders Worldwide
By J.D. Schloz
Page 26
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Russia Works Hard for Environmental Control: Krasnoyarsk Gets a New Lease on Life
Page 30
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Students Display Creativity in the 2011 Extrusion Design Competition
Page 34
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