The manufacturing sector continues to face a skilled labor shortage, and nowhere is this more apparent than in specialized fields like metal extrusion. As experienced professionals retire and ...

Continuous extrusion encompasses a class of metal forming techniques in which billet or feedstock is continuously forced through a die to produce long-sections of uniform cross-section. Unlike batch ...

Aluminum is particularly well suited to the extrusion process due to its excellent plasticity at extrusion temperature. Only a minor degree of work-hardening takes place at this temperature and ...

Extrusion, which can produce complex parts made of lightweight metals, is an increasingly important manufacturing process for everything from buildings to electric vehicles. Pacific Northwest National ...

Richard Gagg, Industry Manager – Metals and Industrial Processing for AMETEK Land, looks at how understanding temperature and controlling press speed and quench rates during the extrusion process are ...

The aluminum producer says it will cease operations at facilities in California and Louisiana by the end of next year.

Ohio Steel Industries Inc. plans to invest $8.2 million to develop a vacant manufacturing plant in Delaware, Ohio, and rehire the former employees for a plastic pipe and custom extrusion operation.