Gemini Group expanded capacity and scale of the press tooling capabilities at its Consolidated Tool facility in Muscle Shoals, AL. The new equipment allows the operation to offer full-scope services to extruders of aluminum. copper, and brass, ranging from design and engineering to machining, validation, and refurbishment of large containers and press tooling components. This […]
Publisher’s Note: Light Metal Age has seen the aluminum industry go through a number of challenges during our 78 years of publication. The response has always been the same. The aluminum industry rises to whatever the challenge may be with thoughtful ingenuity born from working with the metal in all of its forms in service […]
By Andrea Svendsen, Managing Editor Editor’s Note: This article first appeared in the June 2017 issue of Light Metal Age. To read more articles from this issue, please subscribe. AACOA, Inc., a division of Bonnell Aluminum, is currently completing the installation and startup of the third press at its Niles, MI, facility (Figure 1). The $18 […]
