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Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd.
Native name
曙ブレーキ工業 Company type Public KK
Traded as
TYO : 7238 ISIN JP3108400007 Industry Automotive Founded (27 January 1929; 95 years ago (1929-01-27 ) ) Founder Sanji Osame Headquarters
Area served
Worldwide
Key people
Yasuhiro Miyaji(Chairman , President and CEO ) Products Brakes for vehicles, motorcycles, trains, industrial machinery Revenue JPY 281.3 billion (FY 2015)
(US$ 2.44 billion) (FY 2015)
Number of employees
9,238 (consolidated, as of March 2016) Website Official website Footnotes / references [1] [2]
Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd. (曙ブレーキ工業 , Akebono Burēki Kōgyō ) is a Japanese manufacturer of brake components for automobiles , motorcycles , trains , and industrial machinery.
The company was founded by Sanji Osame in 1929 as Akebono Sekimen Kogyosho as a response to the demand by the Japan Army Authority for ground transport; its first products were brake linings used by the government entity.[3] Today it is now a large company with a significant overseas presence and wide range of brake products for many applications.
Polestar 1 with Akebono brakes
Business locations [ edit ]
In addition to its headquarters in Hanyū ; and Nihonbashi , it also has facilities in other locations in Japan, such as Fukushima .
In the United States, it has facilities in Elizabethtown, Kentucky ; Farmington Hills, Michigan ; Glasgow, Kentucky ; and Clarksville, Tennessee .
In Mexico, it has a factory in Silao , Guanajuato .
In China, it has plants in Guangzhou and Suzhou . In Indonesia and Vietnam, it has a partnership with Astra .
In Europe, it has facilities in Arras and Gonesse in France, and also has a UK presence for its work with the McLaren Formula 1 team. Its main European facility in Trenčín is focused on production of high-performance aluminium brake calipers .
Automotive brakes [ edit ]
Akebono offers products mainly on an OEM basis for automobile manufacturers. Its main OEM customers include Japanese car manufacturers such as Toyota , Nissan , Honda , Mitsubishi , Subaru , and Isuzu . The company also supplies products to global automakers like Porsche , Audi , Bentley, GM , Ford , Mercedes-Benz , and Polestar .[citation needed ]
Motorsport [ edit ]
A McLaren MP4-22 Formula 1 brake manufactured by Akebono
Beginning with the 2007 Formula One season , Akebono has been a technology partner to the McLaren F1 team .[4] Since 2013, Akebono has also supplied brake components to the Toyota WEC team.[5]
References [ edit ]
^ "Company Profile" . Nikkei Asian Review . Nikkei Inc. Retrieved 15 February 2017 .
^ Kenichi Miyamoto; Kenji Morinaga; Mori Hiroyuki (15 March 2011). Asbestos Disaster: Lessons from Japan's Experience . Springer Science+Business Media . p. 49. ISBN 978-4-431-53915-5 .
^ "Akebono Brake Company increases technical integration with McLaren Mercedes" . Motorsport.com . Motorsport Network . 17 February 2014. Retrieved 15 February 2017 .
^ "FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC)" . Akebono Brake Industry Co., Ltd . Archived from the original on 2 October 2018. Retrieved 11 October 2021 .
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