AXEL Americas announced last Monday that it has completed its highly anticipated expansion of its Rosedale, Mississippi facility. This plant expansion at the ISO and TS Certified facility comes as a response to growing customer demand for its industrial and automotive greases, which are supplied to
multinational companies and large distributors in the Americas.

The expansion includes a new, Calcium Sulfonate production line and an additional Polyurea production line. The investment includes four new production kettles, a state-of-the-art PLC system, seven new bulk finished good storage tanks, and two new base oil storage tanks. In addition to the new production lines, AXEL has also installed a new cartridge filling line that can fill 56,250 cartridges per shift.

“After almost one year in the making, we are extremely excited about what this completed expansion signifies,” said Tom Schroeder, President, AXEL Americas. “This will now not only increase our flexibility and production capacity by more than 17.2 million pounds, it will also allow us to produce some of the more specialized grease technologies our customers are demanding. Our investment demonstrates our continued commitment to growing our presence in the US market and to providing our customers with
world class solutions and innovative grease technologies.”

The Axel Christiernsson Group acquired Jesco Resources Inc. in February 2011 for an undisclosed amount which included its production facilities in North Kansas City and Rosedale, Miss.

AXEL Americas LLC is one of the leading suppliers of lubricating greases in the US market and a part of the AXEL Christiernsson Group (AXEL). During the last ten years, AXEL has expanded significantly to become one of the leading global producers and suppliers of lubricating greases, with state-of-the-art ISO
Certified manufacturing facilities in Sweden, France, the Netherlands, and the US.