The Timken Company Completes Sale of Airframe Business Assets to RBC Bearings
22 Dicembre 2003 - 9:00PM
PR Newswire (US)
The Timken Company Completes Sale of Airframe Business Assets to
RBC Bearings CANTON, Ohio, Dec. 22 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The
Timken Company today announced that it has completed the sale of
its fixed-wing airframe product lines to Roller Bearing Company of
America, Inc. (RBC Bearings). The sale included certain assets
related to airframe product manufacture at the Standard Plant in
Torrington, CT, as well as selected airframe product lines
manufactured in Keene, NH. Terms of the sale were not disclosed.
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Timken will continue to manufacture other aerospace products as
part of Timken Aerospace, including specialized, highly engineered
bearings for critical applications such as jet engines, gearboxes,
auxiliary power units, instrumentation and helicopters. Timken also
will continue to produce bearings for aircraft landing wheels. "The
aerospace market is important to us, and we will continue our
strategy of providing our customers with advanced technology and
highly engineered bearings for selected applications," said Mike
Arnold, President - Industrial. The sale to RBC Bearings includes
products such as aircraft control bearings, aircraft rod ends,
radial bearings and aircraft track rollers, which are manufactured
at the Standard Plant. RBC Bearings will be leasing manufacturing
space from Timken at the Standard Plant to produce these products.
The Timken Company ( http://www.timken.com/ ) is a leading
international manufacturer of highly engineered bearings, alloy and
specialty steels and components, and a provider of related products
and services. Following its February 2003 acquisition of The
Torrington Company, Timken employs 28,000 people worldwide in
operations in 29 countries. In 2002, the combined companies had
sales of approximately $3.8 billion. Media Contact, Denise L.
Bowler, Manager, Communications Planning & Integration, (330)
471-3485, or visit, http://www.timken.com/media, or Investor
Contact, Kevin R. Beck, Manager - Investor Relations, (330)
471-7181 http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/19991012/TKRLOGO
http://photoarchive.ap.org/ DATASOURCE: The Timken Company CONTACT:
Media, Denise L. Bowler, Manager, Communications Planning &
Integration, +1-330-471-3485, or Investors, Kevin R. Beck, Manager
- Investor Relations, +1-330-471-7181, both of The Timken Company
Web site: http://www.timken.com/
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