At Aluminum Shapes, we start the production process by melting scrap and primary ingot to cast billets from seven to sixteen inches in diameter. The billets are then extruded in small, medium, and large presses. At this point, many extruders see their job as done while our value is just beginning.
Shapes punches holes, precision cuts, forms and even welds using over 200 pieces of fabrication equipment. For high volume jobs we use custom machines for optimal efficiency.
All of these services under one roof. One supply chain and one company responsible for all phases of quality and service. For large OEM customers, Shapes employs highly experienced VA VE engineers adept at working with your managers and engineers on cost down projects – die redesign, scrap reduction, handling solutions, and outsource fabrication.
With six (6) high tonnage presses – more than any other North American manufacturer – Shapes can produce and ship over 60 metric tons of extruded aluminum annually in a wide range of press diameters and alloys. Additionally, Shapes has the capacity to cast more than 182 metric tons of aluminum log annually in a wide range of sizes and alloys.

From its 267,020 square meter, wholly owned state-of-the-art facility, Shapes operates a highly efficient manufacturing and distribution operation with centralized administration, marketing, and customer service. Combined with our on-site engineering staff, technical support and quality assurance procedures, we can provide our customers with more rapid order fulfillment, higher quality, and better on time delivery performance. Backed by these capabilities and significant infrastructure investments over the last decade, Shapes has created one of the most comprehensive soft alloy aluminum extrusion facilities in North America.

Sustainability

Sustainability is an easy concept for a business or industry to put its verbal support behind, but it’s a different matter to actually put weight behind the words. By virtue of the industry it is involved in, Aluminum Shapes more than meets the criteria for true sustainability through both the product it produces and the energy required to produce the product.
Aluminum is sustainable. The Aluminum Association estimates that over two-thirds of all the aluminum ever produced is still in use today. Beyond its inherent durability, aluminum is also highly recyclable – a property inherent to the metal. Supported by a large and technologically evolving aluminum industry infrastructure, this property can be harnessed to its fullest societal and industrial purposes.
But the story doesn’t stop here. Since the 1990’s, Aluminum Shapes has been involved with sustainable and renewable energy sources through investment in on-site solar and methane gas generating facilities that provide more than 50% of energy required to power its Pennsauken-based plant and offices. Further involvement in the US EPA’s voluntary Green Power Partnership has led to the expert advice, technical support, and resources that allow Aluminum Shapes to reduce the transaction costs of buying green power, reduce its carbon footprint, and communicate its leadership in sustaining and improving its environmental performance to key stakeholders in the renewable energy marketplace.