AXH Air-Coolers has broken ground on a 161,500-square-foot manufacturing facility in Sapulpa and is simultaneously expanding its Claremore campus by another 175,000 square feet, pushing the company's total new manufacturing footprint in Oklahoma to 336,500 square feet. The Sapulpa building is part of phase two of the company's campus there, while construction is already underway on the North Lowry Building expansion in Claremore.
The Sapulpa facility is scheduled for completion in March 2027, according to CompressorTECH², which reports that the project will expand production capacity and address evolving thermal management requirements. The outlet notes the Claremore project is likewise intended to address continued demand across core and emerging markets and increase production capacity, though no completion date for that expansion has been disclosed.
AXH makes air-cooled heat exchangers used in natural gas compression, gas processing, power generation and other industrial applications, equipment that supports heat management in compression systems, including gas cooling and engine cooling. The company's air-cooled heat exchangers are widely used in natural gas compression facilities to manage gas temperatures and remove heat generated during compression, and they also support cooling requirements across gas processing and other energy infrastructure applications, per the same account.
What AXH Isn't Saying Yet
Notably absent from the announcement are several numbers that often accompany manufacturing expansion news. AXH did not disclose the projects' capital investment, the anticipated percentage increase in manufacturing capacity, or the number of jobs expected to be created, the article states. A completion date for the Claremore expansion also hasn't been shared.
That silence stands in contrast to earlier reporting on AXH's Sapulpa plans. The Fabricator previously reported the Sapulpa project was expected to create more than 200 jobs, with another 50 positions in fabricating, machining, and welding anticipated at the Claremore facility over five years, according to The Fabricator. The outlet also put the Sapulpa project's price tag at $5.4 million, funded through the Oklahoma Department of Commerce Business Expansion Incentive Program.
That figure conflicts with an earlier account from News On 6, which reported AXH was awarded $5.2 million through the same state incentive program. The discrepancy between the two previously reported numbers has not been resolved in current coverage.
Why AXH Says It's Growing
AXH's own framing of the expansion centers on customer demand rather than dollar figures. Company COO Jim Simmons told News On 6, “Right now, our customers are telling us we need to be bigger.”
On LinkedIn, the company framed the Claremore work in similar terms, stating that the investment will expand capacity and strengthen capabilities to meet continued demand across core and emerging markets. Taken together, the two projects aim to increase manufacturing capacity and meet growing demand in established and emerging markets, according to CompressorTECH².
Part of a Broader Oklahoma Manufacturing Push
AXH's growth comes amid a wider wave of industrial expansion around northeastern Oklahoma. A data center-related manufacturing firm in Tulsa was reported in September as expanding and creating more than 300 jobs, according to Oklahoma Energy Today. Around the same time, Crusoe opened a second Tulsa manufacturing facility to expand production of critical AI infrastructure components, per StorageNewsletter. News On 6 separately reported that Tulsa County officials have discussed a potential Greenheck expansion involving new jobs as the county restructures its highway and planning departments.
Whether AXH's own job and investment figures will eventually match or diverge from its earlier projections remains unclear, since the company has not updated those numbers publicly. For now, the groundbreaking in Sapulpa and the ongoing construction in Claremore mark the most concrete signs of the expansion, even as the company keeps its financial and hiring plans close to the vest.
