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    rentwood -- The only major aluminum rolling mill in the western U.S., Trentwood (near Spokane) is Kaiser's largest fabricating plant. It is capable of producing over 600 million pounds of sheet and plate annually for the aerospace, beverage can, automotive, and industrial markets.

    The plant obtains most of its metal supply from Kaiser's Mead plant and from a nearby can and scrap recycling facility.

    Trentwood has been extensively modernized and computerized. Equipment now includes remelt and casting stations, a scalper, hot rolling line, five-stand cold mill, wide-coil coating line, heavy-gauge tension leveling line, and extensive heat-treat sheet and plate production facilities. This enables Trentwood to manufacture products with superior gauge, flatness, and shape, as well as excellent metallurgical properties and surface qualities.

    A major expansion currently under way will increase heat-treat capacity to better serve the global aerospace and general engineering markets.

    (Photo -- Coils at Kaiser's Trentwood mill await further processing before shipment to customers.)  

     

     

     


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