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May 2017

Demand Innovation

Organizations that have earned ISO 9001:2008 certification, and want to recertify to the new 2015 standard, must do so by September 2018. After this date, a certificate to ISO 9001:2008 will no longer be valid. At Alexandria Industries, we rely on ISO certification to demonstrate our ability to ...

Doing Things Differently

Did you know that Alexandria Industries does not have customer service people? What!? Who’s Lavern or Shirley then? Joking aside, the people at Alexandria Industries responsible for daily communication with customers are part of our manufacturing support team. These account specialists do much ...

Service Spotlight

Designing your aluminum-extruded components to get you to your final near-net shape is ideal. When this is not possible and your design requires a curved or bent feature, it is important to understand the critical factors during bending that can affect the quality of your component’s final shape....

People Making a Difference

Representatives from the aluminum industry have been busy working together to garner continued government support for the 2011 anti-dumping and countervailing duty orders covering aluminum extrusion from China. The original initiative, led by U.S. aluminum extrusion manufacturers, with support ...

Announcements

Achieve Wellness, a long-term partner of our employee wellness program, recently honored Alexandria Industries with its first Partnership Award. Our relationship began more than 10 years ago when we worked with Achieve Wellness to create an employee wellness program. In 2016, we expanded our work ...

Customer's Voice

If everything you try works, you are not trying enough ideas. Naturally, we are inclined to talk about our success stories, rather than our failures. But it can be in our failures where we discover the next great idea. Searching for opportunities to make process improvements is at the heart of ...

In The News

In October 2016, Alexandria Industries, headquartered in Alexandria, MN, celebrated its 50th year of business as a leading aluminum extruder in the United States. Published in Light Metal Age magazine, CEO Tom Schabel shares his thoughts about the aluminum extrusion industry and Alexandria ...

Community Unity

Created by a small group of employees, the Fishing for the Cure ice fishing tournament is for everyday people making a difference in the fight against cancer. All of the proceeds are donated to the American Cancer Society’s local Relay For Life program. The first tournament, held in 2007, had ...