Tenneco (formerly Tenneco Automotive and originally Tennessee Gas Transmission Company) is an American automotive components

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and an aftermarket ride control and emissions products manufacturer. It is a Fortune 500 company that has been publicly traded on the

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since November 5, 1999 under the symbol TEN. Tenneco company headquarters are located in

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The company was acquired in November 2022 by Apollo Global Management.

History

Tenneco, Inc.'s origin was in the Chicago Corporation, established about 1930.TENNECO BUILDING
Diana J. Kleiner, Handbook of Texas Online (retrieved 11 August 2010) Tennessee Gas and Transmission Company (completely separate) had been formed in 1940.

Natural gas

A shortage of fuel for

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defense industries in the

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n area developed when industrial production was increased. The nuclear development operations of the Manhattan Project at

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consumed huge quantities of Tennessee Valley Authority electrical power that would have otherwise been available to other industrial operations. The Chicago Corporation was able to acquire a Federal Power Commission (FPC) license to build a pipeline from Texas to Appalachia, eventually expanding to the largest natural gas pipeline network in the United States. These pipelines were acquired by

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in 1996, and are now owned by

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Tenneco Service Station - Tallahassee, Florida 1967

Diversification

In the 1950s, the company acquired existing

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, including Sterling Oil, Del-Key Petroleum, and Bay Petroleum. The Tennessee division of the Chicago Corporation acquired Tennessee Gas Transmission Company in 1943 to build a natural-gas pipeline from Texas to

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. The first line was completed in October 1944. It was followed by three additional pipelines totaling during the next 15 years which provide gas to New York and

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. In 1966, Tennessee Gas was incorporated as Tenneco, Inc. Tenneco expanded into a number of business ventures as a result of diversification. In 1967, the company acquired Walker, Inc., a manufacturer of universal-fit exhaust mufflers and pipes. The year after, they started working on the construction of a universal-fit catalytic converter, that would become a cost-effective alternative to the OE catalytic converters. It took the company 8 years to introduce one. Tenneco bought Houston Oil & Minerals Corporation in the late 1970s. Tenneco owned and operated a large number of

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s, but all were closed or replaced with other brands by the mid-1990s. Fairchild F-27J N516T 124 ORD 30

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. 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

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in 1986, and merged it into Case IH. The new corporate direction was to buy failing companies in a variety of industries, and work to develop them into market leaders. 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. By 1994, Tenneco decided to begin getting out of the agricultural business and agreed to sell 35% of the now named Case Corporation. In 1996, the spin-off of Case Corporation was completed. The company was acquired by

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in 1999 and merged with New Holland Agriculture to form CNH Global.

Consolidation

Tenneco Inc. emerged from a

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consisting of six unrelated businesses: shipbuilding, packaging, farm and construction equipment, gas transmission, automotive, and chemicals. The automotive division was spun off from Tenneco, Inc. in 1991 along with the packaging, energy, natural gas, and shipbuilding divisions. All businesses except automotive and packaging were disposed of between 1994 and 1996 (through public offerings, sales, spin-offs and mergers). In 1999, Tenneco Packaging was spun off and renamed to Packaging Corporation of America (

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). 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. On October 28, 2005 Tenneco Automotive was renamed as Tenneco.

Federal Mogul Acquisition

On October 1, 2018, Tenneco completed its acquisition of Federal-Mogul, a leading global supplier to original equipment manufacturers and the aftermarket. In February 2019, it was announced that Tenneco will be separated into two different companies, leading to the launch of DRiV Incorporated - a publicly traded Aftermarket and Ride Performance company that will serve as a global multi-line and multi-brand aftermarket supplier of ride performance and braking suppliers to light vehicle and commercial vehicle customers.

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. 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 North America, Europe, Australia and Asia. There were 30,000 employees in 2016. The North American manufacturing facilities are located in

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and Cambridge,

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, Canada; the corporate headquarters is located in

, European facilities in Belgium, Poland, Czech Republic, Germany, UK, France, Spain and Portugal, with headquarters located in Belgium, Asian facilities include in India, China, Singapore and Japan, Australian Facilities are in Sydney, Morea (New Zealand) and Clovelly Park and African Facility includes South Africa's

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. Tenneco owns the following brands: * Axios * Clevite Elastomers * DNX * DynoMax * Fonos * Fric-Rot * Gillet * Kinetic * Lukey * Marzocchi * Monroe * Öhlins *

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* Walker *

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These are sold to over 500 after-market customers including retailers and wholesalers and to more than 25 OEMs, including

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, Stellantis, Enfield,

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, General Motors,

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, Jaguar Cars, Mahindra & Mahindra, Maruti Suzuki,

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, Mitsubishi, Nissan, Porsche, PSA Peugeot Citroën,

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, Škoda,

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, Tata,

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, Volkswagen Group,

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, and CLUB CAR.

Controversy

During the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine, reports surfaced that Tenneco had failed to join other "international" (mainly western) businesses by withdrawing from the Russian market. Research from

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updated on April 28, 2022, identifying how companies were reacting to Russia's invasion identified Tenneco in the worst category of "Digging In", meaning Defying Demands for Exit: companies defying demands for exit/reduction of activities.

Locations

United States

;Arkansas * Paragould - Products: Shock absorbers, struts ;Georgia * Hartwell - Products:

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s ;Indiana *

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- 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

, and

. 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

, 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. ;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

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, General Motors, John Deere and

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. 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 * Kettering - Products: Shock absorbers, Struts, modular suspension assemblies, XNOx injector, and XNOx DCU box. *

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- 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

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- Monroe Fric Rot - Shock absorbers *

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- Walker - Products: Muffler (silencers), Catalysts, exhaust systems ; Australia * Edinburgh Park,

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- Products: exhaust systems * Monroe, Clovelly Park, Adelaide - Products:

s, struts * Walker,

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, Adelaide - Products: emission control * Monroe Springs, Sydney - Products: coil and leaf springs ;

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* 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 ;

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* Cotia, São Paulo (Axios) - Products: engine mounts, shock absorber bushings, and dampers *

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, São Paulo (Monroe, Walker) - Products: exhaust automotive systems and shock absorbers *

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, 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) - Products: lighting equipments * São Bernardo do Campo, São Paulo - Former Diadema plant. Passthrough operations. ;

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* Cambridge, Ontario - Exhaust systems and components * Owen Sound, Ontario - Shocks and shock absorbers under the label Monroe ; China *

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- Products: elastomer products ;

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* Hodkovice nad Mohelkou - Products: shock absorber and exhaust systems ;

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* Edenkoben - Products: exhaust systems ;

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* Kecskemét - Products: Exhaust systems ;

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* Bawal - Products: struts, shock absorbers, front fork *

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- Products: muffler (silencers), catalytic converter, complete exhaust systems * Hosur - Products: struts, shock absorbers, front fork * Sanand - Products: Exhaust System (Silencers) ;

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* 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 ;

Poland Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, , is a country in Central Europe. Poland is divided into Voivodeships of Poland, sixteen voivodeships and is the fifth most populous member state of the European Union (EU), with over 38 mill ...

* Rybnik - Emission control engineering and manufacturing * Gliwice - Shock absorber (struts) plant with Engineering Centre (EEEC) in Gliwice, near Katowice * Stanowice ;

Portugal Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic, In recognized minority languages of Portugal: :* mwl, República Pertuesa is a country located on the Iberian Peninsula, in Southwestern Europe, and whose territory also includes the Macaronesian ...

* Palmela - Products: Exhaust systems (JIT Plant) VW Autoeuropa. ;

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* Ermua - Products: shock absorbers, elastomers, and complete exhaust systems *

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- Products: shock absorbers - closed in 2016. *

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;

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- producing Shock Absorbers under the Monroe brand ;

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- producing exhaust systems under the Tenneco-Walker brand, employing 190 * Dowlais Top - producing exhaust components, scheduled to employ 200+

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