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May 2019

Demand Innovation

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 ...

Doing Things Differently

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...

Service Spotlight

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...

People Making a Difference

We couldn't be more proud to show you our latest video – a virtual tour of our Alexandria Industries facility in Alexandria, Minn. See what we do everyday. Watch our people making a difference!  

Announcements

We will use the new press to make aluminum components that go into products our customers make that people see and use every day. From Presezzi Extrusion Group (Italy), the press will allow us to increase our aluminum extrusion capabilities, extrude more complex product features, and hold ...

In The News

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 ...