On Sept 20th, AXEL’s Per Nilsson presented at SKF’s Lubrication Maintenance Seminar to an audience of over 50 managers, mechanical and reliability engineers, and maintenance personnel.
On Sept 20th, AXEL’s Per Nilsson presented at SKF’s Lubrication Maintenance Seminar to an audience of over 50 managers, mechanical and reliability engineers, and maintenance personnel.
We had a packed agenda with a lively, engaged, and energetic group of colleagues from all our countries exchanging experiences, successes, plans, and special recognitions and prizes. We covered topics ranging from our ongoing investments across the Group to modernise our facilities, expand our capacities, strengthen our supply chain, continue our exciting R&D, as well as our hiring initiatives.
Dennis Eijdenberg, AXEL’s Technical Support Manager, presented on “Lithium as a Thickener in Lubricating Greases” at the European Lubricant and Base Oil Summit in Lisbon.
We are very happy and proud of Dennis for attaining this highly recognised and rigorous certification. We look forward to learning from his experience and the additional insights and opportunities that Dennis will bring to AXEL. We wish him the very best and continued success!
Our founder Axel Abraham Christiernsson (1848–1919) founded our Company on the 31st October 1888, in Stockholm, Sweden.
We are very happy to announce that we have hired Anurag Singh as a new Development Engineer for our Technical Department at our facility in Nol, Sweden.
From ground preparation through to planting, cultivation, and harvest, the equipment used within the Agriculture & Forestry segments is designed specifically to perform unique tasks under exposed and arduous operating conditions.
AXEL’s Group Technical Manager, Johan Leckner, presented a technical paper at the NLGI Annual Meeting in Toronto that highlights the importance of making sustainability studies on a system level - including both the lubricant and the component being lubricated. Failing to do so will result in an incorrect understanding of the sustainability impacts.
The paper includes the development of a grease for slow-moving and heavily loaded bevel gears that reduces gear losses by one third and that extends the gear life at least twofold. The new grease is then compared with the previously used grease in a cradle-to-gate life cycle assessment which suggests that the newly developed grease has higher sustainability impacts than the former grease.
To contrast this, we also present a cradle-to-gate LCA for the gear/grease system where impacts are 50% lower over all impact factors for the newly developed grease, highlighting the importance of including the usage phase in any sustainability study.
We look forward to continuing with these studies and sharing our findings on sustainability with the community!
The AXEL team is heading off to the NLGI’s 89th Annual Meeting held in Toronto. We are looking forward to the presentations and discussions around this year’s theme: “Finding the Green in Grease.” This year’s participants include:
Johan Stureson, CEO
Greg Schwartz, US President
Tom Schroeder, US Senior VP Commercial
Jeff St Aubin, US VP of Technology
Jeff Bohn, US Research and Development Chemist
Teo Laine, Group Sales Manager
Johan Leckner, Group Technical Manager
Johan Leckner will be presenting: “Sustainable Grease Solutions for a Bevel Gear- A System Perspective” and Jeff St. Aubin will be holding Grease Education Sessions for Meeting participants.
We very much look forward to meeting with our customers, suppliers, peers, and friends. We wish you all safe trips!
AXEL is a proud sponsor of NLGI.