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Out with the old: Constelium's 60-year-old mill gets $9.5 million facelift

11/13/2021

When Brian McCallie's kids ask him what he does at Constellium, he tells them he puts metal through a colossal pasta press.

It's actually a cold rolling mill, and there's only one other like it in the U.S., but it's the same principle as a pasta press. As aluminum travels through the mill, it's thinned. 

Constellium had gotten its money's worth out of its 1950s era mill β€” now, after five years, it has made appropriate updates to it. The company celebrated its modernized $9.5 million 144-inch cold rolling mill Monday, Nov. 8. 

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