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* - ---------------- - ---- An 1C Industries Company Automotive Group Welcomes BROADWAY BRAKE, INC MAY 30,1979 WINCHESTER, VIRGINIA SCF-ABEX-2256 Broadway Brake and Customer Attendees JOE MARTIN' Broadway Brake PHIL DANGELO Broadway Brake DAVE NICHOLS BF1 BERNARD ZUTANT /. F. & S. Leasing NICK BRUNO Nick Bruno Trucking ROBERT WALL Sea Land Service FRANK SCARAMUZZI Stop & Shop ROLAND D. MOSS Sweetlife Foods RAY LaFERRIERE United Truck Leasing Abex Attendees FRANK CAPPUCC1 Sales Representative l R. AMERENA Sales Representative CHARLIE MALLORY Manufacturing Rep EARL POTTS Manufacturing Rep Table of Contents Page AUTOMOTIVE GROUP.................................................................................................. 1 FRICTION PRODUCTS DIVISION................................................................... Units in the Division..................................................................................................... 3 International Affiliates....................................................................................................10 Research Center...............................................................................................................14 Original Equipment Approvals and Customers...........................................................31 Products........................................................ 34 2 SIGNAL-STAT DIVISION.................................................................. ..:..............................37 Manufacturing Facilities................................................................................................. 38 Major OEM Customers.................................................................................................. 39 Products............... 40 KOKOMO SPRING DIVISION............................................................................................... 47 Manufacturing Facilities................................................................................................. 47 Major Industries Served..................................................................................................47 Products............................................................................................................................48 A. L. HANSEN DIVISION................ .................................. '........... ........................... ..........49 Manufacturing Facilities..................... 49 Major Customers.................................................................................. 49 Products............. .................................................................................... 50 JOHN GILLEN DIVISION................................. 56 Manufacturing Facilities................................................................... 56 Major Customers................................................. ......--............................................. 56 Products . ..........................................................................................................................57 ti_5. AUTOMOTIVE CROUP Automotive Group Abex Corporation is the Commercial Products Group of 1C Industries. Abex operates with four product groups which serve such basic industries as steel, mining, automotive, railroad, aerospace, defense, petrochemical, and general manufacturing. The Automotive Group of Abex consists of the following divisions: Friction Products Signal- Stat Kokomo Spring A. L. Hansen John Gillen The Group is an important supplier to both the manufacturers and the users of automotive vehicles. ' Friction materials are used in braking passenger cars, trucks, buses, and aircraft throughout the free world. The Group also supplies these materials for off-highway vehicles, material handling equipment and industrial machinery. Lighting, signaling, reflecting, waming,and safety devices are provided for commercial and emergency vehicles. These include turn signals, back-up lights, reflectors, rotary beacons, sirens, mirrors, and fire extinguishers. The Group also supplies a complete line of replacement air-conditioning parts for trucks, buses, farm and construction vehicles. It also manufacturers tire hardware for passenger car and heavy duty truck applications. Specialized hardware such as locks, handles, hinges, window regulators, and cargo tie downs are manufactured for the heavy duty market. Other products include coil springs and small metal parts. Coil springs are supplied to the farm implement, transportation, furniture, appliance, roll-up door, and material-handling industries. Small metal parts are supplied to the automotive, appliance, and electronics industries. The Abex Automotive Group continued to set new records in 1978 with sales of $210 million, nearly a 17 percent increase over 1977. . This brochure is a brief outline and overview of the activities of the units which comprise the Automotive Group. 1 FRICTION PROOUCTS DIVISION / Friction Products Division The Friction Products Division is the world's largest independent manufacturer of friction materials for the braking of aircraft, passenger cars, trucks/buses, off-highway equipment and industrial machinery. For aircraft. Friction Products supplies materials compounded of powdered metal, pressed to shape and sintered. For most automotive brakes, the Division supplies an organic mixture which may be rolled, extruded or heat-and-pressure molded, depending upon the type of application. Products are delivered as rolls, blocks for trucks and as linings or disc pads for passenger cars. Individual friction formulations are carefully developed for specialized service and closely controlled during manufacture. The Division is also widely experienced in non-automotive braking applications s,uch as those for industrial machinery, cranes, mine hoists, power shovels, back hoes, tractors and the like. Just as Friction Products is able to supply the specified braking material for cars made anywhere in the world, it is able to do the same for industrial machinery regardless of where it is manufactured. In addition. Friction Products manufactures laminated plastic components of ABK material, made from resin-impregnated fabric molded under heat and pressure. Providing excellent bearing service under impact or sustained pressure, ABK material is. used in steel rolling mill bearings, ball-joint suspension bearings for autos and in many different types of industrial machinery. Abex first started manufacturing friction materials in 1902 and has been growing in the business ever since. Consistent dedication to quality, dependability and responsibility has enabled Abex to assume a position of world leadership in the friction products industry. Worldwide sales for the Friction Products Division in 1978 amounted to S143 million, an increase of almost 17 percent over 1977. DIVISION CAPABILITIES The importance of the customers we serve attests to our role and reputation in the friction materials field. Many of the world's largest automobile, truck and aircraft manufacturers purchase our products for original equipment installation and service. Abex friction materials are also approved for use on some of the world's fastest and most exotic passenger cars. As recognized leaders in friction material technology, our products are original equipment components for vehicles of practically every description -- many of the smallest, the largest, the fastest, the most expensive passenger cars; light trucks and heavy trucks; railroad trains and mass transit systems, and the tiniest private aircraft in the world. A list of our original equipment customers is included on pages 3L, 32, and 33. 2 Samples of our original equipment brand name labels are shown on page 34. In addition to our original equipment business, the Friction Products Division has extensive replacement distribution through many of the largest aftermarket distribution systems, rebuilders and brake and axle manufacturers. Samples of labels used to market our products through our Abex distributors and through NAPA are shown on pages 35 and 36. The scope of our present volume and facilities for replacement business gives us great flexibility to custom-tailor special programs to meet customer needs. Our packaging and warehousing facilities enable us to offer private-brand, custom packing, multiple point delivery, or any other custom-designed program which best fits our customer's requirements. The combined talents, reputation, know-how and products available in our Division are tremendous assets to our marketing effort throughout the world and we make every effort to capitalize on these assets. Our international fund of knowledge has been particularly helpful in many national markets in the development and marketing of friction materials for imported as well as domestic applications. To date we have experienced most gratifying success in these areas and we firmly believe that we have the quality, product availability, expertise and flexibility to put together friction material which cannot be equaled by any of our competitors. UNITS IN THE DIVISION The Friction Products Division (FPD) now operates eleven (11) plants in North America and Europe. In addition, it has joint venture and license affiliations with several other friction material manufacturers in most of the world's major markets. One of these, Sundaram-Abex Limited, is a company in which Abex has a 30% ownership. The plant began production in August 1976 and now produces original equipment and replacement automotive brake lining for heavy-duty commercial vehicles and passenger cars. Sundaram-Abex is located in Madras, India, and employs 191 people at its plant and offices which contain 43,000 square feet. A complete list of international affiliates is shown on pages 10 and 11. A brief description of some of the operating units in the Friction Products Division follows. 3 ABEX PAGID GMBH (APREG) - GERMANY APREG for many years has been an approved original equipment supplier to the European passenger car industry for disc pads and drum brake linings. From its location in Essen, West Germany, the company now supplies a major portion of the original equipment disc pads used in Germany, including those on many popular models of Audi, Ford, Opel, Volkswagen and other car makes. APREG is known throughout Europe as a leading company in the friction materials industry and its products establish a standard of performance for German friction materials. Manufacturing Facilities Square Feet: Employees: 148,000 534 ABEX PAGID S.A. (APESA) - FRANCE APESA is one of the largest European manufacturers of disc pads. Its shipments go to many of the finest automobile and brake manufacturers in Europe, including among others Peugeot, Chrysler-France, Renault and Volvo. In addition to its original equipment disc brake business, APESA offers a complete line of friction products through its wide-ranging network of distribution which stretches from Canada to the Far East. Manufacturing Facilities Square Feet: Employees: 226,000 1109 FRENDO ABEX - ITALY FRENDO ABEX, with factories throughout Italy, is one of the largest friction material manufacturers in Italy. Its products have wide acceptance in Europe and their quality is recognized by major original equipment customers such as Ajfa Romeo and Fiat. Manufacturing Facilities Orzinuoui (Brescia) Organic Materials Plant Square Feet: 255,000 Employees: 405 Orzinuovi (Brescia) Sintered Metallic Plant Square Feet: 27,000 Employees: 37 Avellino /Naples area) Plant Square Feet: Employees: 64,000 94 4 Primary Products Disc brake pads, drum brake linings, truck blocks, clutch facings, and sintered metallic friction materials. ABEX INDUSTRIAL S.A.- MEXICO Our company in Mexico is the leading manufacturer of friction materials in that country. By utilizing the technology available from our European and other North American plants it has experienced great success in Mexico in most friction material marketing areas, including OE. OE service and replacement sales of disc pads, drum brake linings, and truck blocks. Manufacturing Facilities Square Feet: Employees: 84,000 292 Warehouses Mexico City, Guadalajara, Monterrey. ABEX INDUSTRIES LTD. - CANADA Our Canadian company markets throughout Canada products which are manufactured in our plant in Lindsay, Ontario, as well as products manufactured in our U.S. and European plants. This access to a full range of top quality products, together with the advantage of being able to market finished drum brake shoe and lining assemblies, enables our Canadian marketing group to offer a very complete and effective program to our valued customers. Manufacturing Facilities Square Feet: Employees: 75,000 155 Warehouses Toronto (Including Sales Office) Square Feet: 25,000 Employees: 16 Montreal Square Feet: Employees: 8,000 9 Vancouver Square Feet: Employees: . 5,600 6 Winnipeg ' Square Feet: Employees: 2,600 3 . 5 FRICTION PRODUCTS DIVISION - UNITED STATES Our friction materials plant in Winchester, Virginia (which is also the site of our Friction Products Division International Headquarters) is the largest plant under one roof in the Abex complex of plants. This plant is one of the largest industrial employers in northern Virginia and manuractures friction material for practically any vehicle -- from the largest industrial equipment to the smallest passenger cars and airplanes. Additional plants in Salisbury'. North Carolina and Cleveland, Ohio supplement the production of our Winchester, Virginia plant. Manufacturing Facilities Winchester, VA Square Feet Employees Primary Products Salisbury, NC Square Feet: Employees: Primary Product: Cleveland, OH Square Feet: Employees: Primary Products: Warehouses Trevose, PA Square Feet: Employees: Atlanta, CA Square Feet: Employees: Hayward, CA Square Feet: Employees: Wood Dale, IL Square Feet: Employees: 457.000 956 Blocks, strips and disc pads for trucks and buses; drum brake linings and disc pads for passenger cars. 62.000 135 Heavy duty blocks. 63,000 149 Sintered metallic aircraft brake segments, pads, rings. 16,500 9 15,100 8 14.000 7 10.000 9 6 Quality Control One inspector for every nine employees. Complete analytical and friction test lab on site at each plant. Quality Assurance Friction Products Division maintains a quality assurance committee to oversee daily quality control activities. Periodic audits are conducted by our corporate R&D Department. Sintered Metallic Friction Materials In addition to traditional organic friction materials. FPD also manufactures metallic friction materials and aircraft materials which are supplied to aircraft and aircraft brake manufacturers for over eighty (80) separate applications. These approvals include some of the largest and some of the smallest aircraft in the world, as well as the workhorse Boeing 727-200. The aircraft dynamometer used in the Cleveland research department and a list of the aircraft on which Abex products are original equipment components are shown on the next two pages. 7 AR-2 DYNAMOMETES ^ Capacity -- 51 to 3978 pound wheel load2. Speed -- to 214 mph. 3. Control -- Manual 4. Applications -- S^wtor aircraft landing AR-3 DYNAMOMETER 1. Capacity -- 2381 to 18435 pound wheel load.. 2. Speed -- To 420 mph. 3. Control -- Automatic operation through use of a drum programmer. 4. Applications -- Multiple disc aircraft landing brakes. ORIGINAL EQUIPMENT ON Commercial Aircraft Convair Viscount sS00 Convair 880 707-320C Caravelle Jet Commander Vangard Jet Falcon Saberliner Beechcratt 95 727 D.H. Caribou 707-320-B 720 Snow-D.O. 28-P.C. 6 CH53A Piper Commanche Beech 18 Beech 115 Beech 90 CL-215 L-1011 Military Aircraft DG7C F-105 B-58 F-27 A6A . F4C A7A C-141 A2F-W2F F8U A3D A5C T-38 F-lll-B, F-lll-A Ov-lOA Coin P3B A70 C5A T-37 F-100D.F . F4B F5A F4J, F4K -' , 9 Automotive Group International Affiliates Country Name of Affiliate Relationship Product Brazil Canada Colombia France Germany India Italy C03REQ Companhia Brasileira de Equipamentos Av. Arnolfo Azevedo. 15 0123o Sao Paulo, SP. Brazil Licensee Abex Industnes, Ltd. Fnction Products Division 50 Colbofne Street. E. Lindsay. Ontario. Canada KV 4R8 COLFRICCION. S.A. Calle 11 *60-14. A.A. 140501 Bogota. Colombia Subsidiary Licensee Abex Pagid Equipement S.A. o rue Klock Clichy. France 92112 Joint Venture Abex Pagid Reibbelag GmbH 43 Essen Postfach 58 West Germany Sundaram-Abex Limited 37 Mount Road Madras 600 006. India Hyderabad Asbestos Cement Products Ltd. Sanatnagar Hyderabad 500 018. India Joint Venture Joint Venture and Licensee Licensee Frendo Abex S.p.A. Viale Monza 261 20126 Milano. Italy Frendo Abex S.p.A. OrzinuoW, Brescia. Italy Frendo Sud S.p.A. 63100 Avellino (fraz Pianordine). Italy Joint Venture loint Venture loint Venture Organic brake linings tor autos, trucks. busv* Organic brake linings for autos, trucks, buses Automotive friction materials Organic brake linings for autos, trucks, buses and clutch facings Organic brake linings for autos, trucks, buses and clutch lacings Organic brake linings for autos, trucks, buses Asbestos Yam Asbestos Fabric Asbestos Jointing Asbestos Millboard Organic brake linings for autos, trucks, buses and dutch facings Sintered metallic friction materials Automotive disc brake pads and railroad braking materials 10 Country Name of Affiliate Relationship Italy Societa Italiana Per L'Amianto S.p.A. i SIA j Via Latina 1?1 10C6 Leumann. Italy Subsidiary Japan. Mitsubishi-Cement Asbestos Co. Ltd. 24-44 4-chome. Takanavs-a M:nato-ku. iokyo. Japan Licensee Mexico Spain ' Abex Industrial S.A. Pomente 128 No. 67? Col. Industrial Vallejo Mexico 16, D.F., Mexico Camecto. S.A. Calle Alfonso XII 213-215 Badalona (Barcelona!. Spain Subsidiary Licensee United Kingdom Sintered Products Limited Hamilton Road Sutton-in-Ashfield Notts. England NG17 5LL . Licensee Product Asbestos Yam Asbestos Fabric Asbestos Jointing Asbestos Millboard Automotive friction materials Organic brake linings for autos, trucks, buses Automotive friction materials Aircraft and resin bonded metallic friction materials 11 Friction Materials ... for sure stopping power Friction Materials I I i ./ 1 1. Woven brake lining in roll torm 2. Slipper bearing ol ABK Material for use in steel mills 3. Sintered metallic discs for aircraft braking 4. Lined shoes for air-brake applications 5. Thick blocks with bolt holes for truck and bus 4 FRICTION MATERIALS RESEARCH CENTER Abex world-wide research is headquartered in the Research Center in Mahwah, New Jersey. This group provides a centralized research facility for all of the groups within Abex Corporation. Its most unique features are its Experimental Foundry and the Engineering Test Center. The Experimental Foundry is a totally self-contained foundry which is capable of producing all types of commercial-size castings from a variety of metals. It is used extensively as a pilot plant facility for many of our metallurgically-oriented divisions and also to produce certain specialized castings for sale. Our Engineering Test Center is the largest and most complete dynamometer testing fadlity in the United States. A detailed listing of its testing equipment and its capabilities is included in the brochure on the following 16 pages. Directly associated with this Test Center is an extensive facility for vehicle testing. Both dynamometer and vehicle testing is routinely conducted to evaluate new Abex materials for development and production to ensure that all our materials comply with all government regulations and to qualify our products in accordance with the performance and wear requirements of vehicle and brake manufacturers. Our dynamometer equipment can be programmed to perform any specialized tests required by customers ranging from small disc brake pads for compact cars all the way up to massive brake systems for railroads and complex brakes for aircraft. In addition to these facilities, we maintain active research in many metallurgical fields as well as in a wide variety of non-destructive testing procedures. Highly sophisticated instrumentation, such as a scanning electron microscope, is used routinely to monitor quality and to assist us in our research efforts to develop new and better performing products. Although research is headquartered and largely centralized in Mahwah, there are additional R&D facilities for automotive process development at Winchester, Virginia, aircraft sintered metallic linings at Cleveland, Ohio, and a significant product and process development effort in Europe. Our research staff coordinates formula development, process development, and quality control activities throughout the group. It also acts as a reservoir of knowledge and assists in the exchange of technical and developmental data among all members of the Automotive Group. 14