Aluminum Specialty engineers deconstructed the Modern Coatings tree and re-designed it to include foil “needles.” The tree could be mass produced for less than $12.

Town Leads Aluminum Christmas Tree Revival. By ABC News. December 16, ... As she inserts each of the dozens of tinsel-covered branches into the foil-coated dowel "trunk," the tree begins to take ...

Aluminum Specialty debuted its aluminum Christmas tree in 1959 and it quickly become a hit. ... yet genius — insert aluminum branches tipped with aluminum-foil needles into a wooden trunk.

Aluminum Specialty engineers deconstructed the Modern Coatings tree and re-designed it to include foil “needles.” The tree could be mass produced for less than $12.

In 2005, a rare, 7-foot, pink, aluminum Christmas tree –î the exact tree Lucy implored Charlie Brown to get for their nativity play — sold on e-Bay for $3,600. Christmas, in some measure, is ...