Manufacturing Today Issue - 253 October 2026 | Page 238

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In aluminum processing, the material’ s value is also its vulnerability: prime aluminum now costs upwards of $ 4 a pound – and even a single deep scratch or flatness defect can send it back to the mill for remelting. For Aluminum Blanking Company( ABCO), that risk shapes

everything the business does. The company was established in 1979 as‘ The Original Toll Processor’ of aluminum, stainless steel, and other surface-sensitive materials, and was founded by Marvin Hole, father of current President and CEO, Laura Anderson.
With Laura’ s father being a design engineer and manufacturer’ s representative for coil handling and press room equipment, he recognized that aluminum could help OEMs meet CAFE standards, introduced off the back of the 1970s oil crisis. The business grew through the 1980s
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Engineering runs in the family.“ I graduated from the University of Michigan with degrees in both aerospace engineering and physics,” Laura recalls.“ My interest has always been in science, math and technology. My first job was in California at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory – the prime contractor to NASA for all interplanetary space exploration – and I worked in attitude and articulation control systems on Project Galileo, which went to Jupiter and explored the planet and its moons.” Afterwards, Laura moved into IT, Six Sigma, and SAP deployments across Tier One automotive suppliers before returning
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