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Reporter Joe Korkowski interviewed Tom Schabel and featured our news about purchasing a new press on the Voice Of Alexandria. Our aluminum extrusion press is being built at Presezzi Extrusion Group in Italy. It will be shipped to Alexandria, Minn., early next year. Because the press will have longer extrusion table, we are extending our manufacturing area, along with adding a new...
The first best step to ensure your aluminum extruded components are made to their design specifications, consistently, is to understand your extruder's tooling practices. Aluminum extrusion suppliers refer to the tooling used to make extrusions as “die tools.” Die tools include separate pieces that when assembled together are called a die stack. The product shape determines...
A product-manufacturing path seldom travels in a straight line. Instead, it can resemble our childhood games like Candy Land with a winding track or Chutes and Ladders with tracks all over the place. The path typically consists of more than one manufacturing process, with different tasks for each process. Individuals working in separate manufacturing areas performing different tasks...
Do you have a good sense of the overall value of your suppliers? Are they working to make a difference in your product development and speed to market? If the answer is no, you should find a new supplier. Alexandria Industries will always look at different ways to help customers adapt their product designs to the manufacturing process used to make them, while identifying and...
Development of new products can be the key to success for so many manufacturers. Here are five tips to help you successfully develop new aluminum extruded profiles for your products. Involve your extruder early in the process. First to market often wins. By getting your extruder involved early in the product design and development process, OEMs can reduce start-up costs, and...
The company to increase its aluminum extrusion capabilities and capacities ALEXANDRIA, Minn., May 14, 2019 – Innovative contract manufacturer Alexandria Industries invests in a new aluminum extrusion press. The press will make aluminum components that go into customer products people see and use every day. Made by Presezzi Extrusion Group (Vimercate, MB-Italy), the press will...
Tournament drew 1,231 participants for a chance to win one of 100 prizes ALEXANDRIA, Minn., March 7, 2019 – The employees of innovative contract manufacturer Alexandria Industries raised a cool $60,000 at its 13th annual Fishing For the Cure Ice Fishing Challenge. The money can help 120 cancer patients who are unable to work pay an overdue utility bill. Or it could be used to...
Who Wants to work in Manufacturing? Alexandria Industries, along with other leading Minnesota manufacturers, were included in the March 2019 issue of Twin Cities Business feature story about the lack of employees to hire and what some companies and educators are doing to fill the skills...
Modern Machine Shop magazine's March issue features Alexandria Industries. The story talks about the challenges we faced to cost-effectively integrate automation technology into our manufacturing processes and CNC machine tending. Read the article...
In a previous customer newsletter, we shared information with you about the five things your annual forecast influences regarding Alexandria Industries. It is one of the most crucial pieces of information we need from you. Customer forecasts drive our business planning for the year. This includes planning our production capacity, capital investments, operational changes, raw material...