ELKHART -- Indalex Holding Corp. is pouring $1 million into its aluminum extrusion plant here, which will create 15 full-time jobs.
The money will be used to buy a new furnace and an automated saw to cut aluminum used to make extruded parts at its plant along the Indiana Toll Road, just northeast of Elkhart, the company said.
Five full-time year-round jobs will be added, along with 10 full-time, but seasonal, jobs for the summertime, said Scott Langdon, a spokesman for the Lincolnshire, Ill.-based company.
About 200 people work in the plant now. The new jobs will include a variety of general labor positions, he said.
The seasonal positions exist because so many of Indalex's extruded aluminum parts are used in construction, which picks up in the summertime.
While residential construction has been flat or declining, commercial building is on the rise, Langdon said.
So, what's aluminum extrusion? Think of it as squeezing toothpaste out of the tube.
Malleable aluminum is heated up and put into a giant press, which forces the metal out an opening cut to the shape of whatever part the company is trying to make.
Elkhart's Indalex plant makes parts for recreational vehicles and truck trailers, but "the Elkhart plant does way more than that," Langdon said.
Indalex has invested more than $20 million in Elkhart during "recent years," and more than $43 million in Indiana to add production capacity, said Jerry Nies, vice president and general manager of the company's mill finish division.
Indalex operates other Indiana plants in Kokomo and Connersville.
In Connersville -- about 70 miles east of Indianapolis -- the company just announced a $22 million expansion made possible by $75,000 in state-issued training grants and about $820,000 in state tax credits.
The Connersville plant is in Fayette County, which chipped in a $2.5 million, 10-year tax abatement for the plant.
Indalex, which was a subsidiary of Honeywell until it was bought by Sun Capital Partners in 2006, had annual sales that year of $1.2 billion.
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