Expander Americas Inc. Information

Pivot Pin Wear Problems? Are You Tired of Line Boring, Cutting Out Pins, and Welding? A global leader in pivot technology, Expander Americas Inc. has been servicing the market with permanent solutions for pivot wear for nearly 30 years. The Expander System is not just a pin, it is an assembly. The Expander System pivot pin has been field tested for over 50,000 hours without failure. The Expander System has close to 60,000 pivot positions in over 1,100+ machine makes/models. We may have developed your pivot position design already. Our proprietary 3D CADEX system allows us to design new applications within minutes to our customers. Each design is stored on our global system and manned around the clock by our design offices in United States and Sweden. It started in the 1950s, when twin brothers Everth and Gerhard Svensson built roads across the Swedish countryside. They had become tired with the constantly recurring problem of wear in the pivots and could not accept all the expensive repairs and down time. One day when a pivot pin was coming loose a frustrated Everth tried fixing the pin in the lughole using a rusty nail. The solution worked! Only temporary of course, but the idea was born and soon turned into a practical reality. The brilliant idea was patented and later received the Alfred Nobel Development Award. The present company, Expander System Sweden AB, was founded in 1986 on the initiative of his son Roger. Today the company has grown into an international group of companies, the Expander Group, with subsidiaries in the United States, Sweden, and several European countries. The Expander System is manufactured and inventoried in United States, Sweden and Germany. Our products are marketed and distributed through a rapidly growing global network.