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    June 2025

    Cover Assembly of a rail car body comprised of large, complex aluminum extrusions. Metra Rail, the newly created rail industry brand of Metra Group, manufactures and fabricates extrusions for rail car bodies at its two plants in Rodengo Saiano and Montale, Italy. With its new brand, the company will be able to better support the […]

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    Hydro Orders HybrEx Extrusion Line to Modernize Its Gainesville Operation

    Hydro Extrusion North America placed an order for a complete 8 inch, 25 MN extrusion line from SMS group and OMAV, a specialist in the field of aluminum extrusion systems. Engineered to Hydro’s high operational standards, the new line features an innovative HybrEx® press and a patented electric scrap shear will be installed at the […]

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    Hindalco Delivers 10,000 Aluminum Battery Enclosures for Electric Vehicles

    Hindalco Industries Ltd., the metals flagship of the Aditya Birla Group and one of the world’s largest aluminum companies, unveiled its state-of-the-art dedicated electric vehicle (EV) component manufacturing facility in Chakan, Pune, India. At the site, the company successfully manufactured and delivered 10,000 aluminum battery enclosures to Mahindra Electric for use in the automaker’s electric […]

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    Aluminum Extrusions for All Automotive Powertrains

    By Andrew Halonen, Mayflower Consulting LLC. The automotive industry landscape is shifting once again. For the past decade, the industry has seen heavy interest in electric vehicles (EVs), with automotive OEMs making significant investments to convert their vehicle lineup to EVs. However, OEMs are now taking a step back and reconsidering their electrification strategy.1 The […]

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    General Extrusions’ New Energy Efficient Induction Heater

    General Extrusions International (GEI), which came under new ownership at the end of 2023, operates a 225,000 sq ft extrusion plant in Youngstown, OH. The plant houses two press lines, including a 1,675 ton, 7 inch Youngstown press and a new 25 MN, 8 inch SMS press (installed in 2022). The 7 inch press line […]

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    International Patents: Novel Aluminum Extrusion Applications

    Editor’s Note: What a difference in business perspective for U.S. aluminum in general and the aluminum extrusion market in particular that a few months make! From April to May last year, during ET ’24 when all signs pointed up, with the global and U.S. aluminum extrusion market expected to grow significantly in the future and […]

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    April 2025

    Cover COVER: Zach Fulton, coating manager at Dee Zee, is using a film thickness checker to measure the thickness of the coating just before the profiles are unloaded from the new powder coating line at Dee Zee’s plant in Iowa. This type of quality control is performed randomly to check if production parameters have been […]

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    Exlabesa Officially Inaugurates New Extrusion Factory in Portugal

    Exlabesa inaugurated its new €25 million extrusion facility in João Rui Ferreira, Portugal. This new production center represents a significant milestone in the multinational’s consolidation strategy in southern Europe. Located on a plot of more than 86,000 sq m and with 10,000 sq m under roof,  the plant includes two 2,800 tonne press lines, along […]