Tenneco
Company type | Brake pads |
---|---|
Owner | Apollo Global Management |
Number of employees | 71,000 [2] |
Divisions | Clean Air, DRiV, Performance Solutions, Powertrain |
Website | tenneco |
Tenneco (formerly Tenneco Automotive and originally Tennessee Gas Transmission Company) is an automotive components
History
Tenneco, Inc.'s origin was in the Chicago Corporation, established about 1930.[5] Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company (completely separate) had been formed in 1940.[6]
Natural gas
A shortage of fuel for
Diversification
In the 1950s, the company acquired existing
In 1966, Tennessee Gas was incorporated as Tenneco, Inc.
In the 1970s, Tenneco purchased 53% of J.I. Case when they purchased its owner Kern County Land Company, the agricultural equipment manufacturer based in Racine, Wisconsin, USA.[6] In 1972, Tenneco purchased UK-based David Brown Tractors, and merged it with the J.I. Case business. In 1984, Case parent Tenneco bought selected assets of the International Harvester agriculture division and merged it with J.I. Case. All agriculture products are first labeled Case International and later Case IH. Tenneco purchased the articulated 4WD manufacturer Steiger Tractor in 1986, and merged it into Case IH.
The new corporate direction was to buy failing companies in a variety of industries, and then to develop them into profitable businesses. This worked well with Newport News Shipbuilding, but failed miserably with the various tractor companies, probably due in large part to the economy at the time. By 1988, the company was losing $2 million per day. After being pressured by the banks, it was decided to sell off the oil business. Tenneco Oil Exploration Company was split up and sold off to multiple buyers.[10]
By 1994, Tenneco decided to begin getting out of the agricultural business and agreed to sell 35% of the now named
Consolidation
Tenneco Inc. emerged from a
Since the 1960s, Tenneco Automotive has sold mufflers (UK: silencers) in Europe, including through the Pit Stop chain in Germany. The group bought a German factory in Virnheim in 1969, Swedish Starla in 1974 and French Bellanger and English Harmo Industries in 1976 and Danish Lydex in 1978. More acquisitions followed.[14]
On October 28, 2005 Tenneco Automotive was renamed as Tenneco.[15]
Federal Mogul Acquisition
On October 1, 2018, Tenneco completed its acquisition of Federal-Mogul, a large global supplier to original equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket.[citation needed]
In February 2019, Tenneco announced that it would spin off its automotive aftermarket suspension components into DRiV Incorporated.[16]
Acquisition by Apollo Global Management
On February 23, 2022, Tenneco announced that it had entered into a definitive agreement to be acquired by Apollo Global Management for $7.1 billion.[17] The acquisition was completed in November 2022.
Operations
Tenneco is a multi-national corporation with 93 manufacturing facilities in 26 countries located on 6 continents, with major centers of operations in the Americas, Europe, India and Asia. The North American manufacturing facilities are located in
Tenneco owns the following brands:
- Axios[18]
- Champion Spark Plugs
- Clevite Elastomers[19]
- DynoMax[20]
- Federal-Mogul
- Ferodo
- Fel-Pro
- Fonos[21]
- Fric-Rot[22]
- Kinetic[23]
- Monroe[24]
- MOOG
- National Oil Seals
- Öhlins
- Rancho[25]
- Wagner Electric
- Walker[26]
- Thrush[27]
These are sold to over 500 after-market customers including retailers and wholesalers and to more than 25 OEMs, including
Controversy
During the
Locations
United States
- Arkansas
- Shock absorbers, struts
- Indiana
- Angola - Elastomeric Products: Heavy duty/Automotive products, spring eye bushings, fluid bushings, torque rod assemblies, links, & V-rods.
- Elkhart - Manufacturing plant that primarily makes exhaust components for other Tenneco facilities. The Elkhart plant is the only manufacturing plant that is owned (rather than leased) by Tenneco.
- Ligonier - Manufacturing facility that makes full exhaust systems and related components for Ford Motor Company, Chrysler, and Honda. Ligonier is one of the plants that has its own tubemill which accepts steel coil, gradually rolls it into a pipe and then welds the seam shut. This newly formed pipe is then cut to length and used within the plant or shipped as-is to other Tenneco plants.
- Michigan
- Litchfield - Manufacturing facility that makes full exhaust systems and related components. This plant has its own tubemill which accepts steel coil, gradually rolls it into a tube and welds the seam shut. This newly formed pipe is cut to length and used within the plant or shipped as-is to other Tenneco plants.
- Marshall - Manufacturing facility that makes full exhaust systems and related components for Ford Motor Company, Chrysler, and General Motors. Marshall is one of the plants that has its own tubemill which accepts steel coil, gradually rolls it into a tube and then welds the seam shut. This newly formed pipe is cut to length and used within the plant or shipped as-is to other Tenneco plants. The Marshall facility is also equipped with multiple high-speed automatic muffler assembly lines.
- Monroe - Houses the North American business unit which consists of almost 500 employees involved in multiple disciplines such as design, product engineering, sales, and marketing.[29]
- Missouri
- Kansas City - Manufacturing facility that makes full exhaust systems and related components for Ford and General Motors.
- Nebraska
- Seward - Manufacturing facility that makes full exhaust systems and related components for CAT, Chrysler, General Motors, John Deere and Harley-Davidson. Seward is one of the plants that has its own tubemill which accepts steel coil, gradually rolls it into a tube and then welds the seam shut. This newly formed pipe is cut to length and used within the plant or shipped as-is to other Tenneco plants.
- Ohio
- Milan - Products: suspension bushings, cab mounts, steering system bushings, exhaust isolators, rubber compound
- Napoleon - Products: anti-vibration bushings and suspension links
- Tennessee
- Smithville - Products: Automotive parts
- Virginia
- Harrisonburg - Aftermarket exhaust
International
- Rosario - Monroe Fric Rot - Shock absorbers
- Buenos Aires - Walker - Products: Muffler (silencers), Catalysts, exhaust systems
- Edinburgh Park, Adelaide - Products: exhaust systems
- Monroe, Clovelly Park, Adelaide - Products: shock absorbers, struts
- Walker, O'Sullivan Beach, Adelaide - Products: emission control
- Monroe Springs, Sydney - Products: coil and leaf springs
- Sint-Truiden - EU headquarters Ride Control division; METC, the EU design and development center; largest ride control plant in Europe; products: shock absorbers, powdered metal components, press parts
- Cotia, São Paulo (Axios) - Products: engine mounts, shock absorber bushings, and dampers
- Moji-Mirim, São Paulo (Monroe, Walker) - Products: exhaust automotive systems and shock absorbers
- Três Corações, Minas Gerais (Federal-Mogul) - Products: combustion engine valves
- Santo André, São Paulo (Federal-Mogul) - Products: combustion engine valves
- Araras, São Paulo (Federal-Mogul) - Products: pistons and camshafts
- Manaus, Amazonas (Federal-Mogul) -
- Cambridge, Ontario - Exhaust systems and components
- Suzhou - Products: elastomer products
- Hodkovice nad Mohelkou - Products: shock absorber and exhaust systems
- Edenkoben - Products: exhaust systems
- Kecskemét - Products: Exhaust systems
- Bawal - Products: struts, shock absorbers, front fork
- Pune - Products: muffler (silencers), catalytic converter, complete exhaust systems
- Hosur - Products: struts, shock absorbers, front fork
- Sanand - Products: Exhaust System (Silencers)
- Aguascalientes, Aguascalientes- Exhaust Systems
- Celaya, Guanajuato- Shock absorber (struts)
- Puebla, Puebla- Exhaust Systems
- Reynosa, Tamaulipas- Products: bushing silentbloc, bonded products, Clevebloc products, STA Bars, control arm links, engine mounts
- Rybnik - Emission control engineering and manufacturing
- Gliwice - Shock absorber (struts) plant with Engineering Centre (EEEC) in Gliwice, near Katowice[30]
- Stanowice
- Palmela - Products: Exhaust systems (JIT Plant) VW Autoeuropa.
- Ermua - Products: shock absorbers, elastomers, and complete exhaust systems
- Valencia
- Port Elizabeth- producing Shock Absorbers under the Monroe brand
See also
- Pine Mountain Club, California, a Tenneco West residential development
References
- ^ "Leadership Team". www.tenneco.com. Tenneco Inc. Retrieved 2016-09-03.
- ^ "Tenneco". Fortune. Retrieved 2018-12-01.
- ^ "Apollo Funds Complete Acquisition of Tenneco". Apollo.com. Retrieved 2022-12-10.
- ^ Channick, Robert (1 November 2022). "Another Chicago-area corporate HQ hitting the road as Lake Forest-based auto parts supplier Tenneco plans move to Michigan". Chicago Tribune.
- ^ a b TENNECO BUILDING, Diana J. Kleiner, Handbook of Texas Online (retrieved 11 August 2010)
- ^ a b c d e "History of Tenneco Inc". Funding Universe. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
- ^ "Tenneco Inc". Encyclopedia.com. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
- ^ Directory of Company Histories, 1988, Encyclopedia.com (retrieved 11 September 2010)
- ^ "Aircraft Photo of N504T | BAC 111-211AH One-Eleven | AirHistory.net #11412". airhistory.net. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
- ^ Hayes, Thomas C. (11 October 1988). "Tenneco Selling Its Oil Company For $7.3 Billion". The New York Times. Retrieved 2020-09-02.
- ^ Jones, Kathryn (1994-04-27). "COMPANY REPORTS; Tenneco to Offer 35% of J.I. Case". The New York Times. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
- ^ "History of CNH Global N.V." Funding Universe. Retrieved 2022-01-19.
- ^ a b c "Tenneco History". Tenneco.com. Archived from the original on 2010-09-26. Retrieved 12 September 2010.
- ISBN 978-87-88327-17-5. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
- ^ "Tenneco Automotive Changes Name to Tenneco Inc" (Press release). Lake Forest, Illinois. October 28, 2005. Archived from the original on 24 February 2015.
- ^ "DRiV Incorporated to Spin From Tenneco Later This Year". Business Wire (Press release). 2019-02-14. Retrieved 2019-11-11.
- ^ "Lake Forest-based Tenneco being taken private in $7.1 billion deal". Chicago Tribune. February 23, 2022. Retrieved 2022-05-09.
- ^ "Brands - Axios". tenneco.com. 2011. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ "Brands - Clevite Elastomers". tenneco.com. 2005. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ "Brands - DynoMax". tenneco.com. 2005. Retrieved 2011-03-11.
- ^ "Brands - Fonos". tenneco.com. 2005. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ "Brands - Fric-Rot". tenneco.com. 2005. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ "Kinetic Suspension Technology". tenneco.com. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ "Monroe Shocks and Struts". monroe.com. 2005. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ^ "Brands - Rancho". tenneco.com. 2005. Retrieved 2011-03-12.
- ^ "Walker Exhaust". walkerexhaust.com. 2006. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ^ "Thrush". thrushexhaust.com. 2007. Retrieved 2008-02-06.
- ^ "Over 750 Companies Have Curtailed Operations in Russia—But Some Remain". Yale School of Management. Retrieved 2022-04-28.
- ^ Ad in 2007 Monroe County Community Profile
- ^ "Tenneco Automotive Eastern Europe Sp. Z o.o. - Gliwice, ul. Bojkowska 59B". www.tenneco.gliwice.pl. Archived from the original on 2010-04-30. Retrieved 2022-02-22.