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Before c. 1975 – November 2026
The second age has one works, and its founding is this section's largest gap.Trade press in 2011 calls it "the 50-year-old facility" (Trailer/Body Builders, 1 April 2011), which would bracket an origin near 1961; the two brackets overlap without agreeing, and both print here, neither preferred. The 2011 work is dated and sized: a $1-million-plus revitalization, reported as $1.3 million in Northwest Indiana Business Magazine, whose first phase gave the plant's 10-inch, 3,600-ton press a water-and-overhead-air quenching system, a dual puller system and a flying cutoff saw, rededicated with a ribbon-cutting hosted by Matthew Dionne, president of Hydro Extrusion North America, with plant general manager Ralph Westphal quoted on Hydro's long-term dedication to the facility; capacity was to rise 30 percent, to between 6 million and 8 million pounds of aluminum a year, aimed at the heavy transportation market. It is a three-press operation on the 2011 account. Its products, on Hydro's own current pages as banked: alloys 6005, 6060, 6061, 6063 and 6105; complicated hollow configurations and knurling for non-skid floor systems; extrusion, fabrication and anodizing at 400 South Main Street on the plant's 2024 Environmental Product Declaration. War spikes: no wartime production peak for any North Liberty works was found in the carriers reached, and none is claimed; the item prints as a tested negative, its settler the wartime South Bend Tribune record.