Manufacturing and Innovation alive and well at Youngstown Exal
Technology, Youngstown — Posted on November 12, 2009 at 7:45 amWho knew there was such innovation to aluminum packaging? Well, there is at Exal Corporation in Youngstown, Ohio.
This year, Exal walked away with a “Stevie,” which is the trophy from the American Business Awards. In this case, Exal won Business Innovation of the Year for its Coil-to-Can aluminum container manufacturing technology. The technology was also a finalist for New Product or Service of the Year in Manufacturing and People’s Choice Product or Service.
Read more about Coil to Can technology here.
Read how the product helped ESKA’s marketing efforts.
Green Living picks up on the theme.
Blue Spike beverages feature the aluminum bottle in its promotions.
Read more from the American Business Award nomination form Exal submitted.
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I am Very happy to see this blog including the place I, and 400 hundred other area people work! Delpin is a great businessman and we are lucky that he decided to put such a large investment in this area! These are good jobs with great benefits!
Jeff, thanks for stopping by to comment, and thanks for your contributions to Exal’s success.
Glad to see you pointed out such achievement in our area manufacturing. I sincerely think manufacturing can make a comeback in the U.S., but it will require significant amounts of new investment capital. But I think that transportation costs will increase globally, and ‘low-cost’ countries will no longer have the benefit they do now. And when I see China, I see a country that will shed its desire to be an export driven county, and to be a domestic consumption, foreign investing country. The Valley should be in a spot to take advantage of this, if we have good companies that continue the advanced manufacturing trend.
Look forward to hearing about your experiences in China, Eric.
Eric,
Welcome back from Asia.
It’s interesting in your post that you confirmed what my relatives in the Philippines have been saying all along. I even heard that Chinese universities are studying Henry Ford because his industry back then was mobilized for internal consumption and not for export. It is obvious to me that China and the exporting countries are nervous about absorbing anymore dollars that is not backed by gold.
Nonetheless, a return to manufacturing is a must for us. This is why I, ODA, OSU and OAA are preaching Aquaculture to the Valley. Recently, I was nudged because of my connection to Asia to contact South East Asia Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) which is hosted in the Philippines. They are very advanced in Aquaculture and Ohio can “sister up” with this research center. This should be a project for our leaders and I could use the help.