{"id":8063,"date":"2020-11-06T13:43:31","date_gmt":"2020-11-06T12:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/akasel.com\/about-us\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T07:55:28","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T05:55:28","slug":"about-us","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/akasel.com\/us\/about-us\/","title":{"rendered":"About us"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Akasel is a Danish company that specializes in developing, producing and distributing high quality consumables and the best performing preparation methods for metallography.<\/p>\n<p>We are present in 30 countries through a network of highly competent distributors. 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