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Sapa Industrial Extrusions is a supplier of extruded aluminum products for the distribution, commercial transportation, automotive, defense industrial and consumer markets. The company offers extruded aluminum shapes, such as rods, bars, angles, beams, pipes and tube s for heat sinks and other high-tech applications. Sapa Industrial Extrusions is located in Cressona, Pa.; Morris, Ill.; and Spanish Fork, Utah. The company is a part of the Sapa Group, which develops and markets aluminum profiles, profile-based components and systems and heat exchanger strip in aluminum. The parent company has a staff of more than 15,000 employees throughout Europe and in the United States and China. The Sapa Group is one of the leading companies in the transport, building, engineering and telecom industries.

Oran and Kathryn Boose founded Boose Aluminum Foundry Company in 1933. The company supplies aluminum sand castings It was first located in a two-room building behind their home in Reamstown, Pa. The company began casting small knickknacks and trivets such as dogs, birds, whistles, bookends, doorstops, banks and ashtrays. Boose Aluminum started to produce commercial castings for the hand tool, air compressor and boiler industries. By 1940, the company doubled in size by producing brass and iron castings to complement its aluminum casting line. During the 1950s, demands set forth by the Korean conflict resulted in another major expansion program. A large core room and additional molding facilities were added. By 1977, the dream of its founder became a reality with production of more than 1 million pounds of aluminum castings per year. The company continues to supply aluminum castings to the military and commercial markets. It utilizes the latest techniques in automatic and no-bake molding and sand reclamation. Boose Aluminum Foundry Company continues to be a family-owned business entering into its third generation of management.