The aluminum on pontoons is one of the most important components, and manufacturers have relied on Champagne Metals to provide them with the best aluminum for years. The company’s Indiana location in Middlebury has given excellent service to pontoon manufacturers for the last ten years, which in turn helps keep boats affordable for all of us.
Champagne Metals is a premier metal service center specializing in aluminum sheet and aluminum coil processing. The privately held, family owned company has a primary commitment to service, quality, and reliability.
Whether you need aluminum products or toll processing, Champagne Metals promises to meet or exceed your expectations. Their 85,000 square foot facility in Middlebury is located on 17 acres in the Greenfield Industrial Park, adjacent to highway I-80/I-90.
Mike Champagne, President and CEO of Champagne Metals, said, “We are committed to the markets we serve in the Midwest to service the pleasure boat, recreational vehicle, and truck trailer markets. The plant in Middlebury is a strategic location to better serve our customers in the commercial transportation markets as well as our processing customers.”
As explained on their website, Champagne Metals’ value-added services include:
Freight Management
Champagne Metals’ fleet of trucks is available for deliveries Monday through Friday. Operating our own fleet of trucks allows for complete control of your product through the delivery process.
Warehousing Services
Champagne Metals offers unique options to our customers for both their aluminum and non-aluminum components critical to their business. Customized storage and delivery of key components keeps our customers lean creating more space to focus on their core business.
Edge Trimming
Champagne Metals can Edge Trim an incoming aluminum coil during the Cut-to-Length or Coil Breakdown processes. Champagne metals has the ability to take up to 8” of trim per side for a total of 16”. This process is often used to finish coils, create new products from obsolete inventory, or remove edge defects from coils.
Multi-Blanking
Champagne Metals can Multi-blank and incoming coil to create multiple sheets (blanks) from a single width coil. This process uses a slitting head to create several sheets of the same length to different widths simultaneously.
Coil Finishing
Champagne metals offers Coil finishing, where we take an unfinished Hot mill grade coil to a finished usable sheet/coil. This could include but is not limited to edge trimming, leveling, cleaning, and coil breakdown.
Crimping
Champagne Metals offers Crimping, which is the process of sending a smooth sheet through a grooved or corrugated roll and roll form the strip. This process produces a sheet with a corrugated appearance and is most often used in light gauge painted product used in the pleasure boat industry.
Stenciling
Champagne Metals has the ability to Stencil. Stenciling is the ability to print alpha-numeric text continuously onto the surface of the metal. It is frequently used to add material lot numbers or order specifications to each individual sheet.
By offering excellent customer service, stringent quality standards, state-of-the-art equipment, and dependable, on time delivery, Champagne Metals can meet all of your aluminum manufacturing needs.
