AESSEAL®, the manufacturer of mechanical seals and support systems, has increased capacity in its US operations with investments totalling almost USD 16M.
Over the past year the AESSEAL group, which is held by Rotherham based AES Engineering Ltd, has ploughed around USD 11M into its US manufacturing facility in Rockford, Tennessee. The plant now has six state-of-the-art nine-axes machine tools.
The company will invest a further USD 5M in its fully owned subsidiary, MS&S, in Odessa, Texas which primarily focuses on the oil & gas industry. The bulk of the investment will finance the construction of a USD 3.7M building having outgrown its current location. This will bring it up to the AESSEAL® standard and further raise the profile of MS&S in the oil & gas industry.
The increased productivity will mean that 85% of mechanical seals and support systems offered for sale by AESSEAL Inc. will be made in the USA.