Tenneco

Tenneco, Inc. is a supplier to the automotive industry. It produces particular shock damping and emission control systems (including catalytic converters, diesel particulate filters ), as well as elastomers for motor vehicles of all kinds Tenneco operates in both the original equipment and the aftermarket business. The company supplies virtually every major vehicle manufacturer.

The Headquarters of the multinational corporation located in Lake Forest (Illinois ) near Chicago, the European headquarters in Brussels, Belgium. At Tenneco include a total of about 80 manufacturing locations in 24 countries, mainly located in North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. The site in Sint- Truiden is the largest shock producer in Europe.

Sales of Tenneco in 2007 was 6.2 billion U.S. dollars. 2007 18.400 workers were employed. The company is listed in its field and in the Fortune 500 list of the 500 most actively traded U.S. company one of the world 's leading. Since 1999, Tenneco is listed on the New York Stock Exchange ( symbol: TEN).

History

The company was founded in 1943 as Tennessee Division of the Chicago Corporation, initially for the construction of a gas pipeline from Texas to West Virginia. The parent company Tenneco International Inc. was next to the fields of natural gas, energy, packaging and shipbuilding ( see Newport News Shipbuilding ) active in the automotive sector. Tenneco International was, for example, 1967-1999 majority or full owner of the agricultural and construction equipment manufacturer Case Corporation, in the turn to this time, several other companies in the industry ( among others David Brown, International Harvester ) were incorporated. In 1991, the automotive division was separated as Tenneco Automotive from the parent company. In October 2005, Tenneco Automotive changed the company name in the name SMH.

German works

Work Edenkoben, Zwickau, Ingolstadt plant, plant in Hanover, Saarlouis plant

Brands

Monroe (major brand ), Walker, Rancho, DynoMax, Clevite Elastomers, Gillet, Fonos, Fric -Rot, Kinetic, Thrush, DNX, Marzocchi