As we soon turn the page on 2022, it is relevant to take a brief look in the rear-view mirror. The turbulent time from the previous year did carry forward, featuring supply chain challenges, transportation, and reoccurring Covid issues, even if the latter is now gradually being referred to by some as ‘just another virus’.
Mid-October, AXEL Sweden hosted several team members from area companies for a fully packed two days of Grease Genius Sessions. The experience included joint presentations at both AXEL and SKF facilities. The topics covered ranged from tribology and what is grease?
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!